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Originally Posted by O.city
And this whole "his ol hasn't been this or that" is a bit of a stretch. He doesn't do them any favors holding onto the ball
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It's an excuse. Plain and simple.
His OL in San Francisco was awesome his last two years there. His first OL with the Chiefs was a solid unit and played better than that in the second half.
He has had consistently strong running games throughout those periods, which for MOST QBs means you have a lot of play-action opportunities down the field - or at least take PA shots to make teams worry about giving up the long bomb if they suck up too much on run plays.
As for throwing deep more often... I will buy that 2014 was an outlier, but it's not like it hasn't been an issue throughout his recent, team-driven success. It has. Throwing deep 2.5 times a game is still not enough.
And yeah, he hit Avery deep a few times towards the end of 2013, but he has left a lot more of those throws on the field over the past two years than he has made.
That's why the coaches are constantly talking about getting him to let it rip.