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Can I get a number 15? All right, Patrick. Well you know
we have you in the press conference room but it's all
just for you. I feel like since there's a mic there we should
kind of walk through the Mahomes mic drop moments.
Okay, I want to start with 2017. With the 10th pick in
the NFL draft, the Kansas City Chiefs select Patrick Mahomes,
and
it seems like forever ago. But at the same time,
this is where you are now with the opportunity to play for
the Chiefs. You've won a Super Bowl, but that moment has to
live on in infamy for you. It was a cool moment because at
that time.
Still didn't know if I was even gonna be a first-round draft
pick. Yeah, I came out was supposed to be like a third
second round draft pick and just work my tail off to try to
do, whatever I can
to put myself in position to go to a great football team. And
luckily enough for me, it was the Kansas City Chiefs and
usually when you get drafted the top 10 you don't get to go
to a great organization
because they usually haven't had great Seasons. But I got to
go to the Kansas City Chiefs and they were already a playoff
team and the rest is history.
Okay. I feel like the next Mike Trout moment has to be when you
win the MVP like in your wildest dreams. When you go
back to high school or middle school or when you first
started dreaming of the NFL, was that something you saw
happening?
No, not at all. I mean, for me, I never even thought about
planning NFL. Until after my junior year of college, I still
was like, Hey, like let's play football. We're still gonna
play baseball at the end of the day
and so, to get the NFL sad for that whole year that first year
and then get in there and I was throwing touchdowns and stuff
was going. Well, I look back at it now and I'm like, man,
just the stuff that I was doing and I didn't even know
anything and I was still going out there and making some
plays. Happen. It's cool and something I'll be able to have
forever.
How much of that, man? I still don't know what I was doing.
You know what I mean? Like that almost a rookie mindset like
you. You don't know what you don't know. Do you still
possess today?
I think I think there is still some that I gotta, I gotta keep
learning. I've definitely
really kind of evolved and gotten better and better at
learning with defenses, are trying to do to combat what we
do and taking the easy completion, not always going
for the home run,
but the same time, I want to keep some of that. I want to
keep that mindset of. I'm a good guy. His chances to make
plays, I'm gonna throw it. I'm still gonna go through my reads
and look for that. Big alert guy down the middle of
the field
because he might just be open.
All right, let's go to Voice Ting. The Lombardi trophy.
That's another huge mic. Drop moment.
What do you remember? Most from that? It was surreal. I mean,
that's the best way to explain it. I remember we win we win
and in just like everybody storms a filled with there's
photos and everything like that, and you just try to take
it in.
He tried to take in those moments and
it was really cool that into that game was crazy. I feel
like I didn't play my best. Bob at the end we kind of pulled
together and found a way to win it
but it's a moment and a feeling that you want to get back to
and that's something that I'm trying to work on this year,
okay? So what changes when you go from Patrick Mahomes you
know NFL quarterback to Patrick Mahomes super bowl-winning NFL
quarterback
a lot more commercials. I think
that's the biggest thing. No, I it's a all seasons are
definitely fun. I get to be a part of a lot of different
things. Get to go to golf tournaments, get the shoot
commercials
about the end of the day. It's just playing football. He used
love it. You It to go back home and train, and get better and
better, but you definitely want to do whatever you can to lift
that Trophy up again. And that's something that you have
to continue to
work at. I love that you bring up the golf tournament cuz
I was going to go there eventually. But let us talk
about the match right quick. So you Josh Allen going against
Brady, Aaron Rodgers. I mean it has to be fun to
play against someone on the field. But it seems like
there's a camaraderie there to of like one generation versus
the next. How would you describe what that's like for
a personal level? Yeah, it's really cool.
And Tom and Aaron. I've got the
kind of hang out and be around them
several times now and they're great guys, man.
They really have a great understanding for this league
of this game and want to pass on their knowledge.
And so Tom is like you want to not like Tom but he just like
the best guy so it's hard. It's hard to not like them but to be
able to play in golf tournaments and and him, give
me kind of advice and stuff like that. I mean
he's to go you want to learn from the best and
it's really cool to have that relationship with them.
The conversations you've had with Tom Brady. You said that
he's given you, some good advice. Vice. What are some of
those things that you lean into, you know? One of
the first thing was after the AFC Championship game. When we lost
to them, I remember, I mean, obviously, I'm upset sad and
I'm sitting locker and forever and I want to start to walk out
and he's there waiting and
he could be celebrating is going to the Super Bowl and
everything like that and all he said to me and it wasn't a big
thing. He said, hey, just keep doing it. How you're doing?
You're doing it the right way
and as a Young quarterback,
I mean, you just go out there and play and try to have fun
and do whatever you can to appear team in the best
position to win. But when the,
when the goats saying that he said you're doing it the right
way. It kind of kind of shows you that your, you are doing it
the right way. And so that was big for me. And then
after that, just the conversations of just how he
does stuff in the offseason, the versus how he trains in
the season and those little things like that, I mean he will give
me all the secrets yet but hopefully one day I'll get all
the secrets and kind of can
put those into my game. Maybe with he actually retires.
Yeah, give us a secret.
Beat him. So long as I can play a little bit longer, I might be
able to beat him before he retires, okay?
What have you learned from him off the field and then tell me
what you learned? From him. Just watching him on the field.
Yeah. Well off to fill you. You learn how to
manage kind of everything. Like you want to be able to be
a family man and be with your family. And you want to be able
to
do these different things that where you're
going into businesses and helping out and shooting
commercials and doing this stuff
but the same time keeping football first and I think
that's the greatness and Tom Brady is no matter how much off
the field stuff he does football is always the main
priority and he make sure that keep that keep it that way. And
so you watch that and then at the same time you go back
to On the field and he's always getting better. I feel like
every single year he finds something, he can get better
at. And that's what I want to do is I want
to keep getting better as my career goes on
so that I can play. Hopefully maybe not as long as him but
pretty long as well. Okay, at the age of 27, right? You're
27. Do you see yourself playing at 45?
I'll try to. I just don't know how he does it.
I want to play, as long as I'm still playing great football,
I'll say that. And I think if I can continue to make my body
and better and better shape, and I can continue to learn
through film study and through the
Coaches that I have. And the players that are around me
that I'll try to play as long as I can.
As long as I don't want a big dip in production. I don't want
to be just hanging on. I want to make sure that I'm still
playing at a high level. All right, we got some time before
that happens, so we're not worried about that. Let's talk
about the first time that you played against Brady because
this is great, we're walking into our sixth meeting between
you two
and like as fans of the game as people who work in the sport,
we love it. But your first time going through it. What do you
remember? I remember there's a little bit of nerves. I was
out, we were up in New England. I came out and I kind of
struggle to miss some easy throws early in the game. Just
I want to 120 miles an hour every single time and I calm
down. Finally,
and we made it a game we battled and
we got it back to where I believe we were tied. And they
had the one of those Tom, Brady patent it late drive down
the field, kick a field goal, no time left and and they won, but
it's, it was a great battle and I think I settled it in that
game and that's something that I've learned from throughout my
entire career.
What was that first handshake? Like, what are you saying there?
Yeah, I mean you just
at that time, I was so upset that we lost that. I don't
remember what I said, but it was just kind of Good luck. The
rest of the year, hopefully see you in the playoffs and and
I think you know that that might wind up seeing them in
the playoffs later that year, exactly
wasn't the last time and since we're going into
the sixth meeting, he's up 32
what would you say that you've learned in battling a Tom Brady
LED team because they kind of have a characteristic about
them. Yeah well first off they're going to take advantage
of mistakes. I think that's that's a big thing. I mean
they're going to if
you make a mistake on the field, if you fought throw
interception, or if you have a fumble or if something like
that happens, he's going to make you pay and get points on
the board. Then
he's going to manage the game. He's not, he's going to make
some plays when he needs to make plays at the same time.
He's not going to make that big mistake. So you got to go out
there and play
a near-perfect football game to win. And
another thing is I think everyone knows is he's never
out of it. And I think that's something I try to pride myself
on as well as never been out of the game.
And so whenever you play against a Tom Brady, LED team
you, make sure you kind of keep that foot down and you keep
that foot down on the pedal and try to do whatever you can to
finish the game off. Let's talk about you and where you stand
just didn't like
the history of the NFL because
You're at this point now where
you're not old, but you're not young.
You're a guy that kids are like at home playing Madden with
that, guys are trying to imitate in the backyard at what
point do you become a veteran? Do you feel like one?
I feel like a veteran. Just in a sense of my locker room is so
young. We have a lot of young players, lot of new players and
so I feel like I'm one of those guys think I'm like the third
or fourth oldest or longest tenured player on the
Chiefs. So I've been here
for six years now and I've learned a lot from the guys in
the leaders before me
But I feel young at heart, but in this locker room, I feel
like a veteran. I try to pass on that knowledge everybody and
kind of get everybody ready to roll. Do you ever think about
the fact that you are playing a role in the evolution of
the game? I think about it a little bit but the same time I just
got to go out there and compete I think
that's what you see on the football field if it's the side
arm throws or if it's the scrambling around and making
stuff happen it's that I'm trying to go out there and win.
It's not true I'm not trying to
show off or do anything like that. It's just trying to be
a competitor and win a football game and it's Lately, you've
seen more and more quarterbacks be able to do that. And I think
it's more
of the coaches and the people that put the quarterback in
those positions.
They want guys that want to go out there and compete at
the end of the day. Okay, let me ask you this, you got to keep
it real. You're a high school coach,
okay? And you're teaching a kid, how to play quarterback?
Do you show them the side arm throws? Are you letting them
like go out and do their thing? Like how would you coach up
a kid these days? So I always go back to the fundamentals.
First, you got to learn the fundamentals, you got to
perfect those and once they perfect
the fundamentals, I told you can have
Fun and try some stuff out but they got to know if they try
some stuff out and it's bad and I'm going to get on them and
they're not gonna be able to do it again. So that's that's how
I was taught with Coach read,
coach, be enemy. And then with Coach Kingsbury in college and
then Coach cook, my high school football. Coaches. As long as
it worked, they were filed, but if it didn't work, I wouldn't
know how to do it again. Okay, so it clearly has been working
because no one's told you to stop.
There's been a couple of instances where I throw in. You
kind of see me on my God, that was too much. That was a little
too much.
Let's talk a little bit more about improvisation because
you're so great at At it. What are you looking at, or to
reading reacting? Like what's going on in Patrick Mahomes
mind, when you're coming up with some of
those plays that we have never seen put on film before?
Well coach re does a good job of letting us kind of have that
creativity.
We draw out these plays and then we'll actually go out
there and practice them on the side. When special teams are
going, you'll see Travis come up with ideas, you'll see
coach nag, you'll see coach be enemy, you'll see, all of us,
kind of work together to kind of cope. These shovel passes
are these fake quarterback motions and all this different
type of stuff because
we want to keep taking the To the next level. I mean defenses
are good in this league.
A lot of great defenses and you don't want to just be stagnant
and be satisfied with where you're at, you want to keep
evolving. And that's something that we really take pride in
how is Patrick Mahomes. Now, being the veteran in the locker
room, different from the guy who stepped into the NFL in
2017. I don't think I'm that much different other than I, I
get to talk a little bit more than I used to.
I'm still in the locker room
shooting, basketball,
kind of joking around. I'll still play Playstation every
once in a while Xbox where with some of the guys, Guys
whenever Sterling's asleep and I can kind of get some free
time. I'm still I'm still a young kid at heart but when
you're in the locker room and you got to be serious, I'm that
guy that kind of start. I think starts us off being serious and
getting us locked in because we know we have to handle business.
Another mic. Drop moment that I forgot to mention is the fact
that your father.
I mean just having a daughter and I remember talking to you
about eight months ago, maybe it was January and you were
saying, listen, my daughter's got an arm, she's like throwing
things and we're leaning into it. How is her development?
Now, she's still showing you
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And I think the better thing than even having the arm,
because she still has the arm. She's talking junk, she's
talking junk, the baseball, or whatever ball
she has throughout the whole entire living room, but she got
to a soccer ball. Now, she like, kicks it, but we didn't
teach her that. I think she just watched us going
to soccer games and
and learn that shows. You see a soccer ball laying around
she'll kick, it dribble it down,
and I think she's a natural athlete and I hopefully my
son's the same way when he comes here and
november-december, that might literally be the cutest gender
reveal I've ever seen in my whole entire life. Like, I'm
just gonna wake up every morning
and watch it. Now, watching you jump into the pool and be so
excited. So what kind of stage Dad are you going to be? Like
if your son decides to play basketball football or any
other sport that
you played almost stay out of the way? I mean, that's your,
the best thing for me. I'm going to help teach my son, my
daughter all the fundamentals and whatever they
want to learn. But at the same time, I want to stay out of
the way and let it to be about them. That's what my dad did
Growing Up. This was my parents did was they
let it be about me and let me just go out there and have fun.
Didn't pressure me to do anything
and I think that's why I'm in the position I am today
the It was that Patrick Mahomes had growing up? What would they
be? You played so many different sports and you can
probably take something from different players,
but now you're the guy that everyone looks up to. I'm just
curious who were the ones for you? Yeah. So early, it was
Alex Rodriguez. I was a baseball player, I played
shortstop, I was taller. So he was kind of the first shortstop
that I looked up. To my dad played on the Rangers with
them,
so I got to see that
and then and basketball,
I'd probably say it was
it was actually LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony. I was
a big Carmelo fan growing up. So I watched him play and then
football It was Brett Favre. Then it was Aaron Rodgers.
I mean that that was those style of play and
I watch Aaron all the way through college. I still watch
them to this day because I feel like I have a similar style to
him
and it helped me kind of go out there and use that creativity
that you see Brett and you saw Aaron use. Sorry. Tom,
I love
Cowboys
with the Patriots.
I couldn't love him too much. Becoming a father. How does
that change who Patrick Mahoney is homes is Heart.
Yeah, I think the biggest thing for me
is you when you go home, you just have to, you have to put
on that game face. Again, you have some long days up here at
the facility,
but whenever your home and your
your, with your daughter and
my son, when he, when he gets here is you have to be dad, you
have to be energized, ready to play, and Sterling has a ton of
energy, and she loves to run around
and do everything. And I mean, it makes you happy
just to be around someone that just enjoys every single day.
Like that. What you came face is hard to put on.
Oh, I think I think it's sometimes. It's at home,
sometimes you're tired and I know Britney's tired and she
does a great game face as well
being pregnant and having a one and a half, almost almost
getting ready to be two-year-old,
she puts on a great game face as well, but yeah, you get
home, you're tired, sometimes you want to just lay on
the couch and startling does not play that. She wants to go out
there and play at all times.