Patrick Mahomes Establishes Chiefs’ Dynasty With Super Bowl Win

On the opening night of the Super Bowl week last Monday, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes said, “I don’t think I could have ever foreseen what was going to happen at the start of my career.”

In the past couple of years, it’s been hard to foresee anything but a Chiefs championship. In six seasons as a starter for the Kansas City Chiefs, Mahomes has made it to four Super Bowls. On Sunday, he earned his third ring and became part of the first team to win back-to-back championships since the New England Patriots in 2003-04.

Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has since retired, but with head coach Bill Belichick, the Belichick-Brady era in New England has indisputably been a dynasty. Of his four Super Bowl appearances, Mahomes’ only loss came at the hands of Brady and when he was playing for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers three years ago in Super Bowl LV. Mahomes’ victory in Super Bowl LVIII made it official. It’s a dynasty.

“You want to get to the Super Bowl. That’s your ultimate goal and to be able to be in my fourth one, it truly is surreal and I just try to appreciate it every single time,” Mahomes said. “You don’t even know if this will be your last, and I’ve been blessed to be in a lot with a great organization with a lot of great players around me, so I just try to maximize those opportunities.”

In each of their three Super Bowl wins, the Chiefs trailed in the fourth quarter. On Sunday, they came back from a three-point deficit against the San Fransisco 49ers to take the game into overtime. This is a team that has won in the playoffs being down 24-0 and once managed to somehow tie a playoff game with a field goal drive in 13 seconds before going on to win in overtime.

“I’ve lost the Super Bowl and I know how bad that hurts, and you want to make sure you stay away from that feeling,” Mahomes noted before the Super Bowl. “When you lose it and you’re in that locker room and you feel like you’re that close and you didn’t get it … I’m almost more addicted to staying away from that feeling than I am hoisting the trophy.”

With Mahomes going on the road in the playoffs this year, people thought it would be different – “It’s the Ravens year, they have the MVP Lamar Jackson,” “the Bills are tough to beat,” “the 49ers are star-studded.” Mahomes was an underdog in three straight playoff games, including the Super Bowl.

So what’s the message here? The dynasty is inevitable.