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I can’t get over how much this dialogue is similar to what LeBron has went through his entire career as he tried to chase down MJ (or to be more specific, the media created ideal or “ghost” of MJ that was somehow infallible despite plenty of evidence to the contrary). Any Finals loss, even to a clearly vastly superior opponent, became a yearly indictment on his entire career.
Mahomes remains the best playoff performer in the history of the sport, regardless of yesterday’s poor game. Not all that close either if you look at the stats. His “legacy” as secure, unless of course you’re trying to compare him to some kind of ideal of Tom Brady that never actually existed in the first place. Brady wasn’t even widely considered the “GOAT” until his late 30s (when he started racking up SBs due to poorly coached Seahawk and Falcons teams), nor was he even considered the best player at his position for the vast majority of his career. This somehow gets forgotten now because he played until he was 45 years old and won 7 of the things.
Mahomes has had the best start to a career of any QB in the history of football by far to this point. Is that not enough?
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