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The upcoming Super Bowl LV will pit two of the best quarterbacks in the league today. Tampa Bay Buccaneers gunslinger Tom Brady has been debated as arguably the greatest player of all time. Meanwhile, Kansas City Chiefs playmaker Patrick Mahomes is already being seen as the best quarterback of the next generation.
Heading to the all-important game on Sunday, Mahomes bared that he won't focus on the lofty comparisons but insisted on doing whatever it takes for his team to successfully defend their Super Bowl title.
“I think that’s more of a long-term thing than a short-term thing,” Mahomes said via Pro Football Talk. “You have to focus on, for me, trying to find a way to repeat, find a way to win a second championship and find a way to do whatever I can to win with this team.”
The 25-year-old claimed that he doesn't take anything for granted, especially his stint in Super Bowl LV which will give him a once in a lifetime opportunity to match up against an icon like Brady on the championship stage.
“You don’t get these opportunities every year in the NFL to be in the Super Bowl and to be in these games, so you don’t want to look back and have regrets on how you played or how you went about the week before preparing to go out there to play your best football. When the end of your career is done, then you can kind of look and see where those moments were in your career where you could’ve had something or that you executed and you did go out there and achieve your dreams.”
Mahomes has already racked up a stellar career while merely playing in his fourth season in the league. He has already snagged three Pro Bowl appearances, a Super Bowl LIV title, Super Bowl LIV MVP, and the 2018 NFL MVP. The rest of the league will certainly see more from the star quarterback as his career progresses.
At the end of the day, it may be unfair to call the comparisons between Brady and Mahomes today as it is still too early to tell how the latter's career will pan out to be. However, a win by the Chiefs against the Buccaneers on Sunday will certainly make a stronger case for Patrick Mahomes in the debate over Tom Brady in the years to come.
