Chiefs know execution must improve at crucial moments against Texans

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• “They take you out of drives, so you’re not scrambling as you go there.
• You have to clean that up.”Kansas City has drawn 102 penalty flags this season, the league’s tenth-highest mark.“[For] some of that,” continued Reid, “we have to give the guys the right plays to try to execute to their strengths.
• Coaching is part of it — [and] playing is part of it.
• We all have a piece of that pie.”As we might expect, quarterback Patrick Mahomes assumes more than his share of the responsibility for these issues. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement“More than anything, we just have to execute at a higher level,” he said.
• “I feel like we’ve done a lot of good things — but at the same time, we’ve made a lot of mistakes that we haven’t been able to overcome.