Chiefs have a better quarterback situation than the Buccaneers and it’s not close

No one is going to take the Buccaneers’ quarterback situation over the Chiefs’ quarterback situation. 

ESPN has made it apparent that they’re clearly lacking things to talk about, and that is what prompted the following question – “Which quarterback situation would you rather have: the Chiefs or the Buccaneers?”, which then prompted me to say, “Really ESPN? Really?” (Sidenote: You can listen to the guys on 610 Sports Radio’s Fescoe in the Morning discuss the segment on Friday’s 7 AM segment, around the 14:00 minute mark).

Okay, all right, clearly the fine sports analysts at ESPN are running out of things to talk about and debate, so they came up with this gem, but I shall play along and entertain this “debate”.

Listen, if you think this is just going to be a Brady Bash party, you probably should go take your clicks somewhere else, because love him or hate him, I have nothing but respect for Tom Brady. That being said, is there really anyone who would rather have him as their quarterback than Patrick Mahomes? C’mon.

In the year leading up to Brady leaving the Patriots and heading down to Tampa Bay, the point of debate was that Brady is getting old and he does not have the required weapons to be successful. His seventh Super Bowl victory, and first-ever with a different team, would seem to suggest that it was the latter.

While I was in the camp that believed that Brady was bereft of weapons in New England, I would still take Mahomes over Brady any day of the week, especially on Sundays, Monday nights, and Thursday nights.

Brady has proved that he still has a spring in his step. If he is with a club that will let him play general manager and get the players he wants, he can still bring home the title, but, with that said, it wasn’t just Tom Brady who led the Bucs to the Super Bowl and subsequently knocked the Chiefs from their throne.

It was also one of the best O-lines in football, a litany of receivers against a mediocre Chiefs defense, and a Chiefs offense with no offensive line to speak of going up against an extremely stout Bucs defense.

Is Tom Brady one of the greatest of all time? No question, but it is also fair to say that in the Super Bowl, the deck was strongly stacked in his favor.

Even though the Chiefs only scored nine points and no touchdowns in that game, Patrick Mahomes was doing things that Brady simply could not have done.

He was throwing deadly accurate passes to receivers who did not manage to catch the ball and throwing passes when his body was almost parallel to the ground. That’s just the Super Bowl too, I haven’t even gotten into the rest of his bag of tricks.

Mahomes’ entire career has been a backyard style of quarterbacking that you would never see from the polished Tom Brady. Brady’s football IQ is off the charts, but you have never and will never see him scramble out of a collapsing pocket, toss the ball to his left hand, and not so much throw but shot put a pass 30 yards downfield. Those types of plays have become so routine with Mahomes that Chiefs fans feel a little slighted if a game goes by when we don’t see them.

Brady is a textbook quarterback, but when you need a quarterback to go off the book and win football games, there is none better and never has been than Patrick Mahomes.

Also, let’s talk about the 43-year old elephant in the room.

Would you rather have a guy who while he is still incredibly talented, is without a doubt in the twilight of his career, and any year could very well be his last, or a 25-year old superstar, who has already been to three AFC Championship games, two back-to-back Super Bowls and one Super Bowl victory, has NFL MVP honors and is just getting started?

If you choose Tom Brady, you will get a great quarterback, possibly the GOAT. His football IQ is second to none, and as long as you surround him with weapons, a stellar defense, and let him play GM, then he might get you a couple more Super Bowls in the next couple of years.

If you go with Patrick Mahomes, you put the football in his hands, sit back and watch the show, and you keep watching it for at least the next 10-15 years, and if you think that Mahomes and the Chiefs aren’t coming home with more Lombardis and parades in that time, then you haven’t been paying attention.

Obviously, this past Super Bowl is not direct evidence of what I have written above, but if you stack the regular seasons of the two teams next to each other, the Chiefs clearly had the better season and held the better record at the end, including their head to head boat race when the Chiefs came out on top, in the same stadium they would lose the Super Bowl in a couple of months later.

I don’t think anyone could argue that if the Super Bowl is played again and the Chiefs have a healthy offensive line, that the results are very different. Perhaps we could have had a better debate back in 2007, had both quarterbacks been in the league at the time and Brady was in his prime, but in 2021 there is really nothing to debate.

Tampa Bay fans can enjoy riding the Brady train until the wheels fall off, and eventually, they will, whether it is a lack of talent surrounding Brady, or Father Time finally catching up to him, but when that day comes, Mahomes will still be in Kansas City, throwing no-look passes and scrambling down a 20-yard tight rope for a touchdown.