Patrick Mahomes was humbled and beaten.
Then the supposed next in line for NFL GOAT status needed to own his second Super Bowl failure.
Mahomes fell to 3-2 in the largest game on the planet after the Philadelphia Eagles dominated the Kansas City Chiefs 40-22 on Sunday and completely took over the Superdome.
“I feel like I didn’t play to my standard, especially the struggles that I had early within the season,” Mahomes exclusively told talkSPORT.
“There’s things that I even have to recuperate at, they usually form of showed today on the largest stage.”
Mahomes has now been beaten 71-31 in his big-game defeats.
After Jalen Hurts outplayed him in Super Bowl LIX and won the sport’s MVP, Mahomes soaked in his pain and vowed to make use of it for future fuel.
“Each sucked. There is no way around it,” Mahomes said.
“Anytime you lose a Super Bowl, they’ll persist with you the remaining of your profession. These can be the 2 losses that may motivate me to be even higher for the remaining of my profession, since you only get so few of those.”
The Chiefs weren’t great enough to make NFL history with the primary three-peat.
Even the history that Mahomes made was misleading on Sunday.
He finished 21-of-32 passing for 257 yards, three touchdowns, two interceptions and a good 95.4 rating.
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Nevertheless it was 24-0 Eagles at halftime, 34-0 Philly within the third quarter, and most of Mahomes’ numbers arrived in garbage time.
His pick-six fired into the hands of Eagles rookie Cooper DeJean modified the sport.
Showtime Mahomes wasn’t near adequate in Super Bowl LIX, and he knew it.
“Credit to the Eagles, man, they played higher than us from start to complete,” Mahomes said.
“We didn’t start how we desired to. Obviously the turnovers hurt and I take all of the blame for that.”
On an evening when Tom Brady flashed an unmissable gold watch on international TV, TB12 reminded the world who the GOAT really was — and still is.
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The Chiefs were booed, embarrassed and booed again within the Superdome.
Mahomes was reminded that being the best of all-time is not that easy.
“I mean, it hurts,” Mahomes said. “It may hurt for some time, but how are you going to respond from it?
“We we’ve got an incredible football team. We still have a young football team and numerous these guys can be their first time having a defeat in a season.
“And how are you going to recuperate? How are you going to not be satisfied with just getting here, and taking your game to the following level?
“That starts with me and the opposite leaders on this team, but it surely’ll feed throughout the whole team and hopefully we will come back next season and put up a greater effort.”
Travis Kelce barely heard his name called on an evening when E-A-G-L-E-S chants filled a buzzing Dome.
Throw in Taylor Swift also being coldly booed, and it hadn’t been this bad for the Chiefs since Brady’s old team, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, thrashed Kansas City 31-9 in Super Bowl LV.
As special and influential because the 29-year-old Mahomes has been since his first full pro 12 months in 2018, he’s almost lost as many Super Bowl as he’s won.
Brady has seven rings and went 7-3 in the massive game.
Mahomes has three trophies and is 3-2.
Within the weeks leading as much as Super Bowl LIX, GOAT talk within the media leaned toward Mahomes.
It was too soon and completely unfair to Brady, who leads NFL QBs in almost every significant category and dominated the league for twenty years.
Mahomes vowed to return higher and different next season, learning from the defensive schemes that limited him to 61 passing yards and a surreal 18.3 passer rating while Hurts was lighting up the Dome.
Mahomes now has two Super Bowl losses that may never go away.
He also has enough pain to encourage him for the rest of a profession that’s already headed to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
