Rex Ryan says Patrick Mahomes would have been a Buffalo Bill if he hadn’t been fired
“Now, I’ve got to tell one other story about this thing. Terry Pegula, his daughter’s one of the best women’s tennis players in the world, right? He knows what an athlete looks like. He’s heavily involved in hockey and all this stuff as well.”
“But either way, on a bus one day, he goes, ‘Man, you’ve got to see this quarterback at Texas Tech.’ And I’m thinking, ‘System quarterback, you know, who’s he going to get? Kliff Kingsbury?’ One day, I’m watching Texas Tech play Oklahoma. Oh my God, that’s the best freaking player I’ve ever seen in my life, the quarterback at Texas Tech.”
“Yeah, it’s Patrick Mahomes. Him and Baker going back and forth that game was unbelievable, right? So I’m like, ‘Oh my God.’ And I told Terry, ‘You were right. There’s no way.’”
“And we even had the conversation that we were going to take him in the first round. Okay, I get fired. And I mean, there’s no way they would have talked us off of this, because literally Terry and I absolutely wanted this guy. They have the 10th pick.”
“Guess what happens? Traded it. Kansas City trades to the 10th spot and takes Terry’s guy. And so Patrick Mahomes, even though Deshaun Watson was out there and all that, and he had played with my son, great player, but no, he’s out there and sure enough they took him.”
“So if I would have been there, we ain’t trading that pick. We’re taking Patrick Mahomes. Now, ironically, it works out great for them because they ended up getting a really good player, Tre’Davious White. And the very next year, they trade up and get Josh Allen.”
“So it worked well for them in hindsight, but I promise you, if I would have been there, Patrick Mahomes would have been a Bill. And he would have said, ‘I got to play quarterback for Rex Ryan.’”
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