Patrick Mahomes and the NFL’s next great quarterback rivalry

Jared Goff

This one is perfect. It’d be beautiful. It writes itself: the rocket-armed, gunslinging Texan vs. the tall, blueprint-of-a-modern-QB Californian pretty boy. Poised to dominate their respective conferences for the next decade, they’d only play each other once every four seasons unless they were to meet in the Super Bowl—and it’s starting to feel inevitable that they will at least once.

The infrequency of their matchups would only fuel morning show shouting matches over which is the better quarterback. They’ve both got offensive geniuses for head coaches, but the cities of Kansas City and Los Angeles couldn’t be more different. And yet, the Chiefs and Rams are familiar foes, having spent two decades as Governor’s Cup rivals.

Every time Mahomes and Goff met would be appointment television, and they’d face off so rarely it’d never not be special. And plus once the Rams permanently go back to those gorgeous bright blue and yellow uniforms, it’ll be among the most aesthetically pleasing matchups in sports.

I need this rivalry to become reality. Hook it directly to my veins and let the next decade of hot takes and titanic struggles course through them.