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Originally Posted by RunKC
I’m surprised that we haven’t gone deep to Sammy. Are teams trying to take hm away?
You’d think that they would be hellbent on taking Tyreek away after the dude is clowning team after team.
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This is going to get me in trouble, but I think it's a scheme/green issue. The scheme rarely has Watkins as the 1st read and I think there are times where Mahomes is so confident in his ability to get out of the pocket and create that he'll leave the pocket before getting to his 3rd read and try to make something happen. It's what he's comfortable with and this early in his career, he's going to default to it a little sooner than I'd like.
I also don't think we're trying to push downfield with Watkins quite as much as I'd expected, but there are undeniably times that he's getting down the field.
Pat's not getting sacked at all because his feel for pressure is exceptional. But he's also abandoning ship pretty damn quickly at times. I've been a little more critical of our OL than most because I feel that pressure is getting to him sooner than the sack numbers suggest. But there are also times that he sees a way to get out to his right (where he's so incredibly dangerous and obviously very comfortable) and he takes it. With as often as Watkins lines up in that X slot, if Mahomes is jetting to his right and Watkins is on the left, he's just not gonna be a factor in the route downfield as much.
I just get back to where I started - it's damn hard to justify this kind of outlay for a 4th man in the offense (3rd in the passing game) when you have a roster with so many holes on the defensive side of the ball. Sammy's impressed the hell out of me with his toughness after the catch, but that's not a $16 million asset. And I think more teams have decided that they're not going to put significant effort into stopping Watkins because they'd just as soon try to get Mahomes moving away from him anyway.
Just a theory. But it's damn hard to argue that we've gotten our money's worth from Watkins through 6 games. It's only 6 games so I won't get too bent out of shape yet, but I'd really expect to see more from him to consider that a successful signing.