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Originally Posted by jd1020
To be fair, there were games when Tyreek was on the team and Mahomes was spreading it around like he is now and we were just as unstoppable.
Also, Mahomes still gets in the deep or nothing mode from time to time, like when we played the Bills and he was holding onto the ball for far too long looking for something down field.
No one can convince me that the team is better without Tyreek. Everything we see today was just as possible with Tyreek and with Tyreek we had all of these new guys talent wrapped up in 1 player.
However, the ultimate success of the offense comes down to the man throwing the ball, and if that man couldn't see the open receiver opposite of Tyreek because it became "**** it, Tyreek down there somewhere" then removing Tyreek from the roster makes the offense more functional as a whole.
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And it's also worth calling back to the "Franchise QB Wars".
Those of us who were shrieking for a next level QB weren't doing so because of the possibility that he would be Patrick Mahomes. Even the bullish among us didn't expect THIS.
What we were calling for was a guy who over large numbers was a little better than your top-end game manager types, but who in critical situations in the playoffs could pull the game from the fire.
Over 17 games a merely good QB can win you a lot of games. Can win you 12-13 or more. But in the post-season when you REALLY needed something to turn, you need that fire-breather than could steal a game for you. You need that Mahomes vs. the Texans explosion.
Right now we still don't know how this approach will work in the post-season. Will the story ultimately be that we have the WR room equivalent of a good game manager QB? When what we need is someone that can go out there and run wasp?
The post-season always has a couple of instances where you flat out need an ass-kicker at some key positions. QB and DL seem like obvious ones and we're good there. And boy, it sure seemed like having one at WR was pretty important for us when we were at our best.
And now we don't. We'll see if that comes back to bite us.