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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
I'll say the same thing about the drops that I said about them when people made excuses for Cassel and Smith.
I. Don't. Care.
EVERYONE has drops. Every QB in the league has drops and most of them have a roughly equivalent amount. Some have a few more, some a few less but in the end they come out in the wash.
A 55% completion percentage isn't terribly good. And yes, some were dropped, but Hill also made a one handed catch while spinning around into double (triple?) coverage on an underthrown ball and landed on his damn head. That play had little to do with Mahomes.
He needs to get that completion% up a bit if for no other reason than to give the defense more of a blow. They were pretty damn gassed out there because Mahomes missed a couple balls that could've extended drives. Not a ton, mind you, but a couple. And as a general rule I'll take his aggressiveness over a 70% completion%.
But if he needs to take one or two fewer kamikazee strikes down the field to get that rate up to 60% or so, he probably should. That's kinda a bright red line to me - he needs to stay above that or he's not playing complementary football. It's exciting football, but he'd be doing a pretty major disservice to his defense.
And yes, that 60% will be inclusive of drops because drops happen, gents. Just accept that and move along.
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And I think we'll see more of that out of him from here on out. I don't know if that first half was Reid just seeing what he could do with everything on his shoulders or just letting him go balls to the wall or what. I think the punt return for a TD had a lot to do with it. 3 points allowed in the first two drives by the defense and we were up 7.