Berliner Boersenzeitung - Mahomes avoids 'G.O.A.T' talk as history beckons

EUR -
AED 3.795051
AFN 76.905252
ALL 98.798207
AMD 414.66656
ANG 1.870598
AOA 943.848309
ARS 1093.833705
AUD 1.647875
AWG 1.862375
AZN 1.760572
BAM 1.955171
BBD 2.095626
BDT 126.56927
BGN 1.955171
BHD 0.391274
BIF 3072.711203
BMD 1.033218
BND 1.401749
BOB 7.171692
BRL 5.999072
BSD 1.037866
BTN 90.790784
BWP 14.35638
BYN 3.396707
BYR 20251.063216
BZD 2.084829
CAD 1.47714
CDF 2949.836368
CHF 0.940122
CLF 0.025884
CLP 993.29036
CNY 7.529887
CNH 7.546363
COP 4291.818894
CRC 529.029758
CUC 1.033218
CUP 27.380264
CVE 110.229528
CZK 25.131677
DJF 184.830522
DKK 7.463912
DOP 64.399276
DZD 139.539096
EGP 51.929289
ERN 15.498263
ETB 132.81586
FJD 2.390146
FKP 0.850945
GBP 0.833072
GEL 2.872748
GGP 0.850945
GHS 16.03584
GIP 0.850945
GMD 74.392028
GNF 8973.112456
GTQ 8.025417
GYD 217.579983
HKD 8.049023
HNL 26.452488
HRK 7.624678
HTG 135.756314
HUF 405.372959
IDR 16888.198522
ILS 3.675413
IMP 0.850945
INR 90.566169
IQD 1359.662461
IRR 43498.457578
ISK 146.696621
JEP 0.850945
JMD 163.997226
JOD 0.732969
JPY 156.425519
KES 133.99688
KGS 90.355268
KHR 4169.658206
KMF 492.332064
KPW 929.895875
KRW 1507.764378
KWD 0.31882
KYD 0.864922
KZT 529.259684
LAK 22549.743502
LBP 92945.390211
LKR 308.520718
LRD 206.543534
LSL 19.131843
LTL 3.050823
LVL 0.624983
LYD 5.09636
MAD 10.384558
MDL 19.460738
MGA 4890.426263
MKD 61.510206
MMK 3355.850172
MNT 3510.873213
MOP 8.32712
MRU 41.568623
MUR 48.255123
MVR 15.922273
MWK 1799.720851
MXN 21.254735
MYR 4.588006
MZN 66.033321
NAD 19.131843
NGN 1548.493805
NIO 38.197708
NOK 11.617812
NPR 145.265254
NZD 1.826603
OMR 0.397482
PAB 1.037866
PEN 3.857159
PGK 4.168659
PHP 59.988996
PKR 289.630497
PLN 4.189952
PYG 8186.365631
QAR 3.784182
RON 4.972053
RSD 117.022342
RUB 100.717589
RWF 1463.429069
SAR 3.87506
SBD 8.727396
SCR 15.595425
SDG 620.964075
SEK 11.304643
SGD 1.398257
SHP 0.850945
SLE 23.495749
SLL 21666.054515
SOS 593.209106
SRD 36.27114
STD 21385.51642
SVC 9.082077
SYP 13433.894063
SZL 19.125845
THB 35.020947
TJS 11.359944
TMT 3.626593
TND 3.314633
TOP 2.419903
TRY 37.075775
TTD 7.041734
TWD 33.933863
TZS 2667.441618
UAH 43.017857
UGX 3811.773373
USD 1.033218
UYU 45.145472
UZS 13448.672223
VES 62.441248
VND 26150.735204
VUV 122.665658
WST 2.893863
XAF 655.745981
XAG 0.032472
XAU 0.000361
XCD 2.792322
XDR 0.796044
XOF 655.745981
XPF 119.331742
YER 257.323196
ZAR 19.020815
ZMK 9300.201166
ZMW 29.035656
ZWL 332.695617
  • SCS

    -0.2200

    11.36

    -1.94%

  • RIO

    -0.2400

    61.95

    -0.39%

  • RBGPF

    67.2100

    67.21

    +100%

  • GSK

    -0.3400

    36.04

    -0.94%

  • BCC

    -1.8300

    123.28

    -1.48%

  • CMSD

    -0.0800

    23.75

    -0.34%

  • NGG

    -0.1300

    61.54

    -0.21%

  • BCE

    -1.3800

    22.14

    -6.23%

  • AZN

    -0.3700

    71.99

    -0.51%

  • CMSC

    -0.0700

    23.37

    -0.3%

  • BP

    0.3100

    32.27

    +0.96%

  • BTI

    0.1400

    41.76

    +0.34%

  • VOD

    0.1300

    8.57

    +1.52%

  • RELX

    -0.4100

    49.99

    -0.82%

  • RYCEF

    -0.0300

    7.42

    -0.4%

  • JRI

    -0.0200

    12.81

    -0.16%

Mahomes avoids 'G.O.A.T' talk as history beckons
Mahomes avoids 'G.O.A.T' talk as history beckons / Photo: Jonathan Bachman - GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP

Mahomes avoids 'G.O.A.T' talk as history beckons

Patrick Mahomes will enter the NFL history books with an unprecedented third straight Super Bowl win on Sunday but the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback is in no mood for legacy talk.

Text size:

Like most quarterbacks, Mahomes is keen to share the glory with his team-mates, but he also knows that at 29-years-old, he has the chance to add quite a few more chapters to his story beyond Sunday's clash with the Philadelphia Eagles.

So he isn't going to take the bait about whether he is entering the conversation about being the 'G.O.A.T' - Greatest of All Time.

"I'm just trying to be the greatest Patrick Mahomes that I can be," Mahomes told reporters.

"I mean, that's obviously a goal of anyone's is to be the greatest at their profession, but in order to do that, you have to be the greatest that you can be every single day," he said.

"That's on the field and the work ethic I put in or off the field in the father and husband that I am.

"I'm going to try to be the greatest in that way, and whenever I'm done with football, if I leave everything out there the way that I feel like I have so far, as far as effort and mentality, I'll be happy with the results and I'll let others talk about who the greatest is," he added.

Still Mahomes will become one of just four quarterbacks in the history of the NFL to have won more than three Super Bowls should be triumph in Sunday's showdown with the Philadelphia Eagles.

Tom Brady has won the most, with seven Super Bowl titles, while Joe Montana won four with the San Francisco 49ers and Terry Bradshaw the same amount with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

- Learning from legends -

As much as Mahomes likes to play down comparisons with greats from the past, he says he does talk to several former quarterbacks and takes suggestions from them.

"Yeah, I talk to Tom and I talk to Peyton (Manning), I talk to a lot of these guys, and I think the best thing that they do for me is just feed confidence on what I'm doing and how I'm doing it and how I can continue to be great," he said.

"And then if they'll give me any other advice, I always will take it. So it's always great to look at the legends of the sport, especially in my position, and hear what they have to say because they've done it before and they know what it takes to have a (Hall of Fame) gold jacket and have their number retired and everything like that," he said.

Brady will be close to the action in New Orleans as part of the Fox Sports broadcasting team and Mahomes is happy to have him.

But it is a less heralded quarterback, Alex Smith, who Chiefs coach Andy Reid believes played a key role in Mahomes' rise to the top.

In his rookie season, Mahomes spent most of the year on the sidelines as back-up to Smith, allowing him the time to learn about the demands of the position in the NFL before becoming the starter.

"I'm not saying he couldn't have been as great as he is now if he didn't sit, but being with Alex Smith I thought was something you can’t buy," Reid said on Tuesday.

"He was able to sit there and watch a guy who's the ultimate professional, on and off the field, and just get an idea of the lay of the land of how things work in this league. I think that's helped him in that part of his career. I'm sure if he stepped in as a rookie he probably would have been just as great as he is now, but that helped, for sure," he said.

Mahomes concurs.

"It was extremely important to me. Instead of being thrown into the fire and having to figure it out on the fly, I got to learn behind one of the smartest quarterbacks of all time".

(A.Berg--BBZ)