Chiefs: National analyst just had the highest praise for Patrick Mahomes possible
The Kansas City Chiefs' quarterback Patrick Mahomes just finished one of the greatest seasons we have ever seen. Let's start with the obvious. He was supposed to regress this season without Tyreek Hill. He didn't. He was supposed to get figured out by other teams' defenses. He didn't. He went on to win the MVP […]
The Kansas City Chiefs' quarterback Patrick Mahomes just finished one of the greatest seasons we have ever seen. Let's start with the obvious. He was supposed to regress this season without Tyreek Hill. He didn't.
He was supposed to get figured out by other teams' defenses. He didn't. He went on to win the MVP and had one of the best seasons we have seen in a while. He did it all with a whole new receiver group outside of Mecole Hardman, who only played eight games this season.
Then when he got into the playoffs, he had one of the nastiest high ankle sprains we have ever seen. Yet, he still wheeled his team to victory against the Jaguars, a good football team, the Bengals, who had his number, and then the Eagles, the league's best team all regular season.
So, yeah, he just had one of the best seasons we can remember, and I'm okay with saying that. Sure, it's high praise, but I'm also not the only one handing out high praise.
Rich Eisen, who predicted the Chiefs to miss the playoffs this last offseason, came to his senses about Patrick Mahomes.
"Patrick Mahomes is that guy," Eisen said on his show. "He's that unicorn. He's changing lives. He's changing the lives of all Kansas City sports fans. This franchise in the five-year span that Mahomes has been starting since 2018, 75 wins…"
No literally, there are Kansas City Sports fans who before 2014, had never witnessed a championship by either of their two major pro sports teams. Now, those same fans have witnessed two Super Bowl wins in the last five years.
"He has 1000% changed the course of not just his career, but the careers of everyone around him and the franchise that employs him period, end of the story. And what he has done now, we will look back when he goes into the Hall of Fame, and I can say that after just five seasons when he goes in the Hall of Fame, we will look back at Super Bowl 57 and say that's the moment when Mahomes started becoming the goat of his own generation."
That is huge praise by one of the more respected guys in this profession in Rich Eisen. He said that Mahomes is already a Hall of Famer, which I would have to agree with, but we haven't heard anyone else say it.
Then he went on to say Mahomes is going to be the G.O.A.T. of his era, which means greatest of all time. I can see that happening as well, but to hear someone else say it feels good. He just got the highest praise he can get.
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