Patrick Mahomes Question Looms Large as Alex Smith Continues to Struggle

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Originally Posted by mikeyis4dcats.

there's the hypocrisy though. Many of those plays are what AS would have done too, checkdown, coverage and protection issues.

Mahomes does have spark, and potential. He is the future. The FUTURE. He's still very inexperienced and needs more time IMO. ANd many who are way smarter than me (us) seem to agree. We do far more damage to him rolling him out there this season. This isn't college, he hasn't been a multi-year backup.

Just jumping into this conversation here, and i agree, he's not perfect. He throws high at times, short at others. Checks down some times, which there's nothing wrong with.

And that's all to be expected. Everything you mentioned describes any given QB in the NFL.

What separates the good from the great are in fact those outliers. Those plays they make....being play makers.

Mahomes does it. THAT'S why he'll be better than Smith.

Not because he's going to make every read. He won't.

Not because he won't over/under throw a receiver. He will.

But because he has the talent and the fortitude to compensate for those mistakes.

That GIF of Alex missing DAT shows everything that's wrong with Smith. Smith looked right at DAT as he broke free. A difficult window? Sure. But an NFL QB has to make that throw.

Alex considered it and pulled it down instead. Mahomes lets that one rip.