Chiefs Quarterbacks BEFORE Patrick Mahomes

A dive into Chiefs history: every chiefs quarterback from Cotton Davidson and Len Dawson to Joe Montana and Alex Smith.

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[matsujonen]

I'll always thank Alex Smith for helping to build a winning culture and willing to help Patrick Mahomes learn and grow.

[TheFailLord]

Alex Smith was on fire in his last year. Balled like a savage. I had heard Mahomes was good in college, but damn. Smith was warming up KC for the best stretch of football in Chiefs history. Lamar would have loved to see this, I think he knew how close his team was, Lenny's told him already though.
Clark's done a swell job, just get that G-E-H-A off Arrowhead field.

[Jacobmelrose]

Honestly getting Andy Reid was the big turning point for the Chiefs.

[youarepredictable]

Grew up in KC in the 70's and 80's this was great to watch. Steve Fuller was the first starting quarterback that I really have a memory of being our starting guy. I was born in '71 and I was aware of Dawson, but watched him play so young and past their prime years I don't remember him as much. All my life when we'd have great defenses, or the best running game, or the best defensive end or the best running back or whatever or we'd go 11-5 or 13-3 and people would get excited I would always say we aren't going to really do anything until we get another championship caliber quarterback. The kind of guys who can win you an important game in the last 2 minutes. The kind of thing that we Elway made a career of doing to the Chiefs when I was growing up. People would say "no but....we have x, y, z" and I'd be proven right season after season. Hell people got so excited when Montana came to town, but I knew that was going no where at the end of his career like that. It seemed more like a publicity stunt than a legitimate move for the team. I guess waiting over 40 years for another championship caliber quarterback was worth it as we finally were paid back in bunches with Mahomes who has an unbelievable skillet physically and mentally. I moved away from KC after school and lived away for over 25 years, and through blind luck returned in 2018 just in time for the current team to take shape. My dad had been a Chiefs fan since year 1, even having season tickets in the late 60's, including the Superbowl I and IV years. He had to give those tickets up by 70 season due to having kids, mortgages, life, etc. It struck me as we watched KC win Superbowl 54 together that he had watched them win as a 25 year old young man, and had suffered for 50 years and watched them win again as 75 year old man with grandkids who were young adults. I wasn't going to go to the parade, but it was my wife ..(who wasn't born/from KC area at all..born/raised in Hawaii..which is where I lived all those years away) that said "We should go...this might be a once in a lifetime thing and it would be neat to look at the pictures and say we were there and the kids too". So I took the day off work and the KC metro school districts gave the kids the day off..and we went and had a great day. I grew up with a terrible Chiefs team many seasons, so it didn't seam odd to me...it must have been really rough for my dad having a powerhouse team as a young man...and then enduring the next 50 years. Great memories and good times.

[jwilburn]

That 11-3 record that you credited to Elvis Grbac BELONGS TO RICH GANNON who played most of the season while Elvis was sidelined with an injury. IT WAS BECAUSE OF GANNON that the Chiefs clinched a #1 seed in the playoffs.

[Bandwithbrass]

Thank you for helping me appreciate Patrick Mahomes II EVEN

[donkraemer]

Those crowds from the eighties look like preseason games today

[anthonyware]

He has won 2 superbowls, 2 superbowl MVP and 2 league MVPs

[abdoudiop]

When he had Alex Smith things turned around for the Chiefs I was at that divisional playoff game in arrowhead back in the 2016 season against the steelers.

[notskipbayless]

Len Dawson is now a reporter for a Kansas City news station. They usually do a high school game of the week. My high school was one of the games this man came to. Got to shake his hand and we was wearing his super bowl ring. This was back in 2012. But I actually got to hold his super bowl ring. Something I will never forget

[derekmathews]

I’m flabbergasted that the Chiefs didn’t choose Dan Marino in the 1983 draft. Todd Blackeridge was a huge disappointment. Matt Cassell was terrible

[jdotboyz]

Ive been subbed for 5 months, and barley realized how underrated your are.

[billadams]

RIP Len Dawson. Alex Smith is a class individual and I am a fan for life. Thank you Football Gods for Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid. 60 Years of being a Chiefs It was worth the wait.

[dreadheadredk]

As a chiefs fan-the earliest QB I remember was Steve Deberg. Man we had some rough years between then and now-Mahomes is Kansas City’s gift

[dreadheadredk]

For the life of me, I just don’t understand why we didn’t draft a QB in the first round for so many years- Huard, Croyle, Orton, Thigpen-very dark days at that position

[jasonfrontera]

Great vid. Great presentation. Fitting in some really obscure clips. Reminding me of my childhood. Well done all around. You put props on the right guys.

[marcusbrown]

This sounds man like Mahomes talking right now.

[JesusIsKing]

Before we had Alex Smith and then Mahomes, we had Len Dawson, Joe “The Comeback Kid aka Joe Cool” Montana, Brodie Croyle, Damon Huard, Matt Cassel, etc.

[michellevirden]

All those seasons we had a part of a great team. We could never get past the hump. Lots of great players. Now we have a great team top of the AFC and looking great for a bit. Lets go CHIEF

[coreyandnathanielchartier]

Been watching the Chiefs since 1964. I forgot most of these names, and decades of heartbreak and embarrassment. We're so lucky to have Andy and Patrick. That's what it took to break the curse.