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So listening to some punditry this offseason, we've heard about how Mahomes needs to learn to be pt, take the check down and milk the clock to give the defense a break or whatever that's supposed to mean.
My thing is, they say he's this super talented dude out of one side of their mouth, then want him to reign that in and play like the rest of the league out the other. Why is that? Why wouldn't you want him to play the way he played last year? They keep saying "well, the league will catch up, the league will catch up".
Has the NBA caught up with Steph and Klay? No, doesn't seem so. They're just different kind of talented so they do what they want and you can't really stop them (injuries I know). But it's like saying "Steph shouldn't shoot that 3, he should take the easier shot, the higher percentage shot".
Well, no, he shouldn't. First off, he can shoot that percentage at 3 that most guys shoot from the ****ing 3 point line.
So to compare with Mahomes, he can make those throws with a higher percentage than the other guys can, whether the defense "has film or not". So why do we want him to stop that, or "reign" it in?
I get it's hard to say, as a pundit, "we've never seen anything like this so we don't know how to react so we'll just go with the he must conform here" mantra.
The Chiefs have a really unique amount of talent at the skill spots, they have one of the best offensive minded head coaches in the history of the NFL, to pair with a QB that everyone says is a unicorn.
And I'm supposed to want said QB to take his foot off the gas and play "conservative"? Why?
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