Hall of Fame quarterback sees one area in which Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes can improve
Last month, Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes chatted with former Steelers defensive back Troy Polamalu on Instagram Live and revealed his eagerness to improve.
“If you look at my career, obviously no one really knows with my high school, but then going into college, every single year I got better and better,” Mahomes said at the time. “And then now in the NFL, even though I didn’t have the stats like I had my second season, I mean this last season, I feel like I was a better quarterback.
“And I think you can never be satisfied with where you’re at. That’s a huge thing. And so every time I have another great accomplishment, my next step is to go out there and get another one, go be better. Do whatever I can to help make my team better.”
Former Rams and Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner has a suggestion on how Mahomes can get better.
Warner, who is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, was on the NFL Network on Monday and host Colleen Wolfe asked how Mahomes could improve.
“I feel like this is a loaded question,” Warner quipped, before noting Mahomes has won an NFL MVP award and Super Bowl MVP award despite being just 24 years old.
But then Warner mentioned Mahomes’ footwork could be better.
“But I do believe there is room for improvement. I heard Patrick Mahomes talking about it last year,” Warner said. “How he goes back and he self scouts his technique and specifically his footwork. Because that’s one thing that I’ll notice. When you get talented guys like Patrick Mahomes, like Aaron Rodgers, they’re so used to getting away with doing things with their special arm and their special arm talent that they get away with bad footwork sometimes. Their feet will be moving and they’ll be going one direction, trying to jam throws in the other direction.
“We saw a couple of these in the Super Bowl as we’re looking at here (as a video played). He finds himself stepping one direction, trying to throw it another direction, the balls will get away from him a little bit and lead to bad plays. Now he’s usually able to overcome that with the special plays that he makes. But if he can clean up his footwork and become more efficient from throw to throw to throw, not just the big throws, but on the normal everyday throws that you’re asked to make, I think Patrick Mahomes can get better than he’s been over these first few years. And we all know he’s been incredible.”
Here is Warner on Mahomes:
