Whereas the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs will try and turn into the primary workforce to three-peat as Tremendous Bowl champions starting in September, Kansas Metropolis quarterback Patrick Mahomes hopes one factor is completely different in 2024.
The star quarterback hopes the upcoming season is extra gratifying than the 2023 marketing campaign.
“The top end result [last season] was superior, however I feel numerous us nonetheless have a bizarre feeling in our mouth … It wasn’t enjoyable each single week having to attempt to simply proceed to get higher and higher and the outcomes not paying off the way in which you needed to,” Mahomes defined, per Adam Teicher of ESPN. “It wasn’t numerous enjoyable. Now we have numerous those self same guys again they usually know the way that felt and so we will attempt to put together ourselves higher this 12 months in order that we are able to play higher all through the season and clearly attempt to finish with the identical end result.”
The 2023 Chiefs lost three of 4 video games forward of Christmas, and that stretch was a cause Kansas Metropolis needed to play the AFC Championship Recreation on the Baltimore Ravens quite than at residence. In the meantime, Pro-Football-Reference stats present that Mahomes ended final season ranked eighth within the league with a 63.1 adjusted QBR and sixth with 4,183 passing yards. He tossed 27 landing passes and 14 interceptions over 16 contests.
Kansas Metropolis gave Mahomes some assist this offseason by signing wideout Marquise “Hollywood” Brown in free company and drafting huge receiver Xavier Worthy through the twenty eighth general decide.
“We added numerous velocity,” Mahomes mentioned. “What’s higher than going in opposition to our protection? It is the very best protection within the NFL and we get to go in opposition to them each single day and actually present the place we’re at and the way we are able to get higher.”
Based on Kevin Patra of the NFL’s web site, Chiefs head coach Andy Reid mentioned on Tuesday that “peer strain” from workforce captains and different gamers seen as leaders is conserving youthful members of the locker room centered on the truth that the time for celebrating this previous February’s accomplishment is over.
As of Wednesday morning, DraftKings Sportsbook listed Kansas Metropolis as the general betting favourite at +500 odds to win Tremendous Bowl LIX.