The Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Denver Broncos on Thursday night, improving to 5-1 on the season.

However, much of the talk after the 19-8 victory was about finding ways to improve.

The Chiefs scored one touchdown in five trips inside the Denver 20 and needed four field goals from Harrison Butker to pull out the victory.

"Luckily for us, our defense is playing great so we can go through these growing pains and try to get better and better," Patrick Mahomes said. "The talent is there. You can see it in spurts.

"I thought we did a great job of staying patient, getting the ball down the field, but in this league, three points and seven points is just such a big difference, and so I think if we found a way to execute in the red zone and score those touchdowns, we'd come away feeling great. Since we didn't, we have a lot of room to improve, and so that's just something that we've got to continue to work on. It's just putting a full game together. Let's put a full game together and see what we can do."