Patrick Mahomes threw a flag on the play.
Earlier Wednesday, flag football quarterback Darrell Doucette spoke to TMZ about how he would be not only a great fit for USA’s flag football team in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, but that he also would be a better signal-caller than the Chiefs star.
“At the end of the day, I feel like I’m better than Patrick Mahomes because of my IQ of the game,” he told the outlet. “I know right now he’s the best in the [NFL], I know he’s more accurate, I know he’s got all these intangibles. But when it comes to flag football, I feel like I know more than him.”
Mahomes took to X later in the day, quoting a video snippet of Doucette with a GIF of rapper 50 Cent in which he said, “I’m like what he say f–k me for.”
Last November, Mahomes expressed interest in competing for Team USA when the Olympics comes stateside in four years.
“I definitely want to. But I’ve seen some of those guys play the flag football. They’re a little faster than I am,” he told reporters then. “I know there’s not like linemen blocking for you. I’ll be 31, 32 years old.
“So if I can still move around then, I’m going to try to get out there and throw the football around maybe in LA.”
Doucette, as a quarterback on USA’s flag football national team, has helped the squad win a slew of titles, including the 2021 IFAF Men’s Flag Football World Championship, the 2022 World Games and the 2023 Americas Continental Flag Football Championship.
In the latter tournament, he was named the MVP.
Doucette later added to TMZ that he was not trying to claim that he was an overall better football player than the two-time All-Pro, but specifically in the flag version of the game, which comes with a smaller field.
“I’m not saying I’m a better player overall but until he steps on a 5v5 flag field, I’m going to feel that way until it’s proven otherwise! I’m a competitor and need to be proven wrong,” he told the outlet. “This is a totally different game.”
Doucette has made headlines recently, telling the Guardian over the weekend that NFL players desiring to play for the Olympic squad won’t have it easy.
“We just don’t think they’re going to be able to walk on the field and make the Olympic team because of the name, right?” Doucette said. “They still have to go out there and compete.”
