Round 10 of the battle between Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen went to Allen by a score of 28-21 in Buffalo.

While the score of the game suggests it was close, the Bills had more control throughout the game, and it wouldn’t have been a one-score contest if Matt Prater didn’t miss a 52-yard field goal with 27 seconds left to play.

Typically, Mahomes and company would have no issue with miraculously scoring with no timeouts left and sending the game to overtime or just winning. But this wasn’t a typical game for the two-time Most Valuable Player.

It was probably Mahomes’ worst career game as a starter in the National Football League. He completed just 15 of 34 passes (44.1 percent) for 250 yards and an interception.

It wasn’t just the base stats that weren’t good. Mahomes was horrible against the Bills’ pressure all night.

“The Bills pressured Mahomes on more than 52% of his dropbacks per NFL Next Gen Stats, the fifth-highest pressure rate Mahomes has faced in his illustrious career,” ESPN’s Bill Barnwell wrote Monday. “He went 3-of-16 for 61 yards and an interception under duress Sunday, throwing all three of those completions to Travis Kelce, still the pass catcher Mahomes trusts most when he's in trouble. Sean McDermott and the Bills created all that pressure despite blitzing Mahomes just three times all day.”

Mahomes, who had basically been Kansas City’s top rusher all season, managed just one carry for five yards. Buffalo did a fantastic job of not letting Mahomes beat them with his legs.

All Buffalo had to do was keep Mahomes uncomfortable in the pocket, and they sure did.

“They spied Mahomes on many of those snaps, too -- but instead of simply electing a spy and putting him in an obvious spot directly over the center, McDermott found ways to mask the spy's identity,” Barnwell wrote. “There were snaps where he would have the spy line up on the line, initially rush and then drop off, while a linebacker from the second level would take his place in the pass rush. And when Mahomes did get on the move, the Bills did a great job of closing him down and either forcing an incompletion or hitting him; the MVP candidate finished with just one carry for 5 yards, a far cry from the numbers he was posting as a scrambler earlier this season.”

The Chiefs have lost every game decided by one score this season, a very uncharacteristic trait for Kansas City. They head into their Week 10 bye with a 5-4 record and on the outside looking in for the playoffs.