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Originally Posted by Hammock Parties
That also speaks to Kelce's intelligence. Which you know...has been in question on a weekly basis to this point.
But that looked so natural and without panic that I thought it was part of the play design, like an old Vermeil shift.
We are dealing with a football savant.
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Hell, we might have 4 of them.
Reid isn't in question and Mahomes...lord man, kid just amazes me with every clip.
Kelce's a damn smart player. A knucklehead, but when you look at how he plays the game - damn he's clever. It's what makes him such a nuanced route runner and it's how he's become such a devastating blocker. Dude knows the angles and knows the game inside and out.
And y'know what - Tyreek Hill's been a remarkable revelation as a football player to me since about mid-season 2 years ago. Not because of his athleticism, but because of the little 'recievery' things he does. It was that Broncos Monday nighter where Santos put it in off the upright that really amazed me. He just knew how to use foot fires and shoulder fakes; knew how to use his hands to get a release and knew when/how to set down in zones. The dude knows how to play WR. He's not quite perfect yet but for a converted RB to have all this come so naturally to him so quickly...just blows my mind. Especially in a system this complicated.
Then you look at Watkins out there running routes as the X, Y and Z and seemingly doing so effortlessly. The big deal with Maclin was how he'd come into this system and hit the ground running because it takes guys WRs at least a year or 2 to fully grasp the Reid system of option routes, etc... Well damn if Watkins doesn't appear to have it figured out in 8 weeks.
I mean there are some guys on the offensive side of the ball that just know how to play the game. The Anti-Murray's so to speak. Because for as well as some of the offensive players seem to grasp the little things, we sure seem to have some dudes on defense that...uh...don't.