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Originally Posted by Chiefnj2
If you have a chance to protect your franchise QB, you do it. I’m sick of watching a hobbled Mahomes in the playoffs holding my breath every time someone makes an ankle tackle on him.
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Part of the reason he's getting dinged up is WRs not getting open. Check out any highlight reel from 2022. Notice how many times you see Pat drop back, hit his back foot, and then have to pull the ball down and do something Mahomesian. Instead of just hitting his back foot and delivering the ball.
How many times does he have to pull magic rabbits out of his ass in those clips.
And how many times is he being hit as he does those magical things. I mean, they make for great highlight clips, but the fact that he constantly has to make chicken salad out of chickenshit because no WRs are getting open at all is kind of concerning.
Just watch one reel. Notice how many times Pat hits his back foot, his hands start to separate in anticipation of making a throw, and then he has to pull it down. Sometimes more than once before the takes off and does something spectacular.
Now rewind and watch the WRs that he was looking at and not throwing to on time. They're all locked down. So he has to run and create because WRs aren't doing their jobs well enough.
That's how Pat is getting dinged up, because if you have the time to double clutch, you have the time to throw the ball, if the guy is open.