A Level Headed Review Week 4 2023

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by old_geezer

My takeaway from this game is this Taylor Swift crap is hurting the Chiefs. It was obvious to me that Mahomes was pressing, trying his best to get Kelsey the ball too much. He was way off his game lofting "touch" passes more often than not. He knew he was doing it too (Thus his comment to just "throw the ball" as he was coming off the field after his first interception). The icing on the cake was his absolute refusal to use his check down receivers. The Jets were giving him wide open check downs all game and he ignored them trying for the deep ball.

Mahomes isn’t gonna do that. This follows a pattern of mahomes ignoring checkdowns when he doesn’t trust his WRs. He’s gotta break the habit but between skyys bad route and several WR drops (including the Mvs drop which didn’t end up counting…), mahomes has a tendency to play hero ball because he doesn’t trust slowly matriculating down the field. He’s done that for years.

It was a good defense, early mistakes and our tendency to lose some focus when we go up big.