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Originally Posted by VanDolPhan
While I don't expect Miami to win. I feel the need to clear up some issues with your post. Early on in the season Howard was still working toward being 100% from his knee injury. He was on limited snaps the first week in NE. Jones went down the first few plays of the Buffalo game. Miami inserted 20 year old corner Noah who got his butt whooped bad. Kid just wasn't ready. Suffice to say Miami would have won that game if Jones hadn't gone down. Noah also gave up several critical plays against Seattle in what had been a tight game. Against the Cardinals they just couldn't stop Murray from escaping all the time (He literally ran for over 100 yards).
So basically you all haven't seen zero blitzing the way Miami does it combined with having 3 solid corners and 2 solid safeties (former corners). At the same time Miami is crap at handling mobile QB's. Get Mahomes on the move and he will run all day long.
It should be an interesting matchup as CB Nik Needham has been playing well lately. Giving them 3 good corners combined with a solid set of corners/safeties. Where K.C. should hit them is our LB's. They've been pretty terrible in coverage and in stopping the run. Also sticking with the run is the way to go as besides our LB's sucking in run support. So do our safeties beyond Brandon Jones as he's the only real safety out there. McCain and Rowe are former CB's who aren't that good at playing the run.
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If Miami zero blitzes, we'll score 50. Who your corners are literally doesn't matter anymore. You can't cover Hill, Watkins, Kelce, and Hardman manning up. Mahomes is also ranked #1 against blitz packages, and yes, quite comfortable moving outside the pocket, where he is also ranked #1.
That's not the way to slow this offense down, and if Flores tries to do that, it'll get really ugly really fast.
I think Flores is a hell of a coach, and I expect him to do the exact opposite. Stop the run and play coverage, mulitiple looks, etc. Make Mahomes dink and dunk and hope for a turnover. Although he's become quite a bit more patient this season, so that's still kind of picking your poison. And if you can't cover Kelce, you're still screwed.
Your best shot is really to be able to get to Mahomes with 4 rushers. If you can do that and play zone, you've got a shot.