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Originally Posted by TwistedChief
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.
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Yeah, I would think so, too.
And 2022: They were 0-3 against the Bengals (or whatever it was), had just lost to them the year before.
2023: Kelce said
that's the SB they wanted to get back to, for another shot at B2B, after losing to TB.
2024: The 3peat, of course.
Prior to Burrowhead I would have said all of that is enough to motivate the greats... nothing anyone says would transcend your own shortcomings on the field, especially when playing the same team the following season.
Given what happened that night and then Kelce immediately calling their mayor a jabroni, I've definitely wondered if matters more than we know. But yeah, in general, Rex saying stupid shit probably isn't the same as the Bengals' not ever being able to shut the **** up.