Two-time NFL MVP Patrick Mahomes has made dozens of unbelievable plays since becoming Kansas City Chiefs starting quarterback in 2018. His greatest play, according to head coach Andy Reid, came in the quarterback’s first year as starter.
Speaking with Mike Florio and Chris Simms on Pro Football Talk, Reid said the left-handed toss by Mahomes under duress sticks in his mind. Mahomes, of course, is right-handed.
Mahomes’ left-handed toss came on third down with a little more than three minutes left and the Chiefs down three points against the Denver Broncos on “Monday Night Football.”
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Mahomes was being chased by All-Pro linebacker Von Miller. He scrambled left and found Tyreek Hill open. Then Mahomes switched hands to avoid fumbling as Miller took him down and tossed the pass left-handed.
The completion allowed the drive to continue, and the Chiefs won, 27-23.
“Patrick worked real hard on that left-handed throw,” Chiefs coach Reid said tongue-in-cheek after the game, adding, “We’ve seen it in practice but not under those conditions.”
“It’s one thing to do it and mess around with it at practice. To make a legitimate throw, with the game on the line, and being as young as he was when he did that,” Reid told Pro Football Talk. “For him to do that in a real game, a big game, AFC West game, I went, ‘Oh, now that’s something. We’ll put that one in the file for years to come.'”
Since that pass, Mahomes — who has never lost to Denver — has made about 30 other plays that Reid said he’d file away in his brain. But the left-handed throw remains the best.
Source: yardbarker.com
