Patrick Mahomes was locked up for the next 12 years to lead the Chiefs to Super Bowl after Super Bowl title, and after hearing about it the Chiefs, their fans, and the entire pro football world were ecstatic -- well maybe except for the other NFL teams particularly those in the AFC West.
Well, we shouldn't count the chickens and the eggs yet. This is the NFL and while Mahomes is undoubtedly the best player in the league and likely the most popular in North American professional sports right now, this league is tough. Mahomes isn't Superman, yet that is precisely one of the reasons he deserves what he's getting, he knows that and is such a person of character, industry, and responsibility -- he doesn't take anything for granted.
His new contract smashed all others, and there are a bazillion things being said about it right now. I'm not going to repeat a lot of the fine commentary, except to share my own considerations.
The main one is Brett Veach has already done a great job of convincing Mahomes that even though he will be taking the lion's share of the permitted salary amounts teams may spend, he is going do everything he can to find those diamonds-in-the-rough to surround Mahomes. See, Brett is the key in all of this and it goes beyond his ability to work out a deal like this.
It is in his ability to find undervalued players who can contribute. He's done it so many times before and there is no reason to believe he can't do it again. I mean, remember this too, he was the guy who saw Mahomes for who he was and what kind of player he'd be, when not even his own Chiefs staff believed him.
Look at how it's paid off.
Unless something dramatic happens, Mahomes will be just fine with his supporting cast, again because Brett Veach takes care of business. We are not only blessed to have the best quarterback in the game, but also the best general manager.
Wow.
And to think.
For years upon years upon years upon years our lack of a drafted and developed QB has been our catastrophic undoing. Mahomes has not only obliterated pro athlete salary records, but he's blown The Quarterback Project to bits. I'm very very very glad to see it experience a well-deserved and extraordinarily painful death.
In the meantime, we can revel in the theme of this whole thing, no matter what happens. That, right now at least, it is all about "chasing a dynasty."
Have we talked about how sweet it is to dwell in the Kingdom right now? Have we? Oh yeah. Well we can't do it enough...
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