Friday night was Omarion Hampton’s first NFL game. He learned a lesson everyone else knew: You don’t give Patrick Mahomes second chances.<\/p>\n
Hampton, the Los Angeles Chargers’ first-round draft pick, got a handoff on third-and-16 in the final minute of the first half. The Chiefs had no timeouts left. Instead of staying in bounds and letting the clock run to less than 10 seconds left for a field-goal attempt, Hampton ran out of bounds. That stopped the clock at 49 seconds left. The Chargers got a field goal for a 13-3 lead.<\/p>\n
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Anyone who has watched Mahomes play knew what would happen next. That included Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh, who was exacerbated on the sideline over the rookie mistake.<\/p>\n
YouTube, who was streaming the game, showed Hampton on the bench later getting a pep talk from Marshawn Lynch, the legendary running back who was on the sideline as a credentialed photographer. Lynch’s words were probably kinder than what the Chargers’ coaches had for Hampton.<\/p>\n
With a little bit of time to work with after the kickoff, Mahomes hit Tyquan Thornton for a 38-yard gain to get the Chiefs in field-goal range. The Chiefs almost made a big mistake of their own, as tight end Noah Gray was knocked backward and out of bounds on a short gain. Because Gray was going backward the clock kept running. Instead of trying to spike the ball, the Chiefs sprinted their field-goal team on the field with the clock running under 10 seconds.<\/p>\n
That was risky, but they got the snap off in time. And they trust kicker Harrison Butker, who calmly drilled a 59-yard field goal after all the chaos to get the ball snapped in time.<\/p>\n
The Chargers had a great first half to get the season started. But one mistake opened the door for the Chiefs to be down by only seven points at halftime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday night was Omarion Hampton’s first NFL game. He learned a lesson everyone else knew: You don’t give…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":203882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[3001,80591,69045,8986,112527,1232,101025,50901,34238,62,58151,45043,112528,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-203881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-chiefs","9":"tag-field-goal","10":"tag-harrison-butker","11":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","12":"tag-marshawn-lynch","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-noah-gray","15":"tag-omarion-hampton","16":"tag-patrick-mahomes","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-the-chargers","19":"tag-the-chiefs","20":"tag-tyquan-thornton","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115155059606453068","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}