[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by KChiefs1

The Athletic:

13. Mahomes didn’t say much in Kansas City’s quarterback meetings as a rookie. He was Alex Smith’s understudy and he knew it, so he generally spoke when spoken to.

Coaches put plays up on the screen, hit pause and asked the quarterbacks what decision they’d make in that situation: “Who would you go to here? Would you hit the over or the under here?”

The “over” might be an 18-yard throw, the “under” around 4 yards. Mahomes wasn’t looking at either.

“Shit,” he’d say, “I’d throw the post.”

“I’d look at him like, ‘****ing what?'” assistant head coach Brad Childress said, laughing. Childress would study the screen again: Sure enough, there was a quarter safety standing flat-footed with a receiver about to blow past him — if the QB had enough arm to chuck it 65 yards and enough guts to try it, that is.

Eventually, Childress would change his response. “Yeah,” he’d say. “Good idea.”


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That is my favorite story of all time. It should be tattooed on the arms of every child born in America from now on, so they can be constantly inspired to greatness.