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Originally Posted by IowaHawkeyeChief
So, if Mahomes has weapons, he's Brock Purdy, if he doesn't he's Mac Jones? I refuse to believe that. He played Sunday like the second half of the AFCCG 2 years ago against the Bengals. There's a meme out their saying now you know what Mahomes would have been if drafted by the Bears... Mahomes will figure it out, but he was the main problem on Sunday. Guys were open. He wasn't seeing the field and throwing on time, drifting deep in the pocket again, scrambling and missing guys When he did throw it wasn't very accurate, especially early. As I said before, he wasn't helped by the play calling, not a lot of jet motion and quick slants and crossers to help against the Raiders rush who were lining up wide and crashing hard. We also aren't changing the play at line much. I expect we will see more under center runs, and play action moving forward and more Jet motion when Mecole is back. I still think we will be a tough out for anyone in the Playoffs if we can play 90% clean.
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It isn’t about having weapons. He can cook with weapons. But bare minimum we just need true outside guys who don’t get dominated by certain coverages and do elementary school stuff consistently. The fact that juju was such a huge loss says nothing about jujus talent, but speaks volumes of how big a difference it makes to have 1 extra guy who just does the basic job.
At this point we have no choice but to just roll the dice with this crew. I don’t think we’d figure it out as much as we can bandaid with good enough as we limp into the offseason. Yeah I think we’re capable of that but it’s going to require way way more consistency from our WRs just to get us to “good enough.”