Pictures can be deceiving, especially during the NFL offseason.
But Kansas City Chiefs fans are eagerly reading into new images of Patrick Mahomes, following the quarterback’s vow to change his game following a Super Bowl loss.
I feel like I didn’t play to my standard, especially the struggles that I had early in the season, Mahomes exclusively told talkSPORT after the Philadelphia Eagles’ 40-22 win in New Orleans. There’s things that I have to get better at, and they kind of showed today on the biggest stage. Travis Kelce was joined by Mahomes during a recent golf outing at Pinehurst in North Carolina. While Kelce jokingly showed off his rear end to a camera, Mahomes appeared confident and slimmed down. We’ve come a long way, one fan tweeted. New hair and no dad bod? Safe to say new year, new Mahomes. Dad bod gone, a second fan posted. No Superbowl win = no Coors Lite, a third fan wrote. Mahomes is a three-time Super Bowl champ and MVP. Yet one of the best QBs in NFL history was outplayed by Jalen Hurts in SB LIX, and Mahomes entered the 2024 offseason vowing to make adjustments. Mahomes has now been beaten 71-31 in his big-game defeats.
After Hurts won the recent Super Bowl MVP, Mahomes soaked in his pain and vowed to use it for future fuel. Both sucked. There’s no way around it, Mahomes said. Anytime you lose a Super Bowl, they’ll stick with you the rest of your career. These will be the two losses that will motivate me to be even better for the rest of my career, because you only get so few of these. Kelce and Mahomes have regularly played golf together and maintained close ties off of the field. With recent news that Kelce plans to return for the 2025 season, Mahomes could be slimming down in the hope of winning a fourth Super Bowl trophy on his revenge tour. Mahomes is 89-23 in his career with six Pro Bowl selections. He fell to Kansas City in the 2017 NFL Draft, then watched and waited as a rookie before building a dynasty with the Chiefs. Mahomes finished Super Bowl LIX with 21-of-32 passing for 257 yards, three touchdowns, two interceptions and a respectable 95.4 rating. But it was 24-0 Eagles at halftime, 34-0 Philly in the third quarter, and most of Mahomes’ numbers arrived in garbage time. His pick-six fired into the hands of Eagles rookie Cooper DeJean changed the game. Showtime Mahomes wasn’t close to good enough in Super Bowl LIX, and he knew it. Credit to the Eagles, man, they played better than us from start to finish, Mahomes said. We didn’t start how we wanted to. Obviously the turnovers hurt and I take all the blame for that. He could be funneling that frustration into a sharper new physique in 2025.
