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Originally Posted by ku_jhawk23
Iowahawkeyechief isn't wrong. Mahomes is in a funk. He missed many open throws today. I'm tired of hearing about the scrambles....maybe stop dropping back 10 on every play. Mahomes is great...one of the best in the league, but why won't anyone actually talk about the possibility that he is part of the problem? On the game today, Romo went to talk about how Mahomes scramble were because no one was open, then shows clips of the play of Kelce, Rice and MVS wide open. We can't talk about him being a superstar to thread a needle when they show Kelce waving with no one in the picture with him.
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Everyone acknowledges he isn’t himself. But this narrative that WRs are flying open everywhere is blame shifting. This isn’t some DE who just needs to work harder and smarter to overcome triple teams. This is John Stockton who relies on the other guy to do his damn job in order to complete the assist and they’re blowing wide open slam dunks FREQUENTLY. and it’s not like Stockton throwing into the post and asking Malone to make some great contested shot. Our WRs are the worst in the league at contested catches. So our WRs have to be more open than the average WR to make a catch. Mahomes has to make the perfect read and throw a perfect ball because otherwise his WRs won’t catch it and even when he does everything perfect they STILL **** things up at an astoundingly high rate.
And with all this now we just gave the mahomes haters red meat to claim he can’t do shit without weapons, and chiefs fans are leaning into this narrative because we can’t just say our WRs are just a whole other level of bad?Screw that. The idea that mahomes needs to just get over it and throw to guys who keep ****ing up the other end is nuts. He is shaken, which means he’s part of the problem, but any reasonable person knows that’s completely understandable.
It is way more complicated than to just say mahomes is missing guys left and right. He doesn’t trust guys because when he does trust them, they not only **** it up, they kill drives. We have game after game after game of evidence that shows when we target these “wide open” receivers bad things happen because they find ways to make costly mistakes. He doesn’t throw open WRs because he doesn’t expect them to be there. It is just one game and we have a few examples of WRs not turning around looking for the ball and Mvs giving up on his route. We are literally suggesting an approach that repeatedly has led to bad results. So yeah when mahomes spent a whole season of this, he’s burnt out. I don’t blame them. You know what fixes this? It isn’t fixing mahomes. It isn’t even bringing in Justin Jeffersons. Get WRs who can do the very low bar bare minimum we ask them to do. Our WRs can’t even know their damn ABCs.
Just to be clear, this isn’t a rant against you because you’re not wrong. It’s just addressing a narrative we’ve seen all too often of grilling mahomes for missing wrs left and right