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Darrell Doucette plays in the American Flag Football League U.S. Open of Football tournament July 7, 2018, in Kennesaw, Ga. Doucette, who led the U.S. flag football team to the 2022 world championship, thinks NFL players need to earn their spots on the 2028 U.S. Olympic team. (Todd Kirkland / Associated Press)
Darrell Doucette didn’t play NCAA football.
He never played in the NFL.
But the 35-year-old New Orleans native thinks he’s a better player than Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, a three-time Super Bowl champion and MVP.
In flag football, that is.
“I feel like I’m better than Patrick Mahomes because of my IQ of the game,” the quarterback of the world champion U.S. flag football team told TMZ. “I know he’s right now the best in the [NFL], I know he’s more accurate, I know he has all these intangibles. But when it comes to flag football, I feel like I know more than him.”
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In an interview published by the Guardian last week, Doucette said he feels it’s “disrespectful” to the flag football community to “automatically assume” that NFL players will be the ones to represent the U.S. when the sport makes its Olympic debut at the 2028 Los Angeles Games.
Doucette and his U.S. teammates are set to defend their title at the 2024 International Federation of American Football Flag Football World Championships next week in Lahti, Finland. Before that, however, the quarterback, known as “Housh” (for his resemblance to former NFL star T. J. Houshmandzadeh), attempted to set the record straight about the comments he made earlier this month.
“I appreciate the love and support that the NFL and the NFL guys are definitely giving flag football,” Doucette told TMZ. “I love the fact that they wanna play and that they wanna come out and compete. But at the end of the day, we want the same process that we’ve been having to play at. We have to try out, and so do they. I don’t want to be like they’re…
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Author : LA Times
Publish date : 2024-08-21 20:38:40
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