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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
Man, people keep talking about Patrick Mahomes coming back from injury. As if he was just injured and then recovered. There isn't nearly enough said to how much this dude fought even when he was playing even while 50% healthy. I started watching some highlights from the year. Man, there are some moments where you can just see Mahomes really struggling to move and plant. Second half highlights in Indy and Houston you can really see him battling. Pat has really earned this. It's really cool to watch this now that we've seen him with that spring back in his step.
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You know what's ****ing bizarre or weird to think about? Pat was playing on a 50% gimpy ankle for multiple weeks. He refused to go out or not play. Meaning that ankle keeps having shit happen to it week by week and it never really improves. Maybe Pat gets enough rest into it over the bye week for it to no longer be a problem, but maybe it takes longer since a few more weeks of potential damage would have been piled up onto it.
The dislocated kneecap, as ****ing awful and scary as that was to think about, ended up only keeping Pat out for two games plus the remainder of the Denver game. As he's rehabbing that knee, the ankle gets its rest. And when he came back from the knee, yeah, it might have taken some time for him to feel completely comfortable with it, but now he's got a basically 100% healthy ankle, and that's the way it's been since coming back from the knee injury.
So at the end of the day, we were lucky and the dislocated kneecap was far from a season ender. And it also gave us back the version of Mahomes with the healthy ankle. As weird as it is to say... that forced time off for Mahomes is one big reason why we're so damn lethal right now.