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Originally Posted by Chris Meck
you're living in the past, man.
the 'deep plays ala Hill' didn't even happen for Hill with any regularity.
this short and intermediate stuff is what there is.
If we show the discipline to do this, then deep shots will open up.
But it will never again be 2019.
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The Chiefs caught the league in between in 2018 and 2019. I remember the articles when Mahomes set the league on fire - about how while the rest of the league was focusing on the short passing game, the Chiefs were out there bombing away.
They were unicorns. Nobody was doing it because nobody had the firepower or the will to try.
Mahomes proved you could do it and the sudden influx of young passers with rocket arms made it more and more common.
It took the league a couple of years to adapt, but adapt they did. Offenses saw it was still possible to challenge downfield and defenses had to be aware of it again. And in the end, downfield passes are HARD. So if you focus on preventing them, it's actually pretty easy to do so.
Unless/until the league shifts back to where it was a few years ago, we won't see that kind of arcade performance from PM. And frankly, we probably still won't. Having a prime Kelce, prime/cheap Hill and luxury WR2 like Watkins just doesn't happen very often. You need some luck in the draft AND a cost-controlled QB. Well obviously we ain't gonna have the latter again for a loooooooong time.