The best throw of Super Bowl LIX didn’t mean a thing. Not really, anyway.

It arrived long after the outcome became obvious, deep into the fourth quarter of a blowout. And it actually came from the arm of the losing quarterback, the one who would arrive at his team’s facility only days later, there to ask his coaches a series of questions that could be summarized rather vaguely:

“How can I get better?”

A sour ending prompted the interaction, Patrick Mahomes left with an offseason to contemplate it. For seven months, this will be unequivocal: His most recent game stunk.

But his most recent throw? A beauty.

On his final attempt of the Super Bowl, Mahomes reared back and let loose a 50-yard touchdown strike to rookie Xavier Worthy, a score that cut the margin to 18 points with less than

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