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Patrick Mahomes has a good reason for keeping a dad bod, at least according to him.
The Kansas City Chiefs quarterback has been heralded as the best in the game and a future GOAT. Up until last year, everyone thought he had the body of a God, too.
As it turns out, he does not. Mahomes doesn’t show any abs and actually has a bit of a paunch.
The star QB recently explained his reason for keeping his body the way that it is, telling seven-time Super Bowl winner Tom Brady his oblique muscles are what’s important to him as he wants to be able to rotate them at an optimal level to throw passes.
“I use those hips and that oblique muscle to really rotate through there,” he said in quotes transcribed by E! News. “The people who have seen the dad bod, that’s for a reason — that’s the obliques. I’m getting them right.”
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Patrick Mahomes Enjoying The Best Start Of His Career While Playing At A Lower Level Than Expected
Meanwhile, Patrick Mahomes is enjoying the best start he’s ever had to a season, although he’s playing some of the worst football of his career from a statistical vantage point.
The Chiefs star leads the league in interceptions, completing 67.9 percent of his passes for 1,389 yards while getting sacked at a rate of 5.56 percent.
Even so, the defending champions boast a 6-0 record and remain the only unbeaten team in the NFL this season.
That he continues to keep them in winning positions with multiple receiver injuries and Travis Kelce’s dip in form is nothing short of amazing.
Patrick Mahomes Could Force NFL Rule Change After He Exploited Major Loophole To Make 49ers Defender Look Foolish On Sunday
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Patrick Mahomes is having the best start to a season since entering the NFL as he has the Chiefs at 6-0 for the first time in his career.
The star quarterback has beaten both the Chiefs’ AFC Championship Game and Super Bowl opponents in his first six games of the current campaign, and it appears that the defending champions simply can’t stop finding ways to win football games despite whatever gets thrown into the way.
While he enjoyed another victorious outing on Sunday, beating the 49ers 28-19 to condemn the latter to a 3-4 record, he had folks questioning what they believe is an exploitation of an NFL rule.
With the Chiefs up by two points on a 2nd-and-7 on the Niners’ 37 and one minute left in the third quarter, Mahomes scrambled after dropping back and finding no one to pass to.
He broke a tackle with a pump fake to his running back, pulling off a second fake to streak down the sideline, and made yet another pump fake before completing his 33-yard run.
The second fake was the one that got fans mad. Mahomes appeared as if he was going to run out of bounds, causing linebacker Dee Winters to ease off because the league frowns on late QB hits.
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Patrick Mahomes Takes Flak For Abusing NFL Rule
Tackling Mahomes on his way out of bounds would have likely earned the Niners a flag, so Winters was prepared to let him cross the line on his own.
However, the QB took advantage of this and cut back to gain significant yardage.
Check it out in the video below:
“That play doesn’t happen if the defense isn’t afraid to hit him,” a user pointed out.
“And when he gets hit for not going out of bounds its roughing the passer…” a second user wrote.
“Faking a run out of bounds as a QB should be an unsportsmanlike penalty,” said another. “That is a rule put in place to protect the ball carrier from serious injury and Mahomes constantly abuses it.”
This was reminiscent of Kenny Pickett’s fake slide during the 2021 ACC Championship game that ultimately forced the NCAA to change its rules. Some are now calling for the NFL to do the same.
