Nah, Mahomes could have thrown it at the same time. Hold the outside CB by staring down Kelce and starting the throwing motion, then lob it up to MVS who's coming out of his break.
Props to McKinnon, though. Him and Pacheco have been selling out their bodies to give Pat that extra second. [Reply]
here's the thing about that play - they've run that pretty regularly since reid got here, even in the smith years
i would wager there's footage of smith hitting that play, or missing, or not being willing to throw into that window, one of those
i DON'T recall mahomes ever hitting it, and the reason why is tyreek hill...no one is biting on underneath stuff with hill on the field, it just wasn't in their best interests
but NOW...teams are defending us short to deep, because they don't respect MVS or Hardman, and that honestly is playing perfectly into Patrick's hands so far
MVS has been wide open three times this season for 25+ yard gains, and Mahomes has hit him twice
Hardman, thrice, and he made shitty catch attempts twice and Mahomes stopped trusting him after that (since he threw it to Watson instead)
you're also seeing Watson getting single coverage deep
the deep routes are now ALL open again in this offense because the threat that one will go to the house isn't quite there, and you're better off playing the percentages and trying to stop kelce and juju intermediate 90% of the time
BUT it's patrick freaking mahomes and he will eventually get deep
the Raiders are fucking terrible on defense - they give up nearly 70 percent completions at 7.8 YPA - and I think the world is about to see Mahomes crank a couple deep and we're going to be back to seeing Cover 2 shells a hell of a lot here pretty soon [Reply]
Originally Posted by Hammock Parties:
here's the thing about that play - they've run that pretty regularly since reid got here, even in the smith years
i would wager there's footage of smith hitting that play, or missing, or not being willing to throw into that window, one of those
i DON'T recall mahomes ever hitting it, and the reason why is tyreek hill...no one is biting on underneath stuff with hill on the field, it just wasn't in their best interests
but NOW...teams are defending us short to deep, because they don't respect MVS or Hardman, and that honestly is playing perfectly into Patrick's hands so far
MVS has been wide open three times this season for 25+ yard gains, and Mahomes has hit him twice
Hardman, thrice, and he made shitty catch attempts twice and Mahomes stopped trusting him after that (since he threw it to Watson instead)
you're also seeing Watson getting single coverage deep
the deep routes are now ALL open again in this offense because the threat that one will go to the house isn't quite there, and you're better off playing the percentages and trying to stop kelce and juju intermediate 90% of the time
BUT it's patrick freaking mahomes and he will eventually get deep
the Raiders are fucking terrible on defense - they give up nearly 70 percent completions at 7.8 YPA - and I think the world is about to see Mahomes crank a couple deep and we're going to be back to seeing Cover 2 shells a hell of a lot here pretty soon
As long as Pat is not running for his life we should be able to do exploit any def they throw at us . [Reply]