So, we either have Baby Burrow enters baby Brady, baby Ben, baby Russ territory winning in his second year. (Mahomes kinda too, but it was technically his 3rd since he had the redshirt rookie year)
But as I know, everyone will rush to credit him with all the team’s success, because that’s what you guys and other NFL fans do, but so far he’s at 4 TD’s and 2 INT’s in 3 games. Meanwhile…..his defense has forced multiple turnovers in all 3 games, with 8 sacks as well. (Including 4 huge ones of Mahomes in the second half, not to mention an incredible goalline stop to end the first half.) And their rookie kicker is 12 for 12 on FG’s, including multiple 50+ yarders……
Or,
We get Stafford. 12 years, 0 playoff wins. 1 year in LA, 4 wins and a Super Bowl. A QB fixes everything!!!!! Ya know, except for in Detroit where the same dude could literally fix nothing, but NOW he’s the chosen one, elite, etc etc all hail QB narratives forever.
He completely saved the franchise…….that went to the Super Bowl 3 whole years ago. Again, we will completely ignore he’s likely not even the most important player on his own offense, or even top 2 of the whole team, but that’s nitpicking to most folks I am sure. Top 3 is still really good. We’ll also gloss over the fact they got OBJ because of a completely inept QB on another roster, and they made the huge deal to get Von Miller. Surely just having Stafford would have gotten them to this point even without those factors, clearly……
Looking elsewhere, we now have the 5 year status of Mahomes’ rookie contract.
Year 1 redshirt
Year 2 the Dee Ford foot vs Brady
Year 3 Won Super Bowl, after trailing 20-7 with 7.5 minutes left in the game before a complete meltdown by the 49ers.
Year 4 Lost Super Bowl after Oline completely fell apart and offense couldn’t move
Year 5, miracle in Divisional round with 13 seconds, choke job up 21-3 vs Baby Burrow.
Now, the real fun begins……please see, Brees, Rodgers, and Russ.
Niners and Chiefs both meltdown, but lost double digit leads, so instead of Mahomes and Jimmy G being the QB darlings, everyone switches to Burrow/Stafford being the reasons their team have made it.
I’m more wondering how/why Chiefs went down the field 3 straight times for long TD’s with ease, and then scored nothin but a FG the rest of the game. That play at the end of the half completely changed the entire season, but again……13 seconds, it shoulda been the Bills anyways. Credit to the Bengals for doin the 3 man rush, with a spy on Mahomes and leavin him nowhere to go with the ball without forcing it, which he eventually did and Bell made a huge play.
A week ago, it was Mahomes and Allen are the new Peyton and Brady, and now Burrow is in the Super Bowl. Life moves swiftly.