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Originally Posted by ThaVirus
This was the post that started it all.. lol
I honestly don't understand how you can look at this post and argue against it:
The difference between the 2003 Chiefs squad and the 2019 squad winning/not winning the Super Bowl did not come down to the difference in TG and TK's leadership style.
A great deal of this sport is about opportunity. There's just no way around it.
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Leadership is a soft factor. It is not the only factor. It is also about knowing when to use your skills for what purpose. I still stand behind kelces comparison to jerry rice. There are so many things he did that transcended pure athleticism. A ton of his production was late in games because his workout endurance was off the charts. He had elite athleticism to change direction but that is all set up by an insane understanding of selling his routes and going exactly where he needed to be. He had tremendous burst off the line but also an impeccable snap timing. And then theres the ability to catch almost literally every ball remotely in his area. Much of this is driven by intangibles and feel for the game that add a TON of juice to natural god given athleticism.
I think TG would have excelled under mahomes. But I also don’t know that he brings the same intangibles to the table. Kelce has an uncanny understanding of where to be and the best way to get there. Which is tremendous for a team that so often goes off script. How many times have we seen the two on a page where you’re like… how the **** did they both know to do that? He also gets abused like no other player in the league in terms of defenses hacking the shit out of him but he keeps grinding at it. His attitude is off the charts. That’s on top of being a tremendous teammate. So yeah when comparing two guys who are both exceptional athletes, I’ll take the guy who has a way better feel for the position any day of the week.