Originally Posted by Molitoth:
I think any QB without clout would be benched after that, lol.
It was an insane decision that I'm glad went right.
Very poor choice. His only dumb throw of the game I would say, which is improvement from other games recently. But he'll need to continue improving. I don't remember him making a single dumb throw against Buffalo in the playoff game last season. I think he will need a similar level of performance to drag this team past some very good opponents in the playoffs. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Hammock Parties:
given his quotes about avoiding turnovers, i'd argue patrick knew he could get away with it
I mean he says the same thing every week about how he needs to be smarter with the ball, yet the turnovers continued happening while he was saying that stuff. He has an aggressive nature and I don't think he can ever completely stop himself from making these type of choices. [Reply]
Isn't it crazy that before Mahomes came into this league, all of those DB's would have been swarming in the direction Pat is running, but now defenses stay home on the backside.
Rodgers was my fav QB to watch play before Mahomes, and I know he can do it, but I can't really remember him doing it to the same game-changing level. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DRM08:
It was a dumb choice and he's fortunate it worked out.
I just get back to what some of us said during the Mahomes draft.
Yeah - he does stuff that other guys shouldn't do. But it works 90% of the time. So 'dumb' simply has a different definition for Mahomes than it does for most.
Because there does seem to be some mad scientist logic behind it.
Frankly, his worst turnovers are plays that are more in control than that one was. They're plays where he's trying jedi mind-tricks to move Fred Warner to a different spot on the field and he assumes they'll work....then fires a fastball right into Warner's chest when they don't.
His 'out of control' moments are FAR more in control than commonly accepted, IMO.
You can tell luck from skill by its duration. Patrick Mahomes has been doing this for, what, 7 years now? I think it's safe to say that he doesn't just have a horseshoe up his ass.
Kid knows when he can get away with it and when he can't. Something like that gets run through the same calculus that a simple slant route goes through for mere mortals. [Reply]
Originally Posted by dirk digler:
the only way that might have been an INT is if he over threw it. It was a great throw.
Worst you can say about it was that it was something of a hospital ball and sometimes those pop up into someone else's hands after the intended target gets his eggs scrambled. Especially when they're late and over the middle.
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
I just get back to what some of us said during the Mahomes draft.
Yeah - he does stuff that other guys shouldn't do. But it works 90% of the time. So 'dumb' simply has a different definition for Mahomes than it does for most.
Because there does seem to be some mad scientist logic behind it.
Frankly, his worst turnovers are plays that are more in control than that one was. They're plays where he's trying jedi mind-tricks to move Fred Warner to a different spot on the field and he assumes they'll work....then fires a fastball right into Warner's chest when they don't.
His 'out of control' moments are FAR more in control than commonly accepted, IMO.
You can tell luck from skill by its duration. Patrick Mahomes has been doing this for, what, 7 years now? I think it's safe to say that he doesn't just have a horseshoe up his ass.
Kid knows when he can get away with it and when he can't. Something like that gets run through the same calculus that a simple slant route goes through for mere mortals.
When Mahomes isn't making the crazy throws and plays it's because he's thinking to much. He's still great even then but when he's just playing he's it's another level. He made that throw when he had 3 ints the week before but those throws where more in line with what he was supposed to do. [Reply]
