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]
It appears I had blocked that abomination from my memory.
That was easily the low point of the Mahomes era.
Yeah, I'd forgotten about that one as well.
There were no 'well if [x] happens were right there...' as was the case in that Buffalo game or even in the SB. There were some silver linings in those games.
That Titans game was just an absolute ass-kicking. We weren't competitive in any way. Didn't we end up benching Mahomes for the 4th quarter of that game? I'm trying to recall if he was hurt or if we just packed it in.
I mean I have ZERO memory of that game. It was just a 'burn the tapes' game through and through. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
Yeah, I'd forgotten about that one as well.
There were no 'well if [x] happens were right there...' as was the case in that Buffalo game or even in the SB. There were some silver linings in those games.
That Titans game was just an absolute ass-kicking. We weren't competitive in any way. Didn't we end up benching Mahomes for the 4th quarter of that game? I'm trying to recall if he was hurt or if we just packed it in.
I mean I have ZERO memory of that game. It was just a 'burn the tapes' game through and through.
Yeah Mahomes played 75% of the snaps that game. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
Yeah, I'd forgotten about that one as well.
There were no 'well if [x] happens were right there...' as was the case in that Buffalo game or even in the SB. There were some silver linings in those games.
That Titans game was just an absolute ass-kicking. We weren't competitive in any way. Didn't we end up benching Mahomes for the 4th quarter of that game? I'm trying to recall if he was hurt or if we just packed it in.
I mean I have ZERO memory of that game. It was just a 'burn the tapes' game through and through.
I think Mahomes got like kneed in the head and left early.
Either way, that’s the only Mahomes Chiefs game that I’ve ever turned off early. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
Yeah, I'd forgotten about that one as well.
There were no 'well if [x] happens were right there...' as was the case in that Buffalo game or even in the SB. There were some silver linings in those games.
That Titans game was just an absolute ass-kicking. We weren't competitive in any way. Didn't we end up benching Mahomes for the 4th quarter of that game? I'm trying to recall if he was hurt or if we just packed it in.
I mean I have ZERO memory of that game. It was just a 'burn the tapes' game through and through.
I couldn't bring myself to watch the 2nd half. We just looked like a broken team midway through the season. Couldn't stop turning over the ball, Mahomes was in the middle of that funk trying to figure out Cover 2, our defense was historically awful.
It's actually quite a feat in itself how we turned that season around and *should've* gone to the Super Bowl. [Reply]
Geez - the Chiefs left that game at 3-4 w/ Mahomes having thrown 9 interceptions through 7 games, including turnovers in 6 straight.
Yikes - the Chiefs were struuuuuuugling at that point, weren't they?
Reid's never going to get another coach of the year award because his greatness is just expected. But man, looking at where they were right then kinda makes it clear that it ain't as easy as "just let Mahomes cook" - it's pretty clear we made some massive changes around then that have carried forward into this season. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
Geez - the Chiefs left that game at 3-4 w/ Mahomes having thrown 9 interceptions through 7 games, including turnovers in 6 straight.
Yikes - the Chiefs were struuuuuuugling at that point, weren't they?
reminded me of one of my madden franchises :-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
Geez - the Chiefs left that game at 3-4 w/ Mahomes having thrown 9 interceptions through 7 games, including turnovers in 6 straight.
Yikes - the Chiefs were struuuuuuugling at that point, weren't they?
Reid's never going to get another coach of the year award because his greatness is just expected. But man, looking at where they were right then kinda makes it clear that it ain't as easy as "just let Mahomes cook" - it's pretty clear we made some massive changes around then that have carried forward into this season.
The most amazing part after that game is we got Melvin Ingram and then the defense is what carried us the next couple weeks against the Giants and Cowboys.
Could you imagine after the horrible start the defense had - like historically bad - that we'd be in the middle of the season and it would've been carrying Mahomes?
Then of course we played the Raiders and that did the trick... [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
Geez - the Chiefs left that game at 3-4 w/ Mahomes having thrown 9 interceptions through 7 games, including turnovers in 6 straight.
Yikes - the Chiefs were struuuuuuugling at that point, weren't they?
Reid's never going to get another coach of the year award because his greatness is just expected. But man, looking at where they were right then kinda makes it clear that it ain't as easy as "just let Mahomes cook" - it's pretty clear we made some massive changes around then that have carried forward into this season.
That was a tough season. Teams took away the Tyreek deep threat, and all the underneath WR's bounced passes up for INTs. Even Kelce had a really unlucky bounce that led to a pick 6, I believe. It killed Mahomes confidence there for a few games. He was also really slow getting to his checkdowns. By the time he went for them, LB'ers were already there to blow it up for no gain. We didn't have a good running game at all, we weren't running many Jet Sweeps or Screens to help Mahomes out either.
But if anything, it did force Mahomes to accept the underneath stuff and get to his checkdowns a lot quicker. He's much more surgical in his approach now. If anything, I think his biggest weakness now is the accuracy on his deep ball. And I'm not sure if that's a Mahomes problem or just a constant miscommunication with his WR's. [Reply]
