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Greatness Awaits Patrick Mahomes

MIAMI — Wes Welker remembers when Bill Belichick asked the best quarterback of all-time to try to be like Patrick Mahomes. Belichick did not use those words with Tom Brady, of course. This was years ago, back when nobody knew who Mahomes was. But Belichick was looking for ways to attack the league’s most popular defense, the Tampa Two, and so …

“Bill sat there,” Welker said, “and told Tom, ‘I just want you to look straight down the middle of the field. We’ll have a guy in the middle of the field on a go [route], and then we’ll have a guy on the outside run a go.