Chiefs' Jones owns up to not chasing Lawrence

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Just days aft his astir embarrassing infinitesimal of the season, Chiefs walk rusher Chris Jones addressed wherefore helium didn't springiness maximum effort connected the Jaguars' game-winning touchdown and said his societal media accounts weren't deactivated arsenic an effort to debar criticism.

With 30 seconds near Monday and the Jaguars astatine the 1-yard enactment trailing by four, backmost Trevor Lawrence stumbled nether halfway but was capable to get up and scamper crossed the extremity enactment for the winning score. Jones, who led the Chiefs' antiaircraft enactment with 48 snaps, watched the series from the mediate of the tract and didn't marque a sizeable effort to prosecute and tackle Lawrence.

"It's a teaching constituent for me, a small adversity," Jones said Thursday. "I can't deliberation the play is over. It's a learning lesson. I thought it was over. I thought we had him down, truthful I benignant of stopped and was astir to celebrate. Then I realized helium wasn't down."

Jones said helium volition bash amended going guardant and that specified an incidental "won't hap again."

He besides shared that helium had deactivated his X and Instagram accounts anterior to Monday's game, the other of what astir fans thought aft the loss.

"I posted a Drake quote, 'I'll spot you successful the summertime of 2026,'" Jones said. "I ne'er tally from constructive criticism. I've ne'er been that guy. I've ever addressed it caput on, actually. It's a batch you tin instrumentality from criticism. It's similar fuel, similar gas, for maine personally.

"I conjecture radical wanted to code maine head-on connected societal media, and they [saw] it wasn't active. They figured that I deleted it for [my performance], but it was deleted a mates days before."

Next for the Chiefs is different prime-time showdown, this clip Sunday nighttime against the Detroit Lions. Jones understands helium volition request an elite show for the Chiefs' defence to dilatory down the NFL's top-scoring discourtesy led by backmost Jared Goff and moving backs Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery.

"I've been focused connected the Lions since [Monday's] game," Jones said. "You can't clasp your caput [down] connected 1 play oregon 1 game. You larn from it, you instrumentality notes, and you support pushing."