The Kansas City Chiefs have generally practically nothing still left to achieve. They received the past Tremendous Bowl and the Tremendous Bowl before that. They’ve gained their division each and every yr considering that 2015, and they have not finished beneath .500 since 2012. Their limited conclude is courting the most popular dwelling American. Lifetime is good.
How, then, do you remain motivated ahead of a time the place you can expect to be chasing history? If you are quarterback Patrick Mahomes, you participate in with the limitations of what is achievable in an American soccer match.
Mahomes has been doing that his entire career, but on Wednesday he threatened to choose items up a notch by dialing up a driving-the-back pass to jogging again Carson Steele for the duration of the Chiefs’ minicamp.
The two-time MVP feigned taking off running before firing a basketball-model go in Steele’s course, which the UCLA products deftly caught with one particular hand.
Mahomes beforehand has talked about unleashing the driving-the-again move in a game—and he has the approval of Chiefs mentor Andy Reid.
“Mentor Reid needs me to throw it at the rear of-the-again a lot more than any one in the entire world,” Mahomes said on a Initial Issues Initial visual appeal in May perhaps. “He deliberately places in plays that when I have the chance to toss it. It is not a coaching factor, it really is me not obtaining that self confidence to do it in the video game. One particular of these video games, person. We gotta do it. You can find way too considerably hoopla in it. With any luck , it’s to Travis [Kelce].”
Kansas Town opens its year on Sept. 5 against the Baltimore Ravens. We’ll see whether or not the go comes with it.