Warren Sapp Clears Stance on Patrick Mahomes’ Super Bowl Disaster After Savage Travis Kelce Shot

Michael Jordan’s 6-0 record in the NBA Finals casts a shadow over every great athlete since. At least within mainstream discourse, the transcendent invincibility of never faltering in the biggest spot has made people think it’s the standard. When in reality, it’s an outlier. All the greats have blemishes on their resumes. Games they wish they could forget. Even Mike did. Proverbial GOATs, too, are humans after all, and humans are synonymous with imperfect. For Patrick Mahomes, this reality came to transpire in the most inopportune of moments. Chiefs fans will not want to, but let’s take it right back to that fateful evening in NOLA. An evening that promised a dreamy passing of the baton from one Tom Brady to his successor on top of the pedestal. But ended up delivering a nightmare. HOFer Warren Sapp has had his say on affairs.

Depending on whether you caught every down, every beat of the Super Bowl. Or if you saw the box score at the end. You’d have very different perspectives on how that game played out and how close the Kansas City Chiefs were to the elusive three-peat. A phenomenon never achieved in the Super Bowl era of the sport. The truth is that the game ended before Kendrick Lamar ever showed face.

A successful Philly tush-push into the end zone set the momentum rolling in the first quarter. Patrick Mahomes’ gifted pick 6 to birthday boy Cooper DeJean was strike #1. This not sparking life into the offense and being directly followed by a 3-and-out was strike #2. A second Mahomes interception to DPOY finalist Zach Baun inside his own 15-yard line was strike #3. “But it’s Mahomes and the Chiefs, a comeback is always on the board”. From 24-0? Well, this juncture followed yet another KC 3-and-out for good measure before halftime. The offense looked hapless. Importantly, it was made to look that way by the Eagles’ D-line. As one of the greatest pass-rushers of all time, Warren Sapp certainly acknowledged that. However, he didn’t absolve the main culprits of any blame.

Warren Sapp and frequent collaborator “Uncle Neely” dissected the Super Bowl over “The Pregame Network”. Sapp prefaced his Mahomes commentary by mentioning how the Philly front 4 were just as effective as he thought was requisite. He even bestowed the D-line the honor of being compared to his own unit with Tampa Bay.

“They did exactly what I said [they needed to]. You got to do them like Tampa. You got to take [the QB] out of the game. But have we ever seen Patrick Mahomes’ throws dip to the ground so many times? What was that?” When Neely said this was the “worst game I’ve ever seen Mahomes play.” Warren Sapp concurred. “Ever. I’ll go back to his rookie year, college career, whatever!” replied Sapp. He didn’t put all the blame for the loss on Patrick Mahomes, though. Whom he explicitly labeled the greatest he’s ever seen.

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“Mahomes was forced into having a bad day [by the defensive line]. But you got Andy Reid there. Yet there’s no relief in sight. There was nothing you could get out of this? [Forget halftime adjustments]. Series to series adjustments [were needed],” he remarked. If Mahomes is chasing the ghost of Brady, then Coach Reid is also chasing Bill Belichick. It’s almost unfathomable how ordinary and vanilla the playcalling looked. When it was clear things weren’t working offensively. An unprecedented sham for the GOAT debate candidacy. Which presents the perfect segue for Warren Sapp’s not-so-subtle jab at Travis Kelce. With girlfriend Taylor Swift also caught in the midst.

Warren Sapp indulges in some light-hearted humor at the expense of Travis Kelce

It’s befitting how Canton gold-jacket Warren Sapp came for the 3 Chiefs’ entities in line for the same honor. Before he leveraged some cogent analysis, Sapp was seeing the humorous side of things. On the night of the Super Bowl, he posted a meme poking fun at Kelce and his predicament. The meme consisted of the infamous picture of Travis barking at Andy before shoving him from the last iteration against the 49ers. The picture was accompanied by the text, “I was supposed to propose tonight!” There was a prevalent hypothesis that Travis would propose to Taylor and ride into the sunset if they completed the three-peat. Calling it a day on his illustrious career.

Now Travis Kelce’s legacy is a little more intact after Sunday’s embarrassment. He’s already a made man in the twilight of his career. Yet, he, too, had his fingerprints, or lack thereof, all over the loss. He dropped a couple of easy catches by his standards. Usually someone who saves his best for these moments, Travis ended the night with 39 yards on 4 receptions. Most of which came in consolation towards the end.

The trifecta of Kelce, Reid, and Mahomes will take some time to shrug this one off. So close to tying the ribbon on their dynastic run. Yet so, so far when the moment came. Philly showed that a team that’s the sum of its parts can supersede one with a handful of legendary individuals. The glass half-full perspective for Chiefs Kingdom will be they’re almost guaranteed to be here again. They’ve shown their pedigree of deep playoff runs throughout the Mahomes era. The glass-half-empty perspective dictates they may never get this golden opportunity to three-peat ever again. As an assistant coach, Warren Sapp will hope his Colorado D-line can conjure the spirit of what we saw from the Eagles. Turns out the game is won in the trenches after all, folks. The cliché rings true yet again.