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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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Yeah, I'm probably repeating myself to you from previous conversations, but I can 100% see someone as passionate as him going into the season on a mission after that SB loss.
I mean, Kelce literally said during the playoffs last year that all they were looking forward to all offseason after the SB win was to get back to that stage, and that every week of the season, he just wanted to get back to the SB... and that was one fan narrative during all the close games, was they were more or less going through the motion in several games.
So, you get your ass kicked in the Super Bowl and maybe the regular season means a lot more the following season (or just a lot)? Then after a comeback win, shit happens... and keeps happening..... and keeps happening.
And you go through the basic phases of putting more pressure on yourself, forcing things, okay going back to basics.... and bad shit keeps happening.
And it's just as much of a guess as other narratives, but seems that way in his body language and in the frustrations of him and Kelce in particular.... they're definitely not relaxed and having fun.