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Why The Brady Mahomes G O A T Debate Isn T Over Not By A Long Shot

Bonisiwe Shabane
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why the brady mahomes g o a t debate isn t over not by a long shot

Patrick Mahomes had a golden opportunity to solidify his legacy and stake his claim as the GOAT on Sunday. Many believed that completing a historic three-peat would have propelled him ahead of Tom Brady in the conversation. However, it wasn’t meant to be. The two-time MVP suffered his second Super Bowl loss, falling to the Eagles in a lopsided defeat. With the three-peat off the table, does this mean the GOAT debate is over? Some believe it is, but others, like Brandon Marshall, argue that Mahomes can still catch up.

On the latest episode of the I Am Athlete podcast, Marshall insisted that the GOAT debate is far from settled. He called it “a discourse of our time”—one that won’t fade away as long as people keep discussing it. While the conversation may quiet down for now, he believes it will reignite the moment Mahomes returns to another Super Bowl. If there’s one pastime football fans can’t get enough of—besides tailgating and blaming the refs—it’s handing out GOAT status to active players before their careers have truly unfolded. No quarterback has felt that rush more than Patrick Mahomes. Some of it comes from the haters—after all, Tom Brady was the ultimate villain, molded by the Dark Sith Lord himself, Bill Belichick.

Some of it’s just the excitement of the moment. Brady himself was once the young phenom, with fans eager to crown him above legends like Joe Montana. Still, stacking Mahomes’ electric, still-young career against Brady’s two-decade dynasty, which looks more like three separate Hall of Fame careers stitched together, is like comparing a viral TikTok to The Godfather: both captivating, but... This isn’t a knock on Mahomes. His brilliance is unquestioned. In just seven full seasons, Mahomes has led the Chiefs to five Super Bowls, winning three.

He’s never missed the playoffs and has reached seven straight AFC Championship Games—a feat few quarterbacks in NFL history have matched. If Mahomes’ career ended today, he’d already rank among the top three or four quarterbacks ever. His name is already etched in Canton. Patrick Mahomes is legendary. Yet, there’s still a sizable gap between him and Tom Brady—and that gap speaks volumes about Brady’s unparalleled greatness. Looking back, Brady’s first seven years don’t quite match Mahomes’ explosive start.

Brady captured three Super Bowl rings in 2001, 2003, and 2004, but Mahomes has played in seven straight AFC title games and five Super Bowls, collecting three Super Bowl MVPs along the way, compared... If Brady’s career had stopped there, the GOAT debate would be wide open: Mahomes, Brady, or Montana? Brady’s story was far from over, though. Fox play-by-play commentator Kevin Burkhardt teed up the question for Tom Brady in the booth early in the fourth quarter of Super Bowl 59 – a three-peat coronation turned blowout that prompted the Patrick... Philadelphia beat Kansas City 40-22 in Super Bowl 59 – which forced us to do what sports fans do. We have to update the GOAT debates with quarterbacks.

"I think about – unfortunately the three losses – more than I think about the seven wins," Brady said from the booth. "The reality of a loss in this game is you don't get over them." All of this is poker logic. It is like the rehashed Matt Damon quote from "Rounders,” when he says: "In ‘Confessions of a Winning Poker Player,' Jack King said, "Few players recall big pots they have won, strange as it... Will Mahomes think about this loss more than the 25-22 overtime victory against the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl 58? Of course.

What does this mean for that legacy question? The Kansas City Chiefs lost Super Bowl LIX. That’s foremost on the minds of Kingdom fans. Period. This debate over whether or not it’s Tom Brady as the GOAT — Greatest of All Time — or if it’s Patrick Mahomes is not only tiring, but it’s irrelevant to the larger issue…... This may be why so many Kingdom fans are looking into the offseason activities of the Kansas City Chiefs.

Pete Sweeney of ArrowheadPride.com has an article out called, “Why the Brady-Mahomes Debate is over, Not By a Long Shot” No, the G.O.A.T. debate between Patrick Mahomes and Tom Brady is not over — not by a long shot https://t.co/EzyeHrlM61 “Brady owns seven Super Bowl rings — and in doing so near the end of his career with the Buc Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes has a shot to make history in Super Bowl LIX against the Philadelphia Eagles on Feb.

9. But will it be enough to end the ultimate debate of whether Mahomes or seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady is the greatest quarterback of all time? Mahomes is a victory shy of recording the NFL’s first-ever three-peat in the Super Bowl era (since 1966) and already surpassed Joe Montana for the second most playoff wins (17) ever recorded — Brady... “I can see where he could pass Brady. It’s possible. But one of the things you have to do, bro, that you just can’t gloss over is longevity,” Travis Thomas said on NESN’s “Boston Has Entered The Chat” podcast.

“That’s one of the things that made Tom great. Tom technically, if you really wanna break it down, had three Hall of Fame careers in one. He had the early Super Bowls when the defense was winning them and then he had that break in between when didn’t win a Super Bowl but his numbers were incredible, and then he... Brady and the New England Patriots fell shy of recording a three-peat of their own when Nick Foles and the Eagles came out victorious in Super Bowl LII. The following season, Brady added his sixth and final title to his illustrious 20-year run with the Patriots before defeating Mahomes and the Chiefs in Super Bowl LV, 31-9, as a member of the... Jalen Hurts and the Eagles, who lost to Mahomes and the Chiefs two years ago in Super Bowl LVII, can prevent Kansas City’s historical run with a revenge win in New Orleans.

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News Group Newspapers prohibits automated access, collection, or text/data mining of its content, including for AI, machine learning, or LLMs, as per its terms. For commercial use inquiries, contact crawlpermission@news.co.uk. The debate continues surrounding two of the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history, with Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and New England Patriots legend Tom Brady. Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy appeared as a guest recently on former NFL tight end Shannon Sharpe’s show, Club Shay Shay. The Boston native and longtime Patriots fan gave his take on the debate between the two superstars, siding heavily with Brady. “No, and it’s an easy answer, the benefit of them meeting head-to-head in the Super Bowl in Tampa Bay, Brady won.

AFC Championship at Kansas City, Brady won.” Portnoy said. “If they played, and Brady is at the end of his career, (he) still beat (Patrick Mahomes). Now, he wins seven (Super Bowls) in a row, different story.” The two players maintain respect for each other well off the football field, but they will continue to be compared to each other for as long as Mahomes plays in Super Bowls. Mahomes is eager to use Brady’s career as a measuring stick to maintain his intensity each season, battling for the ultimate prize.

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