Tom Brady dashes Patrick Mahomes and Chiefs' hopes at getting three-peat at Super Bowl
Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs are on a mission to become the first team to win three straight Super Bowls. After defeating the Philadelphia Eagles in February 2023 and the San Francisco 49ers a year later, they want to make it a three-peat for the first time in NFL history.
However, there's one guy who thinks that this mission is nearly impossible - and nobody in the world knows more about winning Super Bowls than him. Speaking on Colin Cowherd's show on Monday, Tom Brady gave his view on the Mahomes and Chiefs' chances of accomplishing the feat, and he wasn't positive about it.
"The margin of error is razor-thin," Brady said. "To win one Super Bowl is extremely difficult; to win two, back to back, what the Chiefs have done... I mean, as we know, in the history of the sport, nearly impossible. To win three in a row, there's a reason why no one's done it: because it's hard (enough) to win one in a row.
"So to put three of those together, and back-to-back-to-back seasons, while drafting last, a very hard schedule, all the turnover and free agency guys continuing to be motivated ... it's a big challenge. And that's nothing to say that the Chiefs couldn't accomplish that, believe me, everybody would probably put them as one of the odds-on favorites to do it. But even that there's not a 50% chance of that happening. There's way less than that."
Patrick Mahomes, Chiefs to open season against the Baltimore Ravens
Last year, the Chiefs' first game of the season was against the Detroit Lions. While many expected an easy win to come, Kansas City - literally - dropped that game in an unexpected way. They recovered and made another Super Bowl run, but they know that winning last year with that receiving group was an anomaly.
Now, the mission will be even tougher. Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs will play Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens in the first game of the season, a rematch from last season's AFC Championship Game when Kansas City caused an upset away from home and made the Super Bowl.