{"id":186263,"date":"2024-08-21T16:30:49","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T20:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=186263"},"modified":"2024-08-21T15:42:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T19:42:20","slug":"chiefs-mahomes-doucette-flag-football-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2024\/08\/21\/chiefs-mahomes-doucette-flag-football-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Mahomes Reacts to USA Flag Football QB&#8217;s Bold Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2024\/08\/03\/chiefs-mahomes-top-100-list-jones-kelce\/\" target=\"_self\">Patrick Mahomes\u2019 reputation<\/a> precedes him and his decorated resume speaks for itself.<\/p>\n<p>Yet and still, Team USA flag football quarterback Darrell Doucette believes he is the superior player in his profession. Flag football will debut on the Olympic stage in 2028 when the games will take place in Los Angeles. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/league-is-working-actively-on-getting-nfl-players-in-2028-olympics\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NFL and NFLPA were working together<\/a> as recently as August 19 to allow players to participate in those games.<\/p>\n<p>Doucette had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/current-u-s-flag-football-qb-says-its-disrespectful-to-assume-nfl-players-will-show-up-and-take-spots\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ripped the idea<\/a> of NFL players being gifted spots for the Olympics. He was back in an interview with TMZ to make his case. This time, Doucette compared himself to the six-time Pro Bowler and three-time Super Bowl champion, Mahomes, in flag football.<\/p>\n<h2>Patrick Mahomes Reacts to Darrell \u201cHoush\u201d Doucette\u2019s Comments<\/h2>\n<h3>Darrell Doucette: \u2018I\u2019m Better Than Patrick Mahomes\u2019 in Flag Football<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of the day, I feel like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H2RI5DeV9Lo\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I&#8217;m better than Patrick Mahomes<\/a> because of my IQ of the game,\u201d Doucette told TMZ on August 21. \u201cI know he&#8217;s right now the best in the league, I know he&#8217;s more accurate, I know he has all these intangibles. But when it comes to flag football, I feel like I know more than him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mahomes caught that and responded by quote-posting the clip with a gif of rapper Curtis \u201c50 Cent\u201d Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>In the clip, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Destiny\/comments\/1cpa517\/the_origin_of_the_50_cent_meme\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">originated from the rapper\u2019s beef<\/a> with boxer Floyd Mayweather, Jackson asks, \u201cWhat he say f*** me for?\u201d after the champion grouped him along with fellow artists Nelly and T.I. in a rant.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yY7fYXCfF3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/yY7fYXCfF3<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LONXJPkPYK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/LONXJPkPYK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Patrick Mahomes II (@PatrickMahomes) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatrickMahomes\/status\/1826326073921187965?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 21, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Doucette went on to cite the lack of physicality in flag football. He also pointed to the narrower playing field, quicker-paced timing, and flag guarding as potential challenges. There are also a couple of different position designations. Specifically, flag football utilizes the \u201cathlete\u201d and \u201crusher\u201d tags, which are as they sound.<\/p>\n<p>Some players also work on both sides of the ball.<\/p>\n<h3>Darrell Doucette Appreciates NFL Interest in Flag Football<\/h3>\n<p>Doucette did say NFL players would likely be successful offensively in flag football, though. His comments about Mahomes followed an opening during which he repeatedly said he appreciated the interest in flag football from the NFL players.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the players in flag football train to do certain moves just like they do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love the fact that they want to play and that they want to come out and compete,\u201d Doucette said. \u201cBut at the end of the day, we want the same process that we&#8217;ve been having to play. We have to try out, and so do they. I don&#8217;t want it to be like they&#8217;re entitled because of their names to be able to just automatically be on the team. And that&#8217;s what it sounds like from the flag football world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don&#8217;t want to be forgotten about. Because we are the ones that help this game get to where it\u2019s at.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/usafootball.com\/media-center\/usa-football-announces-initial-rosters-for-2024-men-s-and-women-s-flag-football-national-teams\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">initial 2024 roster<\/a> has no NFL players. Two players \u2013 Mike Daniels (West Virginia) and Ja\u2019Deion High (Texas) \u2013 do have NCAA D1 experience. Doucette alternated between showing his respect for the NFLers and touting the work the current flag footballers have put in.<\/p>\n<p>He noted players like Mahomes, Tyreek Hill, Justin Jefferson, and Ja\u2019Marr Chase were \u201celite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the main receivers \u2013 Tyreek, Jefferson, Chase \u2013 all the top receivers, I would never say that they can&#8217;t translate [based] upon them being successful. But I think they also \u2013 people overstep and overlook the flag football players. And to us we are professional. We are professionals of our game, and they aren&#8217;t. And that&#8217;s just the main difference. I think they don&#8217;t have the time to actually learn this game and to be as successful as we have over this period of time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The decision to let NFL players will not fall on Doucette or Mahomes. But USA\u2019s current star QB is sticking to his stance.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo: Nathan Ray Seebeck-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA QB Darrell Doucette&#8217;s comments reached Kansas City Chiefs star Patrick Mahomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2879,"featured_media":186265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[7811,32770,32771,737,1576],"class_list":["post-186263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chiefs","tag-chiefs-featured","tag-darrell-doucette","tag-jadeion-high","tag-mike-daniels","tag-patrick-mahomes"],"modified_by":"Josh Buckhalter","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2879"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}