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Overreaction Monday.
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Mahomes has 3 rings in his first 7 years, 5 championship appearances.

He blows LeBron out of the water
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This is exactly what the Patriots did and it extended Brady's career and the Patriots' contention window to a major extent.

We can't be throwing out rookie LTs who get exposed within a single NFL game next year while Patrick Mahomes is in his prime going forward, no.
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Mahomes was the best player on the field when he played the Bucs. That loss was not on him.

The Bengals second half most people think he was concussed. He also had that game in OT and who knows what happens if Hill didn't bumble that pass for the interception.

Yes, I am holding Mahomes to an impossible standard because he keeps raising the bar. This was the first time he has completely crumbled in the playoffs.
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Or to be more accurate, his Chiefs teams blew the early aughts Cavs team out of the water. Mahomes has played on some great ones (2019 but also 2022 which looks even better in retrospect after last night).
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Brady won three then went TEN YEARS without winning and during those ten years he lost TWICE to one guy. So please get real. He had a tough game vs Cinci too and then ripped off three finals in a row and two championships. So your logic is ridiculous imo. Winning and losing is just how it goes. As bad as this defeat was his three comebacks were incredible. Fullstop.
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Anything less is risking Mahomes health and massive shortening of our championship window.
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Yesterday's loss isn't on him either. He can perform better than that, but no QB is winning that game under that kind of pressure with a line getting blown up that badly.

He played a horrific second half against a team that was inferior to the Chiefs. He's not, nor was he ever invincible. If you think he was, you're simply ignoring what he's been to this point in his career and also holding him to an impossible standard that nobody has ever met in NFL history.

The guy is off to the best start of any QB ever through age 29 and you're bitching about his ****ing legacy? What are we doing here
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It can't happen again, but it honestly shakes my belief in Veach a bit that they trusted Kingsley with such a monumental task as a rookie and he failed that miserably and that quickly. That's the kind of experiment you do when you're rebuilding, not when you're a contender trying to threepeat in Mahomes' prime.
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There is one parallel with the OLs between the Bucs and Eagles Super Bowl that I wonder about.

Schwartz goes down. Remmers comes in at RT. I don’t remember him being terrible there. As I remember it, he was fine. Not great, just fine. Wylie was fine in relief at guard. Same with Allegretti. Again not great, but not a disaster.

Fisher goes down. We move Remmers to LT. Wylie to RT. Wiz to RG off the couch. The line becomes a disaster in multiple spots.

LT sucks this year. We move Thuney there eventually and Caliendo goes to guards. Thuney is overmatched at LT in the Super Bowl, Caliendo is a disaster. Two spots now aren’t good enough.

Should we rotate guys around like this and make multiple spots bad? Or just keep guys where they’re playing at least good enough? Then adjust accordingly for the weak spot.

Sure seems like we kill the communication and comfort level and create multiple weak links when we move guys around to account for 1 spot.
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I stopped caring about legacies a long time ago. Mahomes is cemented. Even with the loss last night he is probably cemented as the qb with the best peak. I don’t think he’ll last as long as Brady to win the case on longevity. That’s a way to look at it where we can both have our cake and eat it too.

So far our biggest challenges have been against Super Bowl teams. And they are both rb centered teams. SF and Philly. He’s routinely beaten his so called peers. It’s not even a conversation anymore except for the same people who wanted to rag on guys like Brady and Montana just because.

What I care about, and what mahomes undoubtedly cares about, is knowing this isn’t the best version of mahomes. We know he’s capable of better. I just want to see him perform more to the potential. That doesn’t mean scoring 40 pts per game but everyone knows he’s way too good to be barely beating all these teams.
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Should have just paid Orlando what he wanted. Play the void year game like the Eagles. Philly has been doing that shit for 10+ years and never had serious problems from it.

Worth remembering the Chiefs offense was still very good without Mitch Schwartz at RT. They scored 38 points in a conference title game without Schwartz. It was the loss of Eric Fisher at LT that killed them in the Super Bowl right after that.

With that in mind, $20M per year for Jawaan Taylor at RT was a mistake. Rather have Orlando Brown at $22-23M per year at LT mixed with "whoever" at Right Tackle, and play the void year game if you need to do it to make the salary cap work.
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In retrospect, moving Thuney to LT wasn't the play. It just ended up damaging the entire left side of the line. Hard to know that before yesterday, though, considering he was mostly fine against Houston and Buffalo.

That Fisher Achilles tear that ruined his career btw might be the most impactful injury in Chiefs history. We'll never know if we win that SB with him, but there's a distinct chance we would have and he likely would have kept being a productive LT for years to come.
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I agree. But, if he wants to return because he cant stand the lousy taste of that last game out of his mouth, I'm okay with that too. He has earned the right to go out as he wants to happen.
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perhaps we need to draft OL that can play multiple positions along the line...
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