Tom Brady’s Patrick Mahomes Super Bowl prediction as Chiefs star eyes NFL GOAT status

NFL: Brady and Mahomes prepare for Super Bowl LV

Tom Brady faces off against Patrick Mahomes in the Super Bowl tonight as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers go head-to-head with the Kansas City Chiefs. Brady is looking for a record-extending seventh triumph while Mahomes is looking to lead the Chiefs to back-to-back Super Bowls.

It is a battle of the greatest quarterback in NFL history vs the NFL’s current best quarterback – with the series between the two currently tied at 2-2.

Mahomes has thrown for 11 touchdowns in those four games to Brady’s six touchdown passes, and has also averaged 48 passing yards more.

The Chiefs superstar has won both of his last two meetings against Brady but it was the 43-year-old who came out on top in the most meaningful match-up when his rival was still with the New England Patriots.

The Patriots beats Kansas City 37-31 in the 2018 AFC Championship Game after New England won the toss in overtime.

Brady knows all about what it takes at the highest level having clinched four Super Bowl MVPs and six Super Bowl wins, while Mahomes has gone 5-0 in the post-season since that loss to the Patriots three years ago.

And the Buccaneers QB admits he expects Mahomes, a regular season MVP and Super Bowl MVP despite this being only his third season as a starter, to contest many more NFL championship games.

Discussing Mahomes’ development ahead of tonight’s clash at the Raymond James Stadium, Tampa Bay’s home arena, Brady said: “I think he’s only elevated from that point on [since 2018]. I think that year he was the MVP of the league, and the year after that, he came back got off to a great start, dealt with some injuries last year.

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“But he fought through that. He didn’t have the same statistical year as he had in 2018, but he goes onto win Super Bowl MVP. That’s an amazing accomplishment.

“To win MVP in ’18, to win the Super Bowl in ’19, and then this year have the kind of year that he had, which is probably more similar to the year that he had in 2018. I just think he’s going to keep improving.

“I don’t know him that well, I know obviously quite a few people that do know him, and they say great things about Pat, and the times that I’ve been around him, I really enjoyed the time.

“That’s probably the mark of any great athlete – coming through in the clutch. I think he’s off to a great start in his career doing that.

“He’s got a great maturity about him. He’s a great leader. He’s got great charisma. Again, I think it always speaks a lot when the players that he plays with say great things about him.

“And it looks like all of those guys on the Chiefs, they love that Pat’s the leader. He’s got a great relationship with his receivers. I think that always says a lot.

“I think there’s a lot of things that make him a great player. He’s got the ability to focus when the moments are the biggest, and to deliver for his team.

“He just has a great awareness of the pocket. Incredible vision of the field, he knows exactly when to get rid of the ball. He’s got great poise in the pocket.

“He’s got that nice, sweet little whippy arm that I used to have when I was a little bit younger. He’s got the athletic ability to extend plays. He’s got all the physical and he’s got all the mental tools.

“He’s gonna be in this game quite a few more times in my opinion.” 

While Mahomes has previously openly admitted his desire to chase down the ‘Greatest Of All Time’ Brady, knowing he could lift the Vince Lombardi Trophy for the second time in two attempts this evening.

Victory for Tampa Bay would however make Brady possibly uncatchable, given it would put him six Super Bowl triumphs ahead of the 25-year-old, even though Mahomes may have another 15 to 20 years of his career to go.

Speaking back to ESPN in July of last year, Mahomes said: “I don’t know if there’s a number [of Super Bowls I want to win]. I mean obviously you try to chase greatness, and Tom’s got six, so I’m going to try to do whatever I can to at least get to that number.

“I understand how hard that is, how really it’s a one of a kind thing for Tom to be able to get to nine Super Bowls and win six of them.

“So I’m just going to go about the process every single day of trying to make myself better and doing whatever I can to make the Kansas City Chiefs better.”

Mahomes said of Brady more recently: “It’s going to be a great opportunity for me to get to play against Tom, an all-time great, the GOAT, everything like that [in the Super Bowl].

“But at the end of the day, all I can do is prepare myself to play the best football I can every single day I get the opportunity to.

“It’s obviously really exciting to hear [that people think I can become the GOAT], but you understand that you’re really far away.

“There’s so much stuff that can happen in this league and this game that all I can focus on is trying to do whatever I can to win the next game that I’m playing.”

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