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Originally Posted by htismaqe
Even Ramsey struggled at times. Gilmore often had help over the top. The Pats defense is a whole different bird when it comes to defending Tyreek. They flat out take him away.
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Yeah. This is obviously on a sliding scale. Take all the DBs that have tried to cover Reek, and the two that had the most 'success' were Ramsey and Gilmore.
Everyone else just gets burned consistently. Ramsey has at least held his own or even won some snaps in every meeting. Gilmore not quite as successfully, and he's nearly always had help over the top. But he's won some snaps, help or not.
No one else really can say that.
and the problem is two-fold. You have to somehow stay over the top of Reek, but you also have to confuse Patrick. You can't just run the same cover at Mahomes over and over. He'll find the soft spot in it and throw a dime to Hill anyway. You have to make Patrick hesitate. And you have to have DBs disciplined enough not to bail out early, or bite on the first move, etc. And if you miss the jam, forget it; Hill is gone and in 1.5 seconds he's on the toes of the S, and it's over.
the fact is, that if Mahomes wanted to go to Hill on most plays, he probably could, because they could run those underneath/intermediate routes all day, and Hill would get open 90% of the time. But Andy doesn't run his offense like that. It's not the ATL where they run most plays for Julio Jones, or BUF that runs a ton of plays for Diggs.
The Chiefs run their offense through Kelce and attacking the defense's weaknesses/tendencies, so the ball gets spread around. In an average game, Hill only sees about 10 tgts, not 15 or 20.
But if you're a DB covering Hill, you have to chase him around on every single snap. And you're running faster than you've ever had to run in a football game. By about mid-way thru the 3rd, you're gassed.