While the Kansas City Chiefs enjoyed a bye week as the No. 1 seed in the AFC, quarterback Patrick Mahomes and his wife, Brittany, announced their newborn third child on Sunday.
“Once you have three, four and five are easy. That’s what I told him,” Reid told reporters. “You made three, add a couple more, we'll talk.”
Mahomes weighed in on Reid’s suggestion. The superstar quarterback and his wife now have two girls, Golden Raye and Sterling Skye, plus their son, Patrick Lavone III.
“We‘ll see down the line maybe, but my goal was always three,” Mahomes told reporters. “We’ll stick there for a while and see if we need to come back and get another one later on.”
The quest for three is now for a third-straight Super Bowl win—something never achieved in the NFL. Mahomes and the Chiefs won back-to-back, tightly contested Super Bowl games the past two years.
“You don’t ever go there,” Reid said regarding a potential third-straight title. “You’re tunneled in. You’re trying to find another play that works. It’s a weird dynamic.”
“You’re just ingrained in trying to communicate with players and trying to teach,” Reid added.
“The greats step up in the playoffs and it’s just higher intensity,” Mahomes said. “The best players and the best leaders step up and make the best plays. He’s done that.”
“So, I expect the same from him going into this playoffs. I think his mentality when he steps into the football field with, and at practice or game day, it resonates with the entire team and gets everybody to play their best football,” Mahomes added. “That’s what it takes in order to win championships. He has the heart of a champion.
“That inspires everybody. When you’re leaders and your Hall of Fame guys are doing that, I think everybody knows they have to put everything on the line,” Mahomes concluded.
Mahomes hasn’t put up the grandest numbers either amid a 67.5 percent completion rate for 3,928 yards and 26 touchdowns versus 11 interceptions. Despite neither of the Chiefs’ biggest stars putting up their best numbers, Kansas City comes into the playoffs with a 15–2 record, and only one of those losses came with the starters in for the full game.
“I think what everybody has kind of known,” Mahomes said. “That defense is extremely real, they have a great quarterback and a great coach. We knew when we played them this last time, it was a hard-fought game. They get after the quarterback really well, they have great secondary players and the linebackers fly around.”
“He’s kind of their main play-caller there,” Reid said. “The speed of the o-line, the linebackers, just jumps out at you. They’re really good. The hands of the secondary—those guys, they catch the ball.
“You don’t see a lot of bobbles or drops. If you’re presenting it close, they can go up and snag it,” Reid added.
