The Kansas City Chiefs are the team everybody loves to hate right now.
They’ve been the team to beat for six years now, so it’s hard to think of them as underdog.
Oddsmakers, however, don’t feel that way about them heading into the Super Bowl.
The Chiefs are 2.5-point underdogs ahead of the big game, which is a familiar feeling at this point, as they were also underdogs in the AFC Divisional Round and AFC Championship Game.
Even so, Patrick Mahomes doesn’t care about what oddsmakers have to say.
Talking about being an underdog, he claimed that he’s never going to feel that way because he’s always confident in his ability to win a football game (via ProFootballTalk):
“I think you approach it like any other game,” Mahomes said. “I never feel like the underdog. I always feel like we have a chance to win the football game and that’s how we approach every single game.”
Patrick Mahomes: I never feel like the underdog. https://t.co/LtFBWvPd5Q
— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) February 6, 2024
Mahomes is many things, but an underdog isn’t one of them.
Even if the Niners have the most talent in the league right now, one should never count a team like the Chiefs out.
They have the best offensive play-caller in NFL history, a future first-ballot Hall of Famer tight end, a championship-caliber defense, and a guy who might end up being the greatest quarterback this game has ever seen.
Mahomes was asked to deliver on the road for the first time in his playoff career, and he was counted out both times.
Now, he’s just one win away from becoming the first back-to-back champion since Tom Brady in 2005, all that despite having the worst year of his career.
So, his team might not be favored on paper, but the Chiefs will continue to be the team to beat until proven otherwise.
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