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]
Originally Posted by The Franchise:
Twitter used to have blue checkmarks for people that were "verified". Basically it was there so people knew who the real version of someone was.
When Elon bought it, he charged people $8 a month and anyone could be "verified". In doing that, he removed the verified checkmarks that were there before.
When those people didn't want to pay for it, like Lebron, he said **** you to a lot of them but basically gifted verification to Lebron James and I think Stephen King but I could be wrong.
Tyreek is saying that he gifted one to Lebron but not Mahomes.
Musk gave Pat his verified check back after Pat asked him. Dude has some clout [Reply]
Originally Posted by TwistedChief:
Biggest we've-made-it moment for a Chiefs QB since Elvis Grbac was the Sexiest Athlete Alive in '98.
On accident.
The photographer was supposed to take photos of Rich Gannon but all he was told was "The Chiefs Quarterback" and someone directed him to Grbac.
Life before Mahomes was...different.
Spoiler!
“I was merely an observer,” Jennifer Wulff said when I called. “It was not me!”
Some of this is a little foggy because it has been 22 years since it all went down. For example, Wulff couldn’t remember who was on the cover of the “Sexiest Man Alive” issue that year, but when reminded that it was actually Harrison Ford, she burst out laughing. “Oooh, that was a bad choice, too!” she said. “It was already doomed.”
Wulff was only in her second or third year at People, but she knew how things worked. Every year the magazine put out a “Sexiest Man” issue, so every year the staff writers and correspondents at People had to select not only their pick for the overall Sexiest Man Alive — the guy who would smile on the cover — but also their picks for Sexiest Men in roughly a dozen assorted categories:
Sexiest Rock Star. Sexiest Politician. Sexiest Survivor.
Best as Wulff can remember, all the People staffers and correspondents were on a conference call when someone, somewhere blurted out, “The Kansas City quarterback is really hot.” It was eventually decided that, yes, the Kansas City quarterback would be that year’s Sexiest Athlete Alive.
“Somehow,” she said, laughing more now, “the photos came back and the interview came back,” (even more laughter), “and we were like, ‘What the hell? This is not …'” (a cascade of laughs).
According to Wulff, the photo editors called in the staff to look at the pictures that would run in the magazine, and it didn’t take long for everyone in the room to realize that something had gone wrong. “One of the editors said, ‘This is the guy?’ Then we were looking it up and figured out that it was the other quarterback.”
As in Gannon, Grbac’s backup.
“And then it was too late,” Wulff said. “They felt so bad. We couldn’t cancel it at that point. It would be so mean.”
The magazine barreled forward. The writer quoted a teammate of Grbac’s who said, “He’s just a regular guy”; Grbac’s college coach at Michigan, who said, “I never pictured Elvis as a ladies’ man”; and his wife Lori, who had the last line: “His personality makes him sexy.”
I still think back and find it crazy that our QB beat 3 of the best rookie contract QB’s in a row on one leg while costing more than any QB has against the cap ever.
We’re blessed man. It’s never gonna be better than this era [Reply]
The photographer was supposed to take photos of Rich Gannon but all he was told was "The Chiefs Quarterback" and someone directed him to Grbac.
Life before Mahomes was...different.
Spoiler!
“I was merely an observer,” Jennifer Wulff said when I called. “It was not me!”
Some of this is a little foggy because it has been 22 years since it all went down. For example, Wulff couldn’t remember who was on the cover of the “Sexiest Man Alive” issue that year, but when reminded that it was actually Harrison Ford, she burst out laughing. “Oooh, that was a bad choice, too!” she said. “It was already doomed.”
Wulff was only in her second or third year at People, but she knew how things worked. Every year the magazine put out a “Sexiest Man” issue, so every year the staff writers and correspondents at People had to select not only their pick for the overall Sexiest Man Alive — the guy who would smile on the cover — but also their picks for Sexiest Men in roughly a dozen assorted categories:
Sexiest Rock Star. Sexiest Politician. Sexiest Survivor.
Best as Wulff can remember, all the People staffers and correspondents were on a conference call when someone, somewhere blurted out, “The Kansas City quarterback is really hot.” It was eventually decided that, yes, the Kansas City quarterback would be that year’s Sexiest Athlete Alive.
“Somehow,” she said, laughing more now, “the photos came back and the interview came back,” (even more laughter), “and we were like, ‘What the hell? This is not …'” (a cascade of laughs).
According to Wulff, the photo editors called in the staff to look at the pictures that would run in the magazine, and it didn’t take long for everyone in the room to realize that something had gone wrong. “One of the editors said, ‘This is the guy?’ Then we were looking it up and figured out that it was the other quarterback.”
As in Gannon, Grbac’s backup.
“And then it was too late,” Wulff said. “They felt so bad. We couldn’t cancel it at that point. It would be so mean.”
The magazine barreled forward. The writer quoted a teammate of Grbac’s who said, “He’s just a regular guy”; Grbac’s college coach at Michigan, who said, “I never pictured Elvis as a ladies’ man”; and his wife Lori, who had the last line: “His personality makes him sexy.”
:-) I never knew all of that. I thought Grbac being on there was on purpose. [Reply]
Originally Posted by RunKC:
I still think back and find it crazy that our QB beat 3 of the best rookie contract QB’s in a row on one leg while costing more than any QB has against the cap ever.
We’re blessed man. It’s never gonna be better than this era
That is amazing now that you posted it. We are truly blessed. [Reply]
Originally Posted by RunKC:
I still think back and find it crazy that our QB beat 3 of the best rookie contract QB’s in a row on one leg while costing more than any QB has against the cap ever.
We’re blessed man. It’s never gonna be better than this era
It won't get easier. The Eagles found a way to cheat the cap with Jalen Hurts' contract. They added a bunch of void years to it, so his cap hits are pretty low for the next 4 years. They will continue to have a loaded roster for the next 4 years. By the time the QB cap hits actually become expensive in Year 5 of the deal, they will simply do a new contract to give them a bunch of low cap hits once again. Keep doing this until the QB is washed up in 10+ years.
I think Joe Burrow's contract will be structured in a similar way to the Jalen Hurts deal. It will probably allow them to keep both Chase & Higgins. I wish the Chiefs would tear up Patrick's deal and do something similar. It makes no sense for him to be the only QB in the league where his cash flow actually matches his cap hit, while everyone else is getting twice as much cash as their cap hits. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DRM08:
It won't get easier. The Eagles found a way to cheat the cap with Jalen Hurts' contract. They added a bunch of void years to it, so his cap hits are pretty low for the next 4 years. They will continue to have a loaded roster for the next 4 years. By the time the QB cap hits actually become expensive in Year 5 of the deal, they will simply do a new contract to give them a bunch of low cap hits once again. Keep doing this until the QB is washed up in 10+ years.
I think Joe Burrow's contract will be structured in a similar way to the Jalen Hurts deal. It will probably allow them to keep both Chase & Higgins. I wish the Chiefs would tear up Patrick's deal and do something similar. It makes no sense for him to be the only QB in the league where his cash flow actually matches his cap hit, while everyone else is getting twice as much cash as their cap hits.
Those teams will have no choice but to rework the contract when it comes to the void years. Patrick’s deal currently is perfect bc until 2030 minus 1 year of a $62 million cap hit, his avg cap hit is around $45 million which is cheap. These QB’s are already getting into the $50 million threshold and Burrow/Herbert is gonna push it to at least $53 million.
The Chiefs are paying Patrick a discount while also paying him a fuck ton of money in the long run [Reply]
Originally Posted by RunKC:
Those teams will have no choice but to rework the contract when it comes to the void years. Patrick’s deal currently is perfect bc until 2030 minus 1 year of a $62 million cap hit, his avg cap hit is around $45 million which is cheap. These QB’s are already getting into the $50 million threshold and Burrow/Herbert is gonna push it to at least $53 million.
The Chiefs are paying Patrick a discount while also paying him a fuck ton of money in the long run
But those guys don't have cap hits of $50M per year. Jalen's cap hits are chump change the next 4 years, the highest one is $31M in Year 4 of the deal. By that point the cap will have increased to the point that $31M will be a pretty huge bargain. They'll just do something else with the contract at that point to keep cheating the cap beyond Year 4 of the deal as well. [Reply]
