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Originally Posted by BWillie
The argument that Alex Smith's last season stats were similar to Mahomes stats this year is a bad one IMO. It's an interesting nugget but the holes in that are that Mahomes played in 1.75 less games and had a 1,300 yd rusher in Kareem Hunt. Kareem Hunt was also amazing in the passing game.
It was sooo much easier to chuck it deep that year with the presence of Kareem Hunt. You saw this offense with Kareem Hunt + Mahomes and it was frightening. Mahomes averaged 37 points a game with Kareem Hunt.
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Alex Smith's last season in KC stats were the ceiling/highs of his career and he couldn't sustain that level of play throughout the season (see when the Chiefs lost 6 of 7 games during the middle of the 2017 season when Alex Smith played like shit), capped off with the choke job in the playoffs.