to assume if we look at at at Chris and five-year chunks and
let's say 15 years from a home. That's not, he's gonna play 20,
even if it's 15,
I think it's reasonable
one or two every five years, maybe three in a five-year
period at some point and he's got a chance
to catch. Tom Brady, if I'm Brady, I'm revisiting
already. My retirement decision thinking. Maybe I should just
go to San Francisco and get number eight. If they'll do.
Have me, maybe I do need number eight. Just just pull that pull
that stick out one step farther to make it a little
bit harder for my homes because I think Brady's going to be
sweating out the next 15 years wondering whether or not
the homes is going to catch ya. I mean listen I do I certainly
think he's going to be
relevant and in the Super Bowl conversation for the next 10,
12 years, there's no doubt about that. You know how many
chances do they get?
I mean, look at that right there. You want to talk about?
Look at that right there you are. So This is a great little
leave this up here for a second before I'd even get into what
I was going to say.
See this is what I'm trying to explain to people when they say
wait what one guy got to build himself through team play
and you know hey we'll run the ball. I'll be you know high
percentage passes. Be clutch and our defense will have
unbelievable game plans.
Look at this, this is pretty amazing when you look at 11 and
3 is the The part I'm looking at
and now, here we are three Super Bowl wins for Brady 24 Mahomes,
right at the age of 27,
11 postseason touchdowns to three interceptions
and in that same
comparison, there's Patrick Mahomes
who it was always just about him from the get-go.
It's 35
touchdowns and seven interceptions
almost more than three times. The amount that that speaking
to what you're talking about Micah The greatness of Patrick
of a home's, it's almost being overlooked a little bit. He was
so good right away
that we've become a little numb to it.
And that's where, you know, you saw me a few times last week,
kind of lose my crap or get emotional about it because
I just, I don't understand it but he's special to your point and
they're going to have a lot of cracks at it. It's just do.
They get there to
they win and you know to that Mike
I think with the Brady comparison We're going to get
to the phase here and what you were talking about their
ability to,
you know, draft and develop, and the value free agents.
They're going to start getting all the free agents who were
like, ah, I'm at the end of my career. I don't need any more
big money Pay Days. I'd like to go play with the Chiefs and
Kansas City and Patrick Mahomes.
They're getting to that point to now where they're going to
get the gravy train of people jumping on here. And I think
that could be cool or fun to watch, too.
That's one of the ingredients to sustaining. Those runs
riding in veteran players who are beloved to haven't won
a Super Bowl and want to get one Carlos Dunlap. Entire exactly
right. Here's here's the
reality, though, as a relates to what we've seen from home so
far, and I don't know whether I said this on the show
yesterday, I did several different radio spots after we
were done. It came up a couple of times. We've seen them, get
to the AFC Championship game, and hosted each of the five
years that Pat Mahomes has been a starter, which
is incredible, insane.
But let's call it back to 2018.
If D4 doesn't jump off side, yeah,
you should bowl that you write
in 2020. What if they don't feel compelled to force, feed
the ball, to the Tyree kill up 2110, just before the half.
Instead of taking 2410, trying to get it to 2810,
maybe it's five straight Super Bowl, appearances and I'm going
to take it all the way back to 2017. When Alex Smith was
struggling, if they put Patrick Mahoney, Alms in in November
and he does what he did the following September when he
took the league by storm and I think he would have if they
would have unleashed the Kraken, then I'm with you.
We could be looking at the six straight Super Bowl appearances
by the Kansas City Chiefs. Now I know that it's difficult and
it's one little thing here and one little thing there. Look,
they the it felt like they were going to lose to the Bengals
in the AFC Championship this year
until Chris Jones forces, the intentional grounding sacks
jobber. Oh
the pain. Get the ball Josephus, I hits him out of
bounds and they get the makeable field goal to win
the game. I mean,
it's not easy. No, they got your great final stages and
even in the Super Bowl, I mean, it was a hardly easy, but dust
settles on two championships. In three or in four years,
excuse me, and three Super Bowl appearances in four years and
the guys,
only 27
and it feels sustainable. It feel like And he's only going
to get better. That's the thing
that folks. Yeah, real. Right. Just starting the prime of his
career
and he's going to get to that point where he's seen it. All,
he walks up to the line. He knows he's going to be open,
he's running that offense. He's not going to have to
do the
hair on fire.
Scrambling around trying to find some is open because
the play that was called didn't work. The play that was called
is going to start working at some point all the time.
Because he's going to know
what he's saying, pre-snap. He's going to know where
the guy's going to be, he's going to be able to get rid of
the ball and and I think and Chris this is
a phase that
Is coming
maybe 10 years from now. Maybe eight years from now when he
loses just enough of his natural ability to run
around and extend plays
he'll have the mental acuity
like a Tom Brady. He's going to make that adjustment at some
point right guy who buys time with his legs to guy who can
get rid of the ball in the pocket before the walls close
in
and that'll extend his career
mean you know, I
I'm only going to assume 10 more years from Mahomes
but it's not unreasonable to assume 15 more years, which
would put him in at 42. Mean he gets to 20 years as a starter
three years younger than Tom Brady. He's got
and people see, I think there's pushback against this because
the fans of the other teams don't want to concede that
the bulk of the next decade is going to be Kansas City Chiefs
territory,
but get used to it.
You got a deal with the Chiefs in the AFC,
you got to deal with the cheese.
If you're the best team in the NFC,
you know, every other year, three out of four years,
whatever it is, that's going to be the team. You have to deal
with in the Super Bowl makes it harder to win. So, yeah. It's
and this is what the NFL doesn't want. This is the kind
of a league that Pete Rozelle hated when it was Stiller's and
cowboys, and Raiders, and same and saying we want parity.
This is a team that turns parody on its head and
it, you know, we know how hard it is to create Dynasty in
the NFL. We just get past the Patriots dynasty. Where they're
winning all the super bowls
and now here, come the Chiefs. Yeah. Well, you know, you're
seeing people that are mastering those, the new
current system filing to go. Hey, yeah, there's parity, but
we're still good at our jobs and we're better than this
group here and we figured it out. We could sustain it
and we're watching it
you know, right in front of her eyes. So you're right about that
and and no Mike.
We saw, you know, the a little bit of what you were talking
about. I mean I'm with you he's certainly like we discussed
yesterday is arming going anywhere.
He's going to be able to still throw lasers at the age of 40,
he will and we saw an adjustment and game playing
style of play this year to a degree.
We talked about it a lot
when we just were talking a little bit about you know all the
hey we saw here in the playoffs with that with the bum ankle.
He was capable of kind of doing what you're saying. Wait I'm
going to do with my brain. I'm gonna get the ball out
of my hands and we kind of saw that next phase
of
what he could do or Or just playing the game a little bit
more surge akala T wise, right? My favorite word
in the English language, but but to Mike,
I wouldn't, you know, to piggyback a little awful. What
you're saying here because? Yeah, I think the Chiefs are
the team of teams right now,
the way it's shaken up. I almost feel like we almost got
like an 80s Vibe right now. I wouldn't be shocked if like yea
the chiefs of the 49ers
but it's like, hey then the Bills win one.
The Broncos win one and then the Chiefs win one, and then
hey here come the Bangles again and it's the bills again. And
then, you know, maybe some other team jumps into the mix.
Now, the Chargers. Whoever
I don't know. There's a part of me that thinks and we might be
setting up here for like, an AFC run, but, of course,
the Eagles. The 49ers are two teams that they're not going anywhere
here in the in the
short period of time, either
to where they might upset that. But
we could be looking at a little bit of a
cool AFC the I'm three or four teams playing in the AFC
Championship divisional, round for quite some time, and of
course. Yeah. I expect this team to be there
more times than not.
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