2026 NFL Season Preview: Focus on QB Patrick Mahomes

All right, so NFL camps are opening. What's the big storyline here? Me, I think one of the big storylines has gotta be, what's Kansas City and Patrick Mahomes gonna look like? I'll make you a comparison. So, years ago, when Tom Brady won his first couple Super Bowls, let's not forget there was a 10-year gap in between them retooling the football team and then putting the proper talent around Tom Brady and watching Tom Brady mature as a quarterback in the NFL. Well, the same can be said here with what's going on with Brett Veach, the general manager, Andy Reid, and with Patrick Mahomes in Kansas City. Are they gonna get themselves back in a position for them to be a team that's gonna fight for an NFL championship? Look, he's one of the great transitional players or one of the great generational players of all time in NFL history. Amber Dexrius, the guy does everything. If you're gonna start a team, this is the guy. I asked Jimmy Johnson the question years ago, what would his market value be if you ever put quarterback Patrick Mahomes in the open market? He said it'd be five first-rounders, which in a sense means he's one of the only guys in the league that's not tradable. You can't trade for a guy like this. This is a guy that's a generational player that changes the direction of your franchise. He's a guy that you could put anywhere. Well, maybe not anywhere like the Jets, but he can go anywhere and be a difference maker. Andy Reid also chasing down Don Shula and also Bill Belichick as the greatest coach in NFL history. What do that Kansas City Chief Organization do this off-season to really help him? I really don't see a lot have been added to that offensive side of the football. Look, you still got Steve Spagnuolo on the defensive side, and you also have Andy Reid, as we mentioned, on the offensive side, and of course, you've got the great Patrick Mahomes. You're in a very tough AFC West. You got Denver, who I think is the best team in that division and maybe the best team in the conference, and also you got a bunch of other teams like the Chargers, and again, Patrick Mahomes is gonna have to fight through Justin Herbert, and I think that's gonna be a hell of a battle for the AFC West crowd, and you got a Raider team, but we don't know what's gonna happen there with Clint Kubiak, so the direction of Patrick Mahomes is gonna be interesting this coming football season. I think the other storylines as we go into camp has to be this. I mean, look, Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen are just spectacular talent. They are great football players. They're the best quarterbacks right now, potentially, in the national football. Okay, all that being said, you do have to win, and I don't mean just win. You have to make your legacy in the postseason. Look, you get paid in the regular season, and your legacy is built in the postseason. Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson have fallen short. You know, if you wanna be in that stratosphere of being in the conversation with the Dan Marinos and with the conversations of, say, a Joe Montana or a Tom Brady and guys like that, you gotta win, and you've gotta win significantly. I mean, Joe Montana, think of it. His four Super Bowl victories. You're talking about a guy that won four Super Bowls, 135 quarterback rating, and no picks. Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, you gotta win.