Morris is currently ranked as the 73rd best Tackle out of 80 on PFF. Taylor is 53/80.

Pretty clear what the problem is.

Well you see, two drives prior to him missing a wide open pass he was pressured a few times and sacked so how can expect him to complete a simple pass from a clean pocket later in the game?

Some of the stuff people say, you'd think he was the most mentally fragile person that ever existed. By God did you see that sack he took? it means he'll be unable to properly throw for the next 25 minutes.

Yeah, he's not just being pressured a few times. He leads the league in QB pressures and hits, and is top three in sacks and hurries.

We signed Humphries for a reason. Our Tackle play has sucked ass.

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Yeah I don't get this OL is ruining everything. Over his career Joe Burrow's 17 game average is 47 for sacks. He's been sacked 181 times in 66 games. He's been sacked 29 times in 7 playoff games. He isn't out there seeing ghosts. He has a bottom 5 OL and looks like an MVP.

People will point to his weapons, but who cares, because he doesn't get much time to throw.

ESPN has the OL as the 2nd best pass blocking OL in the league.

Edit-

These numbers are what he's responsible for. Not the OL.

If you look at the OL% overall it's pretty average because the interior is so good, and RT is below average but adequate. They are addressing LT which has been abysmal. They are adding a quick open receiver. I think they're fine if they wind up needing to try roll with Thuney.

Despite all these concerns they've been a league average scoring offense with a top four defense that's good enough to carry them to a 13-1 record. We are just so spoiled, and every team has a weakness somewhere.

PFF gave Mahomes a 43 yesterday, he's only had 2 or 3 games worse than that his entire career.

He allowed 10 blindside pressures in 38 drop backs.

This shows QB as being responsible for 23.3% of his pressures. It's the 2nd highest in the league.

Kansas City ranked 19th in the NFL points per play.

We had always been at the top until last year.

We traded an abysmal LT for a negative LT and an elite guard for a negative guard.

I get why the Chiefs are so hesitant to commit to this long term. Our whole left side was being caved in and we had nothing pounding the rock all game.

Taylor is 37/134 in pass blocking and Morris is 94/134.

Creed is #1 in pass blocking from C
Thuney is #1 in pass blocking from G
Smith is #38 in pass blocking from G

1/3 of Morris's pressures came during the Raiders game so I hear. That tanked his grade.

This should be perfectly fine for a player of Mahomes ability.

Are there any NFL starters who currently rank lower than Morris?

I know what point you're trying to make but I couldn't really read the rest of your post after seeing Smith's ranking.

There's no way they should pay that guy.

I'm not sure I buy those rankings. Other than yards per play, which is one of the worst in the entire league (after leading the league usually with Mahomes), the rest of the O metrics aren't bad. Scoring, total yards, etc. because Mahomes is still pulling rabbits out on many third downs. Mahomes is not having a good year by his standards, but most QBs behind this line would be doing worse.

I'd argue YPP measures largely offensive line performance and what you do with those yards per play measures QB performance with skilled positions players contributing to both.

The problem, IMO, is some of the "rabbits" he's pulling out are created because he runs out of a decent pocket or doesn't read things out.

He's just not playing well. Yes, he's been under pressure. Some of that is his own fault.

Of Tackles that have played 125+ snaps, Morris is graded at 72/83. There is a reason he was benched and replaced with a Guard. And there is a reason we signed Humphries. He is terrible. The coaching staff and Mahomes has lost confidence in him.

Here are the 11 Tackles below him.


Evan Neal

Trevor Penning

Broderick Jones

Warren McClendon Jr.

Fred Johnson

Germain Ifedi

Demontrey Jacobs

Nicholas Petit-Frere

Stone Forsythe

James Hudson III

Chris Hubbard

I see two names that I was told we should have traded up for instead of taking FAU and Worthy. Interesting. It's almost as if it is all a crapshoot.

This is just the pass blocking grade, by the way.

LT is the most important position on the offensive line in pure pass blocking sets. Are you saying Morris is perfectly fine? Mahomes is so good that he doesn't need a functioning LT?

Dilphag believes Mahomes should be perfectly fine with his blindside defender slapping Wanyas hands like he got caught in the cookie jar and instantly blowing by him.

Unfortunately for dilphag, 3 time superbowl champ, 3 time superbowl mvp, and 2 time league mvp Patrick Mahomes delivered the kiss of death by exhibiting his fury with Wanya openly on the field after another tragi-comic snap he took at left tackle.

Brett Veach rolled the dice on a guy coming off an acl tear, and Andy has put our left guard in to play tackle.

Wanya Morris will never take another meaningful snap this season unless someone literally dies.

Fortunately for us, we have dilphag to inform us all on what a travesty of talent evaluation this is.

Ding ding
Give this guy a cigar
He is right

Obsessed much?

Well if you don't trust PFF, then here is ESPNs pass block win rate for everyone but the LT.

For all interior offensive lineman:

Joe Thuney - #1 98% win rate
Creed Humphrey - #5 96% win rate
Trey Smith - #12 95% win rate

This is for tackles:

Jawaan Taylor - #13 92% win rate

Both PFF and ESPN have 4/5 of our offensive lineman ranked very high in pass blocking. Mahomes is responsible for more pressure than a lot of people want to admit.

Yikes

To put it in perspective how godawful our offense is, you have to go back to 2012 for the Chiefs to be this bad in yards per play. *2012*. LT is worst in the league; RT is terrible. All the money spent on the interior doesn't even make a difference if your tackles are as bad as ours. New England's offensive line is supposedly just absolutely brutally bad, and we're just marginally better in yards per play.

Everyone is rightly concerned with the injury status of Mahomes, but DJ being anywhere near a 100% for the playoffs is huge, too. He could make all the difference.

Umm wut?

We have our tackle issues.

You know how you help?
Adjust to 3 step drops..Quick throws and run the ball.
That is all on the coaching.

Patrick also needs to do this for his own protection.

I will say though I am hoping most of the missed throws last week were to the wind and moisture.

For some reason we abandoned the run. It was more effective than our passing.

-1, 6, 12, 7, -1, 8, 1, 4, 11, 7, 1, 9, 3, -1, 2, 4, 4, 21, 0, 1, -2, 3, 0, 5, 2, 0, 1, 11.

Most of our stops are from obvious rushing downs or galling. And the fact we always run from shotgun imo.