Laddie Morse
In the movie called: “End Game” the character Tony Stark says, “We’re the Avengers, not the PREvengers, right?” Or… something like that. The point is, the Kansas City Chiefs are the Avengers of the NFL. Not only are the Chiefs the Avengers trying to three-peat, but I feel like they are the Avengers trying to make right all the ways the New England Patriots made wrong: the mis-guided tuck rule, the deflate gate incident, the video taping of opponents practices, and the questionable way in which Tom Brady “won” all his rings which supposedly makes him a GOAT. You can tell, I find that so bogus. Also, the Chiefs are the Avengers of all the ways the East coast biased media were behind those Patriot teams who now don’t seem to be able to wait until the Chiefs dominance is dead and gone.
Tom Brady
I hadn’t planned on addressing this here, but I might as well. Let me make something perfectly clear… Tom Brady is a very good QB, I just don’t see him as the best ever. Here are a list of reasons why Brady is not the Greatest Of All Time (GOAT):
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Jerry Rice, a WR, is probably the GOAT.
Tom Brady (TB) never had he strongest arm. His arm strength was always middle of the pack.
TB was never the toughest guy around. Guys like John Elway, Roger Staubach, Brett Favre, Johnny Unitas, or Otto Graham, who were a 9 or 10 on the toughest guy around scale. TB was resilient, but not a tough guy by any means.
TB may have won 7 Super Bowls but he also lost three of them. While I don’t place as much empahsis on winning Championships to measure who a GOAT is, it does come into play.
TB can’t run the ball. When other QBs need to pick up a first down with their legs, they do it. Not TB. His athleticism was lacking.
TB only played on offense. Why bring that up? Because in Baseball, Basketball and Hockey (as in many other team sports) their players play both offense and defense so calling one player the GOAT is harder to do in football.
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TB played with one of the greatest Tights ends of all time: Rob Gronkowski. Some will argue that Patrick Mahomes has done the same with Travis Kelce. However, let’s not forget that Kelce was great BEFORE Mahomes came along (Kelce had two of his 7 straight 1,000+ receiving yards season prior to Mahomes taking over, he did that with Alex Smith). Also, this is not a comparison between Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes.
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“Also, this is not a comparison of Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes.” Mahomes hasn’t even finished his career and frankly, I’m enjoying his career a lot right now, so let’s not go there, yet. Yes, Tom Brady may be the most accomplished QB of all time, but that’s a very different story.
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Chiefs as Avengers
Patrick Mahomes
Patrick Mahomes is the leader of this crew. He is the Tony Stark of the bunch. Not because he has a big ego, he doesn’t, but because he’s the one who got all the Avengers together. Stark has powers and most of those come from his powered armor which he made. Stark’s nuclear core… his heart machine, usually saves his life and is the key to Iron Man’s powers. Mahomes has this in simplicity with his ego in check, his wife Brittany, and his kids, keep him in check. The way the Marvel system revolves around Tony Start, the Chiefs success revolves around Patrick Mahomes.
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Travis Kelce
Travis Kelce is the Thor in this group. Kelce is not only a Geek god in real life, he’s the Chiefs God of Thunder. Just ask Head Coach Andy Reid when Travis gets in his face and screams at the top of his lungs? Reid will tell you. Like Thor, Kelce has “strength and extended lifespan” and if you are part of Chiefs Kingdom, you know that most of us are hoping and praying that Kelce will have much more of the “extended lifespan” to add onto the end of his career. However, I have to tell y’all… if these Chiefs win a third straight Super Bowl, that may well signal the end of his playing days. I’m just sayin’…. Fudge it all… let’s test it out and see if it’s true!
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Tiffany Morton
Tiffany Morton is the Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff) of this gang. She’s also the first female athletic trainer to work in the NFL (2016). You may have noticed a female on the feature graphic of this piece. I decided to give our watering lady some credit where credit is due. There are times when the players need to take a break and get re-hydrated and that’s when Tiffany Morton come a’running. From our sources online, that say: “Black Widow has peak human levels of strength, agility, and stamina” so let’s hope Tiffany Morton can provide that kind of stamina to those she serves. Let’s hear it for Tiffany Morton (Note: she may have already returned to FIU – Florida International University).
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Trent McDuffie
Trent McDuffie is a lot like Captain America. Like Steve Rogers who started out smaller than your average soldier, McDuffie is only 5-foot-10 3/4 but like Steve Rogers he is fast and runs a 4.44, 40-yard dash. From some online information about Captain America: “Rogers can run and move faster than the human limit.” When McDuffie is tracking down some of the games fastest players — notably Tyreek Hill — he catches up to them and often times is able to dump them on their head or make them fumble the ball (0:42).
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Chris Jones
Chris Jones is The Hulk. From online sources: “[The Hulk’s] strength remains at the top level of all super human beings” and that is the case for Chris Jones who makes quick work of any OL who gets in his way, at the most opportune time of the game. Any Game we’re watching, which is, all of them. Jones is 6-foot-6, and weighs in at 310 lbs.. He is a mound of muscle and bigger than most any DT in the game today. What I think a lot of Kingdom fans miss out on is his experience. Stone Cold (as he is often called), knows every IOL in the league and knows how to set them up and then beat them. Especially in the fourth quarter.
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Isiah Pacheco
Isiah Pacheco is Hawkeye, Clint Barton. No Hawkeye has no super powers, and Pop doesn’t either. Hawkeye, Barton, has superb strength, endurance, and speed… and so does Isiah Pacheco. Pop runs a sub 4.40, 40 yard dash. His time was 4.37… and that’s very very fast. It’s been said that Pop likes to run as if he’s angry at the ground and Pacheco confirms that this is true and… he has a good reason for that (1:33):
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Rashee Rice, like Nick Fury, gains the ability to see across time and alternate timelines, allowing him to observe the past, present, and possible futures of every timeline. Well, at least we know that Rice will have to take what he did in the past and make a future out of it. Rice, in his rookie season, worked his way into becoming the Chiefs #1 WR. Not only do we expect as much this year, but even more now that he’s going to be with the team until his court date in December.
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I know, I know, I didn’t even get into the Chiefs coaches, like Andy Reid or Steve Spagnuolo. Perhaps in the future. Do you have any other players — or coaches — who remind you of any Avengers?
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Laddie Morse — ArrowheadOne
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