Chiefs news: Tom Brady shared some advice to Patrick Mahomes after AFC Championship Game

Tom Brady went out of his way to give Patrick Mahomes some advice after the Patriots' thrilling 37-31 win over the Chiefs in the AFC title game.

Patrick Mahomes came up just short in his debut season. If he heeds the advice of Tom Brady he received shortly after the Kansas City Chiefs' season-ending loss to the New England Patriots, though, it seems only a matter of time until he takes the torch from football's greatest winner.

During an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon earlier this week, Mahomes revealed that Brady sought him out for some words of encouragement following the Patriots' thrilling 37-31 overtime victory over the Chiefs in the AFC Championship game.

“During all the excitement — they won the game and we were just walking off the field after that heartbreaking loss at home — I didn’t talk to him after the game. And so when I was in the locker room about to walk out, actually, he came in,” he said, per Burnd Buchmasser of Pats Pulpit.

“He got the security to let him in and he said, ‘Man, you had a heck of a season,'” Mahomes continued. “He knows what it’s like to win a lot of big games; he knows what it’s like to lose some big games — not many, but a few. He just said, ‘You have to keep grinding.' He loved the way that I played. It was awesome for him to do that and show that class at such an exciting moment.”

Mahomes, 23, put together arguably the most dominant season of any quarterback in NFL history as a first-year starter in 2018, throwing for 5,097 yards, 50 touchdowns, and 12 interceptions en route to MVP honors.

But he was stifled by the Patriots in the first half of the AFC title game, when Kansas City went scoreless, and proved unable to bring his team back from a two-touchdown deficit despite leading the Chiefs to 31 points after intermission. Brady proved a big reason why, of course, driving New England down the field for consecutive touchdowns – including the game-winner in overtime – after the Chiefs rallied to take the lead with just over two minutes left in regulation.

The Patriots, of course, went on to beat the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl LIII 13-3, earning Brady the sixth championship ring of his storied career.