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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
That one is one where I think he's not sure if MVS is settling into the zone. MVS clearly was and created a really nice throwing lane, but as Mahomes is pulling the ball down he's still seeing MVS decelerating and perhaps not sure if they're on the same page.
Turns out they were. Mahomes just hadn't convinced himself of that fact so he tucked it. I suspect he immediately regretted the decision to hit the triangle button and pull down the passing icons there.
EDIT: I also wonder if he didn't lose track of where he was on the field and wasn't sure if he'd gone past the LOS. Hard to say. Definitely a strange looking play and as noted, not one we usually see.
Our sweet boy isn't playing his best football, for sure. He's looking decidedly average out there.
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I think it’s psychological. When the receivers make mistakes he begins to press. He knows the best way to move the ball is in manageable chunks which means one WR error throws off everything. A blown first down means you now have to get 10 yards in 2 tries. In a weird way he is tentative downfield because he doesn’t want to waste a down if it doesn’t hit. That’s one piece of it.
The other is that while we can piece together a few instances of missing open guys we also have too many where nobody is open. Or at least his first 2 reads aren’t. When you don’t trust your guys to get open you stare down a read, you bail early, or sometimes you just throw up something dumb.
We need to clean up the mistakes and our offense needs to get guys off the field who aren’t getting open so we can maximize the drives where at least one guy is open. Then give mahomes a few games of stability with the same cast so we’re not changing it every 5 snaps.