Can you walk me through your assessment of Thuney’s performance at LT in light of the fact that the game against Pittsburgh was Mahomes’ fastest time to throw in his entire career and the game against Houston was his fastest since early in the 2021 season? Please walk me through how that’s a testament to the success of the line - and LT in particular - rather than overtly trying to mask its deficiencies.

Thanks in advance.
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And that’s everything right there. I saw Hump throw a couple more no-hitters out there today. Those get your QB killed and lead to fumbles, at best.

Thuney always makes it a battle. I don’t think there’s much choice here but again, I’ll defer to Andy and Pat to know best.
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I expect its Thuney.
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You're right, the line probably is weaker going with Thuney than if Humphries could give us passable LT play.

But it's just too god damn late. Putting Humphries out there is banking on hopes and prayers that his conditioning improves and that he can put up serviceable LT play, which he has yet to prove. It's all hopes and dreams. I don't want to bank our season on that.

This shouldn't be about the ceiling of our OL play, it's about going with what works and winning 3 games.
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I think Today sealed that.
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Still glad we have Humphries.


He's a far better option than Wanya.
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He will be much better with a proper TC and preseason. It doesn't appear that his injury impacted him. He's just not in shape. He's not ready to compete against the league's best right now.

But if he can solve that LT problem for us next year and buy us time to develop someone behind him...
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Wasn't Patrick coming off an ankle injury 5 days prior?
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Don’t get me wrong: I think Thuney will be the starter at LT in the playoffs and I’m fine with that. But TheGuardian’s complete minimization of basic facts matters here. Moving Thuney there with Caliendo at LG and sacrificing our running game while changing our offense to a quick-release version of Mahomes could win us a SB. Or it could end up limiting Reid’s creativity and find that it’s something other DCs are able to adjust to in the playoffs.

We shouldn’t overstate how good Thuney has been there.
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Sure.

In the 3 games that Joe started at LT Pat was sacked 1 time.

In the previous 6 games he was sacked a total of 23 times.

You have to go back to 3rd game of the season to find a game where he wasn't sacked at all, all year...until Thuney slid over to tackle.

That's the only thing I need to know, dipshit.

If they changed the offense to help the protection out as well, GREAT! The fact is, things got better and everyone knows it.

You're welcome in advance.
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FOUR
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So how did the offense look all season with Thuney at LG? And horrible tackle play....

No, we don't have a serviceable tackle right now out side of Thuney and DJ AINT IT. that's the point.
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Yeah I don't love agreeing with Guardian lol.

Brady beat us on way to a SB with a basic quick release offense and solid defense. It can be done. It's only 3 games.
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The good news is Andy and Mahomes will be very smart about this and do what's best for the offense. It would be fun to have a binary poll and see how well this board can predict that decision based only on where things stand now.
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Yea, only three games and I doubt we face any body too tough.
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