Shocking: Highlighting Mahomes’ “brilliant” and “mind-blowing” response creates curiosity and suggests that his comeback is exceptionally clever or surprising

Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes spoke to media members on Friday, July 26, 2024. He was asked about Las Vegas Raiders players joking around with a Kermit the Frog puppet styled to look like the Chiefs QB.

For a few years now, we’ve delved into the very topic we’re about to cover for several hundred words here, though this time the ending will endure a bit of a twist. That topic: the Patrick Mahomes slights and insults.

Whether it’s counting on his fingers in Chicago, or counting on them again in Baltimore, or responding to Ja’Marr Chase’s regrettable “Pat Who?” with a picture of his second Super Bowl ring, or more recently fighting with Ravens kicker Justin Tucker over pregame territory — we’ve covered all the examples, and they so frequently have the same conclusion that you can’t help but wonder why more examples continue to emerge.

But a funny thing happened this offseason, a contrast to every one before it. Silence.