Mahomes vows 2026 will be a new version of Chiefs
Will the 2026 Chiefs return to dominance? Mike Florio and Michael Holley analyze Patrick Mahomes' endorsement that Kansas City will turn it around this season.
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But here's Patrick Mahomes.
We have one more item for the BS meter.
Patrick Mahomes from this week's Chief's kickoff luncheon regarding his possible return to play, week one against the Broncos.
I think it's just the, the bad taste that we had from last season.
You know, it didn't go the way we wanted to.
Coach Reid talked about that.
But we learned from it.
And we- and we've gotten better, and, I've worked to get to this point right here to be ready to go for the season, and, just as hungry as I am is as hungry as everybody on the stage and everybody in this audience.
I mean, we're gonna go out there with the mindset to We're gonna be the- a new version of the Chiefs that goes up there and dominate the same way the old one did.
Okay, as it relates to the proposition that the Chiefs will be as dominant as previous teams, that's the subject for the BS meter.
As it relates to whether or not Patrick Mahomes is telling the truth, I mean, he believes it.
It's the old George Costanza line: "It's not a lie if you believe it."
He believes it.
Is he accurate?
We're not saying he was telling us something other than what he truly believes.
He would pass a lie detector test.
The question is: does the assertion hold water?
So give me the one to 10 number that in your opinion, that assertion that they'll be as dominant as they'd been in the past is, if you go low, not; is- Yeah if you go high, BS.
Mike, I will tell you that if- if anybody else on the Chiefs says that, u- including Andy Reid, Chris Jones, Travis Kelce, if anybody else on the Chiefs says it, I'm giving it an eight 'cause I think they are in decline in a lot of areas.
Or in decline or just having to have ascending players who haven't even started to ascend at a, a reliable point yet.
But Patrick Mahomes said it, so I'ma give it a five because I still have so much respect for Patrick Mahomes and I th- and I, and I think, well, could they If he comes back and if he's able to do Mahomes things, could he carry a team to a po- to a point where I don't think it has any place, it- it doesn't have any right to be, but because it's Mahomes Yeah, so I'm gonna give it a five.
I- I'll agree with ya.
And, I'm too damn tired to try come up with a number other than five.
I, I think he's in the best position to know how things feel in comparison to the other additions of the Chiefs that he has been on.
Before last year their worst finish in his entire time as a starter was losing in overtime of the AFC championship.
That was his floor.
So he knows what he's dealing with.
He knows how he feels.
He knows this team.
I think that, that he Yeah, he believes it, yes.
And I think five is a good middle of the road are they capable of it.
Let's see.
But he's got me thinking that maybe they are.
And I think a lotta people are sleeping on the Chiefs.
It's easy to do that because we had Chiefs fatigue.
I think we- we're more quick to embrace the demise of the Chiefs because we'd gotten sick of the Chiefs.
Not we, us, not just Y- There was that sense football fans had had enough.
Give one of the other kids a turn please.
Please let one of the other kids play in a Super Bowl please.
You got Josh Allen who would like to play.
You got Joe Burrow that would like to play.
You got Lamar Jackson that would like to play.
Oh, Drake Mayes the one that took his turn.
Well all the more reason to give one of the other kids a turn, Patrick.
You've had your chances.
That's what I think is influencing our minds.
