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Originally Posted by RealSNR
I haven't paid any attention to this thread. I didn't know there was an actual debate about this shit.
We're in the playoffs, guys. The regular season is over. The time to bring Humphries back into the mix has passed. An offensive line isn't a ****ing basketball lineup. You don't adjust minutes for some of your guys and switch around their positions based on who you're facing or matching up against. It's only been a few weeks, but we've been looking the best on offense with Thuney and Caliendo at LT and LG respectively. Don't switch guys out unless you have to. Keep what little continuity you've got, FFS.
If we make it past Buffalo, the interior matchup will only get worse against Daron Payne or that guy from the Eagles who is somehow able to play football when he should be rotting in prison for ****ing manslaughter. But that doesn't mean you adjust the lineup to shore up the interior and sacrifice that boost in blindside protection. You can claim that boost isn't that great of an improvement, but try telling that to Mahomes, man. He hasn't had any trust in his blindside protector all goddamn year, and I think it's pretty clear our offense has looked its best when Thuney has been at LT. Mahomes is more comfortable. I'd challenge anybody to disagree with that. When Mahomes is more comfortable, he'll do more Mahomes shit. Plain and simple. And I don't think Thuney at LG is going to give him that same confidence if he has to go back to an unknown in Humphries at LT.
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Most in this thread are fine with just sticking with what works and know that a change is a pretty big risk. I don't think there are many insisting a change needs to be made or panicking if it doesn't.
But this is a unique situation that challenges some of that logic. This isnt some wholesale change. Actually the biggest change was the one where we plugged a backup in at OG and moved our LG out of position. That's two changes and we're still working off a small sample size. as we saw last week there's still reason to worry the Houston game was more a regression to the mean than just a one off. Not that Houston is the norm, but some of the flaws you might expect when a guard plays OT started to expose themselves. when that breaks down, mahomes definitely did not look comfortable.
If humphries plays better than wanya (low bar) then it is our original offensive line we played the majority of the season except for one position. It's not all that radical of a change. And right now all our info on if humphries can do this are based on a similarly small sample, but with unusually bad circumstances. Because I think the bigger question mark is if humphries can actually get the job done