The "Inevitability" of Mahomes

[kcclone]

Originally Posted by notorious

Not going to lie, this is feeling Aaron Rodger-esc.

This is a far more likely scenario than Brady & the Patriots.

Rogers-Packers, or Wilson-Seahawks is far more likely.

That's just the way the NFL is built. You get old fast at most positions, especially defense.

Unless your front office over performs in the draft, it's hard to stay in contention year after year. With Mahomes, we'll be in the playoff hunt most years, but we may not have a Super Bowl caliber squad more than 2-3 more times over the remainder of his career.

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by kcclone

That's just the way the NFL is built. You get old fast at most positions, especially defense.

Unless your front office over performs in the draft, it's hard to stay in contention year after year. With Mahomes, we'll be in the playoff hunt most years, but we may not have a Super Bowl caliber squad more than 2-3 more times over the remainder of his career.

I think it's easy to forget how much the NFL stacks the odds against successful teams. If you are absolutely fantastic at drafting, you might be able to keep it going, but constantly drafting low eventually means you have to pay more in free agency, which means you can't keep your best guys. Add to that the scheduling structure that puts us up against three other division winners that no other AFCW teams have to contend with (Bills, Packers, and Titans), and it's just really tough to keep it going.

Brady is 1) insanely good and 2) the beneficiary of playing in a truly horrific division for most of his career.