The Kansas City bosses said they had never seen their quarterback, Pat Mahomes, as accurate and intense as Thursday in his second and perhaps last full practice of the season, equipped, before the Super Bowl.
Wide receiver Tyreek Hill said that Mahomes was impressed with the way he trained and that everyone realized that his defender is ready to face the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday.
“Baby is going crazy, it’s on pace,” Hill said. “I’ve never seen Pat practice like this. He threw crazy passes. I’m very pleased. I just have to rub my hands on what’s next. I’m very pleased”.
Hill and the rest of the Chiefs had their last press session on Thursday, before playing the game that could make them the first two-time NFL champion of the New England Patriots in the 2003 and 2004 seasons.
“Pat came to change everything here,” Hill noted. “Not only in the field, but also in the way of thinking and being competitive. I take off my cap for everything he did and will do. “
The tight end Travis Kelce agreed that the team had an excellent pair of practices this week and that they are ready to compete against the buccaneers.
“We are as prepared as for a match,” he said. “We worked hard for two weeks and we are ready to apply what we practiced.”
THE HEADS COME WITH THE PLEASURE OF THE REFEREE’S ROSTER
Head Coach, Andy Reid, said he was pleased with the Super Bowl refereeing staff and was well aware of how the chief official worked, Carl Cheffers.
Cheffers has led two games for the Chiefs this season, both wins against division rivals the Los Angeles Chargers in Week 2 and the Las Vegas Raiders on Day 11.
In fact, the Chiefs have never lost one of the five games Cheffers has coached since Pat Mahomes became the starting quarterback.
Cheffers will direct the second Super Bowl, after in 2017 he was in the game in which the New England Patriots defeated the Atlanta Falcons.
IN SHORT
– The bosses fully participated in training for the second day in a row, except for their two players already excluded from the Super Bowl due to injury; left striker Eric Fisher (Achilles tendon) and defender Willie Gay Jr. (knee and ankle).
The two Kansas City players eliminated from the team by the Covid-19 protocol, center Daniel Kilgore and receiver DeMarcus Robinson gave negative results, because they were next to a hairdresser infected with Covid on Sunday. If they come negative this Friday, they can play the Super Bowl on Sunday with the rest of their teammates.
– The bosses’ experience is 34 games combined between 33 players; the only player with multiple Super Bowls on his Kansas City resume is Stefen Wisniewski, with two.