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Originally Posted by Cooter Bailey
Poor take. Mahomes wasn’t great because his offensive line was pitiful on the left side. He was running for his life most of the time. Also the RB room was just as pitiful. I hope Veach corrects these obvious problems in the draft.
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But he wasn't. And often when he was, it was because he was holding the ball too long.
I mean this has been litigated to death -- I'm disinclined to do it again. But the bottom line is that Chiefs fans are simply never satisfied with their OL play unless they're able to get those early 2000s Chiefs lines.
When you look at any number of pass rush win metrics, time to throw metrics, etc... PM had fairly average protection unless/until he held the ball longer than he should and/or dropped too far back or drifted into pressure.
I saw an interesting stat somewhere that showed that PM was 2nd in the entire NFL in pressures attributable to his decision-making (only Bo Nix was worse). He did things to make his life harder.