As Tom Brady watched Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs get destroyed by the Eagles in quest for a three-peat, he could have gloated. Instead, he empathized with Mahomes, talking at length about his own pursuit of history and the pain of falling short.

When Brady peers down from his Fox perch on Super Sunday, he will find himself talking about the one and only quarterback who, across the next decade, is on an unmistakable trajectory to displace