Gardner-Johnson, broke up passes and blanketed routes. The Lions secondary, buoyed by newly acquired trash-talker C.J.

“You guys give Patrick Mahomes the ball back, with two and a half minutes to go, Chiefs down by one,” NBC’s Melissa Stark asked Goff. The Lions, scoring just 14 points on offense, defeated mighty Kansas City by gaining more first downs, winning time of possession, throwing no interceptions, and limiting Mahomes to only a few magical plays, instead of his normal bagful. “You either get a thumbs-up or a thumbs down in this league,“ said NBC analyst Cris Collinsworth after Detroit held on to upset the champs, 21-20. SHAWN WINDSOR: Lions' win over Kansas City Chiefs another perception-changer: Now what? They shut down Mahomes, the face of the league, harassing his receivers into 18 incompletions, and pushing him farther and farther backward, until his final play was fourth-and-25. They did it with grit, with power, with offensive line dominance, with timely completions, with a successful fake punt inside their own 20 yard-line, with a ramrod rushing attack, and with a surprisingly tight defense, their weakest link last season. A team that hadn’t won an opener in six years, a team that hasn’t won a playoff game since the 1990s, a team last seen beating a legend, Aaron Rodgers, in Lambeau Field, dug in, squeezed the mighty Chiefs until they went limp, and beat a second legend, Patrick Mahomes, in a second football temple, Arrowhead Stadium. Lions quarterback Jared Goff talks to head coach Dan Campbell before a play against Chiefs during the second half of the Lions' 21-20 win on Thursday, Sept.

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