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Originally Posted by RunKC
First off, great ****ing coverage from Quinyon Mitchell here.
But yes Mahomes should have taken the shot. If anything it would have forced Fangio to adjust
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Patrick just has to take that shot in that situation, if anything for his own confidence. Compare his play in SB54 before and after WASP, and in SB58 before and after his TD to MVS. He’s a guy who lives off of that adrenaline and energy - and I’d argue his TD to Kelce in 57 got him on from the get go.
Look, I’ve said it already, but I’m not sure there’s a QB in the NFL who gets us to a win last night with our line being caved in like it was and so many of our receivers getting blanketed in intermediate routes, but if we were going to win, it was going to be Patrick going into assassin gunslinger mode and keeping his eyes downfield and pulling the trigger on his first open target despite getting smashed in the backfield.
He willed the team to wins this way a few times in the back half of the 2020 season as our line sustained more and more injuries. The win against the Saints Brees team stands out in particular as he got beat like a drum by Hendrickson but kept taking shots downfield and ended up pulling us to a win.
My only hope is that the last TD of the game (which had 67 air yards, his personal record and a Super Bowl record) gives him the confidence to pull the trigger on these early and often next year - and hopefully we have something other than dogshit at LT to consistently let it happen.