Special Guest: Leigh Steinberg, agent of Super Bowl 54 MVP Patrick Mahomes

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

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4.4 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The football season is officially over as the Kansas City Chiefs are Super Bowl champions and quarterback Patrick Mahomes wins MVP. Who better to talk to about Mahomes than longtime agent to NFL stars and the current Super Bowl MVP, Leigh Steinberg. Host Laurence Holmes was joined by Steinberg in Miami to discuss why teams missed on Mahomes, the current state of the NFL, and the ongoing issues of concussions.(2:58) - How to keep Mahomes focused when he may get the largest contract in NFL history(7:28) - The NFL is as big as it ever was(9:40) - Convincing Tua Tagovailoa that he was a good match for him(12:45) - Concussions are a huge issue in the NFL(15:40) - Patrick Mahomes has easily embraced being a superstarSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Coming up on the under center podcast, I talk with one of the most successful agents in NFL history, who's got to be excited about his client winning the Super Bowl and being named MVP.
0:19.8	That's next on the Under Center podcast.
0:22.8	What it means to me to be a Chicago bear, it's an easy question.
0:27.2	It means everything to me.
0:28.4	That means rich tradition, black and blue division, defense, legends, linebackers.
0:38.3	The history of it. I mean, I'm a big history guy, so understanding this was one of the first franchises just kind of blows my mind, honestly, that was able to be a part of that.
0:46.3	The city, just the nostalgia of playing for a story franchise, the story franchise of the running back position with guys like
0:55.7	Gail Sayers and Walter Payton and being able to follow in those footsteps.
0:59.4	So being a bear means everything.
1:01.4	And what more can you say?
1:07.2	The Under Center podcast is brought to by Sprinkler Fitters Union Local 281, serving Chicago land for over 100 years.
1:15.8	Welcome into the pod.
1:16.8	I'm Lawrence Holmes.
1:18.2	Just finished watching the Super Bowl.
1:20.6	And I'm glad that you are listening to some of the work that we did while we were in Miami.
1:25.7	We had the chance to talk with a legendary agent, Lee Steinberg.
1:30.7	He was on Radio Row, and obviously, when you talk to a guy of that magnitude, there's a lot
1:37.2	of ground to cover.
1:38.6	But the most important ground is that he's got Patrick Mahomes.
1:42.6	And Patrick Mahomes is probably going to be, is going to garner the richest
1:48.1	quarterback contract in NFL history, especially when you factor in that he won the
1:54.8	Super Bowl at age 24 and was named Super Bowl MVP.
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