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As Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs caput to their 3rd consecutive Super Bowl, NFL fans can't assistance but consciousness for the Buffalo Bills and backmost Josh Allen.
The Chiefs tin marque past successful New Orleans Feb. 9 by winning their 3rd consecutive Super Bowl. That past has travel astatine the disbursal of Allen, who is 0-4 successful postseason games against Mahomes and the Chiefs.
As bully arsenic Allen is — he's an MVP frontrunner alongside Baltimore Ravens backmost Lamar Jackson this twelvemonth — helium has been incapable to get the Bills backmost to the Super Bowl for the archetypal clip successful implicit 3 decades.
And his postgame interrogation aft falling to the Chiefs 32-29 showed his earthy emotion. He was abbreviated with his answers and looked dejected.
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One ex-NFL star, though, broke down Allen's challenge of having to get done Mahomes to execute the team's goals to different sports greats.
"Sometimes you tally into a Michael Jordan. Sometimes you tally into a Tiger Woods successful their prime, and you got to woody with it," erstwhile All-Pro wide receiver Brandon Marshall told Fox News Digital portion discussing his caller task with his "I Am Athlete" partnering with Revolt.
"If these guys tin propulsion disconnected 1 oregon two, past that’s what they tin do. But [Mahomes has] been successful the league 8 years and been to the Super Bowl 5 times.
"Great job, Josh Allen, but this is the incorrect epoch to beryllium a quarterback."
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Marshall said that was "no knock" against Allen, Jackson, Joe Burrow oregon adjacent C.J. Stroud with his Houston Texans falling to the Chiefs successful the divisional round.
But arsenic bully arsenic Basketball Hall of Famer Karl Malone was with the Utah Jazz, they couldn't bushed Jordan and the Bulls successful the 2 NBA Finals they played. And erstwhile Woods was successful his golfing prime, immoderate players accepted that finishing 2nd spot immoderate fixed week was an accomplishment due to the fact that Woods would apt beryllium lifting the trophy.
It's the unfortunate effect of greatness. Someone oregon immoderate squad has to lose.
Marshall described Mahomes and the Chiefs arsenic a "once-in-a-lifetime" improvement to ticker successful sports, and it's not conscionable due to the fact that of the two-time MVP.
"There’s a fewer people. There’s Patrick Mahomes. It shows his greatness," Marshall explained. "It shows Andy Reid’s greatness, and they some request to beryllium successful the speech of the top backmost of all-time and besides the top manager of all-time, challenging Tom Brady and Bill Belichick.
"Another idiosyncratic that we person to see successful this speech since he’s taken implicit this defence is Steve Spagnuolo. Before helium got determination successful 2018, this defence was dormant last. It was 1 of the worst defenses successful the league for a fewer years. Insert Coach Spags. Now they’re apical 10, and they’re doing a phenomenal job, which results successful Patrick Mahomes being much of a crippled manager.
"He’s inactive spectacular and magical, but helium doesn’t request to spell retired determination and enactment up 40 points. He doesn’t request to spell retired determination … helium doesn’t adjacent request Tyreek Hill."
Allen's numbers successful the past 3 Bills games against the Chiefs successful the playoffs are outstanding: 931 full yards, 9 touchdowns and nary interceptions. Yet, he's mislaid them all.
Like Marshall said, it's not a sound connected Allen. It's conscionable intelligibly showing however large Mahomes and this Chiefs dynasty is it looks to marque past against the Philadelphia Eagles.
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Marshall loves watching and discussing the league helium played successful 13 seasons and different sports and civilization with his "I Am Athlete" sports media platform. But helium feels he’s going to instrumentality it to the adjacent level with the brand’s concern with Revolt, the Black-owned multimedia level that announced its motorboat of Revolt Sports.
Marshall, with media property and taste commentator Kayla Nicole arsenic a co-host, volition beryllium featured connected Revolt Sports Weekly powered by "I americium Athlete," which volition diagnostic unscripted discussions with the duo and different personage contributors from the apical stories successful sports to the hottest taste topics.
The archetypal episode, which featured Marshall’s former UCF teammates, Josh "Beezo" Bellamy and Mike Sims-Walker, discussed the NFL’s league title matchups, portion besides going heavy connected whether celebrating rapper Big Meech with a invited backmost enactment adjacent period aft spending 16 years successful jailhouse for cause trafficking and wealth laundering is close for the community.
"People privation the real. They privation authentic, and that’s what our civilization is," Marshall explained. "These are the conversations we’ve been having successful the locker country since sports were established. It’s the aforesaid conversations we person successful the salons and barbershops. This is the aforesaid speech we person connected the stoops connected the block, aforesaid conversations.
"’I Am Athlete’ lives astatine the intersection of hip-hop and sports. So, talking astir things that are applicable to the civilization — popular culture, immoderate you person it — is conscionable a wide speech that is earthy to us. That’s what you’ll get from this amusement each azygous week. We’ll dive into the hottest topics successful sports and besides the biggest stories successful popular culture."
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