Patrick Mahomes isn’t ready for Tom Brady comparisons, but they’re coming | Top Vip News

LAS VEGAS – Tom Brady was visiting a zoo in Brisbane, Australia, a couple of weeks ago when he and his friends passed a pen of goats. One of his friends said, “Coming soon to the Mahomes exhibit.”

Brady, who shared the video on social media, laughed. But will anyone laugh on Sunday night if Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl to earn Mahomes’ second consecutive ring and his third at the age of 28? Brady, the undisputed best of all time, has seven Super Bowl rings and had also won his third at age 28.

Mahomes isn’t even thinking about Brady or GOAT status. Unless you ask him.

“I mean, I’m not even close to halfway there, so I haven’t thought about it much,” Mahomes said on opening night of the Super Bowl on Monday. “I mean, your goal is to be the best player you can be. I know I’m lucky to be surrounded by great players around me.

“And that’s why, right now, I’m doing everything I can to beat a great 49ers team and try to get that third ring. And then if you ask me that question in 15 years, I’ll see if I can get closer to seven. But seven still seems like a long way off.”

Brady played into his 40s, winning his last two Super Bowls at ages 41 and 43. And Mahomes wasn’t just throwing out the “ask me in 15 years” line to ignore reporters.

“That’s the goal. You want to play as long as they let you play,” she said. “It takes a lot of work outside the building. It’s about taking care of your body. You need to eat healthy and (try to) get rid of the dad body that I have. But try to do everything you can to recover, go out and be the best player you can be.”

Speaking of Brady, Mahomes still holds a grudge. His only Super Bowl loss came at the hands of Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2021.

“I’ve lost the Super Bowl and I know how much it hurts,” Mahomes said. “You want to make sure you stay away from that feeling. So I think even more than lifting that trophy, when you lose and you’re in that locker room and you feel like you were so close and you didn’t get it, I’m going to try even harder to stay away from that feeling. of which I am lifting the trophy.”

If Mahomes and the Chiefs beat the 49ers, he will become the first quarterback since Brady to repeat as a Super Bowl champion.

“To be able to win back-to-back Super Bowls is special,” Mahomes said. “There’s only a small group of teams that have been able to do that. For us, it’s just showing that we can do it. “I think we got the guys to do it.”

What makes Mahomes special, perhaps even more so than Brady in the long run, is his ability to make plays with his feet. In addition to running for first downs (never at full speed and only a half-step ahead of oncoming defensive players), Mahomes can buy time in and around the pocket and wait for a receiver to get open or just open him up.

“(Coach) Andy Reid always reminds us that there are no dead routes,” Chiefs receiver Justin Watson said Monday night. “Patrick has great vision. He sees everything, sometimes before it happens, so you always have to be prepared.

“He will throw it at anyone, anywhere, anytime. And it will be about money.”

The Chiefs have capitalized on 14 wins in Mahomes’ 17 career playoff games. He has thrown for 39 touchdowns and 4,802 yards, numbers that Hall of Famers Steve Young, Brett Favre, John Elway, Jim Kelly, Troy Aikman, Warren Moon and Johnny Unitas never reached.

Mahomes has thrown just seven interceptions in those games, and always seems to complete the big pass at the end of games. He has had 18 potential attempts to tie or take a lead in the fourth quarter or overtime in the playoffs, and the Chiefs have tied or led on 12 of those drives. Three of them came in the final minute of regulation, which is an NFL playoff record.

“There’s a quote I love that says, ‘Whether you think you can or you don’t, either way you’re right,'” Watson said. “We always feel like we have a chance. 10 fewer points in the Super Bowl like last year? It doesn’t matter. We just feel like we’re going to make a play and find a way to win, and that starts with Pat.”

The rest of the NFL is 8-55 since 2018 when trailing in the playoffs by 10 points or more; Mahomes is 4-2. The only quarterback with more double-digit comeback wins is Brady, with six (he was 6-8 in those spots).

There’s that name again. Mahomes is flattered and honored by the comparison to the league’s greatest player of all time.

“It’s very early,” Mahomes said. “Tom has won like seven Super Bowls, every record in the book. “All I can do is be the best Patrick Mahomes I can be every day, and that’s all I’ll continue to do.”

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