LAS VEGAS — Hours after the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs turned the primary staff in 20 years to win back-to-back Tremendous Bowls, they began aiming to develop into the primary to win three straight championships.
“It [would be] legendary,” quarterback Patrick Mahomes stated Monday of a three-peat. “Nobody’s ever completed it, and we knew it is legendary to win back-to-back. I believe eight different groups have completed it. We had heard all of it week. We had talked to the fellows [who had gone back-to-back] about it, and we felt like we had the very best alternative that we had ever needed to go on the market and do this.
“We have to proceed to play our greatest soccer. We’ll rejoice these subsequent few weeks, after which we’ll get proper again at it.”
Andy Reid known as the prospect of profitable three straight “fairly neat.” However Reid, ever the soccer coach, was additionally wanting extra on the technique of getting there.
“We have an important competitors within the AFC West, and we simply had some hirings, teaching hirings, and these guys are good soccer coaches,” Reid stated of the additions of Jim Harbaugh with the Los Angeles Chargers and Antonio Pierce because the full-time coach of the Las Vegas Raiders. “So it isn’t going to only be simple. That is not how this factor rolls. We’ll have changeover on our staff, which each staff has, so you do not know what’s there. There’s a complete lot of sudden, and you bought to maintain battling via it, have a great offseason after which a great coaching camp, after which that ball’s formed sort of humorous. It is bought to bounce for you in the suitable path.
“The factor to do, you do not actually go there if you’re on this factor. You return to your darkish room and the movie and the draft developing and the mix, these issues, that is sort of the place you go. You are not speaking three-peat.”
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The Chiefs are the fourth franchise to win three Tremendous Bowls in a five-year interval, in order that they’ve already etched a distinguished place in NFL historical past.
“It means a ton,” Mahomes stated. “I understand how exhausting these guys work. I understand how exhausting these guys get after it. I understand how exhausting the coaches work. I imagine we are the hardest-working staff within the NFL, and for all of that arduous work to repay… That is one thing that we at all times preach is we imagine we work for these moments, for these end-of-game moments, and we put together ourselves for these. To have the ability to have our stamp on this nice NFL historical past is one thing that I am going to by no means take as a right.”
The Chiefs have principally prevented referring to themselves as a dynasty. However Reid, who simply completed his twenty fifth season as an NFL coach and is a scholar of the league’s historical past, did not argue with the suggestion when it was raised.
“It’s historical past,” he stated. “We do not decide if it is a dynasty … however I’d inform you that it’s as high quality a bunch as I have been round, and I have been round [for 25 seasons and], been very lucky. We have been round some nice organizations, good groups, and this group right here and group are large.
“If someone stated dynasty and tagged us on to it, I would be very pleased with that.”