Other-worldly?
Have been optimistic and happy about the fact that we drafted him the entire time. Whichever draftabulator started that “Draft Mahomes” thread and pimped him out initially had me sold that he was the QB I wanted us to draft. I was dead-set against Watson (he’s been way better than I expected at this point) and was “meh, maybe Rich Gannon in time?” about Trubisky. Was “meh” about most of the others...wasn’t down on Davis Webb or Deshone Kizer of all guys (
). ****ing hated Peterman. Thought Chad Kelly had some Irish scrappiness in him. Mahomes was far and away my favorite.
I loved how depressed Houston’s war room appeared after they drafted Watson.
Then came the arguments with the random people I work with and the one thing that scared me prior to preseason was the fact that he came from an air raid system and that QB’s in those systems hadn’t yet shown much success at the NFL level. Instilled a little bit of pessimism in me.
Then there was that preseason pass in ‘17 to Demarcus Robinson that hyped the entire sideline up... I thought that pass was incredible and loved the reaction from the fans/players and knew that, at the least, there was elite potential there.
Was 100% convinced he had other-worldly physical tools/arm strength after the preseason bomb to Tyreek. I knew the arm strength hype was for sure at that point.
Was 90% sure convinced he was “other-worldly” after the Chargers game and was hoping that it wasn’t just a case of Tyreek making Mahomes look better. Was hoping for a mutually beneficial type of thing for those two. Loved how he carried himself like an alpha-dog.
Was 99% after the Steelers game after he spread the ball around and didn’t get rattled in a shootout with a future HOF’er on his turf (in fact he looked as if he wanted to keep on bringing it)...at Heinz Field.......and seemed to be critiquing the hell out of the defensive formations presnap and did well with it...and didn’t throw any (gasp) INT’s...and threw 6 TD’s to 5 guys and carried himself like he’d done it a million times. What little skepticism, doubt or apprehension I may have had was alleviated. The 1% of skepticism I had after the game was simply there because we are the Chiefs.
100% convinced that we have something special and all-around other worldly with him after seeing the clip of him yelling at the Pittsburgh sidelines, “you can’t stop me!” along with Andy Reid’s mannerisms during his presser... I got a vibe that he was giddy inside and struggling to contain his excitement when talking about Mahomes’s QB play. Caught a vibe of, “finally, I have a freaking QB.” And this vibe came off from a guy who is known for achieving adequate QB play and getting the most out of the QB’s he’s worked with. It’s like, “sweet, now this guy has a QB that he can simultaneously get the most out of while the QB is able to get the most out of him as well, due to Mahomes appearing to be elite already.” That was the moment where I became 100% convinced. No doubt. Fans of other teams are going to hate the fact that he’s ours and they can’t had him and goodness does that feel good.