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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — At first, the distress signals seemed like outliers or blips. The kind of temperamental stuff that over the course of a season comes and goes and is subject to the fickle discretion of a camera here and there. Here was typically restrained Chiefs coach Andy Reid last month against the Eagles, fuming at tight end Travis Kelce to the point of what might be considered snarling. A couple weeks later against Buffalo, you’ll recall, Patrick Mahomes made a spectacle of himself after a controversial — but accurate — late call cost the Chiefs the likely game-winning touchdown on the …

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