With all the free agency action and pre-draft hoopla, something happened recently that almost slipped through the cracks for me.
It was during the Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes press conference, in which Reid discussed a ton of different topics. With press conferences, there’s generally so much coachspeak and meaningless stuff said that I quite often tune it out. And in this case, that was to my detriment, because I missed a tidbit (covered in the link above) that might mean quite a bit this upcoming season when you put all the pieces together.
It was when Reid was discussing how he felt comfortable with Mahomes moving into 2018, and the subject of being able to coach Mahomes in Week 17 came up.