Tom Brady/Patrick Mahomes conversation revealed on “Tonight Show”
In a recent appearance on “The Tonight Show,” Patrick Mahomes revealed to host Jimmy Fallon what he and Tom Brady talked about after the AFC Championship.
If Kansas City Chiefs quarterback and 2018 NFL MVP Patrick Mahomes is sick and tired of being asked about his conversation with Tom Brady at the end of the AFC Championship Game, he sure is good at hiding his true emotions.
No one would blame the young 23-year-old for shrugging the questions off, dodging them, or refusing to answer altogether. After all, he did enough in just his second season in the NFL – and his first as a full-time starter – to steer conversation back to himself and the remarkable year he had with the Chiefs.
But Mahomes is a class-act, and he’s also intelligent. He recognizes that Brady is one of the best to ever play the quarterback position, if he’s not already the best NFL player ever to exist as well. So Mahomes hasn’t shied away from questions about what occurred when Brady sought him out after the conclusion of the Patriots‘ victory over the Chiefs in the AFC Championship.
He again went over the story of what happened during a guest appearance with Jimmy Fallon on NBC’s “The Tonight Show” Monday night. Fallon asked Mahomes what they talked about, and the Chiefs QB didn’t hesitate before getting into details.
“He got the security to let him in, and he said, ‘Man, you had a heck of a season,’” Mahomes told Fallon. “He knows what it’s like to win a lot of big games. He knows what it’s like to lose some big games — not many, but a few. So, he just said, ‘You have to keep grinding.’ He said he loved the way that I played… It was awesome for him to do that and show that class at such an exciting moment.”
Brady and Mahomes couldn’t connect on the field, so the 41-year-old Patriots QB reportedly got clearance to enter the Chiefs locker room so he could speak to Mahomes directly.
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The two signal-callers put on quite a show that January evening at Arrowhead Stadium, just as they did months earlier during a primetime heavyweight bout at Gillette Stadium on Sunday Night Football.
The Patriots will host the Chiefs again in the 2019 regular season, perhaps as early as Week 1 on Sunday Night Football once again.