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Henry McKenna
AFC East Reporter
Patrick Mahomes is still a little pissed off about last year.
Yeah, we all know he won the Super Bowl. And the Super Bowl MVP. He also cemented his place as one of the greatest quarterbacks to ever play. But the Kansas City Chiefs finished third in the AFC standings with a record of 11-6. They had a particularly rough phase in the middle of the season when they lost five of eight games. It’s a pretty dang good season. It just wasn’t good enough for Mahomes and Kansas City.
“Obviously, the end result was awesome, but I think a lot of us still have a weird feeling in our mouth,” Mahomes told reporters this week. “We really didn’t play football the way we wanted all year long. It wasn’t fun. Every single week, having to try to just continue to get better and better and the results not paying off the way you want it to — it wasn’t a lot of fun.”
The rest of the NFL is dying to have a season like Mahomes’ no-fun 2023 season. But that quote provided some perspective as to why Mahomes is preaching urgency during the Chiefs’ rookie training camp. Kansas City drafted receiver Xavier Worthy in Round 1. The thought process is clear: Bring back the Chiefs’ explosive offense. Worthy, who ran the fastest-ever 40-yard dash time at the combine, will be a huge part of that. Mahomes doesn’t want to wait around for things to come together.
“There’s no easing,” Mahomes said. “He’s going to have to be ready to go. We got a lot of competition on this offense. He got a lot of mental work in these last few weeks that he had during OTAs and minicamp, but it’s time to go now. Y’all saw it with Rashee [Rice] last year and some of the throwing-up days he had. We’re going to push you to the limit and prepare yourself to be ready to go for the season. That’s not just him. That’s everybody and everybody has to have that mentality when they come into camp.”
Worthy missed most of the offseason program due to a…
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Publish date : 2024-07-18 16:44:07
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