Super Bowl LIX star quarterbacks struggle at crucial point of 2025 season

Super Bowl LIX featured 2 of the champion quarterbacks successful the NFL successful Patrick Mahomes and Jalen Hurts and it wasn’t the archetypal clip the 2 teams met for a changeable astatine a championship.

Ten months later, some Mahomes and Hurts find themselves successful a spot of a predicament. The Kansas City Chiefs find themselves retired of the playoff hunt with 4 weeks near successful the regular season. The Philadelphia Eagles person mislaid 3 consecutive games and person failed to people much than 21 points successful their past five.

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Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs carries the shot past Danielle Hunter #55 and Azeez Al-Shaair #0 of the Houston Texans during the 3rd 4th astatine Arrowhead Stadium connected Dec. 7, 2025 successful Kansas City, Missouri. (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

Mahomes and Hurts’ Week 14 performances were little than perfect arsenic well.

The Chiefs prima was 14-of-33 for 160 yards and threw 3 interceptions arsenic they fell to the Houston Texans, 20-10, to driblet to 6-7.

He lamented the team’s nonaccomplishment to execute astatine the astir opportune moments.

"We had chances," Mahomes said aft the game, "and we didn't execute it."

Philadelphia Eagles backmost Jalen Hurts (1) prepares to propulsion a walk during the archetypal fractional of an NFL shot crippled against the Los Angeles Chargers, Monday, Dec. 8, 2025, successful Inglewood, California. (AP Photo/Caroline Brehman)

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The Eagles prima was 21-of-40 for 240 yards with 4 interceptions and a mislaid fumble. Two of the 5 turnovers were committed connected 1 play. Philadelphia dropped to 8-5. While the squad inactive leads the NFC East, the Eagles look acold from the Super Bowl champions they were backmost successful February.

"We mislaid the game," Hurts said, "and I didn’t play good capable to assistance america to triumph the game."

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With the 2 apical teams from past twelvemonth struggling astatine a important constituent of the season, the way to Super Bowl LX is anyone’s game. The Denver Broncos, New England Patriots, Los Angeles Rams and Seattle Seahawks are the lone teams with astatine slightest 10 wins.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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