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Originally Posted by Buehler445
I mean, he forced what, 5 balls to Hopkins? So there is >< this much of an argument. The counterpoint is he forced far more balls to Reek trusting he'd get open than he did to Hopkins.
I'm sure you're position would change if we had a **** it chuck it guy but we have Mahomes. So you go with what works.
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Absolutely.
I don't think there's no room for them in the league. But this offense with this QB just doesn't need/want them.
I mean even the highlight play that Hopkins made, definitely something of a '**** it' ball, was still a ball placement throw and really good hands by Hopkins to bring it in through traffic.
It wasn't some play where he threw it into double coverage and let Hopkins body off a guy and high point it.
Mahomes just doesn't throw those. He really doesn't even throw them to Kelce.
As you said, he's far more likely to throw it into space and let his guys run to it than he is to throw it to a big body and hope they win at the catch point.
Could a guy like that be handy in the red zone? Sure - but we won't use 'em. We'll keep doing motion to create mis-matches and trying trick plays vs. asking a guy to just win on the boundary with physicality.
It isn't that I don't think they can play - it's that there are styles and body types that we get more use out of.
So a guy who's "fast for a 6'4" receiver" is still middling by standard measurements.
Sammy Watkins is about the prototype for bigger and more physical WRs in this system. Ayomanor is pretty much the outer bound of guys like that who interest me.
Tre Harris? Jayden Higgins? Savion Wiliams? Pat Bryant? Nah -- just not our guys.
Tory Horton is tall but he's fast and doesn't play physical -- he's a different sort. Maybe someone like Theo Wease if he's there in the 7th. But if I'm looking at a guy like Sheppard vs. a guy like Jordan Watkins, give me Watkins 100 times out of 100.