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Adam Vinatieri's season-long struggles persisted and quick healer Patrick Mahomes was kneecapped by Kansas City's ugly special teams in a Week 10 slate where seven games featured errant extra points or field goal flubs and follies.Kicking wasn't one of the challenges the Indianapolis Colts expected to face when Andrew Luck retired last summer Derrick Nnadi Jersey , not with the NFL's all-time leading scorer around. But Vinatieri has missed 11 kicks, including six extra points.His latest miss meant Indy needed to score a touchdown after reaching the Dolphins' 16-yard line trailing 16-10 Sunday, but the Colts were stopped at the 8 on fourth down in the final minute and Indy fell to 5-4.Vinatieri has missed kicks in all four of those losses.He is 14 for 20 on PATs, a 70% clip that would be the worst in NFL history for a kicker with at least that many attempts.Colts coach Frank Reich said that while he hasn't had any discussions with general manager Chris Ballard about Vinatieri's status with the team, "everybody is held accountable" and "there is an expectation" for better accuracy.The league's reigning MVP, Mahomes, returned much sooner than expected from a gruesome right knee injury and threw for a season-best 446 yards and three touchdowns at Tennessee just 3½ weeks after dislocating his right kneecap in Denver.In a game that featured missed PATs by both teams, the Chiefs led 29-20 in the closing minutes but couldn't reach the end zone late and were forced to attempt three field goals in the final 3:19. Harrison Butker's 39-yarder gave K.C. a 32-27 lead.The Chiefs had the chance to salt away the victory when they lined up facing third-and-2 at the Tennessee 29-yard line with 1:36 remaining, but Mahomes was sacked and Butker trotted out for a 47-yard try that would give K.C. an eight-point cushion.But snapper James Winchester delivered the ball sooner than holder Dustin Colquitt was expecting and Colquitt chucked the ball away."I looked back, Dustin was looking forward, then I started to see him look back, but I had already started the snap," Winchester said.The intentional grounding call on Colquitt gave the Titans the ball at their 39 and it took them just three plays to score the go-ahead touchdown on Ryan Tannehill's 23-yard scoring throw to Adam Humphries with 23 seconds left.Mecole Hardman returned the ensuing squib kick to the 38 and Mahomes put the Chiefs in position for a game-tying field goal with a 23-yard pass to Demarcus Robinson with 10 seconds left and a 5-yard pass to Robinson before Butker came out again with 3 seconds left for a 52-yard attempt to force overtime.Joshua Kalu raced around from Butker's right and got his left hand on the ball for the block ."I have no idea what happened on that last one," Winchester said.The Week 10 follies began with Raiders kicker Daniel Carlson missing an extra point with 66 seconds remaining that left Oakland clinging to a 26-24 lead over the Chargers on Thursday night. But Philip Rivers missed his last six passes before throwing an interception with 20 seconds left.Other missed that loomed large:—Steve Hauschka missed a 34-yard field goal with 16 seconds left in the first half and a 53-yarder with 17 seconds left in the fourth quarter of Buffalo's 19-16 loss to Cleveland.—The Giants missed a 2-point try and an extra point in their 34-27 loss to the Jets.—The Rams missed a field goal in their 17-12 loss at Pittsburgh that had them trying to go for a touchdown in the final minute instead of a field goal attempt.—And Dallas missed a field goal that had them trying a "Hail Mary" from midfield at the end of their 28-24 loss to Minnesota VikingsOne game that didn't feature a missed kick was Green Bay's 24-16 win over Carolina at snowy Lambeau Field Breeland Speaks Jersey , but it did feature a curious call: going for 2 after Christian McCaffrey found the end zone on a 3-yard run with 11:58 remaining. Instead of kicking an extra point — the snow wasn't sticking at that point — Ron Rivera elected to go for 2 and Kyle Allen's throw to Greg Olsen fell incomplete."That was purely analytics, 100 percent," Rivera said. "The thing is, if you get it there and you score at the end, then you're kicking to win the game. If you don't get it there, you get an opportunity to go for two again, which we felt pretty good about the play we had called the first time and we felt good about having the second one. It most certainly was just following the analytics of it."McCaffrey was stopped inches short on the game's final play, the second time this season he was denied just shy of the goal line with the game on line.Follow Arnie Melendrez Stapleton on Twitter: http://twitter.com/arniestapleton KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Justin Houston wouldn’t let the question come out before cutting it off. Fullback Anthony Sherman was even less accommodating than the bruising linebacker of the Kansas City Chiefs.His response came with a glare.You see, the Chiefs had just wrapped up their third consecutive AFC West title and the No. 1 seed for the playoffs with a lopsided rout of the Oakland Raiders, their longtime division rivals. But in an otherwise jubilant locker room, the inevitable question had to be asked: Will this team, with its high-powered offense and lackluster defense, finally reverse decades of postseason disappointments?“That’s behind us. That’s old news Patrick Mahomes Jersey ,” said Houston, one of the veterans and vocal leaders. “You don’t focus on the past. Don’t let the past poison your future. We are focused on the future now and we are getting ready for whoever we have to play. We are going to take advantage of this opportunity.”The Chiefs (12-4) get this week to rest and relax, the byproduct of earning that first-round bye. They will learn this weekend whether they will face the Colts, Ravens or Chargers in the divisional round on Jan. 12, the first of what they hope will be two games at Arrowhead Stadium before the Super Bowl.“The past doesn’t mean anything. Those other games? They don’t mean anything,” Sherman said. “This is a whole new team. We can’t worry about what those other teams did.”Oh, but Chiefs fans are certainly aware.This is the proud and storied franchise that played opposite the champion Green Bay Packers in the first Super Bowl, then won the Lombardi Trophy three years later against the Minnesota Vikings.But since Len Dawson and Co. were victorious in 1970 — the final year of the American Football League — the Chiefs have appeared in only one AFC title game, losing to the Buffalo Bills after the 1993 season. They’ve won only two playoff games at home in their entire history, even though Arrowhead Stadium boasts one of the biggest home-field advantages in the game. And under coach Andy Reid, they are winless at home and 1-5 overall in the postseason.There’s more, as if the Chiefs want to be reminded of it.Only the Jets have gone longer without playing in the Super Bowl; the Lions, Browns, Jaguars and Texans have never been there. And the Chiefs’ only playoff win in 25 years came against Houston Travis Kelce Jersey , which was led by quarterback Brian Hoyer.In fact, Indianapolis has won just as many playoff games at Arrowhead Stadium as the Chiefs.The letdowns have been excruciating, too. There was the year Lin Elliott missed three field goals in a 10-7 loss to the Colts. The year the Chiefs lost a shootout to the Colts in which nobody punted. The year Reid’s team blew a 38-10 second-half lead to — well, you can guess who.Two years ago, the Chiefs lost a home playoff game to the Steelers despite holding Pittsburgh without a touchdown. Last year, they lost a home playoff game to Tennessee after blowing a 21-3 halftime lead.“We’ve been in this situation before and we’ve learned from it,” Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce vowed, “and sure enough, we’ll make sure we give these fans and this crowd and city everything we’ve got.”There are reasons to believe that will be enough this time.The Chiefs have a record-setting offense that scored at least 26 points in every game, led by the best young quarterback to take the field in years. Patrick Mahomes eclipsed 5,000 yards passing and threw for 50 touchdowns as a first-year starter, shattering just about every franchise mark in the process.Kelce and wide receiver Tyreek Hill give him outstanding options on offense, and Spencer Ware and Damien Williams have filled in admirably after the Chiefs severed ties with Kareem Hunt midway through the season.And while the Chiefs’ much-maligned defense has struggled to stop anyone, particularly in high-profile shootouts against the Rams and Patriots Tyreek Hill Jersey , they have played better of late. They rank near the top of the NFL in sacks, thanks primarily to career seasons from defensive tackle Chris Jones and linebacker Dee Ford.“We know what it’s going to take,” Mahomes said. “It’s going to take a full effort from everyone, every single day of this bye week and into next week, to the game and hopefully on. We know that you have to capitalize on every single play. You can’t let one play get you down for the next. The next play is the most important play. We are excited we get the chance to do that.”Indeed, the Chiefs are embracing their position as the No. 1 seed. They relish the fact that so many pundits are predicting Super Bowl success, even after all of those postseason flops. They know that they have a chance to scrub away the stink of all those losses, even if they refuse to reflect upon them.“I don’t get caught up in all that bad luck. You create your own deal and you go play,” Reid said. “We don’t worry about all that stuff. Just go play. Get yourself ready, go through the process and get yourself ready to go. And then what happens on that field, man against man, you are playing the game.”100View Gallery Gallery:View from the sidelines: NFL cheerleaders 2018Raj Mehta-USA TODAY Sports | Raj Mehta