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Originally Posted by tredadda
What I am always fascinated by is how Mahomes' weapons were viewed as a liability and the reason for his success, yet no other QB has that held against them. Burrow has two #1 WRs and one high #2. Yet that is never held against Burrow.
Burrow is good no doubt. He is on a HOF path. If he retired today he would not be in the HOF.
Mahomes is better and is on a Greatest to Ever Play The Position path. He could retire today and very likely be a HOFer if not a first ballot HOFer.
Mahomes is a threat to the old guard. He plays a style very different than most of the old school QBs and doing it better than they did with their style. That is unnerving because he's doing things everyone was taught to NOT do and he is paving the way for a new style of QB coming up. Kids are growing up to be the next Mahomes, not the next Carson Palmer. Burrow is the last of a dying breed of the pure pocket passer.
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What’s even crazier to me is that Mahomes, even at peak weapon capacity, didn’t have weapons like Higgins and Chase, who you could just toss it up to and be bailed out by.
“**** it, Tyreek down there somewhere” is the closest thing to that, and that doesn’t involve heaving or a covered guy and letting him climb the ladder to make a play. It was just heaving the ball so far into open space Hill was the only guy who could get there.
It’s easy to “trust your receivers to get open” when they commit offensive PI on basically every play (Chase) and can high-point like he and Higgins can.