Because of all the interest in this thread, I've place all of the video content of Patrick Mahomes II's college career, and draft day goodness into a single post that can be found here. Enjoy! [Reply]
Originally Posted by DRM08:
Reid's press conference after the game today seemed to take a little shot at Alex Smith (and other game manager QB's). He said it's very hard to go on 75 yard drives in the NFL and that your chance of scoring goes way down when you try to dink and dunk your way down the field every time.
He said you need a lot of chunk plays or explosive plays and that he is trying to incorporate more of that in the offense this year. :-)
Ah. Well that explains why he backs Sutton's bend but don't break philosophy time after time. [Reply]
Originally Posted by ThaVirus:
Ah. Well that explains why he backs Sutton's bend but don't break philosophy time after time.
In theory he's right, very few teams can do it consistently because they'll get a penalty or a sack or a turnover and it'll kill a drive that already had 7 plays. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Mecca:
In theory he's right, very few teams can do it consistently because they'll get a penalty or a sack or a turnover and it'll kill a drive that already had 7 plays.
or you just get behind the chains and you have a limp-armed Mark Castle type piece of shit QB and converting 3rd and 8 has about the same odds as a hail mary. Said QB will throw a 3 yard out and the receiver gets tackled 2 yards short
Great article about Mahomes and how the Chiefs have built this offensive juggernaut over the past few years, along with Reid's willingness to adopt new concepts on offense
"Patrick Mahomes is gonna have a game where he's just bad and he throws 3 interceptions..."
Over and over again we hear that, right? And yeah, he's gonna have a bad game here and there.
But what if THIS was the bad game? Does anyone feel like he was sharp today at all? He left 100 yards and 2 more scores on the board. Look at his passing chart - he wasn't spreading the ball as well either; worked far more heavily to the right side and shorter than normal.
What the 49ers tried to do was limit him to half the field and keep plays in front of them. As a general rule it WORKED. And he still made a genuine superstar play to Conley as well as the TD to Harris that only looked as easy as it was because Mahomes mind-raped the safety out of his zone.
He'll have some days where the bounces go wrong and the stats look worse than they did today, but I'm not convinced he's gonna have days where he's less sharp than he was today. This is close to as rough an outing as we'll see from the kid, IMO. [Reply]
Mahomes was pumped up and put just a little too much on a couple of passes that would have been more TD's on his total.
When you look at how Garappola missed on his passes (by a mile) and Mahomes ( by less than a foot) you can't come down too hard on Mahomes. We can't expect him to be perfect.
It seems he needs to get the individual speeds down for the receiver- He throws them all Cheetah speed. But he has done great spreading the ball around to 9 different guys for scores, so I think his timing will get better. [Reply]
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Reuben Foster throwing himself headlong onto a sliding Mahomes in the second quarter.
Foster got 15 yards for unnecessary roughness, but he also got an emphatic comeuppance from Chiefs linemen rumbling to the scene to send a message meant both for him and opponents ahead, for that matter.
“You don’t do that (stuff) — excuse my language …,” said guard Cam Erving, who promptly barged into the proceedings. “At the end of the day, it’s just about a mindset. You can’t let people think that that’s OK. Other teams see that on film, and (then) they try to use those types of things to get at you.
“That’s not how it’s going to happen, man.”
Said Morse, the next enforcer into the scrum, “You punk our quarterback, we don’t take too it too kindly.”
Added tackle Eric Fisher: “We don’t have the ability to throw the ball 70 yards down the field, but we do have the ability to set a tempo up front and have an attitude up front.”
