Feb 12, 2021
Patrick Mahomes is already being forced to play by a different set of rules. When the Kansas City Chiefs lost Super Bowl LV to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Narrative Machine began whirring into action for some of the world s speediest sports media talking heads, hot-take artists, and under-informed social media savants. The results were predictable.
Did Mahomes throw his teammates under the bus? (No.) Was Mahomes actually to blame for the offensive line s most disastrous snaps? (Did you watch the game?) Is this a sign of Mahomes impending regression? (Wait, what? No. Are you kidding? No.)
As a part of an effort to not give extra oxygen to some of the sports world s worst takes, I won t be citing my sources from that list, but if you rummage through Twitter for long enough, you ll find that these are all