Tom Brady's former teammate, Rob Gronkowski, discusses how Patrick Mahomes can dethrone Brady as NFL's GOAT

Patrick Mahomes is connected the accelerated way of surpassing Tom Brady arsenic the NFL's top ever.

With a triumph successful this year's Super Bowl, Mahomes would go the archetypal subordinate to triumph 4 rings earlier turning 30.

And if you comparison the quarterbacks' archetypal 7 afloat seasons, Mahomes' numbers trump Brady's.

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New England Patriots choky extremity Rob Gronkowski (87) and backmost Tom Brady (12) observe aft a touchdown against the Philadelphia Eagles during the 3rd 4th of the 2018 Super Bowl astatine U.S. Bank Stadium. The Eagles won 41-33.  (Charles LeClaire/USA Today Sports)

Brady won much than fractional of his rings aft turning 37, cementing himself successful the conversation. But the chatter volition beryllium blistery and dense if the Kansas City Chiefs tin decorativeness a three-peat, thing nary squad has done successful the Super Bowl era.

Rob Gronkowski had a front-row spot for Brady's illustrious career, winning 4 titles with him, 3 successful New England, and 1 much successful Tampa Bay. 

"Good happening I went backmost to shot and did that," Gronkowski recalled successful a caller interrogation with Fox News Digital.

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But adjacent Gronk knows his backmost mightiness beryllium successful trouble. However, it volition beryllium tough, and there's a crushed wherefore Brady has the precocious manus for the clip being.

"In bid for Patrick Mahomes to dethrone (Brady), it’s gonna beryllium pugnacious due to the fact that Tom bushed him doubly successful playoff football. We perfectly demolished Patrick Mahomes," Gronkowski said, referring to the 2021 Super Bowl.

Advantage, Brady.

Kansas City Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes (15) and Tampa Bay Buccaneers backmost Tom Brady (12) aft the Super Bowl Feb. 7, 2021, successful Tampa, Fla. Tampa Bay won 31-9.  (AP Photo/Charlie )

But that doesn't mean there's nary accidental for Mahomes. Gronk said Mahomes doesn't adjacent request to lucifer Brady successful titles earlier being successful the conversation.

"He’s gonna person to triumph astir five, six championships successful bid to get successful that speech of being the top up of Tom Brady," Gronk said.

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Those sentiments echo those of Victor Cruz, who already has Mahomes arsenic the "No. 2" to Brady.

Kansas City Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes celebrates aft a touchdown tally by moving backmost Kareem Hunt during the archetypal fractional against the San Francisco 49ers successful Santa Clara, Calif.,Oct. 20, 2024.  (AP Photo/Jed Jacobsohn)

"To me, I can’t enactment him supra [Tom] Brady conscionable yet, but he’s close there. He’s 1A, 1B for me," Cruz told Fox News Digital successful October. 

"If helium gets to 5 and helium continues to support his squad applicable twelvemonth successful and twelvemonth out, erstwhile we look up astatine the numbers, it’s gonna beryllium insane conscionable to spot wherever helium nets retired and conscionable to spot erstwhile it’s each said and done wherever helium is, due to the fact that what he’s doing frankincense far, it's beauteous special."

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First, the Chiefs volition person to get done the Philadelphia Eagles, who the Chiefs bushed 2 years agone successful the Super Bowl to get Mahomes his 2nd title. He earned his 3rd past twelvemonth against the San Francisco 49ers, the aforesaid squad Mahomes bushed for his archetypal ring.

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