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Originally Posted by Megatron96
Hockey game just started, so I'm not completely focused on this thread right now, however . . .
Maybe you're not, but there's some that are echoing some of the things you are saying, and apparently arguing that the Chiefs WRs don't need to be any better than they were last season, or that the RBs will simply take up any slack of they can't even play to that level, with which I strongly disagree.
uh, penalty. revist this later.
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The RB's scored so many TD's because defenses tended to drop 7 and sometimes 8. That means you've got a RB either unaccounted for or with a LB on him. It's a mismatch. You literally try to design offenses to find opportunities like that. It's not a bug, it's a feature.
It's got nothing to do with the WR play, other than if it were WORSE by a significant margin, that mismatch might go away as defenses wouldn't drop all those guys into downfield zones.
There's nothing wrong with RB's scoring a lot of TD's in '22. It means Mahomes was running the offense the way it is designed. No, it's not designed to feature the RB's and I think you know that so stop saying it. It's designed to force mismatches, and if they're dropping 7 and sometimes 8 then you're going to have nobody on a back in the flat, or perhaps a LB who cannot keep up with Mckinnon or Pacheco. It's making the defense pay for that scheme. It's not a problem, it's smart football.
They'll probably score a lot in '23 too, so get ready to be heartily disappointed. Imagine! Being disappointed by RB's who score TD's!
But all it still says is that defenses still feel like their best shot is to drop 7. That's all it means.
And we have the answer for that, so I don't see what the problem is.
They're working on the WR room, they're not being complacent. You have to play the kids to develop them, and they're going to do that. It's fine. It's smart.