They were probably doing that whether Mahomes played this year or not. That's just the nature of drafting a 1st round QB. I don't think a rookie QB has ever even been to a Super Bowl. There have certainly been rookies to get into the playoffs and have success, but they often have elite running attacks and defenses to support them, and they usually get knocked out by a more experienced QB. Even if Mahomes turns out great he'll probably have to take some lumps to get there.

I don't see how they're conceding next season. I doubt it's going to be hard for anyone to learn a new offense.

Smith is a piece of trash, he doesn't deserve any respect. The fact that he has the physical capability to be a good quarterback but is too much of a pussy to do anything erases any respect he deserves.

Bullshit.

The WCO is a really difficult scheme to learn. I'm sure they'll transition to more of a Spread/Air Raid. If the offensive personnel can run a WCO, they can run another offense. You think it's new for a team to walk into a season with a new scheme?

I don't get where you're even going. Teams are absolutely going to tool their Offense to highlight strength of their starting QB and mask weaknesses. Do you think this is a KC specific thing? Because lol.

That's because you don't understand what he's talking about.

Getting familiarized with the offense isn't about memorizing plays, it's about learning the terminology and the concepts of the offense. Reid has shown that he will mold the offense to the quarterback. That's why the offense he used with McNabb had far more of a vertical element, and the one he used with Smith was a horizontal one.

Reid is always going to use West Coast terminology and verbiage in his offense, but elements of the offense, including route combinations, will be molded to fit Mahomes once he is the starter, but that alteration is not going to reerun his growth, nor will it require any sort of a learning curve.

For example, this first 52 page of this 67 page PDF is about terminology of the WCO:

http://www.playbookexchange.net/play...-WestCoast.pdf


This, roughly, is the kind of stuff he is learning this year.

Where the hell are people are getting the idea that they will be learning a whole new Offense?

yeah, "new offense" is used pretty loosely. It's not like we're changing coordinators. Certainly not as hard to learn as Discuss is thinking it will be.

More or less Andy will have Pat pick out some plays from his base book he likes to run and some he hates. He'll scrap the ones Pat hates and take the ones he likes and add variants of them to flesh out more of a Mahomes system.

The bigger changes will be more about personnel. The idea discuss thinks 2 full years of Chiefs Football was all for nothing over this is hilarious.

Discuss is miserable and wants everyone else to be miserable. Once you understand that, you'll understand his posting style.

The WCO is a complex terminology, for sure. So while I do understand the reasoning for Mahomes to not play this year due to the complexness of the WCO, the flip side of the argument is, wouldn't the learning curve somewhat speed up if he were to apply it to a real live game situation instead of learning it on the classroom with no on-the-job learning experience?

If the Chiefs were 8-3 instead of 6-5, even with Smith's struggles right now, I can see the reasoning of not putting him into it because of the 8-3 record. The end result would still most likely be bounced out of the playoffs in a Wild Card round. But unfortunately, they are not 8-3 and with Smith's struggles on top of that, it just makes it frustrating to watch, considering most of everybody knows that the end result will most likely either be one and done, or possibly (if they keep losing) missing the playoffs.

So why not give the kid a chance? There is similar precedent, the 2004 NYG team where they were 5-2, but Kurt Warner was struggling and was benched in favor of Eli Manning. They did miss the playoffs that year, but it paid dividends down the road.

Wentz is doing it. :shrug:

Hell, if it is that hard, why tell him the play in the headset and have him repeat it. Give him one of those forearm band playlist things, and tell him "page 3, play 5" and let him read it to the team. If he knows the keywords... which he should by now... that shouldn't be a problem.

Houston changed their entire offense on the fly with Watson during the season then had to change it back for that statue Tom Savage. It can be done.