Anyone who criticizes Patrick Mahomes today is a damned fool | This is the Loop

Tom Brady is a marvel, a miracle, an inevitability, and a juggernaut. I am astounded, I am satisfied, I have seen the light, and so forth. and so forth. and so forth. We’ll by no means see his like once more.

BUT. I could not assist however marvel, towards the tip of final evening’s sport, what he would have accomplished if he performed for Kansas Metropolis within the Tremendous Bowl. Think about that on each single play, he was being blitzed from all angles, and picture his injured line broke down from the beginning and, removed from figuring issues out, obtained progressively worse as the sport went alongside. Think about that his receivers had hassle getting open, and that even after they have been open, he would barely have sufficient time to identify them earlier than getting trucked by somebody like Ndamukong Suh. Lastly, think about he needed to do all of it with a case of turf toe so unhealthy that it could require surgical procedure after the season, and that had him limping round.

What might he have accomplished? Properly, that is the scenario Patrick Mahomes handled Sunday evening, and he nonetheless did stuff like this:

Genuinely, that is without doubt one of the most athletic issues I’ve ever seen. I imply, look:

Thirty yards! And it hit his receiver within the face masks and may have been a landing!

The Web was on hearth with jokes about what he was making an attempt to tug off, and for good motive—the dude was mainly Sisyphus final evening, completely doomed however nonetheless pushing that boulder up the hill. The truth that he might generate something in any respect whereas being sacked like a defenseless Roman city over and again and again with a bum foot tells you all the things you might want to know concerning the man and his outrageous talent and resilience.

And nonetheless, some folks have been saying this was a “unhealthy” sport from Mahomes. Insane! He was put in an not possible scenario the place the stats have been doomed to look horrible, however there may be actually no different human on the face of planet Earth who might have accomplished extra with this example. He was spectacular in his failure, and the truth that he scrambled and dodged and fought till the bitter finish reveals what sort of character he has. I do not assume I’ve ever seen an athlete look extra spectacular in emphatic defeat, and for me, all he did on Tremendous Bowl Sunday was to cement the truth that he is among the finest gamers the NFL has ever seen.

To name it a failure due to a pair tipped interceptions and the ultimate rating is to overlook the truth that no different participant might have averted a whole meltdown for so long as Mahomes did. He is a genius, and final evening was no refutation; it confirmed it, time after time. The sport was hopeless, however the quarterback was a marvel.

Sizzling Take: The Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present Has At all times Been Trash, however This One Was Kinda Good

“Blinding Lights” is a killer music, however The Weeknd’s halftime present was typically perceived as crap, at the least if Twitter is a sign. This isn’t a shock, as a result of in my lifetime, there has by no means been a superb halftime present. It is all the time both a pop act with poor acoustics or some legendary group…with poor acoustics. There are educated cheerleaders pretending to be followers, bizarre outfits, and, many occasions, glow sticks. And it all the time sucks. It is extremely troublesome even for consultants to provide compelling reside music footage, and concert events are the last word “it is so a lot better in individual” occasion. In that sense, they’re the other of an NFL soccer sport, which is interminable and uninteresting in individual however manner higher on TV.

The beginning of The Weeknd’s efficiency final evening was sometimes sort of awkward, spectacle with out coronary heart, however the “Blinding Lights” portion? With all of the purple dancers in white masks occupying the entire subject? Sorry, however that was actually good. Watch this and inform me it isn’t a banger:

Opinions and tastes vary, but I’m giving this the Loop Seal of Approval. It was the Mahomes halftime shows—adverse circumstances, a lot of flaws, but still ended up looking pretty great.