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Originally Posted by BWillie
Some interceptions literally do not matter. Interceptions matter WHEN and WHERE they happen. If you decide you don't want to throw or take chances on 3rd and long in close games - what you end up with is Alex Smith.
Mahomes can and does routinely make those plays on 3rd and long or 3rd and 8. It's one thing if he's throwing picks on 1st and 2nd downs. He's not.
It's one thing if he's throwing picks when we are up multiple scores and we need to protect a lead. He's not.
It's rarely an egregious mistake if you throw a 20+ yard throw on 3rd down and it's picked off when you are in a close game and if you are not in FG range. It is essentially just like a punt. Sure it's a shorter punt, but if you neuter this type of aggressiveness you are forgetting all of the other plays where you get a PI on an aggressive throw or you get one of those Rodgers or Mahomesesque completion to keep the chain moving.
In fact, if your defense sucks like ours does, I would agrue that you need to play even MORE aggressively because once you give the ball back to the other team they are just going to score anyway. It doesn't really matter if it's a 40 yard punt or a 28 yard interception, if it's 3rd or 4th down. Now if it's 4th down territory and you throw a pick on 3rd down not so good, but none of those are examples of that.
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I understand what you're saying but you're off base here.
Pat threw the INT while we were up 11 and driving at Baltimore (trying to protect the lead) and the no look to Kemp (that drive almost certainly would have yielded 3 or 7 points).
I'll give you the 4th quarter arm punt on 3rd down. Pat's earned the benefit of the doubt there and I'll assume that no one was open and he was just trying to make the play to win the game.