Patrick Mahomes is, by just about every account, the undisputed best quarterback in the NFL. Still, Mahomes and his Kansas City Chiefs were demolished by the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LIX, costing the franchise the chance to be the first team to ever win three consecutive Super Bowls.
Now, Mahomes is speaking candidly about where he needs to improve personally for the Chiefs to get back to the top of the sport.
“We got to keep doing it, though, and we got great corners, so that’s going to be a lot of challenges for us,” said Mahomes, per Pro Football Talk. “But even on some of those that we throw incomplete, that we’re throwing down the field, we can talk through those routes and talk through that stuff.
“And so that’s the mindset is getting back to throwing the ball down the field, and if we can do that, it’ll open up the rest of the offense.”
Mahomes elaborated on just where he needs to improve.
“I think for me I have to be better at throwing the ball down the field,” Mahomes said. “I mean obviously, we weren’t good enough there. We’ve had success in prior years, but these last few years we haven’t done that. In order for our offense to be great, you have to be able to complete those passes. It opens up everything else.
“So, if teams are going to challenge us at the line of scrimmage, if teams are going to challenge us to throw the ball deep, we have to show that we can do that. If we can do that — first it starts with me and giving guys [chances]. And if we can do that, I think it is really going to open up the offense and make us a better team in general.”
It’ll be interesting to see how Mahomes looks pushing the ball down the field this season.
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