Don't EVER make a post critical of Patrick Mahomes II. If anyone ever does that again, I'll go to their house, grab them by the ear, and drag them to the George Brett statue. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Molitoth:
I think this was the play where Mahomes in the post-game said they "got him" or whatever because he doesn't just "throw to guys".
I'm wondering how they tricked him there, because yeah.... that gets widw open.
Yeah - that's the one he was talking about.
But here's the thing: Huh?
Fine, lets assume for a moment you don't get caught on the drop zone and they play it 'conventionally'. Where you throwing? He said he was throwing to Kelce but that ball wouldn't have made it to Kelce's feet.
That play and the play to Fortson in the end zone were just so inexplicably bad. If PFF graded Mahomes poorly this week, he pretty much earned it. He did not play well on balance. A couple of spectacular throws and late in the game he was efficient, safe and smart - I'll give him that. But he tried to blow this game 3 times and got bailed out biggly.
It wasn't {half that will go unnamed} levels of bad, but it was real bad. It wasn't just Mahomes bad, it was Derek Carr bad. Which makes it Sam Darnold good, but I digress...
Originally Posted by Hammock Parties:
he thought samuel was gonna keep following juju
they got him
kelce also saw what was going on and assumed the ball was coming up and over
Ah - I think I see what you're saying.
Kelce saw Samuel peel off so he flattened out his route hoping for a ball over the top. Mahomes didn't see Samuel come off so he threw the ball where he expected Kelce to be on a flatter simple slant.
Hmmm.....Okay. I can buy that. Makes a little bit of sense at that point. And so much of what they do is damn near telepathic that those sorts of improvised changes happen all the time and we just don't realize it because they're both on the same page. [Reply]