Andy, please let Mahomes be Mahomes

[Garcia Bronco]

Originally Posted by Chiefspants

This forum forgets that many posters were very concerned at the end of 2019 because Patrick’s outside the pocket passing had fallen to league average and despite us ending the year on a winning streak, Mahomes looked very “Alex Smithian.” I’m guessing people have forgotten this because of the super heroic things Mahomes did to win against the Texans (though he largely beat the Titans and 49ers from the pocket).

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...s-skills-have/

He’s won as a “pocket QB” before. Hell, he won the Super Bowl as a pocket QB. People just latch onto a narrative and roll with it.

He’s going through a bad slump. Similar to what all QB’s have done before, elite ones too, and I’m sure Elway did as well.

He's missing reads, not throwing from a solid platform, he's lost some talent among his peers, he's making bad decisions. It's all fixable stuff. He just needs to adjust.

[Chiefspants]

Originally Posted by Garcia Bronco

He's missing reads, not throwing from a solid platform, he's lost some talent among his peers, he's making bad decisions. It's all fixable stuff. He just needs to adjust.

All of that I agree with. He did all of those things from the pocket and did so at an exceptional level to lead us to HFA in our Super Bowl winning year — which is why I’m going to push back so hard against the narrative that he “only knows how to play backyard football.”

He’s in a rut, a bad one, but to rewrite his history as an NFL QB as a Chiefs fan is stupid.

Originally Posted by petegz28

Well we are going to see if Mahomes is a legit NFL QB or a flash in the pan gimmick.

Like this. Easily one of the top 3 worst posts I’ve read on this website.