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]
I am beyond tired of morons using the excuse about Mahomes playing against '3rd stringers' (which isn't entirely true anyway, as some starters were in at one point for SF).
If you use that as an excuse, I can only assume you want Mahomes to fail. Because it simply isn't a valid reason to criticize the performance. Did you watch our OL? Did you know half of the guys running routes for him? THEY WERE ALL BACKUPS TOO.
Originally Posted by pugsnotdrugs19:
I am beyond tired of morons using the excuse about Mahomes playing against '3rd stringers' (which isn't entirely true anyway, as some starters were in at one point for SF).
If you use that as an excuse, I can only assume you want Mahomes to fail. Because it simply isn't a valid reason to criticize the performance. Did you watch our OL? Did you know half of the guys running routes for him? THEY WERE ALL BACKUPS TOO.
Enough with that nonsense.
yep. He was playing with a bunch of roster bubble players/UDFA and for his first couple drives was going against players that will be starting week one on San Frans defense.
His O-line was anemic, running game was non existent, Andy called 4 screens, and penalties stole 2 big first downs from him. He still came out 7/9 with a touchdown. [Reply]
I don't blame Andy for calling those screens. He saw what was happening up front and probably feared getting Mahomes killed. That was good coaching. [Reply]
Originally Posted by pugsnotdrugs19:
I am beyond tired of morons using the excuse about Mahomes playing against '3rd stringers' (which isn't entirely true anyway, as some starters were in at one point for SF).
If you use that as an excuse, I can only assume you want Mahomes to fail. Because it simply isn't a valid reason to critici
ze the performance. Did you watch our OL? Did you know half of the guys running routes for him? THEY WERE ALL BACKUPS TOO.
Enough with that nonsense.
Yeah, that 3rd string argument falls apart in a hurry when you realize Mahomes had a crappy 3rd string offense surrounding him. OL was really bad. [Reply]
Yea. He was 7/9 49 yards. That's a Alex Smith stat! However he did have a bad throw to Escobar which was high and another bad throw on the run to Dieter [Reply]
Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO:
doesn't look near as risky when you see it from pat's view point.
Yep. Even the NFL Network shot showed this. Yes it was Farvian in the aspect of improvising keeping the play alive and throwing across his body but the part I liked was his confidence to throw the pass with "touch" knowing he could pull it off. Nothing like having a pair of brass balls and swinging them.:-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by penbrook:
Yea. He was 7/9 29 yards. That's a Alex Smith stat! However he did have a bad throw to Escobar which was high and another bad throw on the run to Dieter
you are selling him short. he had 49 yards. 4 of his passes were designed screens. [Reply]
Originally Posted by penbrook:
Yea. He was 7/9 29 yards. That's a Alex Smith stat! However he did have a bad throw to Escobar which was high and another bad throw on the run to Dieter
Misleading my friend. Although the throw was a tad high to Escobar it was still very catchable. Could Alex have thrown a dart that was completed to Dieter in a very tight window? Nope. Could Alex have improvised in the pocket to escape to roll out keeping eyes downfield in the end zone and thrown across his body with touch seeing the wide open window to make that TD throw ? Nope.
Originally Posted by penbrook:
I understand but he had a couple bad throws. One High to Escobar and one bad one on the run to Dieter
the dieter one was bad, but at least he didnt put it where the defense could make a play on it. The endzone shot to escobar is a touchdown if escobar gets his hands up there. I wouldnt call that a bad throw. He threw it outside of coverage, where his guy could have got it. best case scenario its a TD, worst case is a incompletion. [Reply]
