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Originally Posted by smithandrew051
After Mahomes’s first year as a starter, I felt like he would win 3 rings with the Chiefs. And that would absolutely be a terrific number to win, which would immediately make him a top 5 QB all time. Without question.
This dude has won 2 so quickly and been so close on 3 other occasions (only stopped by a horrifically bad defense/coin flip, OL injuries, and a bizarre second half collapse), that 3 really seems low to me. You look at the state of the AFC as the other great QBs need to get paid and the lack of elite QBs in the NFC, and it’s hard to imagine how many he could win.
I don’t see a QB ever touching Brady’s 7, but could he win 5? I think 5 might be my current guess. And it’s just crazy how realistic that feels.
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It’s really hard to win 1 ring. All 7 rings for Brady featured razor thin margins of victory in playoff games, sometimes due to great defense or the refs helping him. You need the team to stay healthy all the way to the end, as we saw with the OL injuries for KC in 2020 or the Cincy OL injuries this season. Chiefs won 2 of 3 playoff games this season by razor thin margin.
For now I am just going to enjoy this one because who knows if they will be fortunate enough to win another one. The injury luck aspect makes it kind of silly to speculate on future stuff. I think about how the Patriots won 3 rings very early in Brady’s career, but they did not win another ring for 10 years. Extremely hard to get it done.