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]
Playoff Mahomes is the Grim Reaper, Thanos, The Terminator, whatever you want to call him.
He's a force of nature that you never want to face and can only pray to God you might stop.
Brady did this all the time. He'd roll onto the playoffs against younger, hungrier, maybe more talented teams and rip their hearts out in front of them. And Mahomes is exactly the same. You might think you're hot shit, but you're never confident if you have to play 15. [Reply]
Patrick Mahomes in the locker room after beating the #Bills in Buffalo: "They asked for it. And they got what they asked for."pic.twitter.com/kh6RsFg46f
Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501:
Nah WRs gotta still make their catches. It didn’t end up mattering in Miami because their defense laid an egg but mecoles missed opportunity left an absurd amount of yards and points off the board.
We need to stretch the field. The big difference maker was Mvs. Simple ask is to catch a ball past 10 yards and Mvs finally delivered a good game. He just might be our offense Frank clark. When we don’t it completely changes our offensive approach because defenses start baiting us. I also don’t know what they did to kelce, and maybe it is that the past 2 games we’ve been more effective at slinging it deep (even if mecole can’t catch the damn ball) but he was WAY more effective running intermediate routes.
We needed a mistake free game and we mostly got it. We know that a few mistakes that put us behind too much or stalling too much and mahomes would’ve rightfully so started pressing
Yeah WRs needed to make catches and no one has ever argued they didn't. Mahomes only had one game all regular season that he played as good as last night. He looked about as good as he ever has last night. If he played like this all year, then we have the #1 offense this year, the number 1 seed, and Mahomes is probably MVP again. [Reply]
Originally Posted by dlphg9:
Yeah WRs needed to make catches and no one has ever argued they didn't. Mahomes only had one game all regular season that he played as good as last night. He looked about as good as he ever has last night. If he played like this all year, then we have the #1 offense this year, the number 1 seed, and Mahomes is probably MVP again.
MVS not catching those balls last night (balls he hadn't caught since the Lions game) changes the entire game. [Reply]
Originally Posted by dlphg9:
Yeah WRs needed to make catches and no one has ever argued they didn't. Mahomes only had one game all regular season that he played as good as last night. He looked about as good as he ever has last night. If he played like this all year, then we have the #1 offense this year, the number 1 seed, and Mahomes is probably MVP again.
Regression to the mean. It's really that simple.
Over a large enough N, they all play roughly to the back of their baseball card.
It's why I never bought into the "Mahomes can't trust any of these guys" thing - you have to. Just keep firing. Sooner or later the worm will turn and they WILL make that big catch for you.
Mahomes pocketing either of those balls because "He doesn't trust MVS" would've been defensible to many and HUGELY damaging had he done so.
A bad NFL player is still better than anyone we've ever played ball against. These guys are incredible. Just keep slingin' and sooner or later they'll come through. The reward for NOT doing so simply doesn't justify what's possibly lost. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
Regression to the mean. It's really that simple.
Over a large enough N, they all play roughly to the back of their baseball card.
It's why I never bought into the "Mahomes can't trust any of these guys" thing - you have to. Just keep firing. Sooner or later the worm will turn and they WILL make that big catch for you.
Mahomes pocketing either of those balls because "He doesn't trust MVS" would've been defensible to many and HUGELY damaging had he done so.
A bad NFL player is still better than anyone we've ever played ball against. These guys are incredible. Just keep slingin' and sooner or later they'll come through. The reward for NOT doing so simply doesn't justify what's possibly lost.
Exactly. The "trust" thing was always bullshit. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla:
Exactly. The "trust" thing was always bullshit.
And for the most part, so was "nobody's open"
That ball to MVS down the sideline was in a smaller window than 100 of them that he's come off of this year and people have claimed there was nobody to throw to.
It may just be that in the regular season he was more worried about making mistakes. And for a bit maybe it got into his head.
But it's nut cuttin' time and he's firing the ball into zones before guys make their breaks. He's putting them into tiny windows and trusting himself and his receivers to execute.
He's playing at the level we knew he could play at. And it's why this offense is kicking ass again.
If he continues at this level, we hoist another Lombardi. It's really as simple as that. [Reply]
