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I believe the 2-high shell in 2021 really transformed how we built our offense. Teams knew Mahomes would look down field all day long if he had time, so they took it away entirely. And it worked, Mahomes would force the ball deep and it just wasn't there.
In 2022, we reinvented everything to attack the intermediate with a sprinkling of the deep ball every now and then. Mahomes slaughtered defenses and won MVP and the SB that year.
As for missing on deep balls in recent years, while Mahomes has an other-wordly arm, I don't think he throws an accurate, pretty deep ball. He can sometimes, but it's not repeatable. Tyreek really helped. What killed people pre-2021 was defenses weren't prepared for how fearlessly and often Mahomes would attack downfield. Defenses decided they'd rather die the slow death than face the Patomic Bomb, so slow death it's been.
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