Someone is going to have to explain to me how a 29 year old’s legacy is tarnished because after the best 7 year start to a career and getting closer than anyone in history to winning 3 straight Super Bowls, one bad game from basically the entire team diminishes that legacy?? - ThreadSky

mitchschwartz71.bsky.social • 12 days ago

Someone is going to have to explain to me how a 29 year old’s legacy is tarnished because after the best 7 year start to a career and getting closer than anyone in history to winning 3 straight Super Bowls, one bad game from basically the entire team diminishes that legacy??

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namastelamb.bsky.social•12 days ago

Because people hate Trump and backed the Eagles 🤷‍♀️

mitchschwartz71.bsky.social•12 days ago

Tiger missed cuts in majors even at the height of his powers. Brady had a 16-0 team and lost to a 10-6 team. Missed the playoffs his 2nd year starting. Lost multiple playoff games to teams who threw for less than 100 yards but that doesn’t matter b/c it wasn’t in the Super Bowl?

mitchschwartz71.bsky.social•12 days ago

The dynamic has gotten very weird where you have to not only win #Ringz but you also get docked this bad for a Super Bowl loss when you’re doing unprecedented things before the age of 30. Brady is the most accomplished QB ever, it’s going to take years to compare their résumés.

mitchschwartz71.bsky.social•12 days ago

Brady’s legacy wasn’t tarnished in 07 when his OL had a bad game, he didn’t play up to standards, and they lost to an inferior team. Wasn’t tarnished for missing the playoffs in year 2. It happens. Everything is so damn reactionary these days. Here’s the crux of my argument:

mitchschwartz71.bsky.social•12 days ago

It feels like we’re trying to blend MJ and Brady and hold Pat to that standard. No one is repeating 6-0. Brady didn’t do it. No one else will, especially in football. Football is too interconnected, 1 game is too small. Jordan had 7 games to make sure his team won. Too different.

mitchschwartz71.bsky.social•12 days ago

I know everyone has pointed out that Brady was 3-2 in his first 5 Super Bowls, at age 34. That he went 10 years between wins 3 and 4 (age 37). From 2005 through 2013: 9-8 playoff record, two SB losses to those Giants, 32 TD-19 INT, missed playoffs once, first round exit twice.

mitchschwartz71.bsky.social•12 days ago

So let’s pump the brakes on all the comparisons and appreciate what we’ve gotten the last 7 years from Pat. It’s been an unprecedented start to a career that has changed the dynamics of football. Teams adapted, he adapted. It’s legendary, it’s historic. Enjoy it.

vpofcommonsense.bsky.social•12 days ago

Its not one bad game, is that when finally you are up against a good team where the refs can't help, your demigod is evidenced to just be a talented backyard flag football QB.

I am closer to Mahomes in QB play than he is to Brady.

bytor0509.bsky.social•12 days ago

You obviously don’t remember all the people at the time saying Montana was better because he never lost a Super Bowl

centristsisyphus.bsky.social•12 days ago

Because the season’s over but content must still be created, clicks generated.

followtheh.bsky.social•12 days ago

it's just fuel for the takes business and nothing more

denverlions.bsky.social•12 days ago

I think for Mahomes it's just, is he better than Brady or not. It's an unfair comparison.

morriss003.bsky.social•11 days ago

Obviously not

luch0-diner0.bsky.social•11 days ago

Because he went out like a bitch

slumlordthanatos.bsky.social•11 days ago

That's just Stephen A. Smith being Stephen A. Smith. Mahomes isn't even 30 yet; he has a lot of football ahead of him, and even if he retired today, he's a first-ballot HoFer.

chris-rags.bsky.social•11 days ago

Maybe the bigger factor is how those 2 SB losses have looked. Arguably the worst game of your career, in the SB? Definitely 2 of his 5 worst career games have been in the SB.

Hyperfocus on the SB - he’s been meh.

Focus on the season - he hasn’t been a top 5 QB recently.

dodgerslakers323.bsky.social•12 days ago

Because Brady never got blown out

gogototogo.bsky.social•11 days ago

Brady had an o-line.

tacosalazar.bsky.social•11 days ago

He also cheated.

cowboycosplay.bsky.social•11 days ago

QBs play defense now?

alphacrow.bsky.social•11 days ago

No but they are supposed to score some points

drunkendonuts.bsky.social•12 days ago

Hot take sports media and corrosion of online disclose. It's a mess.

sandman20.bsky.social•11 days ago

Keep crying Mitch

mikerosemn.bsky.social•12 days ago

I wouldn’t say tarnished (if others are, that’s a huge stretch). I would say, however, that it at least slowed some of 15’s momentum. If anyone thought he was about to fly past TB12, that will have to wait.

metalmama.bsky.social•11 days ago

I'm not a Chiefs fan. In fact, I am a perpetually disappointed Bills fan. It would be easy for me to trash Mahomes out of spite, but I won't. He's proving to be among the absolute best. The Eagles just played far better. Losses happen. I'm sure he has a lot more success ahead of him.

tpbehr.bsky.social•12 days ago

I think calling it a "bad game" really undersells how poorly that team and Mahomes performed on Sunday

munkeytalks.bsky.social•12 days ago

Because when you take the facade away, you get what happened on Sunday. Pat played like crap all season it wasn't just one game. Media paraded him around like he was MVP. If this is his cliff. Then his legacy isn't all that great. He's chasing Big Ben at this point.

turkturk95.bsky.social•12 days ago

This isn’t even good bait dude, why are you wasting your time like this

munkeytalks.bsky.social•12 days ago

When you play like mac jones you get treated like mac jones. Mind you mac played a game with 3 passes that season.

bklemme7.bsky.social•12 days ago

Because people online are prisoners of the moment and getting worse and worse at seeing the big picture.

swfong.bsky.social•12 days ago

Because we turned a championship into something much larger.
Mahomes has an enormously successful career, but when a controversial President makes the first ever SB visit, a player's gf is more famous than all the Chiefs combined, plus NFL fan fatigue, a drubbing has more impact.

rkorny.bsky.social•11 days ago

The game didn’t tarnish his legacy.

It just cemented as totally premature all the BS GOAT talk.

Brady lost 3 SBs by a total of 15 points. One of those losses he threw for 500 yards. Pat just got blown out and put up one of the worst QB ratings in SB history.

cfs-64.bsky.social•11 days ago

This is a great thread. Thank you. The commentary on Mahones is becoming nothing short of insufferable since Sunday!

trvscole.bsky.social•11 days ago

Because the game was that bad. Duh. If I'm a famous basketball player who just passed 30,000 career points, but in my last game I drop trou and shit on the floor, it's going to tarnish my legacy. I think the core problem here is you don't understand what tarnish means.

mikeak.bsky.social•12 days ago

Am In the only one that watched that game and saw

Drops
Hits
Constant pressure

??

mduench.bsky.social•12 days ago

Where is the 10,000 like button on this app?????

gogototogo.bsky.social•11 days ago

The plays he pulled off were absolutely stupendous. However, as I tell people at my rugby club, you need to be scoring lots of shit ones. If you have to do amazing stuff to score, you're probably on the losing side.

stevendedalus.bsky.social•11 days ago

Welcome to ‘Murica, 2025.

savagesquirrel.bsky.social•11 days ago

If not for criticism ESPN has nothing to talk about until next season.

donpbenz.bsky.social•11 days ago

It’s politics.

bigpapipopsicle.bsky.social•12 days ago

Because we must satisfy the algorithm by flooding the zone with shit that we don't even believe to make each other insane.

tacosalazar.bsky.social•12 days ago

Dude you are talking about the same country where Latinos for Trump are confused Trump is sending their family members back home and black people line up for shake his hand as if he doesn’t think they are beneath the air he breathes. People are dumb.

alphacrow.bsky.social•11 days ago

He was mediocre this year at best. I know it’s hard for fans to see that but numbers don’t lie. That defense was responsible for an awful lot of wins this year

acphila.bsky.social•12 days ago

Pat wasnt smart enough to shit the bed in the divisional round like Montana and Brady so no one remembered it.

rikkitrevi.bsky.social•11 days ago

Fine legacy. Entire team got an
🫏 whooping.

conorcawley.bsky.social•12 days ago

ask lebron after the mavs series

maddoghux.bsky.social•12 days ago

The only thing people love more than a winner is watching a winner fall.

socaldude11.bsky.social•12 days ago

It’s overreaction which seems to happen for every game anymore, people can’t call it what it is, it has to be compared to the greatest or worst things of all time

kclatino.bsky.social•12 days ago

Exactly. Well said.

caponigri.bsky.social•12 days ago

The same people who hold Brady's SB losses against him, when Montana et. Al by definition lost earlier in the playoffs, which is why they didn't get to the SB as often. Same argument against LeBron

unbotheredbear.bsky.social•12 days ago

He is still, even with two "poor" performances in SB losses, literally one of the greatest QBs in playoff history by wins, raw stats, and advanced stats- all before turning 30. Not every game is a referendum. He played pretty terribly and compounded awful line play, but he is still in rare air.

blueoddball.bsky.social•12 days ago

He has had 1.5 poor playoff games - Sunday’s loss and the second half of the 2021 AfCCG meltdown against Cincy. He was awesome as an individual player in ‘20 against the Bucs.

unbotheredbear.bsky.social•12 days ago

I don't disagree that he made some insane plays that make his stat line look misleading and he was fighting for his life back there, but the team did fail to score a touchdown. Team sport and not on him, but poor relative to his own incredibly high standards. Certainly better than this time around!

blueoddball.bsky.social•12 days ago

Yep, in the TB loss he actually lodged multiple entries on the career highlight reel of sickest plays that didn’t work lol. Recalling hitting the dude in the face mask while throwing parallel to the ground, and a Tyreek Hill drop on a crazy throw early in the game.

4legsrgood.bsky.social•12 days ago

I was wondering that too.

thebabe2.bsky.social•11 days ago

It’s the trump curse

mellowmed.bsky.social•12 days ago

Because they got blown off the field like they didn't even belong

bucsreport.bsky.social•12 days ago

Oh never mind, you're a Chefs fan... they can't be reasoned with

redrot.bsky.social•12 days ago

He’s a retired all-pro that’s forgotten more about football than you’ll ever know, you fucking dolt.

bucsreport.bsky.social•12 days ago

Dolt? LoL, that's funny, but this isn't the first big game Mahomes has bombed in. That said, a former player complaining about other people's opinions on his former team's quarterback is worse than just a random person doing it. If you can't understand that then I don't know what to tell you.

redrot.bsky.social•12 days ago

I shouldn’t have called names. That was out of line and I apologize. I just fundamentally disagree. The Chiefs are 17-4 in his playoff starts. He’s had two bad playoff performances. Sunday night and the AFC Championship he lost to the Bengals.

bucsreport.bsky.social•12 days ago

What about 2020 SB? Any way, the point is a lot of people started gassing up Mahomes as the next GOAT. So it's natural when he does not goat stuff that people who saw him being gassed up speak up.

I, myself, I think Mahomes is a great qb with a great team and even greater HC...

bucsreport.bsky.social•12 days ago

What about the Super Bowl in 2020?

85brettnolan15.bsky.social•12 days ago

Did you watch it?

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