A Supercut of 'Experts' Dragging the Chiefs for Drafting Patrick Mahomes Takes Us Into the Weekend

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The most popular sport in America is quite obviously pro football. And it certainly hasn't gotten any less so over the past year:

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With that game now safely in our rearview, we're all embarking on the start of the second most popular sport, which is the NFL offseason. Prospects report to the Combine in 10 days. The start of the league year and free agency happens shortly thereafter. And the draft can't be far behind. 

All of which is together makes for as good an excuse as any to celebrate that annual exercise in ignorance, uninformed expertise, strong opinions based on nothing, and general wrongheaded dumbassery known as Draft Punditry. Perhaps the greatest example of the Dunning-Kruger Effect in American life.  Because just because you don't the first clue about something, is no reason to not be 100% positive on TV that you're right about it. 

Next to Taylor Swift, Patrick Mahomes is quite possibly the most popular, revered public figure of our times. But it wasn't always so. Some of the same imbeciles who are now arguing he's surpassed Tom Brady were losing their shit when the Chiefs moved up in the 2017 Draft to take him. And the supercut of their wrongness is glorious to behold:

Enjoy this now. And file it away for the end of April. There will likely be three quarterbacks taken in the first four picks - if not the first three - in the draft. And as it stands, I want my team to take one of them (Jayden Daniels, but that's subject to change). But however it shakes out, let's all never lose sight of the fact this is all just people sitting behind desks wearing makeup and believing to a moral certainty that they're totally right and everybody else is totally wrong. It's not science. It's luck. It's guesswork. With careers and the fate of multi-billion dollar operations riding on those guesses.

John Dorsey guessed right. Gambled big. And hit the jackpot. Mitchell Trubisky went No. 2 overall, and has exactly 1,200 career completions and 72 TDs. Mahomes went 10th and has twice as many completions (2,386) and more than three times the TDs (219). Dorsey chose him over Deshaun Watson, who has played as many complete seasons (3) and as many playoff games (3) as Mahomes has rings (3) and Super Bowl MVPs (3). Dorsey will be taking apologies for everyone who told him what a bonehead he was for making that trade and that pick. But I doubt there'll be much of a line.

Still, I look forward to later in the offseason, when I get to be as rock solid definite about my halfasses opinion as these clowns. It can't come soon enough. Have a great weekend, all.