Peter King leaving Sports Illustrated

[RunKC]

Here’s his statement

https://mobile.twitter.com/pedrodomg...34811287367680

Wow a lot of football journalism is changing. MMQB is one of the best pieces of insight in football. I will really miss King doing this.

[ChiliConCarnage]

He put up a good read. I'm sure he's made his bones. I assume he's moving into semi retirement?

[Kman34]

Originally Posted by COchief

One of the sad lonely reeruns I predicted would respond, also tells himself Mahomes didn't absolutely ****ing own Von Miller, Harris, and overhyped Roby with a flick of the wrist in Pile high last year on that game winning drive. #lookedeffortless #mahomesseemedboredonthatdrive

Not one **** given...

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by Bob Dole

MMQB was one of my first reads every Monday. Didn't always agree with him, but there was a variety I enjoyed.

If he's just switching over to NBC, he can continue the monday column, I'm sure he cant call it MMQB but he can call it whatever he wants besides that. There is no way they have a copyright on putting up what is essential a blog before there was blogs.

[Halfcan]

I will miss him picking the Chiefs last every year and having no clue who even plays on our team.

[WhawhaWhat]

Originally Posted by Halfcan

I will miss him picking the Chiefs last every year and having no clue who even plays on our team.

I remember him being really big on either Kendrick Lewis or Javier Arenas one year and Pioli had clearly fed him all that info.

[KChiefs1]

Originally Posted by kgrund

Peter King and MMQB are not done. Just changing over to NBCSports.com

Wonder if he will get a show on NBCSN?

[Deberg_1990]

I love reading his MMQB column. Hes a really good writer.

But he tends to have an over inflated worth of himself. He almost never admits hes wrong when readers call him out on something.

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by COchief

I will miss the hell out of King and his MMQB if he is truly calling it quits, while he is certainly easy to criticize and pick apart, he is no doubt one of the most insightful and well written weekly NFL writers and no one outside of possibly Shefter has better NFL connections.

In comes the CP losers to criticize the most well known and well paid NFL writer of all time calling him a hack.

[PunkinDrublic]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

I liked reading his columns but when he became a Goodell asskisser I quit reading him. If he writes anything on the Chiefs it will get quoted on Twitter by Chiefs fans.

[DaNewGuy]

Originally Posted by jimidollar

Whenever I hear Peter King speak, I always think of Stuart's dad on Beavis and Butt-Head.

[Mile High Mania]

Oh well... used to enjoy the MMQB stuff, but it's been kind of stale last few years.

[WhawhaWhat]

Originally Posted by Mile High Mania

Oh well... used to enjoy the MMQB stuff, but it's been kind of stale last few years.

I believe he's still doing a Monday Morning column, it's just going to be on NBC now instead of SI.

[KChiefs1]

Good stuff.

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...14-peter-king/

Man, Myth, Mahomes

“Sniper vision. Patrick’s got sniper vision. He sees like a great fighter pilot. You can’t coach that.”
—Kansas City coach Andy Reid to me, on Patrick Mahomes

The more I watch Patrick Mahomes, the more I find myself saying, as I did Sunday night: Relax now. Fourteen starts. That’s all he’s done. Fourteen games.

Mostly, I’m OK doing that, OK with respecting the process. No quarterback is great after 14 games. But then I listen to what Andy Reid says about him, and then I watch fourth-and-nine with the undisputed lead of the AFC West on the line, and I think maybe it’s okay to speed up on the road to greatness for the kid. Because Mahomes was Favre-in-his-prime spectacular Sunday at Arrowhead in the 27-24 win over Baltimore. This kid can throw from every angle with accuracy—over the top, three-quarter, pure sidearm, and even no-look jobs. He’s got some Omar Vizquel in him. Fitting that, last month, when I talked to his dad, former big-league pitcher Pat Mahomes, he told me these weird and accurate throws are the same types younger Patrick would make playing shortstop as a Texas teen.


Patrick Mahomes. (Getty Images)
That play first. The fourth-and-nine play, down 24-17, with 1:29 left in the fourth quarter at the KC 40-yard line. I’ve seen it 25 times by now. I can recite it by heart. Mahomes, flushed from the pocket back around his 30-yard line, chased by Za’Darius Smith and Brandon Williams of the Ravens, now running laterally toward the right sideline at the 28. In a dead sprint, actually. Smith, surprisingly fast for 275 pounds. Mahomes, at the 30 yard-marker on the field, veered slightly upfield as he wound up to throw on the run, to throw somewhere. “His eyes connected with my eyes,” Hill told me afterward. “In that situation, you’re just thinking, ‘Stay alive, stay alive! Let him see you.’ “

Crazy thing was, 39 yards downfield, and just approaching the left hashmark running a crosser to get within range, Hill had two Ravens on him. And Hill was a wounded animal. “My foot’s bad,” he’d say after the game.

Mahomes pulled the ball way back. As Smith’s hands were inches from beginning a hard shove of Mahomes out of bounds, Mahomes flung the ball with a strong flick to a target about 39 yards downfield and another 30 yards to his sharp left, past the center of the field, aiming for a spot right near the left hash.

“I knew he had a chance,” Mahomes said of Hill. “I always say he’d be the best center fielder of all time from the way he tracks the ball.”

Splat! Down went Mahomes, hard, at his own 37-yard line near the right boundary. Desperation heave. The ball was coming down just inside the left hash at the Baltimore 27-yard line. Linebacker C.J. Mosley dove at Hill as the ball hit his hands. But Hill, even with the bum foot, was too quick for Mosley and the trailing corner, Jimmy Smith. Hill skittered toward the right sideline and went out of bounds, limping on the bum wheel, at the 12-yard line.

Gain of 48.

“Our people did a tremendous job wrapping my foot,” Hill said. “I was still feeling my heel, but at the same time, I knew that man, if you want the W, if you want to be a great receiver, this is your moment to make plays.”

Felt like a formality after that. Chiefs tied it on a short TD strike by Mahomes with 53 seconds left, then won it in overtime on a Harrison Butker field goal.

There were other ridiculous throws from the shortstop. The no-look throw across his body to the left, to wideout Demarcus Robinson for 17 yards late in the first half, elicited this from the CBS broadcast team:

Tony Romo: “It’s almost a no-look! That’s incredible!”
Jim Nantz: “No-look sidearm!”
Romo:“Watching him … [giddy Romo voice] How do you not like watching him play!”

Just then, on the next snap, Mahomes evaded three Ravens and spied Kareem Hunt-replacement Spencer Ware gamboling up the left sideline. Mahomes pushed a sidearm laser into a small gap, right into Ware’s hands. Gain of 31.

“The things he does, it’s hard to practice that,” said Mosley.

Last month, I spent time with Reid after a win over Arizona. We went back to the Favre days, when he was the gunslinger’s quarterback coach for a time in Green Bay. History’s repeating. “I was lucky enough to coach Brett Favre, who was able to throw from every angle possible. I’ve seen it done before. But [now I] just go, ‘Whoa,’ a lot during the game, as you did. You just have to remind yourself that it’s a football in his hand because he does it so easy with grace.

“Certain guys just know where everybody is on the field. And he has that. He can just go on a play, and he sees. They talk about Ted Williams and that feel. He’s got that … He can see everything, feel everything.”

You got the feeling Sunday that this win meant a little more to the Chiefs. On one snap, Mahomes saw 11 Ravens within three yards of the line. Cover zero and then some. Who does that? Who says, We’re going to blitz the tar out of you. Complete it downfield if you have time—and you won’t. Baltimore did. On one of those plays, Mahomes just folded himself into a spot just behind the line, surrendering. But not for long.

This game will be terrific for Mahomes, because he had to play in a very uncomfortable situation. Seems like he loved it, because it forced him to learn. Other teams—starting with the 10-3 Chargers on Thursday night at Arrowhead—will go to school on what made Mahomes uncomfortable. Mahomes knows. It’s part of the chess games.

“These are the best wins,” Mahomes said. “These are the wins that satisfy you the most.”

They get bigger as it gets colder, kid.





That was a fun day of football. Reviewing:

Early window—Within two minutes, between 4:10 and 4:12 p.m. ET, Miami’s Kenyan Drake drives a stake through Patriots hearts and the Colts cap an upset in Houston, breaking the Texans’ nine-game winning streak … Meaningless games were not meaningless to the New York rookie heroes drafted 2-3 last April. Saquon Barkley and Sam Darnold beat Washington and Buffalo, respectively … Cleveland won again. Kept rallying. Beat Carolina. THE BROWNS HAVE WON FIVE GAMES … Patrick Mahomes has a slightly nice day; Chiefs survive Ravens.

Late window—The Cowboys, who will never lose again, win on the most painful play for the Eagles in a long time … Speaking of a franchise’s most painful play: How about your kicker slipping on a banana peel, or the equivalent of it, to cost your team a game in the Black Hole, and then slithering onto an airplane and having a five-hour flight back to Pittsburgh, mulling it over the whole way? … Bad loss for the Broncos, made possible by a good half for Niners tight end George Kittle. A very good half, in fact—210 receiving yards in two quarters.

Night window—Either the Rams don’t like playing in 25-degree wind chill, or the Bears’ defense is going to make Chicago a threat to play into February. Or both. Bears 15, formerly explosive and wildly entertaining Rams 6.

In December, the storylines get more dramatic, with so much more at stake. I could start anywhere, but I’ll go where I haven’t been much this year. It’s the same place Jack Nicklaus was on Sunday: Miami 34, New England 33. “I’ve witnessed a lot of great sports moments in my life,” Sir Jack tweeted Sunday night, “but as far as football goes, I can’t say I have EVER seen anything quite like that.”

[carcosa]

Originally Posted by KChiefs1

Good stuff.

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...14-peter-king/

Weird thread to put this in

[Hoover]

Yes. More storage that King actually spent some time writing about the Chiefs. I bet he had to scrap a bunch of Rams propaganda.