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Originally Posted by O.city
It looked like a suped up johnny football performance, which isn't bad, but he needs to win from the pocket and use the other skills when he needs them. Basically, like ARog.
Also, fwiw, Alex smith has looked fantastic. I know it's the preseason and we shall see if it lasts (lol) but he's looked as good as I've seen him.
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I had the "Manziel on Steroids" comparison already typed and figured it would just derail the damn thread but yes, that's how he's playing right now. Take Manziel's style of play, soup the arm up and make him bigger/stronger and you get what Mahomes has done.
The thing that is so underrated about Mahomes arm-strength is how it impacts his accuracy. Take 10 swings at 100% with a golf club and tell me how many of them go where you want them to. Then take 10 swings at 75% and lemme know. Now for me the answer is going to be somewhere between 1 and 3 either way, but for a good golfer, the dialed down swings will be virtually automatic and the 100% version will be erratic.
You can see that in Mahomes. That throw he made to Escobar wasn't a balls out throw because it didn't need to be. And because of that, he put it right on the mark. Manziel would've tried to make that throw and he'd have had to put his entire ass into it - at that point the ball would've probably been released late and spiked into the turf or thrown right to the zone defender playing in front of Escobar.
That arm strength makes him more accurate because he's not having to try as hard and from the funky throwing platforms he can operate from, he can still make them work.
But again - that's not the ideal way to play the position. You've ****ed up the flow of the offense, usually wiped out half the field (trouble in the WCO) and have impacted an OC's ability to 'set up' a defense to beat them up later. So much of football is a chess match and if a QB isn't playing within the offense frequently, that chess match falls apart.
That's the step Mahomes needs to take. He needs to play in a manner that allows his OC and coaching staff to stay ahead in the chess match. And then if shit hits the fan, bail some guys out.