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Originally Posted by tredadda
 What? ESPN does that? How wildly inaccurate. What I have seen was...
1. After Mahomes had the second ever 5,000 and 50 season, it was said the "book" was out on him and he would regress. The same wasn't said for Baltimore's glorified RB or Herbert who both put up seasons that weren't as good.
2. Allen finished tied or ahead of Mahomes for MVP last year in spite of Mahomes beating Allen in every statistic, minus rushing yards. He had more passing yards, passing TDs, fewer INTs, higher QB rating, higher QBR, his team had more wins, and he beat Allen H2H....twice.
3. Mahomes can't beat Brady in spite of him and his 31st ranked defense beating Brady and his Top 15 defense in the 2018 AFCCG until Dee Ford lines up offsides. He also supposedly can't beat Brady because last year's SB had a banged up Oline and turf toe and lost to the ferocious TB defense that carried Brady through the NFC playoffs and to a SB.
4. He's already a SB MVP yet his SB was a product of "luck" while other QBs get the credit for performances like that.
Mahomes for as good as he's been does not nearly get the respect and praise he has earned and you think he gets. |
I'm seriously stunned to read that! Though I do think he's the most talented player in the NFL, the kinda garbage one hears from Steven A. Smith and the like on ESPN was that the Chiefs and the Bucs were both gonna go undefeated going into the Super Bowl and that there is Tom Brady, Pat Mahomes, maaaaybe Aaron Rodgers and then a bunch of guys who wish they could be them.
They have been super tough on Lamar asking if he could be a "real QB" as if what he is isn't real. And that he hasn't produced more than many. ESPN also couldn't give a flying shit about Josh Allen or the Buffalo Bills. To that segment of the media, the Chiefs are it, and teams like the Bills, Chargers and Ravens are pretenders.
My point is that yeah, Mahomes is great. Probably the best player in the league. But is he
that much better than anyone else? I wouldn't say that. He's not Jesus. And perhaps my beef deserves to be more accurately pointed at ESPN and the hot-take sports media. But I don't think Mahomes helps things with his "look-at-me" ways. He's the Jimi Hendrix of the NFL. He's amazing, gonna be legendary. But Hendrix didn't have to light his guitar on fire or play behind his back to show how great he was. That was just window dressing. Just like ol' Paddy's no-look INTs.