The usually excellent Ravens are in a hole. And it could get a lot deeper

While Kansas City got their season back on track with an excellent offensive performance, their AFC rivals are 1-3 and lost one of the finest players in the NFL

The Kansas City Chiefs and the Baltimore Ravens came into Sunday's slate in very unusual circumstances - two of the best teams of the last few years were struggling. Both were 1-2, and after the Chiefs' 37-20 blowout win on Sunday, the Ravens are in the kind of real trouble one doesn't usually expect from such a normally stable franchise.

First, the Chiefs. This offense has been a problem transcended by Patrick Mahomes for a long time, for all sorts of reasons, but there was at least a one-week reprieve from such worries. Mahomes was dynamite, completing 25 of 37 passes for 270 yards, four touchdowns, no interceptions, and a passer rating of 124.8. It helped that speedy receiver Xavier Worthy was back in action for the first time since Week 1, and Worthy lived up to his ... well, worth, with five catches for 83 yards. Mahomes threw touchdown passes to four different receivers and for the first time in goodness knows how long, Andy Reid's offense was a fun watch.