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First Take

Hour 2: MVP Mahomes?

First Take

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4.05.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Stephen A., Sam Acho, Jay Williams and Monica McNutt discuss which team gives Lillard the best shot at a title, Stephen A's Top 5 NFC QBs, and what would you rather choose: $1 million up front or $20 million but you must score 15 points in an NBA game? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

chief's quarterback Patrick Mahomes is the odds on favorite to win his third

0:04.2

MVP next season, but home to be the sixth player in the history to win the

0:08.5

award and back to back seasons and the seventh player to win the award

0:12.4

three times. We got Jay Will here, we got Steven A here, we got Sam Acho here.

0:17.3

Jay I'm gonna start with you on this one. Are you taking Mahomes or the field

0:20.1

to win MVP this season? I'm gonna take Mahomes guys. It's not even a question.

0:25.8

I mean I know what the field brings and I know the likes out there of Joe Burrow

0:29.6

on company, but do you know that no quarterback came in within 500 yards of

0:35.7

Patrick Mahomes last year? No quarterback came in within five touchdowns of

0:40.7

Patrick Mahomes last year? Like what he's been able to do and how he's being

0:45.6

able to do that with Tyree Kill out of the lineup, how other players have been

0:49.1

incorporated into this system and how Andy Reed has been able to hit the ground

0:53.9

running. I truly think what we're witnessing and we can always say five straight

0:58.0

AFC conference title games that they've hosted. I think what we're seeing is

1:02.3

unprecedented and I know you have the likes of Aaron Rogers and Joe Burrow and

1:06.3

Lamar Jackson is prone to have one of the best breakout years obviously having

1:09.8

OBJ and having some additional pieces from the wide receiver perspective, but

1:14.0

still like the cream of the crop is Patrick Mahomes. So I'm going to take

1:19.2

maybe or potentially the greatest game the greatest quarterback the game of

1:22.8

football has ever seen and I'm not comparing that to Tom Brady and six

1:27.0

championships. He is quickly on his way from a talent perspective. I think he's

1:31.6

truly one of the greatest the game of football has ever seen. Patrick Mahomes is

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