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Originally Posted by DRM08
If Pat keeps playing at a very high level, eventually they will be forced to shut the hell up and nitpick something else in sports. In the meantime, these people are just going to keep fueling his fire. He has been proving people wrong ever since 2014.
When Tech recruited him, nobody thought the kid would ever see the field. Davis Webb was a sophomore firmly entrenched as the starter and we had another kid in the 2015 recruiting class named Jarrett Stidham (now at Auburn). Stidham was a big time recruit with offers from everyone in the country. Webb gets hurt in 2014, Mahomes comes in as a true freshman and lights the world on fire. Webb loses job to Mahomes even after he gets healthy. Stidham goes to Baylor/Tech game around Thanksgiving of 2014. Mahomes throws for 600 yards and 6 TD's against a Top 5 ranked Baylor team. Stidham decides right then and there that he will never see the field because Mahomes was only a year older than him. He ends up switching from Tech to Baylor...then the Baylor scandal happened and Stidham ended up at Auburn.
My point above being that the Tech fanbase thought Mahomes would just be a backup to Webb and then Stidham. He smoked both of those guys and I think he is a lot more driven to succeed than people realize. I am sure he doesn't pay attention to the media, but I am also sure Pat Senior and other family members likely pay attention to it. That stuff helps provide more motivation. Michael Jordan is an example of a guy who used disrespectful comments as motivation to push himself to another level.
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The bottom line on Mahomes is this; you don't get this good, this fast unless you have an extraordinarily competitive spirit ... and are willing to forego immediate pleasure for future success. In other words, he's willing to work.
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