Week 11 of the NFL season has one of the best matchups of the season when Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs host the Philadelphia Eagles. It is a rematch from last season’s Super Bowl, which the Chiefs won 38-35.
It was Patrick Mahomes who came away as MVP of that game, the second of his career. He completed 21-of-27 passes for 182 yards with three touchdowns, adding 44 rushing yards on six attempts.
It was another great showing for the reigning league MVP, who led the Chiefs to their second Super Bowl in four years. Not that Patrick Mahomes and his team needed any more motivation for that game, but Eagles’ analyst Eliot Shorr-Parks certainly provided them some.
Ahead of the Super Bowl, he made a tweet taking a bit of a shot at Patrick Mahomes. Shorr-Parks said the ideal quarterback being built from scratch would more closely resemble the Eagles’ starter, Jalen Hurts, than the Chiefs star.
For one night, Patrick Mahomes proved that to be false, leading his team to victory over Hurts. With the two superstars set to face off again this upcoming weekend, Shorr-Parks decided it was time to double down on his statement.
This feels like an attempt to stir up attention and drive clicks toward his account. What has been accomplished this season that can lead someone to definitively say Hurts is the prototype people would use over Patrick Mahomes?
Hurts’s rushing numbers are down for a second consecutive season as the Eagles seem to be making a concerted effort to limit the hits he takes. His passing yardage numbers are on pace for career-high numbers, but he has turned the ball over more in nine games this season than he did in 15 last year.
Patrick Mahomes is having a down year in his own right compared to the high standard that has been set. Despite that, he is still second in the NFL in QBR, behind only Brock Purdy of the San Francisco 49ers.
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