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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Six in one hand: "Mahomes will throw it to you if you're in the right spot ergo Rice clearly isn't in the right spot because Mahomes isn't throwing it to him..."
Half dozen in the other: "Mahomes isn't throwing it, right spot or not..."
No, these aren't equivalent statements.
Mahomes biggest problem is Mahomes. And I don't even fault him for it - EVERY QB has a 'down' season on their resume where things just never really lock all the way in for whatever reason. Then they start to play tight and this is the end result. Sometimes the entire year just becomes a struggle and an off-season re-set is needed. It happens to the greatest to have ever done it.
It seems to be happening to our boy this season. At this point the only thing that will meaningfully change things is him getting out of his own head and trusting in the offense. That's why he looked so good on the first drive - he wasn't tentative. They'd rehearsed the shit out of those plays so he was just smiling and dialing out there. He was confident and assertive.
And once we got into the rest of the game, it vanished. The WRs didn't stop playing at that level. The OL didn't get orders of magnitude better or worse. He just doesn't have the confidence in the offense he needs to have to be at his best. And we know this HAS to be the case because you can see it when he DOES have that confidence on plays he likes and when drives get rolling.
He's holding the bat too tight out there...
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Yeah, that first drive drive was like night and day compared to the rest of the game. I mean it's not like that was a different group of offensive linemen and receivers out there, but they sure the **** looked open on that drive.