Through the first five games of the 2018 NFL season

www.patriotsauthorizedshop.com , it was nothing but smooth sailing for Patrick Mahomes, the first-year starting quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs.Mahomes had taken the league by storm, making incredible passes and dashing for incredible runs, throwing touchdown after touchdown, and leading the Chiefs to a 5-0 start. He’s the most exciting young quarterback we’ve seen in years, and Kansas City has proven that it made the best decision of any team in the 2017 NFL Draft by selecting him.But on Sunday night at Gillette Stadium, Mahomes finally got welcomed to the NFL the hard way — by getting handed his first ever defeat, 43-40, at the hands of Tom Brady, Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots in what might be the most wildly entertaining Sunday Night Football game of the year. There couldn’t be a better way for a young player to get broken into the league.Let’s be fair though; Mahomes still played an incredible game. He threw a pair of interceptions, but other than that, he continued to display the same abilities that have made him so captivating this season. He did everything he could to put the Chiefs in position to win the game, completing 23 of 36 passes for 352 yards and four touchdowns as Kansas City put up 40 points. You can’t get much better than that.But the Patriots were just a little bit better. Tom Brady, at age 41, even scored one of his rare and special rushing touchdowns. He also threw for 340 yards and a touchdown. New England’s rookie sensation Sony Michel picked up 106 yards on the ground New England Patriots Womens T-Shirt , and Rob Gronkowski hauled in 97 receiving yards.The Patriots looked like the Patriots, and they looked like the same team that always makes a run deep into January. Even after Mahomes connected with Tyreek Hill for a 75-yard touchdown pass, tying the game up 40-40 in just 12 seconds with just over three minutes to go, Brady did his thing that we’ve seen so many times over the years. It was almost reminiscent of Super Bowl 36, back in January 2002, when Brady moved the Patriots down the field in the final minute to put them in position for a game-winning field goal.As expected, Stephen Gostkowski drilled the football directly through the uprights as time expired, and that was it. The Patriots are now 4-2, while the Chiefs no longer have that goose egg in the loss column.The 23-year-old Mahomes was officially welcomed into the NFL on Sunday night. He still played a great game, but for the first time in his NFL career, he experienced what it feels like to take a loss. Even more so, he experienced what it feels like to take a loss in Foxboro, Massachusetts.There’s no need for Chiefs fans to worry. Mahomes and his team will be just fine. They might even go to the Super Bowl come February. But on Sunday night, despite yet another incredible offensive performance from this Kansas City team, the Patriots were just a little bit better.Welcome to the league New England Patriots Hats , kid. One of the biggest storylines of the New England Patriots’ rumor-filled 2018 offseason involved offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels. The CliffsNotes version looks as follows: the Indianapolis Colts offered him the head coaching position, McDaniels agreed but never signed a contract, the club announced the hire too soon, and he ultimately returned to the Patriots after owner Robert Kraft and head coach Bill Belichick made a last-second push.McDaniels’ decision to stay in New England can be interpreted in many ways: maybe he did not want to uproot his family, maybe he was persuaded by the Patriots’ offer — a five-year deal that makes him the highest-paid coordinator in football —, maybe he is Belichick’s successor in the waiting. The motivations behind the 42-year old leaving the Colts at the altar are anyone’s guess and never made it out of Gillette Stadium or the McDaniels home.However, it appears as if one part of those motivations still is a head coaching position: according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, McDaniels “is open to potential head coaching opportunities.” How exactly those opportunities will look like is not specified, but numerous organizations certainly will be searching for new leaders next offseason including a Cleveland Browns franchise that currently is run by interim coach Gregg Williams.Whether the Browns — his home state team — or any other team for that matter would be interested in McDaniels is a different story. On the one hand, the breakup with the Colts and his previous head coaching gig with the Denver Broncos are not exactly good advertising. On the other hand, though, McDaniels is one of the brightest offensive minds in all of football and has coordinated some of the most productive units the NFL has ever seen.Given the nature of the NFL it would therefore not be a surprise if McDaniels once again became one of the hottest names on the coaching market over the next few months.