Because of all the interest in this thread, I've place all of the video content of Patrick Mahomes II's college career, and draft day goodness into a single post that can be found here. Enjoy! [Reply]
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I just know that watching Mahomes now, week in and week out, is not simply a winning experience but a joyous one. Each game brings with it the promise, typically fulfilled, that in the next three hours I will witness an iconic play, whether it’s a no-look underhand toss to his running back for a 56-yard touchdown or a scramble to the pylon in which Mahomes stays inbound by briefly balancing his entire body weight on his left palm. Call it the game within the game: When I sit down to watch the Chiefs, it is with the unspoken question, “What will Mahomes do today that I will remember for the rest of my life?”
There is nothing that compares to—and no way to bring back—the emotions that Chiefs fans felt early in the 2018 season. There is nothing in sports that compares to seeing a phenom take over before your very eyes—especially when that phenom plays for your team, you’ve waited your entire life for this, and it’s actually happening.
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That feeling—of endless possibility, of a limitless future, of a near certainty that the best was yet to come—could not last forever, and it did not. And that’s OK: If it weren’t a once-in-a-lifetime experience, it wouldn’t be so special. But it’s been replaced by something even better, if less emotional: the Zen of living in the present, of enjoying the now, of watching the best football player in the world at the peak of his powers. He’s tasted the ultimate success and also endured disappointment and setbacks, and he’s emerged on the other side a better man for it. That was the sowing; this is the reaping. These are the glory years.
I don’t know how long this will last. I don’t know whether the Chiefs will win the Super Bowl this year or even whether they will beat the Jaguars on Saturday. And I certainly don’t know whether Mahomes will win seven more championships or none at all. All I do know for sure is that, right now, I get the opportunity every single week to watch and root for the best player in the sport, maybe the best player the sport has ever seen, with all of his potential realized: a football man in full. Every moment we get to witness him is a blessing. That is enough. Truly: That is everything.
That's a perfect summation. As Chiefs fans who were long suffering prior to Mahomes we for the most part are just extremely fortunate to have had these years with him as our QB. Whether it lasts 20 more years or 20 more minutes he brought us something no one ever thought we would have. [Reply]
It's about time playoff Mahomes is here. The guy who usually won't run in the regular season or take a hit ever will suddenly go balls to the wall. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BWillie:
It's about time playoff Mahomes is here. The guy who usually won't run in the regular season or take a hit ever will suddenly go balls to the wall.
Interestingly, I noticed his rushing prop is O/U 24.5 yards. That might seem normal, but it was in the region of 14-15 yards in all the weeks I looked at the end of the year, at least 4-5 weeks, including the Jags game.
So Vegas literally does expect him to lay it all out there. [Reply]
You dispute? Mahomes is smart, he is very adverse to physical contact in the regular season. You see him slide, run out of bounds early, throw it away vs taking a hit like Josh Allen does.
One will be playing into their late 30s and the other will be a mashed potato.
But in the playoffs, Mahomes goes for it as evidenced by many of his playoff running sneaks where he gets clobbered. [Reply]
Yeah, wouldn't call him shy by any means in the regular season, but he definitely turns it up a few notches in the postseason... I remember a couple of those hits he took (more like initiated) in the Super Bowl against the 49ers. :-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by Marcellus:
Except they are much better on 3rd and long than 3rd and short which is absolutely nuts.
This drives me crazy. Being forced to get cute on every third and one is less than ideal. I think we need to go back to running it inside. In addition to the fact that it's likely to now find our opponents not expecting it, there is no reason the team shouldn't make it. By every standard I've read, the interior line of Thuney, Humphrey and Smith easily ranks in the top five in the league. Our back should be able to run for one yard behind them at a high rate. Let's try that more, please. [Reply]
