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Originally Posted by KC_Connection
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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I was actually telling my buddy that it’s far more likely the Chiefs have LeBron at QB than MJ.
The Tampa loss was probably Mahomes’s 2015 Warriors series.
Last night was probably Mahomes’s 2014 Spurs series.
People will get hung up on the rings. It’s an easy thing to argue about because it’s a simple metric.
The argument that LeBron hasn’t had strong supporting casts is dumb, but he hasn’t had what the Warriors had or some of those Spurs teams had.
This is kinda similar. Every NFC team is some “super team”, but the Chiefs have the better QB. LeBron was always the best player on the court, but those Warriors and Spurs teams were insane.
Some people will be smart and look at what Mahomes takes to the Super Bowl and what he’s up against. Others will be dumb and just compare rings without context.