That's still an incredibly bad throw by Mahomes. It's 2nd and 8 on the first drive. We're not at the point of needing to throw yolo balls.
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We aren't a threat throwing it down field because we don't do it successfully even when it's open.
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Your all pro GOAT QB is just gonna have to play better. We did this same shit last year, then got to the playoffs and he locked in and we played better.

In the end, he makes the $ he makes, we're just gonna need him to play like he's capable of.
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You spend an entire offseason building your offensive gameplan and identity around the roster you expect to have.

Hell, I still think that's what messed up the offense in 2022 when Hardman broke and we'd planned on him being the Z. I think it happened again in 2023 with Toney being a space cadet.

Looks to have perhaps happened again here.

Now if you want to say "Hey, maybe next year the Chiefs should build a more flexible gameplan that can transition to a Plan B better in the event a potential starter goes down early..." I'll listen.

But I absolutely believe that's what's happened those years based on the reports we've heard from various sources through camp and the early parts of those seasons.

3 years in a row they've blown the tires in various ways on their projected Z receiver before week 2/3 of the season. That's worth giving at least a passing nod to.

In 2022 they did a really nice job finding a new identity on the fly. In 2023 they picked up Hardman, shifted gears a bit and eventually got to where they wanted to be by the post-season.

We'll see what 2024 holds. But it's gonna be a transition just as it was the last 2 seasons. It's not an excuse for them to continue to flail about - it's simply an explanation as to why they might have early in the season.
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Yes. And how do you fix that? It certainly isn't abandoning that aspect of the game altogether.
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Looks like another mistake by Steele. Why is he running straight into that log jam? The play is literally pulling for you to go left and you run into where all the bodies are? Follow the blockers to open space dude.

Carson didn’t play as well as we thought.


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It was weird how the offense suddenly looked way better when the QB got better last season.

I was assured that was impossible.

The good news is that we appear to have at least reached the 'acceptance' phase fairly early on this season.

Last season we were fighting this fight until about the Christmas Day game before people finally said "Man, do you think maybe Pat isn't playing terribly well?"
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Stand in the pocket and throw it.
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Carson doens't have moves and doesn't have vision. He is, at best, a 1-cut runner. But for the most part he's just a guy who's going to pick a gap and slam into it.

Ideally he picks the gap the play is designed for - appears he didn't do so here.

But the bottom line is that much to the chagrin of many, he IS a fullback. He runs like a fullback. He has the mentality of a fullback.

We're gonna need Hunt to get up to speed or the passing game to figure shit out. Because at best you're gonna see Steele continue to plod to 3.5 yards/carry with a long gain of 8-10 yards most games.

He's just a pure short-yardage back. And that has plenty of value - but it ain't a guy that should be starting for us.
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I'm going to have to disagree that the offense ever looked way bette last season. Sure, they beat the brakes off the MASH units fielded by Miami and Buffalo, but they hopped right back on the struggle bus against Baltimore and San Francisco.
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Again - the QB has to play better.

Hit the shots when you have them. The Worthy ball is just such a prime example - that's gotta be a score. It just has to be.

The broadcast wanted to heap praise on Mike Hughes when it was entirely Mahomes just missing that throw badly that made the pass breakup possible.

I'm fine with the occasional interception on an aggressive play (I didn't even hate the end zone int) but he's gotta stop the really bad picks with no real upside to them (the two interceptions he's thrown over the middle thus far) and you have to hit your deep shots when they surface.

Our boy's just gotta play better. Not superhuman (not yet - that's in the post-season) but he's gotta be at least good. And by most any metric AND the eye test, he just hasn't been.
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But who’s going to do it? I’d like to see rashee go downfield more but we need to find options besides him. we’ve taken shots at worthy and he isn’t a reliable downfield option yet. And Watson is always going to be a 1-2 target “in case of emergency” option. As much as I shit on Mvs, I don’t think we have that option right now. I think worthy can but as we’ve seen it will take time
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Hardman. Fucking Christ. MECOLE HARDMAN.

Hell, we pivoted to his ass last year. And it WORKED.

He is an adequate substitute to fill in right now. And he's just not. That needs to change.
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At some point, we keep cycling thru WR's and hearing "they're not good downfield threats" when maybe the issue isn't the WR.
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I think what got us back was a lot more to do with… 1) deciding our pass offense was 90% kelce/rice and not forcing others to step up; 2) kelce playing like he was 25 again for a critical stretch of the season. Mahomes got a lot better too, but I think it had way more to do with kelce and rice becoming guys you can glue on to. This year 1 of those guys has not been reliable to take on large volume let alone small.

Qb play absolutely has to get better. But I don’t want our solution to be the cooper kupp method of just running one guy into the ground because we can’t trust anyone else
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