The "Inevitability" of Mahomes

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Originally Posted by comochiefsfan

Seems like it's over in a big way after the Super Bowl.

Before February I really can't think of a game we lost because Mahomes failed to come through in the clutch.

It's already happened three times this year. Granted the Baltimore game wasn't directly his fault, but he didn't exactly put the game away when he had the chance either.

The Chargers game he had the ball with a chance to lead the game winning drive and instead threw an interception.

Last night, the defense actually made a couple stops early in the 2nd half to give us a chance to get back in the game. We responded with a pick six (again not his fault) and a backbreaking INT on the goal line that was.

Previously it felt like no deficit was too big, no defense was too good. Mahomes would overcome and make the plays when it mattered.

It hasn't happened this year.

To be clear, I don't think Pat is the problem. But he hasn't been the solution that he always has been in the past.

How he gets back to that, IDK. But the aura and the mystique seems to be fading.

I couldn’t disagree more. First of all, Pat is going to make mistakes and secondly, his current mistakes are being made because he feels that he has to make something happen because of the dismal performance of his defense. To put it in prospective, we are giving up 7.1 yards per play. The 2000 Rams who many would say was the best offense ever averaged 7 yards per play. We aren’t playing the 2000 Rams so this should tell us the defensive effort is absolutely terrible.