Kansas City, MO. – just days after his most embarrassing moment of the season, Chiefs pass rusher chris jones addressed why they did not put maximum effort into jaguar‘game-winning touchdown and said his social media accounts were not deactivated as an effort to avoid criticism.
Monday with 30 seconds left and the Jaguars trailing the quarterback by four at the 1-yard line trevor lawrence The center faltered under center, but managed to get up and run across the goal line for the winning score. Jones, who led the Chiefs’ defensive line with 48 snaps, saw the sequence from the middle of the field and made no significant effort to pursue and tackle Lawrence.
“It’s a teaching point for me, a little bit of an adverse situation,” Jones said Thursday. “I couldn’t think the drama was over. It’s a lesson learned. I thought it was over. I thought we had him down, so I stopped and was about to celebrate. Then I realized he wasn’t down.”
Jones said he will perform better going forward and that such an incident “will not happen again.”
He also shared that he deactivated his X and Instagram accounts before Monday’s game, which was the opposite of what most fans thought after the loss.
“I posted a quote from Drake saying, ‘I’ll see you in the summer of 2026,'” Jones said. “I never run away from constructive criticism. I’ve never been that person. I’ve always addressed it head-on. You can learn a lot from criticism. It’s like fuel for me personally, like gas.”
“I think people wanted to address me directly on social media, and they also [saw] It was not active. They thought I deleted it [my performance]But it was removed a few days ago.”
Next up for the Chiefs is a prime-time contest, this time on Sunday night detroit lionsJones understands that he will need an elite performance for the Chiefs defense to slow down the NFL’s top-scoring offense led by the quarterback Jared Goff and running back Jahmir Gibbs And david montgomery,
“I’ve been focused on the Lions since [Monday’s] The game,” Jones said. ”You can’t hold your head [down] On a game or a game. You learn from it, you take notes, and you keep trying.”
