Patrick Mahomes defined if the Kansas City Chiefs are a dynasty and he said it’s too early to tell, essentially.
The Chiefs are constantly in the AFC Championship game and won two out of three Super Bowls with him under center and coached by Andy Reid. But he doesn’t want to put a label on anything until he’s well into retirement.
For now, it’s about the upcoming season and winning a third Super Bowl in five years.
“Dynasty, to me, it’s over a long stretch of time,” Mahomes said on NFL Network. “And I know we’ve done a lot of great things. Honestly, I know we did a lot of great things, all the AFC Championship games, the Super Bowl championships and everything like that. But I always say you can’t talk about dinosaurs until you’re done. And so we want to continue to make that dynasty, we want to make our print on the NFL and on Kansas City and in the world.
“And that’s gonna take hard work every single day at training camp, and going out there and giving everything we have on the football field. At the end of the day, when we look back at our career, I’m hoping that we get to say it was a dynasty because of the way that we play football.”
In an MVP season, leading the Chiefs to a Super Bowl LVII victory over the Philadelphia Eagles, Mahomes threw for 5,250 yards, 41 touchdowns, 12 interceptions and a 67.1% completion percentage. Over the course of his career, Mahomes has 24,241 yards, 192 touchdowns, 49 interceptions and a 66.3% completion percentage.
The Chiefs are obviously fired up for the season, judging by Travis Kelce throwing a punch during training camp practice Saturday. They might want to reel it in a bit and save some of the aggression for opponents.
“With quarterbacks, the work’s never done,” Reid said prior to training camp. “I’ve mentioned it before, it’s like being a farmer. You just keep on cranking.
“And we’re always trying to give him new challenges with things. And he loves that and loves to attack those types of things. So, that’s where it’s at … but there are always things to work on. Fundamentally, there’s things to work on. He spends a tremendous amount of time at that. He puts a lot of effort into it. And, obviously, the new plays.”
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