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Originally Posted by O.city
If the expectation of a wr to be "open" enough for Mahomes to trust him enough to throw it is like.....Tyreek separation.....well that's a Mahomes issue not a WR one.
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No, it is not the same thing. He doesn’t have trust issues with rice. Hell he seems at least somewhat comfortable tossing it up for Watson to go up and grab it. I don’t think mahomes has any trust in how his other WRs make subtle adjustments. We’ve seen his frustration when WRs make simple mistakes like not flattening their route. Even when he isn’t playing hero ball some of these WRs are very often on a different page and in most of those instances. Mahomes made the right read and the WR didn’t make the right adjustment.
And we’ve seen historically when mahomes doesn’t trust the offense to efficiently chunk out yards then he bails on the checkdowns too. Arguably that’s something he needs to just get over, but it still comes down to trust.
If these guys don’t consistently hit their spots then mahomes has way lower margin for error. He will be afraid to throw into tighter spots. And he will make sure the WR hits his spot instead of anticipating where his WR will move. We’ve seen between juju and rice that it doesn’t have to be about sheer athletic talent, he trusts guys who know where to go and how to get there.