Kansas City Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes’ college coach is about to begin his second season among the NFL head coaching ranks.
As Cardinals HC Kliff Kingsbury spoke to the media at the NFL Scouting Combine, he was asked about Mahomes and the Chiefs’ victory in Super Bowl LIV. Needless to say, Kingsbury was on the edge of his seat for the entire game.
“Yeah, it was high stress watching it,” Kingsbury said of Super Bowl 54. “It’s kind of like a little brother type of deal and you don’t have any control. But just to see how that deal has all progressed and ended up, I couldn’t be happier. Pat (Mahomes) is a phenomenal person. Anyone that has been around him, as good of a player as he is on the field, he’s a better person off of it. And then just my dealings with Andy (Reid) he’s been phenomenal to me through that process.”
Kingsbury’s praise for Mahomes and the Chiefs didn’t stop there. He spoke on the process in which the team landed Mahomes and explained they were truly the first team to pay attention to him as an NFL prospect.
“They nailed it,” Kingsbury continued. “They targeted Pat after his sophomore year when nobody even knew who he was. So you’ve got to tip the hat to their organization and Veach. And I’m happy to see it.”
His sophomore season was 2015, which also happened to be the season where Mahomes threw for 300 yards and four touchdowns against LSU in the Texas Bowl. Reid has previously commented on Veach nagging him and then-GM John Dorsey about Mahomes. This only lends credibility to that claim.
Speaking of Reid, Kingsbury also spoke to him after the Super Bowl victory.
“I just congratulated him,” Kingsbury said. “I think he may win a few more [wins] with that young man as his quarterback. I told him, ‘You won’t be able to retire for about 15 years now because you don’t want to give that kid up.'”
I think the Chiefs Kingdom would be plenty happy to have 15 more years of Big Red and Mahomes, along with a few more of those Super Bowl rings to go with it.