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Originally Posted by ThaVirus
You literally did, though:
I also learned that we have very different definitions of “stopped dead” because Oliver makes contact with Thuney at the 43 and his momentum isn’t slowed in the least until Thuney is standing on the hash at the 36 yard line (where you think Mahomes should have been standing).
Even if Mahomes steps up and to the left like you suggest, I’m not certain Oliver isn’t simply able to split Thuney and Creed to disrupt the play himself. At that point he’s the stuffing in a reverse Oreo and neither of our guys would be able to stop him without holding.
Saying Mahomes should have thrown it sooner doesn’t work either with #43 lurking in the middle. Kelce’s just jogging because he’s waiting on MVS and Watson to pull him out of the middle of the field.
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is on Mahomes. The OL did their job - they gave him the time and space to make the throw. He had nearly 4 seconds; that's an eternity in that situation. And he had a full stride to get the ball out if he moves up instead of back.
It's on him. The quarterback has to be able to play in a maelstrom and again, that wasn't a bad pocket at all.
An OL not being able to stonewall a line that knows they're passing in a 4th and long situation doesn't mean that OL failed - they gave him plenty of time under extremely difficult circumstances.
He simply didn't use it like he could've. If it's your position that the OL should've held it for 5 seconds - well that's just unreasonable. Or that Kelce needed to be more open or the WRs needed to draw more attention - none of those things are true.
He had time, he had space, he had a target with plenty of space.
He's the one that failed.