BJ Kissel destroys Dwight Freeney's "Mahomes abused the rules" narrative

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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

And as some noted at the time, MASSIVE credit to Kareem Hunt for playing through the whistle there.

Some guys just get it. Some receivers mesh really well with Mahomes because the play is never dead and they're just constantly working through the play because he'll make something crazy happen.

This is an extension of that. Did Hunt shove that dude thinking he'd clear him OOB and open a lane for Mahomes to cut back inside? Hell, I don't know, but I kinda doubt it. Nobody expects that sort of thing. But that was the angle he had to throw any sort of legal block so he threw it. Mahomes and his vision did the rest.

I say this to the kids I coach in both baseball and football - there's ALWAYS someplace to be on a play. There's ALWAYS something to do. And if you're spectating, you're doing it wrong. I don't know that Hunt had any grand design there, but he was looking for work ("head on a swivel!") and the work he found was just shoving the dude in front of him as hard as he could.

He played to the whistle and it made a massive play for his QB.

Kareem kicked that linebacker out to the edge of the hallway like he was a defenseless biatch.