Patrick Mahomes Breaks Down Football Movies

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“If the quarterback believes, everybody does.” Three-time Super Bowl champion Patrick Mahomes breaks down iconic football movies from Any Given Sunday to Friday Night Lights. “If you don’t get the football out, you’re gonna get hit. Something I learned pretty quick in the NFL,” says Mahomes as he watches Jamie Foxx as Willie Beamen in Any Given Sunday.----------Director: Sam BalabanDirector of Photography: Andrew LoCoEditor: Robby MasseyTalent: Patrick MahomesProducer: Jessica FloresCreative Producer: Camille RamosLine Producer: Jen SantosProduction Manager: James Pipitone; Doug MangoldProduction Coordinator: Elizabeth HymesTalent Booker: Paige KefferCamera Operator: Abery SaulsberryGaffer: Justo GarciaSound Mixer: Dave BurtPost Production Supervisor: Jess DunnSupervising Editor: Rob LombardiAssistant Editor: Fynn Lithgow

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00:00What's up, GQ?

00:01This is Patrick Mahomes, and you're watching The Breakdown.

00:09First up, Any Given Sunday.

00:12Beeman, what the hell are you doing?

00:14Classic movie.

00:15Willie Beeman.

00:16All right, listen up.

00:17You're going to run left.

00:18Deuce.

00:19Zig.

00:20You all right?

00:2122-town pack.

00:22That's a real play, though.

00:23Beeman, would you make the call already?

00:24You all right?

00:26There we go.

00:27You know, you got to get it out sometimes, man.

00:28Little nerves rolling.

00:30Beeman, I want you to take a good look at me.

00:32I'm going to be the next one.

00:33Fuckin' knock you out.

00:34This is going to be a long day.

00:35This is real football right here.

00:36Little trash talk going to the line of scrimmage.

00:38Guys trying to get after you.

00:39I mean, it's not always at the line of scrimmage,

00:41because you have so much stuff going on.

00:43But after a hit, after any type of throw you're getting tackled,

00:47someone's saying something.

00:48And that's what I love about football, man,

00:49is that you're going to talk trash,

00:51but you're going to compete when you're on the field.

00:5266.

00:54He said on two.

00:54He went on one.

00:55We're going to let that slide.

01:00You better get used to this motherfucker.

01:03I don't mean to be picking peanuts out of your ass.

01:05If you put yourself out there, man,

01:06those defensive guys are going to take their opportunities

01:08to hit you, and it's not going to feel very good.

01:10According to fans that aren't the Chiefs,

01:12I mean, I'm probably going to get a flag.

01:13It might start a little bit of a fight, but other than that,

01:16I mean, my O-linmen are going to have my back.

01:18Any given Sunday is one of my favorites, man.

01:20When you come in, you're a third-string quarterback.

01:21You probably shouldn't be reading the newspaper on the bench.

01:23It'd be like having your cell phone out these days.

01:25But he came in there, didn't get the football out,

01:27and if you don't get the football out, you're going to get hit.

01:29It's something I learned very quickly in the NFL.

01:32Little Giants.

01:33I've actually just recently saw this, man.

01:35My man Trav told me I had to watch it.

01:40Fumbarooski?

01:46We got to keep our eyes on the football.

01:48Come on, 6'1", let's get there.

01:52That boy's tired, though.

01:53It is a long way to run.

01:54What kind of play you got for this situation?

01:57How about the annexation of Puerto Rico?

01:59Coach Reed will let us go out there and try them in practice,

02:01and the ones that are good we leave in,

02:03and the ones that aren't, they get kind of thrown away.

02:06And so the Ring Around the Rosie one that we did, yeah,

02:08that one was sweet.

02:09I can't remember the actual name of the play,

02:10but it was a lot of fun.

02:12We made it up, we practiced a ton,

02:14and then we executed it and went out there and scored.

02:16This movie to me is, when I watched it, man,

02:18became one of my favorites

02:19because it showed the love of the game of football.

02:20Remember the Titans.

02:26Ooh.

02:27Got to get someone blocking that guy on the outside there.

02:29Coach, your dad's going back in, man.

02:31Not a quarterback, son.

02:32I can't make that pitch, Coach.

02:34Yes, you can.

02:35Never understood why he could throw the ball so well,

02:36but couldn't pitch the ball.

02:38It didn't really make sense to me.

02:39Your team needs you tonight.

02:41You're the colonel.

02:42You're going to command your troops tonight.

02:43You understand?

02:44Twins right, 48-0.

02:46A lot of times when the quarterback gets hurt, man,

02:49it kind of hurts the morale of the team.

02:51And so for a backup quarterback, man,

02:52you've got to come in with that mentality

02:53of you're going to have confidence,

02:54show the guys that you believe,

02:56because if the quarterback believes,

02:57usually everybody does.

02:58What's the matter?

02:59Haven't you ever seen a football injury before, you wimps?

03:01I came in in college when Davis Webb got hurt

03:04a couple of different times,

03:05and it is different, man,

03:06because the quarterback's the leader most times.

03:09When the leader goes down,

03:10just like anything else in the world, man,

03:12a lot of times people, their emotions get hurt.

03:14They go down.

03:15But you have to come in with the mentality

03:17of you're ready to go,

03:18and everybody kind of follows your lead.

03:19Hit.

03:20Blue 21.

03:21Blue 21.

03:23Had a plan.

03:29Executed the plan.

03:30Guy never expected it.

03:31Unnecessary rough.

03:32That's a penalty.

03:33And the quarterback?

03:34You kidding me, coach?

03:35Hey, man, you can get an unnecessary roughness.

03:37If you do enough.

03:38I understand what he's saying.

03:39You can't get an unnecessary roughness

03:40for the quarterback hitting the DN.

03:42I mean, that's just kind of part of the game, man.

03:44And they're trying to hit you,

03:45so you've got to be able to hit them as well.

03:47Remember the Titans, honestly,

03:49other than the last scene when my guy Sunshine blocks

03:52like three guys,

03:53it's pretty accurate as far as all the football scenes.

03:55And a great movie,

03:56one that I still watch to this day

03:58because it teaches you more than just football.

04:00All right, now we've got Varsity Blues.

04:03We're going to overload their left side force

04:05from the cover tweeter one-on-one.

04:07And no huddles.

04:08What?

04:09That man was not messing with that no huddle.

04:10That's how the old line feels when you go no huddle, though.

04:14All receivers?

04:15Ah, the route, man.

04:17The quarterback can spin it, though.

04:18I mean, this guy can throw it.

04:22Long pass this time.

04:23Boxing.

04:24Yeah.

04:25I mean, that's to perfection right there.

04:27That's how you run the no huddle offense.

04:28Having five receivers on the field,

04:30everybody's got to know their position,

04:32know what the running back would usually do,

04:34or the tight end.

04:35And then also, like, the no huddle offense doing that.

04:37I mean, no wonder that defense was confused, man,

04:39because you don't know how to line up,

04:40you don't know how to get into the right spots,

04:42and who's guarding who.

04:43In college, it's all I ran, man.

04:45Everybody's got to be on the same page.

04:46The fact that they had five receivers out there,

04:48I mean, that's got to be tough,

04:49so everybody's got to know the offense.

04:51And they must have had some signals planned

04:53because they went out there and executed it,

04:54three plays, touchdown.

04:55The routes, like, the speed was there.

04:57Like, I appreciate the speed,

04:59but the cutting, man,

05:00we got to get the foot in the ground,

05:01make those cuts,

05:02because those cuts aren't even getting open in high school.

05:04I did respect the QB, though.

05:05The QB was throwing spirals,

05:06and it looked like he had a little bit of an arm on him.

05:08All right, let's go with Rudy.

05:17So I haven't seen Rudy,

05:18so this is my first time seeing this clip.

05:20I know it's crazy.

05:21It's like the only football movie I haven't seen.

05:22This is old school, high school camp.

05:26That drill's kind of crazy.

05:27I don't know if I'm doing that drill these days.

05:29I see you moving the hips, though.

05:31Let's fast forward.

05:37I mean, our right tackle's got to block somebody, man.

05:39We can't just let the D in free.

05:41Hey, what are you doing?

05:42Oh.

05:45What I'm talking about, that's training camp,

05:47a little fight going.

05:48What's your problem?

05:49What's your problem?

05:50Last practice of the season,

05:51and this asshole thinks it's the Super Bowl.

05:53We just got a guy that wants to practice hard.

05:55I mean, those are the guys you want on your team.

05:57I would say, like, the cone drill they were doing,

05:58maybe not before a practice,

06:00but, like, a training session.

06:01You might do some cone drills, get the hips going.

06:03But the one where we're going, I'm used to up downs,

06:05hopping over someone else and rolling.

06:07I think that one's kind of got phased out of the old football.

06:10And then our right tackle, man.

06:11Like, I love the old lineman,

06:12but we've got to block the defensive end.

06:14So, I mean, we can't just let a guy go free off the edge there.

06:16So, I'm sure the coaches will be getting after him.

06:18You've got to know the right tempo of practice,

06:19because if you get one guy that's going a little too hard,

06:22sometimes that's where the fights start off.

06:24As long as everybody's practicing at the right tempo,

06:26usually things run smooth.

06:27But when you get in those long days of practice,

06:29sometimes you get a little fight here and there,

06:31because one guy's going a little harder than the other.

06:35Yeah, Friday Night Lights, kid from Texas.

06:37This is one of my favorites.

06:38So, let's see what we got.

06:44Might have been a holding.

06:45We're going to let it slide, though.

06:50Terrible technique by five on defense.

07:01You make it?

07:08It's like the one rule, man.

07:10If you're going to run for it, you better get there.

07:12I thought the overall acting with the football play was good.

07:15I mean, they might have missed a holding here or there.

07:17One of the defenders had a pretty bad technique on the tackling there.

07:20But for the most part, man, getting to the end of the pile,

07:23running the feet, trying to get in the end zone.

07:25I mean, it's for the game.

07:26We've got to race the football out and get across that end zone.

07:28And it's more than just a job, man.

07:30You kind of build this brotherhood with guys from every different aspect of life.

07:33And you have one common goal.

07:35And sometimes it doesn't go your way.

07:37And when it doesn't, man, it hurts.

07:38But it makes it, when it does, feel even better.

07:41It's been a heck of a run for me in football.

07:42But this scene right here truly shows you how much football can bring people together.

07:46When I was young, man, being a Texas high school football player,

07:48watching this movie, man, that scene right there was,

07:51it gets you a little emotional as a kid.

07:53Friday Night Lights, the TV show.

08:00A great pickup on the blitz by the running back, though.

08:03Oh, tough throw emotion.

08:06Pass interference offense.

08:07We're going to let it slide.

08:09We can't have that going on, man.

08:19We've got the coach tackling the guy on the field.

08:21I mean, we can't have that going on.

08:22I mean, that's got to be like an automatic touchdown or something.

08:24I mean, a high school football coach tackling a player,

08:27he's probably going to get arrested or something like that.

08:30We've got to go past just on the field consequences.

08:33As far as the hole scene, I saw one little thing that kind of got me.

08:36We had the O-lineman blocking a guy when the running back caught a ball downfield,

08:41which you can't be doing.

08:42Every coach is passionate and they show it their own ways,

08:44and you just want them to be true to their self.

08:46I've had coaches that are fiery, and I've been coached by them

08:49and gotten just as much as the coaches that are calm and even keel.

08:51I know Coach Reed seems like he's even keel,

08:53but there's times where he's getting after you over there on the sideline,

08:56and that's because he loves it, and that's what you want as a leader of a team.

08:59I appreciate you so much for watching these clips with me.

09:02See you next time.

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