There came a sequence at the close of the first half in Thursday night’s Chiefs game when Patrick Mahomes just plain took over. The running game was non-existent. A case of the drops had infected more than half the receivers room. But who cares? The Chiefs still had the quarterback. And in this sequence, Mahomes turned third-and-17 into a dime for 34 yards and a first down, then followed a secondary read for 26 more, and then tossed a go-ahead touchdown. He tried to do it all himself, and for a while, it looked like he just might. Until his coach took the ball out of his hands in the fourth quarter. The Lions beat the Chiefs 21-20 in an NFL season opener in which so very little went right offensively for the defending champions — other than Mahomes. We could chat for a long time about how many points the Chiefs lost on dropped passes alone. But on a night in which Mahomes actually was going right, the Chiefs put the game in the hands of just about everyone else. The kicker. ...