He used the no-look, the side arm and the long ball well. What comes next?
The Athletic’s Nate Taylor noted that Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes was working on a forward type on Sunday, just another ripple placing the reigning Super Bowl MVP as he hopes to return the team to glory this season.
“I do not want to reveal all my secrets,” said a smiling Mahomes. ‘It’s stuff I’m working on and stuff we do. I try to find ways to get the ball to the receivers, tight ends, running backs, whoever it is, the fastest way possible. The pitch was one thing we kind of worked on and things like that. I think I saw Brett Favre or Aaron Rodgers do it in one of the games – I saw one of those throwback games with the Green Bay Packers. So I try to look at what guys have done for me. I’ve watched guys like Dan Marino and how successful he was, and then I look at the guys who play with Deshaun Watson and Lamar and Dak Prescott around the league – all these guys who’s successful, and I try to find what they are doing and try to take it out and put it in my game so that I can be a better player every time I step on the field. ”
Chiefs head coach Andy Reid was impressed with how the quarterback handled the all-season meetings, which had to be conducted via video reporting due to COVID-19.
“I thought he was attacking aggressively all season,” Reid said. ‘He was at every Zoom meeting we had and asked big questions, which he normally does. He wants to know everything, wants you to feed him new plays and wants to keep growing, and that’s just about all you can ask. Every chance he had to throw, he grabbed his boys together and threw them. So, my hat goes off to him the way he approached it. ‘
ESPN’s Adam Teicher asked Mahomes about a flashing flick-of-the-pulse in sand-on-sand after the end of practice Sunday.
“The great thing about training camp practices and practices with Coach Reid is that I allow myself to try these different things,” Mahomes said. ‘You’ve kind of seen camp go – there have been times I’ve made some of these throws and they’ve worked out and we’ve scored touchdowns. I threw one, one day, and it was an easy interception, so [Reid] let you try these different things that you can just learn from them, see what you can and cannot do. It helps me at the end of the game when I know what I can do and what I can’t. ‘
Even entering year three with Mahomes as starter, Reid has not grown tired of that kind of play turning heads.
“I appreciate his talents and I often remind the coaches of that,” Reid said. “That just doesn’t happen all the time with every quarterback. That, he shows it easily and does it over and over again, but you are never satisfied or satisfied with themselves – you enjoy each of them. ”
