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Originally Posted by BWillie
Patrick's biggest weakness is on deep goes or fade routes. Sometimes he just doesn't have the touch. Deep crossing routes where he can put some zip on it and throw it low...hes the best to ever do it.
Contrary to popular belief you don't need to have an exceptional arm to throw the deep go or fade route. Your primarily just throwing it up and high and accuracy and touch are more important. See Burrow, Brady and Seahawk Russell Wilson.
So in a sense not having Tyreek is sometimes a blessing. But Tyreek ran all sorts of routes too.
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Where I think he really struggles is double-moves.
Because those routes need a lot of touch and the WR has to be able to locate and adjust to the ball coming out of his route.
Mahomes throws such a flat deep shot that the timing has to be absolutely perfect and that's just damn tough to do on a double move where there a half-dozen different things that can get that WRs route changed.
I honestly think that's why we don't use them much. Folks typically blame the OL but I think it's the lack of air Mahomes puts under his deep ball.