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Originally Posted by Bearcat
I dunno, the pressure they put on Burrow in the Burrowhead game was unreal... I believe the old saying is motivation shows up in practice/prep, but that was one time I wondered if "wanting it more" actually mattered (and up until that game, I would have said the same stuff you're saying).
Yeah, it's not some magic bullet... those games will still be 50/50 and guys like Mahomes don't solely rely on outside motivation like OP. However, if it was completely pointless, I'd wonder why Stroupe seems to feed him those things?  |
Stroupe has plenty of atheletes and he probably feeds plenty of them in the same way. Mahomes has been the successful poster child because 1/ he's better and 2/ the cards have fallen in his favor.
I would say - on a more minor level - from a motivational perspective it also might just be different when the people you're lining up against might be mocking you versus some old has-been coach is saying that you're not going to win a 3rd straight SB. One might just be a little bit more personal.