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Originally Posted by Detoxing
And the Chiefs can actually be effective at it because DB's MUST respect the vertical game.
This isn't the Alex Smith Chiefs where a DB can make the decision to simply let the vertical route go and play the underneath stuff, and guess right 90% of the time.
Vertical routes are not "dummy" routes with the Chiefs. They're not simply there to stretch a defense. They're legitimate threats every single play and must be respected as such, thus FORCING those DB's to run. They can't afford to "only kinda" cover it.
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Right - you have Mahomes coming out after he threw his 50th TD and saying "yeah, we just sandlotted that shit; completely ad-libbed a 90 yard TD bomb..."
You think coaches don't realize that's a possibility on any given snap? Hell yes they do. And when these guys just continue to develop chemistry with Mahomes, it becomes 6th sense kind of voodoo.
There's absolutely value in having another weapon that can just make guys run around.