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Originally Posted by Megatron96
Stephen A. is about half right. Based on the stats, could Alex have played well enough to get the Chiefs into the playoffs with the weapons he would've had this year at his disposal? Sure, no doubt he could.
However . . .
Could Alex do what Pat did in the playoffs? Could Alex come back from 24-0? 17-7?
The answer, I think we all know, is no way, no how. Alex is a very good middle-of-the-pack QB. But he's not the guy, regardless of the weapons given to him, that could pull of those two comebacks. Matter of fact, there's only a couple QBs that pull something like that off. And maybe neither of those two could do it twice in two weeks in the playoffs.
Wingo is ultimately right. Pat is in a class by himself.
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The argument that Alex Smith's last season stats were similar to Mahomes stats this year is a bad one IMO. It's an interesting nugget but the holes in that are that Mahomes played in 1.75 less games and had a 1,300 yd rusher in Kareem Hunt. Kareem Hunt was also amazing in the passing game.
It was sooo much easier to chuck it deep that year with the presence of Kareem Hunt. You saw this offense with Kareem Hunt + Mahomes and it was frightening. Mahomes averaged 37 points a game with Kareem Hunt.