(First of all, I have no damn idea who Meghan Trainor is, nor do I care. There are benefits to being a Boomer. As far as I'm concerned, this is just another Familiar Face being handed money that might have been used to pay claims.*)
Of the three commercial memes I am holding up for extra criticism here in the waning days of 2025, this is the one I'm most hopeful of saying goodbye to in 2026. Of course I'm talking about Jake's multi-year man-crush on Pat Mahomes. Jake's determination to be at Mahomes' side 24/7 expanded to include Andy Reid in 2025, I guess because every once in a while the Quarterback of the Kansas City Chiefs actually had to do some work and not just hang out in random places with State Farm's current Spokeschoad. Thing is, though, Pat Mahomes is not going to be the starting quarterback of the Chiefs for quite some time- not again for the rest of this season, and very possibly not at the start of the 2026-27 campaign.
Pat Mahomes went down with a season-ending injury last week in a loss which sealed Kansas City's elimination from the playoffs for the first time in a decade. The Chiefs will not be in a postseason game for the first time since before Mahomes started his career. Which may mean that Mahomes has even more time to film moronic, creepy and dumb State Farm ads with a "comedian" posing as an insurance agent with a perpetual smirk on his face. But it could also mean that State Farm looks at Mahomes' significant decline this year before being injured, adds in the massive egg his team laid in last year's Superbowl and this new injury, and decides to cut the chord on the played-to-death Jake-Pat bromance and has Jake deciding that it's time to see other people. Maybe other Quarterbacks, maybe random pseudo-celebrities like I presume Meghan Trainor is, but someone other than Pat Mahomes.
I think it's too much to ask that when State Farm inevitably ends its lucrative-but-stupid-as-F Pat and Jake Together Forever ad campaign, they move on from both Pat and Jake. It's far more likely that Jake will simply start appearing joined at the hip with someone else- either a healthy sports figure still in the spotlight every weekend, or a retired one with a recognizable face, or just a series of "who is that again?" types like Ms. Trainor. Just not Mahomes, who was for a few years considered the Second Coming of Tom Brady but Even Better but is now probably looking into the twilight of his career at the tender age of 30. Jake only stalks the best, sorry.
*note to State Farm customers: Please keep these ads in mind the next time your insurance company nickels and dimes you on your claim, drags its feet on getting it paid, or refuses it entirely. None of the public figures who appear in State Farm commercials do it for free. Neither does Jake. That's money that could have been used to make you whole being tossed at millionaires who can't begin to spend the cash they already have. Just a thought to take into the New Year as State Farm looks for a replacement to play Jake's BFF.
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