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Albert Breer

How Patrick Mahomes Is Trying to Become More Like Tom Brady

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A game with razor-thin margins—the ones Patrick Mahomes was able to create for himself, and his teammates, on the biggest stage, on Super Bowl LVII’s biggest play—is probably why I’m here, in the dog days of training camp, asking a 27-year-old about a potential run at becoming the greatest player ever. Because, if you listen to the folks around him, that play might’ve gone differently with the Mahomes of even just a few years ago.

And if that play had gone differently, there’d be a good chance Mahomes and I are having a totally different conversation on this sweltering morning in St. Joseph, Mo.

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