Is the Allen/Mahomes bromance dead?

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I dunno, I think it would be kinda fun if Mahomes and Allen had a similar relationship to Jim Harbaugh and Kelly...

[Dr.Sack]

Week 5’s Allen Diggs postgame hug seems like a lifetime ago. In 9-10 weeks will we get a rematch?

[folz]

7 hours ago, BADOLBILZ said:

 

 

Yeah I think he may have lost some respect for Mahomes when Patty was such a horrendous sport in the two games last year.

 

He gave the Bills no respect for the win they got in KC.....was a straight up b!tch meeting Allen at midfield after the game........even though the penalty on Toney was egregious and even if it weren't called there was plenty of time for the Bills to come back down and score a game winner.   He acted like it was a judgement call in the closing seconds that cost them the game.  Not hardly.

 

And then Mahomes made fun of the Bills after winning a tough game in Buffalo in the playoffs.

 

If Allen wins that game and goes on to win a SB it's only 2-1 in their SB's.   It was a potentially huge career swing game.   So I think he could feel the heat on his neck from a peer age QB for the first time and his reaction wasn't pretty.   Allen no longer owes him any professional courtesy.    

 

Good post. Yeah, you'd think the Pat Show must be wearing a bit thin on Josh. I'm sure they are still cool with each other and all. But when Mahomes acts like he did at the end of that game last year and the announcers actually praise him for his competitiveness? I mean If Josh had acted the same way after a loss, the media would have been talking about his poor sportsmanship for weeks (if not years). It has to get old. It has to get old losing to the Chiefs in the playoffs (when Josh has played every bit as good as Mahomes in most of the games and been humble in the losses despite how lucky the Chiefs were at times). It has to get old that everyone fawns over or makes excuses for Mahomes even when he's in the wrong or in a slump...and yet Josh has been an elite QB for 5 years now, and is only now getting the praise he deserves (and some still aren't fully on board). Plus the constant criticism he's faced his whole career, while Mahomes has been the golden child from day 1 of starting. Yeah, it's hard for me to believe there isn't a bit of a chip on Josh's shoulder (and McDermott's in regards to Reid). 

 

I don't know about Josh, but for me as a Bills fan, Mahomes, Reid, Kelce and the rest of the Chiefs organization lost me way back in the AFC championship game in 2021/2022. I thought how they handled themselves in the last couple of minutes of that game and then with their celebration was pretty classless (so sore winners and sore losers, imo). They weren't just celebrating, happy for themselves, they were rubbing the Bills' noses in it. And I didn't see Josh freak out on the field because the refs allowed the Chiefs DBs to maul our injured receivers that whole game.

 

Let's face it, these two will be compared to each other continuously, just like Brady and Manning in their day. And they are both uber-competitive human beings. In today's climate and with the fraternity of the NFL, they'll say and do the right thing most of the time in the media, but you know there has to be a deep, underground rivalry (not necessarily dislike or disrespect)---I'm sure they'd each rather beat each other than just about any other player/team in the league. You want to prove you're the best vs. the best. And it has to be a bit frustrating when you have been humble in regards to extremely close playoff losses that allowed the other guy to go on to Super Bowls, and then the other guy turns around and acts like a child when losing a regular season game against you. Probably hard not to lose a little respect for that person, imo.

 

 

[ProcessTruster]

13 hours ago, appoo said:

All these dudes are basically in a professional fraternity.  Which is pretty understandable because only another NFL QB can relate to the unique life of being an NFL QB. Beyond that they do charity and promo work together, and probably run in somewhat similar social circles. 

 

The NFL Universe isn't all that big

With the kind of guaranteed or even the minimum money being made by even those at the bottom of the roster, I believe the NFL has become essentially footballs version of LIV golf, something of an exhibition league where competition is pretty fierce (just like competition in any club leagues) between the lines, but the players are basically part of a big entertainment enterprise, kind of never ending TV series that has a huge audience.  Hey, most players state that they see the next game like a TV series sees filming the next episode, just part of the routine.   Heck the players are rooting for each other (on other team) to get that guaranteed money bag.   Like a big money soaked fraternity.  

 

Hate to say it, but the TV networks billions shoveled to the players, driven by WE, the TV viewers have made it that way.   

Edited Saturday at 11:33 AM by ProcessTruster

[Pete]

13 hours ago, AlBUNDY4TDS said:

Bryan Cox definitely threw gasoline on the bills dolphins rivalry. Karma got him back, I believe his son was on our roster for a cup of coffee.

 

Then Carwell Gardner regulated Cox punk ass.

[ProcessTruster]

10 minutes ago, ProcessTruster said:

With the kind of guaranteed or even the minimum money being made by even those at the bottom of the roster, I believe the NFL has become essentially footballs version of LIV golf, something of an exhibition league where competition is pretty fierce (just like competition in any club leagues) between the lines.  Heck, Mack f ing Hollins is generating true generational wealth during a career with just a few productive years.   

 

The players are basically part of a big entertainment enterprise, kind of never ending TV series that has a huge audience.  Hey, most players openly state that they see the next game like a TV series sees filming the next episode, just part of the routine.  Too many say this for it to be BS.   So trying to manufacture some kind of bloodthirsty rivalries is all media and fan generated.   the players couldn't give a sh-t, resting on their wealth.  They are to some degree just trying to hang in there long enough the "get the $$ bag".   It has become a lucrative career, screw the rivalries and trophies.  
 

 

Heck the players are rooting for each other (on other teams as well ) to get that guaranteed money bag from the TV network billions.   Like a big money soaked fraternity.  

 

Hate to say it, but the TV networks billions shoveled to the players, driven by WE, the TV viewers have made it that way.   

 

Edited Saturday at 11:40 AM by ProcessTruster

[Udubalum07]

I believe there were multiple clips of them hanging out on the golf course this summer.  They respect each other as two of the top qbs in the world, and get along outside of football. 

[machine gun kelly]

15 hours ago, Einstein said:

 

Great memory.

 

Couldn’t stand him but I miss that true genuine rivalry and dislike.

 

I knew nothing of the racial stuff others have mentioned. Thats terrible.

 

Part of the rumors is after him disrespecting our fans,

some Low life Bills fans were spitting on him from the tunnel which is not cool no matter how much of an a hole he demonstrated in OP games.

 

Anyway, it’s Old news.  I don’t mind players exchanging jerseys or giving hugs after a game.  Man in and Brady were always pretty decent to to each other as they had class.

[Einstein]

1 hour ago, machine gun kelly said:

Part of the rumors is after him disrespecting our fans,

some Low life Bills fans were spitting on him from the tunnel which is not cool no matter how much of an a hole he demonstrated in OP games.

 

Anyway, it’s Old news.  I don’t mind players exchanging jerseys or giving hugs after a game.  Man in and Brady were always pretty decent to to each other as they had class.

 

Brady would pretty much always leave the field immediately after shaking the other quarterbacks hand. He was one of the old guard, who did not stick around and do all the nonsense “we are all friends” stuff. He started doing that when he got quite old - Like in his TB days, but before that he would just run off the field. In fact, there have been quarterbacks who have complained that Brady wasn’t friendly to opposing teams. Fitzpatrick was one of them. 

[Matt_In_NH]

Throw shade a Kermit......meanwhile you cannot beat Kermit when it matters....weak!!!

[Ya Digg?]

1 hour ago, Einstein said:

 

Brady would pretty much always leave the field immediately after shaking the other quarterbacks hand. He was one of the old guard, who did not stick around and do all the nonsense “we are all friends” stuff. He started doing that when he got quite old - Like in his TB days, but before that he would just run off the field. In fact, there have been quarterbacks who have complained that Brady wasn’t friendly to opposing teams. Fitzpatrick was one of them. 

So what you’re saying is the “old guard” is a bunch of 4 year olds who couldn’t handle losing a game, am I understanding that correctly? 

[QB Bills]

58 minutes ago, Matt_In_NH said:

Throw shade a Kermit......meanwhile you cannot beat Kermit when it matters....weak!!!

How does one misspell the word "at"?

[Don Otreply]

20 hours ago, Einstein said:

I miss 80’s football. 

 

There was genuine animosity between teams. Way less hugs and pictures between opposing players after games?

Remember that Dolphins player flipping off our crowd when he came out of the tunnel?

 

Dawkins and the Jets is all we have left off that.

The league has been gentrified in that sense,