Slowly however absolutely, Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs are gaining floor on Tom Brady and the New England Patriots dynasty.
The Chiefs are headed to their fifth Tremendous Bowl within the final six years. They’ve received three Tremendous Bowl titles in that span and can look to develop into the primary NFL group ever to win three in a row.
Kansas Metropolis has really loved much more success within the first seven years of its dynasty than New England. It has made seven convention title appearances, 5 Tremendous Bowl appearances, and three Tremendous Bowl wins since Mahomes took over as beginning quarterback in 2018.
Within the first seven seasons of the Pats dynasty (2001-07), that they had 5 convention title berths, 4 Tremendous Bowl appearances, and three Tremendous Bowl titles.
Even when they beat the Philadelphia Eagles on Feb. 9, Mahomes and Co. nonetheless have their work lower out for them to catch Brady and the Patriots. New England received six Tremendous Bowl titles from 2001-18, and Brady went on so as to add a seventh Lombardi Trophy to his mantel with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2020.
That mentioned, Mahomes is simply 29 years previous and the Chiefs have proven no indicators of slowing down. So, ought to Patriots followers be apprehensive about Kansas Metropolis overtaking New England as the best NFL dynasty? Tom E. Curran shared his ideas on the newest version of Fast Slants.
“The three-peat will surely be a feather of their specific caps,” Curran mentioned of the Chiefs. “However to me, I have a look at the Patriots dynasty — and also you guys may be sweating the Chiefs, however I am not likely as a Patriots observer over everything of this dynasty. And the reason being, the Patriots’ place is solidified. Solidified by the truth that it went over 20 years. They not solely had the primary dynasty, however they buttressed it with the second.
“And yeah, you realize what? You possibly can have a 3rd straight Tremendous Bowl win for the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, and that is very a lot inside attain. And Patrick Mahomes deserves each little bit of being at the very least within the dialog of the best to ever play the sport. However the bar is about so excessive that if you happen to objectively have a look at it, you continue to must be taking a look at Everest in comparison with Mount Washington. You lop one other Mount Washington on prime of it, you then get the Everest.”
In fact, there cannot be a Patriots-Chiefs dynasty dialogue with no Brady vs. Mahomes “GOAT” debate. Whereas Mahomes nonetheless has some catching as much as do, even Brady’s longtime huge receiver and shut good friend Julian Edelman admitted on Curran’s Patriots Talk Podcast that “the argument is getting nearer.”
Tremendous Bowl LIX between the Chiefs and Eagles is about for a 6:30 p.m. ET kickoff Feb. 9 in New Orleans.
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