Feb 12, 2021 Patrick Mahomes is already being forced to play by a different set of rules. When the Kansas City Chiefs lost Super Bowl LV to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Narrative Machine began whirring into action for some of the world's speediest sports media talking heads, hot-take artists, and under-informed social media savants. The results were predictable. Did Mahomes throw his teammates under the bus? (No.) Was Mahomes actually to blame for the offensive line's most disastrous snaps? (Did you watch the game?) Is this a sign of Mahomes' impending regression? (Wait, what? No. Are you kidding? No.) As a part of an effort to not give extra oxygen to some of the sports world's worst takes, I won't be citing my sources from that list, but if you rummage through Twitter for long enough, you'll find that these are all