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Originally Posted by staylor26
This is the most annoying thing for me. There’s clearly much more push back for the Mahomes hype than there was for Watson last year. Mahomes is actually winning and not turning the ball over every single week like Watson was, but since they saw Watson beat Bama they gave him the benefit of the doubt.
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As much as I hate to defend Watson vs Mahomes, there's a really big difference here. Last year people were saying Watson was an exciting young QB with the potential to be great. But now people are talking about Mahomes as the MVP of the league and a future hall of famer. It's only natural that people are going to more easily push back on the latter as the sample size is small and they're already making all sorts of Favre/Elway/Staubach comparisons.
I think Mahomes' play has totally warranted these accolades as he's clearly the messiah, but it's not at all surprising to me that others aren't convinced. And I'm sure there were a lot of doubters who went to bed at the half of the Denver game thinking they were right only to wake up and again find out The Truth.