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Originally Posted by Baby Lee
I don't think the things that are wrong are injury or distraction [at least off-field distraction].
In a balance as delicate as this, the mere passing consideration of thinking about what you DON'T want to do can alter what you DO want to do.
That little bit of his mind thinking [stay in the pocket, don't drop too deep, this guy sucks, this guy has drops, don't lead this guy too much, lead that guy a little more] instead of acting can be just enough, particularly if it snowballs.
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Originally Posted by tredadda
One thing I wonder with Mahomes is his bad performances could be compounding on him mentally. Think about it, from HS, college, and even his first three years no one has been able to slow him down. Sure he has been on teams with horrible defenses before, but he has always just balled out. Now he's had a couple of bad games and perhaps it's weighing on him and causing him to force things more.
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I think this is related, but tangential, to my point. I don't think he's off so much because of 'weight' of not succeeding, so much as his attentiveness to advice to correct his errors is interfering with his natural rhythm. Might label it backseat driver syndrome. The advice might be useful in itself, but the processing of advice interferes with normal processing.