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Originally Posted by RunKC
That game is irrelevant.
No Tyreek, no Sammy, no Fisher, No Wiz at LG. Pat’s ankle was hurt.
The Titans tried playing zone against Pat and he destroyed them. Even with a quality rush, Pat is buying time to extend plays to 4-5 seconds. He constantly gives himself more time to see the holes and let guys move to get open.
Pat is too talented and smart. He knows who is going to have the favorable matchup pre-snap. If that’s taken away, he’ll buy time.
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A little bit, yes. But it's proof of a viable concept. Yeah, it required injury to do it, but it proved that if you CAN do it because you have more talent available than the Colts did (the 49ers do), it can work.
I'm not saying I'd expect that kind of performance if the 49ers were trotting Kemoko Turay out there against Fisher like the Colts were against Erving. I'm saying that the 49ers have enough of a talent upgrade on the Colts to partially offset the talent upgrade the Chiefs have seen with the return of injured players.
And I will again note that Patrick Mahomes probably played the best football game I've ever SEEN last Sunday against TN. And as I said earlier in this thread, if he plays like that again, this isn't a game. Nobody will beat him when he's playing with complete command of everything like he was in that game. The TN zones actually worked really damn well - Mahomes just never made a mistake or even a decision/throw that wasn't textbook.
But to make any of this discussion worth having we have to assume that Mahomes plays merely good football (in the highest pressure situation of his life) as opposed to God-level. Because if he plays at God level, this shit is all moot. Yeah, he picked apart TN's zone because he was simply locked. My question is what happens if he's merely very good?
That's when the 9ers scheme could create some headaches.
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Originally Posted by Beef Supreme
Yeah, but can they do it all game, against Mahomes?
Even if they come out early and hold strong, 15 is pretty good at finding a way.
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Probably not. Like I said - everyone will get theirs.
It's always a question of making things a slog until a critical mistake is made.