Originally Posted by RealSNR
I'm going to homergize?... homerfy?... homer it up? Let's go with that. I'm going to homer it up here.
I've got a pretty good friend who's a Packer fan. Back before Rodgers even got the start, the Packers went 4-12 one season under Favre. The very next year was like a 7-9 season or some shit like that.
It was really early on in the season and the Packers were playing on Monday night. Donald Driver was injured, and the team had no RBs (I think they had just gotten rid of Ahman Green). It was Brett Favre coming off this horrible season and a bunch of nameless pukes, one of them a 2nd round rookie named Greg Jennings.
So I watched that game as Favre was leading shit as best as he could. Linemen were false starting, RBs weren't blocking... it was bad. And around the 2nd quarter, I could tell Favre was just like, "**** this. This is what we get? Fine, **** nuts. We're going to be an offense whether you ****ing like it or not."
1st down. An 8-yard slant. Favre chucks it between two defenders at 800 MPH. Hits Jennings square in the hands. Dropped. 2nd down. Same play, this time to Ruvell Martin (yeah, I remember that name for some reason), same result. 3rd down. Favre audibles out of the run even though the defense is showing dime. Chucks it again to Jennings on a deep cross. Dropped again.
The next three drives he does the same ****ing thing over and over until 3rd down when he finally completes one. 1st down. Favre goes back to the slants. This time to Martin. Catch. He starts getting his shitty non-Ahman Green RBs worked in the screens. All of a sudden the RBs, who were getting stuffed immediately at the line like a bunch of Mike Cloud dipshits started finding some small holes to move through.
After that game Greg Jennings became a real receiver for the Packers. Ruvell Martin obviously didn't work out, but for that game, he wound up with like 75 yards and a TD on like 6 catches. Not shabby.
Gentlemen... I think Patrick Mahomes is this kind of QB. Yes, it's early, and I have NOTHING to base this assertion on whatsoever... but I see a different kind of rapport with the WRs than any other Chiefs QB has had. It's a different kind of energy. It's like a, "Hey, let's go to town and ****ing do this. Do what you do and catch my shit, guys."
I wouldn't be surprised one bit if the Chiefs started producing WRs like Green Bay does in the next coming years. Not this season, obviously. But beginning in Mahomes' first year... we'll have Hill, obviously. I think one of the Conley/Robinson/Chesson group is going to be pretty decent. And I think we're going to see Mahomes find some kind of connection beginning THIS training camp and THIS preseason with one of the random jackasses like Gehrig Dieter or Marcus Kemp. I think they'll be brought into the next offseason via the practice squad, when Mahomes is either promoted to starter or is legitimately competing and challenging Smith for the job.
We're in for some super special shit, guys.
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