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Originally Posted by RunKC
Matt Derrick was on with Cody Tapp a couple days ago. He was watching the “bad” Mahomes practice.
He was asked what Mahomes needs to work on and he said zone defense and exotic looks. Said Nelson’s pick 6 was in zone.
Makes me think that Andy saying these practices are testing what Mahomes “can get away with” is basically him preparing Pat for tons of different looks on defense, mostly being zone.
I can’t see many teams being brave enough to play man coverage against us for very long.
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Only a fool would play man coverage vs our base package.... honestly any package with Watkins/Hill/Kelce/Hunt would destroy every (no exaggeration) Man Defense in the league...
Especially in Andy Ried high low concept, basically if Mahomes sees Man Coverage he will have 4+ audibles he can give to switch any one of those guys to the Hot Read or Go Target.
Man Coverage - High Single will be obliterated.... second he sees that audible to Hill/Watkins on a Go/Go route or Go/Post and they are ****ed....
Man Coverage - Two High will be equally as ****ed, audible for Kelce/Hunt to run a seam/slant and you have our TE and RB matched up on LBers
Cover 2 - again fuuuuuucckkkkked, Watkins runs a corner route, Hill runs and Corner-Post-corner route Kareem flags out to flat on Kelces side of line opening up Hitch route...
Again there are a million things that Mahomes can do, this season will come down to him being able to read defenses and check to the option play with the highest probability. Andy is going to show him a lot of Zone Blitz and Zone Man combos this offseason to teach him different ways of making the defense tip their hand. Him learning what calls to audible and adjustments to make to counter different looks will be key.
All that is before you add in Mahomes natural ability to Throw and Improvise on the fly.
The reason Andy and the Staff were willing to move on from Alex Smith was because the last part I mentioned is KEY. He can simply make throws Alex couldn't (most QBs can't)
And
He can improvise on broken plays for big gains. AND on plays that are not broken his no look pass could be the difference between 10-15 yards and 30-TD