The last boss of the Super Bowl, Patrick Mahomes, moves towards greatness
Patrick Mahomes is the ultimate boss. Somehow, it always comes down to him. From the moment he became the Kansas City Chiefs’ quarterback in 2018, he turned the NFL into a video game, waiting for the highest level to beat all the challengers. The longer he has been hanging over the top, the more he looks like a glitch.
The Chiefs will face the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday as football immortality. With the victory, Kansas City will be the first team to win three Super Bowls in a row. The championship game started with the Chiefs defeating the Hawks in Super Bowl LVII two years ago.
Philadelphia's scale advantage on offensive and defensive lines and the added run-back of the game made them look like a better overall team, into the rematch, which is just the Chiefs The fact that we have Mahomes and the Eagles don't have this is why you'll believe a cat to take care of the goldfish compared to the bet on Mahomes soon. “If it was a single point game, I would take Patrick Mahomes at any time because he just won the championship DNA,” Tom Brady said earlier this season.
Consider this source: Brady is the greatest quarterback of all time in the consensus, winning a record seven titles while playing for the New England Patriots and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Two of them were spent by Mahomes – in the 2018 season, Brady’s Patriots beat the AFC champion Chiefs in their first year with Mahomes, Become the Chiefs' starting quarterback. Two years later, when the Bucs beat the Chiefs at the Super Bowl itself. Every time, Mahomes would just get the ball in his hand and give Kansas City a chance to fight. It was Brady's good luck to catch him early in his career.
Sunday will mark Mahomes' fifth Super Bowl game. He has won three times and has been named the most valuable player in every win. More importantly, he is not even 30 years old. Between these trophys and his amazing overall win total and passing statistics, if he retires on Monday, Mahomes could be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The third consecutive championship – something Brady never achieved – would make it a dispute.
Early in his career, Brady was the underdog, “insignificant” (regardless of being a league talent evaluator) late draft pick, starting player Drew Bledsoe in New England ) After being injured, he took responsibility for that moment. His Dink and Dunk pocket pass style fits the game's geometry. He has a great companion to get through the ups and downs in mastermind coach Bill Belichick and guided him every step (until they broke up after 20 years of the 2019 season ended 20 years ago ).
mahomes? He is the villain lurking in the fortress, ready to hit the challenger back to the First Square. He was slippery, spiky, almost imaginable a ball. Brady had to compete with Peyton Manning for years, and Mahomes had one of the best quarterbacks the game saw. Lamar Jackson of the Baltimore Ravens is a two-time league MVP, beating only Mahomes. Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen, this year's NFL MVP, dropped to Kansas City in last month's AFC Championship game, which was Mahomes' playoffs The third time in four seasons surpassed him.
Jalen of Philadelphia played his lifelong game in pain when the Hawks faced the Chiefs in the Super Bowl two years ago and failed until Mahomes wasted their time. (“He did this game when they mattered most,” Hurtes said after the game. “That’s the great guy.”) The only top quarterback has the advantage of keeping his straightforwardness over Mahomes being the one who keeps it straight is Joe Burrow, most notable, has won the AFC Championship in 2022 – but that's only getting further and further away when you play for Cincinnati Bengal hockey.
In the day of the game, Mahomes experienced perversions – from a three-year-old gentle man and female father to a ruthless “creature” who “looks like a normal person without”, Chiefs' offensive coordinator Matt Nagy recently , recently told athletic ability. That crunchy creature like Michael Jordan trails behind in the fourth quarter, or Novak Djokovic trails sweat on the wall of five: You know he pulls the rabbit out of the hat It's a matter of time to come out. But what's really impressive about Mahomes is how many threats he's developed. In his early season in Kansas City, he piled up pass yards while throwing deep balls to star catchers Tyreek Hill and Travis Kelce , otherwise he has no appearance defense and tossing with his weaker left hand.
But with Hill already coming to the Miami Dolphins, Kelce surpassed his peak Fewer A performer in his pocket, the defense of the jingle and slam dunk fell into calm and then grabbed them in surprise.
In this season's AFC Championship, there is a driving car that embodies the new version of Mahomes. As the Chiefs trailed 22-21 in the fourth quarter, he threw a short pass at Juju Smith-Schuster, who ran 29 yards and ran the ball to 10 yards Score, then find the Justin Watson conversion – converting a single point deficit to a seven-point advantage in less than five minutes. That's Mahomes: He no longer beats you with huge drama. He killed a thousand times.
The harder it is to think that there is something wrong with the football game, because Who's become so good? Of course, some people think he will get help. The winning touchdown was defeated after a Kansas City defeat at Baltimore this season, confirming that the Ravens' catcher's toes were beyond the line – a lucky break for Mahomes. Competitor fans accused the game officials of treating him with kid gloves, even if he might take advantage of rules designed to protect him. They say he's too big to fail because he has Taylor Swift, and now Donald Trump is in his grasp.
Often, it takes years to reach the highest talent of greatness. But Mahomes was great from the start. With a third consecutive Super Bowl title, Mahomes will not only be the ultimate boss of Sport. He will make you think the game may not be beaten.
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