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]
Originally Posted by suzzer99:
What is the league gonna catch up to - covering Hill, Kelce, Watkins, Hunt and everyone else at the same time?
Will the league adjust and cause some problems? Sure. But it's not like Mahomes is out here doing this all on his own with pedestrian talent. We've got 4 skill players at the absolute top of their games and a head coach who's one of the best offensive minds in NFL history.
Alex Smith had a career year last year with this offense w/o Sammy Watkins.
Hell Elvis Grbac would have a great year with this offense - kinda like he did in 2000 when everyone was just wide open all the time - throwing for 28TDs and 4k yards. Don't tell me the league just couldn't adjust to Grbac's brilliance. They couldn't adjust to TG and Derrick Alexander running wild and getting open all the time. TRich was a beast that year too. Grbac went to the Ravens the next year and couldn't do shit.
That's the truth. Not like he was throwing a bunch of 50/50 jump balls (Deshaun Watson/Hopkins last year). Watson threw an interception on one of those jump balls today actually.
Mahomes was in TOTAL control of the game today. None of those passes were in danger of getting picked off. It was a somewhat toned down version of what Mahomes can do with the ball. He stayed with the intermediate passing game for the most part instead of going for the home run balls like we saw against the Chargers last week. [Reply]
Originally Posted by suzzer99:
What is the league gonna catch up to - covering Hill, Kelce, Watkins, Hunt and everyone else at the same time?
Will the league adjust and cause some problems? Sure. But it's not like Mahomes is out here doing this all on his own with pedestrian talent. We've got 4 skill players at the absolute top of their games and a head coach who's one of the best offensive minds in NFL history.
Alex Smith had a career year last year with this offense w/o Sammy Watkins.
Hell Elvis Grbac would have a great year with this offense - kinda like he did in 2000 when everyone was just wide open all the time - throwing for 28TDs and 4k yards. Don't tell me the league just couldn't adjust to Grbac's brilliance. They couldn't adjust to TG and Derrick Alexander running wild and getting open all the time. TRich was a beast that year too. Grbac went to the Ravens the next year and couldn't do shit.
If you watch the game, it looks like Mahomes is just out there playing catch with his receivers. I've never seen anyone make it look so easy. With the offensive weapons on this team and Mahomes skill set, the only way that defenses *might* have against the Chiefs is if the league starts allowing 14 defenders on the field at the same time. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Fat Elvis:
If you watch the game, it looks like Mahomes is just out there playing catch with his receivers. I've never seen anyone make it look so easy. With the offensive weapons on this team and Mahomes skill set, the only way that defenses *might* have against the Chiefs is if the league starts allowing 14 defenders on the field at the same time.
Or flagging us into oblivion like they tried to do today.
I think the fact the Chiefs only have 2 Qbs on the roster right now - where in the past Reid has had 3 QBs in his time in KC - speaks volumes about Mahomes [Reply]
Originally Posted by wasi:
I think the fact the Chiefs only have 2 Qbs on the roster right now - where in the past Reid has had 3 QBs in his time in KC - speaks volumes about Mahomes
I never understood the need for 3. If you've got #2 in there, you are most likely fucked anyway. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Hammock Parties:
The craziest thing maybe in all of this....two weeks and he hasn't hit a single bomb for a TD.
These are all intermediate throws.
When the bombs start coming our dicks are going to explode.
His two bombs have been just a hiccup away from being scores. The throw to Watson was, what, a 60 yarder? And Hill's probably fast enough to have run under it. The 99 yarder to Hill was just an Nth away from being a world-ender.
Seriously - he completes that pass and it's probably the last thing I see on earth. My brain just explodes at that point.
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
His two bombs have been just a hiccup away from being scores. The throw to Watson was, what, a 60 yarder? And Hill's probably fast enough to have run under it. The 99 yarder to Hill was just an Nth away from being a world-ender.
Seriously - he completes that pass and it's probably the last thing I see on earth. My brain just explodes at that point.
They'll come. And so will I.
I didn't get to watch the game live. When was this? [Reply]
Originally Posted by tk13:
Everyone talks about the long throws, but that short TD to Robinson was as impressive as any of them. He was running to the right and throwing across his body, and there was all kinds of traffic between him and Robinson... literally 5 guys in the way, he still anticipated it perfectly.
He made a throw in the pre-season like that to Kemp in 2017.
The usual idiots (I'm sure KK and Carpenter) used it as proof that he'd do shit that he can't get away with in the NFL. "You can't throw late, across your body and over the middle in tight spaces in the end-zone; that's an interception against NFL defenders..."
If it were, he'd have thrown it away. Alex Smith can't do that and few mere mortals can. Pat Mahomes can because he's that motherfucking good.
The deep throw to Kelce in the 4th to set up the last TD was my favorite (dropped that thing into triple coverage) but the TD to Robinson was my 2nd favorite because it was exactly what 'he can't get away with at the next level...'
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