Flag football's Darrell 'Housh' Doucette: Patrick Mahomes, NFL players 'have never played' the sport

Anticipation has been building for Olympic flag football, the newest event in the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles. Given that the event will happen before the start of the 2028 NFL season, the opportunity exists for current pro players to take part in the flag football tournament.

The notion that NFL players will step on the field and immediately be integral parts of a roster — which was alluded to with the hype video that the league dropped this month featuring Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts — doesn't sit well with flag football champion and quarterback of the U.S. national team, Darrell "Housh" Doucette.

In fact, he went as far as to say that he felt like the video was a threat to his job.

"I think it’s disrespectful that they just automatically assume that they’re able to just join the Olympic team because of the person that they are — they didn’t help grow this game to get to the Olympics," Doucette said in a recent interview. "Give the guys who helped this game get to where it’s at their respect. … 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? They still have to go out there and compete."

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More recently, Doucette expressed that the transition to flag football for Kansas City Chiefs superstar Patrick Mahomes or any other player wouldn't be easy because "they have never played" the sport.

"At the end of the day, I feel like I'm better than Patrick Mahomes because of my IQ of the game," Doucette went on to say in an interview with TMZ Sports.

Mahomes himself responded to the chirping with a joking hand-to-heart reaction.

Doucette, 35, has