Patrick Mahomes and Lamar Jackson are many things -- quarterbacks, playmakers, artists and friends. But right now, one thing they are most certainly not is rivals.
Mahomes is too good to have a rival. He proved Monday night that he is playing a different game than everybody else, with the same wonderment in his eye he had as a kid shagging flies at the World Series that his father's Mets played against the Yankees two decades ago.
A fake jump pass. Precise throws against the grain. A perfectly placed long ball into the back of the end zone.