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Originally Posted by cmdrzman
Mahomes made a couple nice throws but he also had a couple bad ones to- That 1sr throw was actually not very good- in the area but it was under thrown, Robinson had his man beat by 5 feet- Mahomes gets that placed out in front and it's a TD- Instead of Robinson having to slow up to catch it and getting tackled- Smith had exact call on his 1st snap and made an NFL throw- put it in front of Hill allowing him to scoot for more yards
Mahomes sack could have been avoided too
Grade- C
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Smith has been doing this for 10 years. Mahomes played his first game? How can you give him a C? Even if you're not grading him on a curve he didn't play badly.
Mahomes had two bigger plays called back. Not only did he lose yards. Half of his drives forced him into long yardage situations. A situation that Alex Smith has always struggled with. Didn't help that his supporting cast gave him no help. No protection, no running game, receivers with zero ball skills. Only part of his game that I hoped would be better was he threw a couple of throws on the run way off the mark. I'll chalk that up to first game jitters. But for a rookie whose reputation is to be a gunslinger, I think the fact that he didn't make dumb decisions yet had a few plays where he threw a tough ball makes this a very good night. For a first game, this is B+ to A-