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Originally Posted by RealSNR

I'm going to take a soft mental tally of a trend that's bound to occur from Smith-backers throughout this preseason and regular season if Alex gets injured.

Any "wow" play that Mahomes makes in the preseason can and probably will be dismissed by certain fans for multiple reasons:

1. The play wasn't "perfect" enough
2. "He still thinks he's at Texas Tech. You can't attempt that play in the NFL. Mahomes is lucky he got away with it."
3. "What was the defense doing? His guy was wide open, OL got away with a non-holding call, defense was completely out of position, etc..."

If Mahomes isn't deadly accurate on a difficult throw with the defense in his face as he demonstrates perfect throwing form while on a pogo-stick, these people are going to claim, "I need to see more... that play wasn't THAT impressive... I need to remind you all how much work he still has to do..."

No, I don't expect these critics to constantly hover around the preseason and give their opinions of every Mahomes throw, but it's pretty telling that the thing they're consistently jabbing at is a completed pass down the field and how it wasn't a longer completed pass. Meanwhile, their boyfriend himself said that he missed a chance for a long TD on the Tyreek Hill throw... just as egregious an error, if you want to call it that. I didn't see a single Alex hater bring up the fact that he led Hill too far inside until Alex backers started nitpicking the shit out of Mahomes.

They won't be able to say anything good about Mahomes. It will always be about the mistakes he made. And if he makes good plays, those will be easily dismissed.

Patrick and Trump are very similar. Even if they do something good they still get criticized