Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes Makes Good on a Personal Promise
The Kansas City Chiefs seemed to have no trouble towering over the New York Giants on Sunday, September 21, with a 22-9 win on the road. It was a must-win game for the Chiefs, because they were 0-2 heading into the game, and there’s no way they wanted to be 0-3 after Week 3. That’s just not acceptable for a championship-winning franchise.
The Chiefs, of course, have plenty of people to thank for the victory, including quarterback Patrick Mahomes, tight end Travis Kelce and head coach Andy Reid. But, it’s not all about football. All of these players and coaches have personal lives, too, and they’re constantly juggling their professional and personal lives to make everything work.
What’s cool is when they can combine some of their personal passions with their sport of football. Now, Mahomes making good on a promise that he made back in May to some very special, up-and-coming football players.
Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs Delivers
Mahomes is gifting more than a dozen high school football programs across the country with brand new uniforms and apparel, according to On3. He announced the move, which is in partnership with Adidas, back in May during his induction into the Texas High School Football Hall of Fame.
The tally of schools feature his school, Whitehouse, as well as schools in Florida, Oklahoma, Georgia, Michigan, California, Texas and Missouri.
When first announcing the move, Mahomes said, “Seeing this Gladiator logo … which has become part of my identity on a Whitehouse jersey means everything to me. It’s a symbol of what we stood for when I was at Whitehouse.”
He added, “That mindset of giving everything you got and never backing down is something I’ve carried with me through every stage of my career. And now it is something I hope inspires the next generation of athletes across the country.”
Here’s the full tally of schools:
Whitehouse High School (Whitehouse, Texas)
Northwestern Senior High (Miami, Florida)
Broken Arrow High (Broken Arrow, Oklahoma)
Grayson High (Loganville, Georgia)
Cass Technical (Detroit, Michigan)
Detroit Catholic Central (Livonia, Michigan)
Chaminade-Madonna (Hollywood, Florida)
Inglewood High (Inglewood, California)
Orange Lutheran (Orange, California)
Longview High (Longview, Texas)
Southlake Carroll (Southlake, Texas)
Servite High (Anaheim, California)
Central Senior High (Miami, Florida)
Liberty North High (Liberty, Missouri)
Lincoln High School (San Diego, California)
Patrick Mahomes Talks High School Football
“High school football is key to not just developing players but teaching them about the effort and drive needed to succeed in this sport,” Mahomes added, as reported by On3. “That mentality of going ‘all in’ is what’s driven me throughout my career and is what I hope Whitehouse and other programs adopt as they take the field in these Gladiator uniforms.”
Ahead of the season starting, Fox Sports released its tally of the best quarterbacks in the league, and they named Mahomes the top pick, although he was tied with Lamar Jackson of the Baltimore Ravens.
“When you win two of the last three Super Bowls, you’re clearly one of the league’s best players. Statistically, it wasn’t always pretty last year, but Mahomes and the Chiefs somehow finished atop their division and conference,” Henry McKenna noted in the piece.
Now that Jackson and the Ravens have lost to the Lions, we think Mahomes should be No. 1.
Blockbuster Eagles Trade Pitch Flips A.J. Brown for $140 Million Edge Rusher
While the Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl following the 2024 season, in historical terms — in terms of a whole era — they still may have left something on the table.
Let us explain.
The Eagles made it to the Super Bowl following the 2022 season as well, where they lost to the Kansas City Chiefs in a thrilling game. In 2023, they started the season 10-1 before stumbling to an inexplicable, 11-6 finish and lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the NFC Wild Card Round.
The reasons for that fall off have never truly sussed out, but it ended with both offensive coordinator Brian Johnson and defensive coordinator Sean Desai given their walking papers. Another theory was that NFL All-Pro wide receiver A.J. Brown had become a locker room cancer and was behind the team unraveling, but because former Eagles center and future Pro Football Hall of Famer Jason Kelce so vehemently said Brown wasn’t to blame — and because everyone loves Kelce so much — that it kind of killed that storyline.
Kelce being a good teammate doesn’t mean we should believe him. In this case, at least.
Brown has spent the last 2 years showing why it may have actually been him who was the problem as he’s repeatedly complained to the media or passively aggressively posted on social media about not getting the ball enough. And he’s done all that as the Eagles continued to win games at an incredible rate.
So, in short, playing with Brown seems like it sucks. And while the Eagles are stuck with him the rest of the year as they try and win consecutive Super Bowls, there is a pretty clear cut path to getting rid of him after this year.
Brilliant Trade Proposal From NFL Insider
The Ringer’s Sheil Kapadia is one of the hardest working guys or gals in the NFL media game right now. He not only hosts The Ringer NFL Show but also hosts the Philly Special podcast for The Ringer.
It was Kapadia who thought up a brilliant way to finally get Brown out of Philadelphia, proposing a trade that brings Cleveland Browns edge rusher and 2023 NFL Defensive Player of the Year Myles Garrett to the Eagles.
“(The Browns) have to trade Myles Garrett and I believe they are going to trade Myles Garrett after this season,” Kapadia said on November 6. ” … They have no chance to win next season. I’m calling my shot. Myles Garrett to the Eagles for 2 firsts and (quarterback) Tanner McKee .. or what if I throw in A.J. Brown? Tanner McKee, A.J. Brown, a first and a second.”
It’s the kind of trade NFL fans and pundits dream about in terms of just sheer audacity, and the money part of it shouldn’t be prohibitive. Brown has a fairly standard contract for a Top 5 wide receiver — he signed a 3-year, $96 million contract extension before last season that would keep him in Cleveland through 2029, when he’s 32 years old.
Garrett signed a 4-year, $160 million contract extension in March that briefly made him the NFL’s highest paid defensive player and would keep him with the Eagles through 2030.
