ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — The Kansas Metropolis Chiefs achieved all of their objectives within the 2023 season, together with a second straight Tremendous Bowl championship. However Patrick Mahomes mentioned the bizarre manner they arrived there, with an inconsistent offense that often did not resemble its latest predecessors, left the Chiefs with “a bizarre feeling.”
The concept at coaching camp, which begins at Missouri Western State College on Wednesday with a three-day camp for quarterbacks and rookies, is to work out any offensive issues and be at full effectivity when the common season begins, in accordance with Mahomes.
“We’re again at St. Joe,” Mahomes mentioned. “It is time to get higher. Each season begins in a different way. You have to are available with that very same mentality you had the yr earlier than, even with a better depth and regardless that we gained the Tremendous Bowl final yr, we felt like we did not play our greatest soccer, particularly offensively. So it is our aim to be higher that manner and coming in with that mentality each single day.
“The tip outcome [last season] was superior, however I feel a variety of us nonetheless have a bizarre feeling in our mouth . . . It wasn’t enjoyable each single week having to attempt to simply proceed to get higher and higher and the outcomes not paying off the way in which you wished to. It wasn’t a variety of enjoyable. Now we have a variety of those self same guys again they usually understand how that felt and so we will attempt to put together ourselves higher this yr in order that we are able to play higher all through the season and clearly attempt to finish with the identical outcome.”
Full group coaching camp begins for the Chiefs on Sunday.
The Chiefs, in an effort to enhance their passing sport and get extra massive performs, added two quick huge receivers in free agent Marquise Brown and rookie Xavier Worthy, a first-round draft decide. Mahomes indicated he was wanting to see how each gamers slot in, significantly Worthy, who missed most of offseason apply due to a sore hamstring.
“We added a variety of pace,” Mahomes mentioned. “What’s higher than going in opposition to our protection? It is the very best protection within the NFL and we get to go in opposition to them each single day and actually present the place we’re at and the way we are able to get higher.”
Worthy ran a 4.21 40 on the scouting mix, the quickest recorded time in occasion historical past.
“There is no easing [him in],” Mahomes mentioned. “He’ll must be able to go. We obtained a variety of competitors on this offense.
“He obtained a variety of psychological work in these previous couple of weeks that he had throughout OTAs and minicamp, however it is time to go now. Y’all noticed it with Rashee [Rice] final yr and a number of the throwing-up days he had. We will push you to the restrict and put together your self to be able to go for the season. That is not simply him. That is all people and all people has to have that mentality after they come into camp.”
Off the sector, Mahomes and spouse Brittany expect their third youngster.
“I am carried out,” Mahomes mentioned. “I am going to say that. I mentioned three and I am carried out.”
“It is superior,” he continued. “I all the time wished to have youngsters younger. I obtained to develop up within the locker room. I feel I’ve talked about it earlier than and it made such an affect in my life and so I wished to have youngsters younger and we’re having our third child now to affix our household and Brittany does a terrific job of doing that and we nonetheless exit and revel in our life and let our youngsters see these nice issues they may not have the ability to bear in mind what movies of and it’s actually cool. I spend a lot time within the constructing at soccer for these seven, eight months and each time I am with my household, I wish to take pleasure in these moments.”
