Originally Posted by LoneWolf (Post 16762988)

They weren't generating pressure quickly when they were doing that. Mahomes was holding onto the ball forever trying to find the open receiver. Are the Chiefs OTs all-pros? No, but they are sufficient to have this offense scoring points at a greater clip than any other team in the league and they aren't the reason KC has lost to the Bengals three times in a row.

Originally Posted by Superturtle (Post 16763002)

Well, Mahomes is the best in the league at mitigating pressure. When healthy.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Of 25 qualifiers, Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes had the BEST Pressure to Sack Percentage in the NFL at 10.8%.<br><br>His tackles, Orlando Brown Jr. (47) and Andrew Wylie (49) both finished top 4 in pressures allowed.<br><br>Despite the worst tackle play in the NFL, Mahomes didn’t take sacks. <a href="https://t.co/ZCfxwBGAwL">pic.twitter.com/ZCfxwBGAwL</a></p>&mdash; Pranav Sriraman (@PranavSriraman) <a href="https://twitter.com/PranavSriraman/status/1614813070752112640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Originally Posted by htismaqe (Post 16762942)

According to some on that Reddit thread, it was from last week

Originally Posted by ARROW2 (Post 16762935)

Is this from today?

Originally Posted by Chiefnj2 (Post 16762923)

From PFF earlier this week:

Patrick Mahomes Dropback Splits
Overall Grade Rank* Passing Grade Rank*
Straight Drops Wks 1-12 90.3 2nd 87.4 2nd
Straight Drops Wks 13-18 72.6 17th 71.0 16th
Rolls/Scrambles Wks 1-12 86.2 1st 77.9 1st
Rolls/Scrambles Wks 13-18 88.3 2nd 85.6 2nd
*Among passers with at least 25 such dropbacks in each timeframe

The magic clearly hasn’t waned, but something is amiss from the pocket. One might ask why Week 13 was so arbitrarily used as the cutoff in the above table. The answer? That's when Kansas City faced its upcoming conference championship opponent, the Cincinnati Bengals.

Since then, Mahomes has been very ordinary when dropping straight back and throwing from the pocket. The Chiefs' approach appears to have become far more conservative, too. There are struggles at wide receiver, as well as a declining amount of man coverage being played against Kansas City since that Bengals game.

If recent trends hold, there will be many nervous onlookers waiting to see if Mahomes’ injury hampers his seemingly unstoppable improvisational skills. If that is the case, then we will see a battle of two quarterbacks dueling from the pocket. The difference between them? Mahomes has struggled of late from there, while Joe Burrow is currently the best pocket passer the league has to offer.

Originally Posted by Superturtle (Post 16763002)

Well, Mahomes is the best in the league at mitigating pressure. When healthy.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Of 25 qualifiers, Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes had the BEST Pressure to Sack Percentage in the NFL at 10.8%.<br><br>His tackles, Orlando Brown Jr. (47) and Andrew Wylie (49) both finished top 4 in pressures allowed.<br><br>Despite the worst tackle play in the NFL, Mahomes didn’t take sacks. <a href="https://t.co/ZCfxwBGAwL">pic.twitter.com/ZCfxwBGAwL</a></p>&mdash; Pranav Sriraman (@PranavSriraman) <a href="https://twitter.com/PranavSriraman/status/1614813070752112640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Originally Posted by Superturtle (Post 16762963)

You do realize the fact they can do that and it still generates pressure is a MASSIVE indictment on both OTs, right?

Originally Posted by Coochie liquor (Post 16763043)

As much as I love our interior OL men, and dislike out tackles. It should be an indictment on the whole OL that 5 can’t find a way to block 3, and keep Mahomes clean.

Originally Posted by KCJake (Post 16763042)

Remember when everybody used to say that it was Mahomes that made life hard on his tackles??? These 8,9 yard drops he used to take regularly was mostly just him trying to buy himself an extra second or two before he got smashed. Watch WASP

Originally Posted by Coochie liquor (Post 16763043)

As much as I love our interior OL men, and dislike out tackles. It should be an indictment on the whole OL that 5 can’t find a way to block 3, and keep Mahomes clean.

Originally Posted by Superturtle (Post 16763002)

Well, Mahomes is the best in the league at mitigating pressure. When healthy.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Of 25 qualifiers, Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes had the BEST Pressure to Sack Percentage in the NFL at 10.8%.<br><br>His tackles, Orlando Brown Jr. (47) and Andrew Wylie (49) both finished top 4 in pressures allowed.<br><br>Despite the worst tackle play in the NFL, Mahomes didn’t take sacks. <a href="https://t.co/ZCfxwBGAwL">pic.twitter.com/ZCfxwBGAwL</a></p>&mdash; Pranav Sriraman (@PranavSriraman) <a href="https://twitter.com/PranavSriraman/status/1614813070752112640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Originally Posted by decibelup (Post 16763062)

i hate our tackles as much as the next guy, but the pressures allowed as a raw number is so stupid. the chiefs are a passing team. mahomes threw it 650 times. both tackles played every game.

a handful of teams threw fewer than 500 times. more than 1/3rd of the league had 110 fewer pass attempts.

it should be pressures allowed divided by pass attempts. i guarantee both tackles, as much as i hate them, would come out looking better than they do.

Originally Posted by decibelup (Post 16763062)

i hate our tackles as much as the next guy, but the pressures allowed as a raw number is so stupid. the chiefs are a passing team. mahomes threw it 650 times. both tackles played every game.

a handful of teams threw fewer than 500 times. more than 1/3rd of the league had 110 fewer pass attempts.

it should be pressures allowed divided by pass attempts. i guarantee both tackles, as much as i hate them, would come out looking better than they do.