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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
This is the thing for me - Mahomes, for as great as he has been, hasn't engineered many truly dominant 4 quarter playoff performances.
And I absolutely believe those will come. I mean by any mortal metric, he's just entering his prime years. He probably has another couple of seasons of improvement before he plateaus at that level for probably another 6-8 years.
This isn't the best version of him. And that version can/will absolutely massacre quality teams.
I do think sometime in the next few years he'll have a playoff run that borders on mythic where he just sets creation on fire. And eventually he'll have one of those Super Bowls where he wins by 20+ points.
That's the strangest thing about his 'clutch' gene to me - how often he's needed it. Because I would really expect him to have run away with some of these ballgames.
Soon...
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He had 2.5 games of it in 2021. If he hadn't gotten conked on the noggin in that Bengals game...what might have been.
While it sucks that we came up short that year, I still maintain these many glorious years later that the experiences of that postseason yielded fruit down the road.