Mahomes joins rookies, select veterans at Chiefs camp and chase a 3rd straight Super Bowl title

Patrick Mahomes said he ‘s taking a TV to training camp at Missouri Western for the first time in his NFL career.

Two reasons: They are the next Paris Olympics which he wants to watch and new EA Sports College Football 25 video game which he wants to play.

Whether there is time for any of that remains to be seen to. Mahomes reported to camp with the rookies and welcome_Select veterans on Tuesday, more than five months after they dismantled the 49ers to win their second Super Bowl. And with sight set on a third Lombardi Trophy the two time league MVP understands that preparation for February football starts in late July.

‘Every season starts different is what Mahomes said just moments after arriving at the parking lot of the DII school, and walking to his dorm room with his backpack. ‘You have to come in the next season with the same mentality you started the previous season with, if not a more intense one, and although we won that Super Bowl the previous year, we didn’t even play our best football. ’

Indeed, the Chiefs was a team struggling to recover, or rather struggling to play after a shocking defeat, by a score of 20-18 to rival team, the Raiders on the Christmas day. They caught fire beginning in the new year and faced a harsh trip through the playoffs that saw them defeat the Dolphins at home in one of the coldest games in NFL history to do it and then they beat the Bills in Orchard Park and the Ravens at home.

Then came Feb 11, the last time the Chiefs played in a game, they battled back to whip San Francisco in overtime.

“Of course, it’s clearly pretty awesome when it is over,” Mahomes said, “But I think many of us have that queasy feeling. " I mean, we were take a real shot at really playing football the way we wanted to play all year long and it’s was not fun. I mean, every single week having to try to get better and then the victories they did get not being satisfying enough. Well, it cannot really be said to be fun at all.

“A lot of those same guys will be back,” Mahomes went on “and they know how that felt They should prepare themselves better this year in order to play better throughout the year.

Chiefs coach Andy Reid said he has not needed to remind his side regarding the variety of negative experiences the team went through the previous year. No, he wants his team — including the veterans, who report Friday — to focus on an entirely different season.

“Indeed, I believe that each year is different, given the nature of the NFL,” Reid said. “Well, we’ve claimed that each year on the way here, and so you have to step your game up, you have to practice, you have to go through that conditioning, and you have to do well mentally and physically You start all over again Happens over.

Much can happen during the training camp to kick start the coverage:

Reid mentioned that the franchise’s left guard Joe Thuney will start the camp on the PUP with the first injury of the pectoral muscle surgery. Other players who will start on the PUP list are defensive back Jaylen Watson (torn labrum), defensive end Charles Omenihu (torn ACL), and defensive tackle Derrick Nnadi (triceps injury) but expect them back at some point.

According to Reid, Joe is fine and almost there. “I don’t think it will be (long), but you never know. ”

Xavier Worthy will be prepared for the premier practice of the camp on Wednesday even if he did not practice most of the time in the offseason due to a hamstring injury that he suffered as a wide receiver in the Texas team. Despite featuring Hollywood Brown via free agency, the Chiefs want him to elevate a wide receiver corps that may start the season without Rashee Rice.

Rice could possibly be banned from playing in the NFL for a season following charges that accused him with one count of aggravated assault, one count of collision involving serious bodily injury and six counts of collision involving injury in a car accident in Dallas.

Rice has confessed to operating one of the cars at the time of the accident that involved the injuries of four people but ever since there has been limited progress with the case.

“So up to this level I haven’t heard anything,” Reid joined in.

Until he does, Reid will have Rice taking regular sessions with the team at Missouri Western. The Chiefs start the preseason on the August 10 in Jacksonville and start the regular NFL season on the September 5 against the Ravens.

‘The guys know we had our highs and lows last year,’ Reid said. “I just expect the young guys that were here last year they will continue on what we did last year we finished good on both sides of the ball and specially the special teams. ”