KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A precedence for the Chiefs throughout the offseason is to extend their variety of large move performs.
They signed one quick vast receiver, Marquise Brown, and drafted one other, Xavier Worthy, within the first spherical. Quarterback Patrick Mahomes mentioned coach Andy Reid is encouraging him to push the ball down the sphere extra usually.
“If I do not, he throws little jabs at me like, ‘Oh, you wish to throw the checkdown right here?”’ Mahomes mentioned because the Chiefs concluded their offseason practices. “I am like, ‘I acquired you, Coach; we’ll push it.’ It has been enjoyable.”
Mahomes has all the time appeared unaffected when he throws an interception or is fooled by defensive protection on a specific play. However he mentioned he is higher than ever now at placing unfavourable performs behind him.
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“That is in all probability essentially the most snug I feel I’ve felt of simply with the ability to not let one thing have an effect on me,” he mentioned. “If you go up in opposition to [Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo in practice], you are not going to be proper 100% of the time, and there is been occasions the place I’ve misplaced on blitzes and Spags will get me with the brand new strain that he is engaged on, and I feel it is simply with the ability to get the ball out of my hand, get it to the checkdown or wherever that’s after which dwell to play one other play.”
The Chiefs have the ceremony to obtain their Tremendous Bowl LVIII championship rings scheduled for Thursday night time. Mahomes mentioned the ceremony, which the Chiefs held on the similar level of the offseason final yr for his or her Tremendous Bowl LVII title, serves because the official end to the 2023 season.
As soon as the Chiefs get to coaching camp subsequent month, he mentioned, it is all about 2024 and making an attempt to turn into the primary NFL group to win three straight championships within the Tremendous Bowl period.
“It’s important to are available understanding that we’ll get everyone’s finest shot,” he mentioned. “We all know that, however on the similar time, I feel we have been a younger group final yr and we type of grew up because the season went on, and I feel this yr you need to study from these errors you made final yr.
“It’s a brand-new season. I’ve handled it a pair occasions now, and we all know it will be, each week, it will be an enormous week. We begin off with some nice opponents early within the season.”
