Stephen A. Smith and Shannon Sharpe's freezing cold takes on Mahomes resurface
Patrick Mahomes is well on his way to being the greatest of all time. But his path to being the best wasn’t always the clearest. And certainly not what anyone was thinking when he was drafted…
Patrick Mahomes is well on his way to being the greatest of all time.
But his path to being the best wasn't always the clearest.
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Mahomes was seen as a 'reach' when he was draftedCredit: Getty
And certainly not what anyone was thinking when he was drafted with the tenth pick in the 2017 draft out of Texas Tech.
A lot of people had a lot of negative things to say about John Dorsey, Kansas City's general manager at the time, and his selection of Mahomes.
A lot of prominent people in the media hammered the Chiefs for taking Mahomes that early and for drafting him instead of Deshaun Watson.
Hindsight is 20/20 of course, but there aren't too many freezing cold takes worse than the ones who criticized Dorsey and the Chiefs at the time.
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And it's a long list of who's who.
"So Patrick Mahomes, I don't like it," Shannon Sharpe said.
"I do not like this fit."
"Just like I said [Mitchell] Trubisky doesn't have the resume that tells me that he's better than Deshaun Watson, I damn sure ain't going to say that Patrick Mahomes does," Stephen A. Smith said.
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The criticism didn't end with Sharpe and Smith.
"If he's that good, he went over Deshaun Watson, you traded up, but I still got to wait on the cookies, the cookies ain't ready yet," Cris Carter said.
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The Chiefs are looking to win their third straight Super Bowl, and Mahomes' fourth overallCredit: Getty
"The only one out of them that's going to win a championship, if there is one, is Deshaun Watson."
"When I hear words about Pat Mahomes, these are the words I hear, undisciplined, lacking fundamentals, immature," Will Cain said.
"Why are you drafting a quarterback," Matt 'Money' Smith said.
"Why are you trading up to draft a quarterback that doesn't just have bad footwork, but has no footwork."
There's freezing cold takes, and then there's all of those.
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Of course at the time it was a fair debate.
But some things happen to age like milk, and all of those Mahomes' takes certainly qualify as aging like spoiled milk.
He has a chance to win his fourth Super Bowl in just his seventh year as a starter.
Mahomes has been on an unprecedented trajectory that the league has never seen.
He and the Chiefs are on the verge of being the first team in NFL history win three consecutive Super Bowls.
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Many people laughed at Dorsey when he selected the kid with the big arm out of Lubbock, Texas.
Now it's Dorsey who will continue to get the last laugh until the end of time.
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