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Originally Posted by DRM08
Left Tackle. Every other contending team has a good LT situation. Chiefs have been struggling at LT for years. As long as that continues to be the case, the offense will continue to struggle like the last 2 seasons. It’s amazing they managed to win so many Playoff games the last couple years.
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Taylor had a rough game, but it didn't compare to what happened at left tackle. There's no way to sugarcoat it: Joe Thuney looked like a fish out of water on the edge in pass protection. It's one thing for a converted guard playing tackle out of desperation and a lack of better options to get beat by speed around the edge. It's another for Thuney to get driven backward into Mahomes' lap by Hunt, a 251-pound former college safety.
Charting the game through Williams' violent strip-sack of Mahomes in the fourth quarter, I have Thuney down for seven plays that led to pressures of Mahomes, including three that led to sacks. He was beaten straight up by Hunt and Sweat and on twists by Williams. He might have been a victim of unrealistic expectations after holding up for most of the postseason on Mahomes' blind side, but reality came crashing down Sunday.
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Bingo. Yesterday wasn’t the first time in his career that he has looked like that and it’s not a coincidence that it has always happened when he didn’t trust his LT situation (and he didn’t for good reason yesterday, Thuney and Caliendo were being absolutely annihilated on his blind side).