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12-20-2024 04:53 PM |
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Originally Posted by OKchiefs
(Post 17866548)
So if the OL is passable what’s the answer? That’s a scary thought that his OL is giving him enough time and he’s simply not making his throws.
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Been asking that for a bit as well.
Honestly - my answer is the same as it was this time last year -- QB1 needs to play better.
I mean this is almost literally the EXACT conversation that was being had last season. Last year everything was blamed on the WRs. This year everything is being blamed on the OL (more specifically, the LT).
And yet when the playoffs started, kid just played better football even with limited options at WR. We have to hope that he'll do so with less than ideal circumstances at LT this year.
I don't love that he's been sacked 36 times (though I'll note the 'most times of his career!' stuff is a little disingenuous -- he's barely in the top 10 for times being sacked among QBs this year and that's only because Watson and Minshew got hurt and Jones got benched). I don't love that he's been hit 100 times.
But as I've been saying since about week 4 -- hit the balls you're supposed to hit and you'll have to take fewer snaps and get hit fewer times. Lost in the hand-wringing is that when we have to execute 12 play drives to move the damn ball, it's that many more times that Mahomes has to stand back there. Hit more plays further downfield and you won't have to run as many plays and won't get hit as often.
And throw the ball on time. He's been late aaaaaalllll yeeeeeeaaaaaar. He just has been and anybody that's been looking for it has seen it. So many people have shown dozens of examples where he just doesn't trust what he sees.
Just gotta play ball, Pat. Play on time. Make the throws. Just play better.
Because that's it. That's all that will truly save the day for this team. If your superstar is ordinary, you're not gonna win a championship.
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