Patrick Mahomes may make 'argument' for NFL GOAT with 3rd straight Super Bowl title, legendary kicker says

Adam Vinatieri, who played Super Bowl leader with Tom Brady and the New England Patriots and besides won a rubric with the Indianapolis Colts and Peyton Manning, suggested successful a caller interrogation that Patrick Mahomes is making an "argument" for top NFL subordinate of each time.

Vinatieri was asked whether Mahomes is adjacent to surpassing Brady, who won six Super Bowl titles with the Patriots and different with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, erstwhile it comes to the top of each clip (GOAT) conversation.

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The erstwhile kicker said there’s an "argument" to beryllium made.

"There’s decidedly an statement for that. I cringe to accidental that due to the fact that I’ve been astir immoderate of the champion players, champion quarterbacks successful the past of the NFL and I emotion Tom and Peyton. I’ve ne'er played with Patrick, but I tin lone presume if you’re his teammate, you consciousness precisely the aforesaid mode astir him arsenic I consciousness astir those guys," helium told TMZ Sports.

"I’ve ever said, Tom’s got 7 Super Bowls, until idiosyncratic does thing that helium hasn’t, he’s inactive the man. But we’re getting to thing adjacent Tom, adjacent the large Tom Brady, and Bill Belichick, and that squad has not done. If they tin propulsion it off, I situation accidental you got an argument. You decidedly person an argument. And radical volition say, ‘Oh, you know, Joe Montana, this oregon that,’ and I don’t deliberation we could ever hold connected who is the champion ever, but Patrick is close there, and that full team."

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Vinatieri credited Andy Reid and the enactment with however it dealt with a bevy of challenges implicit the past fewer seasons to support the Chiefs successful the moving for a Super Bowl.

This twelvemonth alone, Kansas City was deed with injuries astatine the wide receiver position. Rashee Rice and Marquise Brown missed astir of the year.

"Andy Reid, 1 of the top coaches. You can’t spell 7 years consecutive and 3 Super Bowls consecutive without making a damn bully crippled program week successful and week out, dealing with injuries, dealing with escaped bureau and past proceed to beryllium capable to bash it. It’s ace awesome nary substance who is looking done the hourglass astatine that," Vinatieri said.

He added that the Chiefs going to the Super Bowl and perchance becoming the archetypal squad to triumph 3 consecutive titles is "absolutely crazy."

"When you person a backmost similar Patrick Mahomes that tin propulsion magic retired of a chapeau implicit and implicit and implicit again, it blows maine away," helium said. "In the opening of the season, they’re winning games but barely. And I’m like, ‘Do they person what it takes again this year?’ Sure enough, it conscionable keeps going and they bushed truly bully teams each the clip the mode that they bash it. 

"Can’t accidental capable bully worldly and if they tin ‘three-peat,’ the archetypal squad to ever bash it, I volition instrumentality my chapeau disconnected and say, ‘My gosh!’ You wanna speech astir dynasties, I’ve been a portion of teams they called dynasties, and if they tin propulsion this 1 off, you’ve got 100% of my respect for sure."

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