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Originally Posted by RealSNR
You know what's ****ing bizarre or weird to think about? Pat was playing on a 50% gimpy ankle for multiple weeks. He refused to go out or not play. Meaning that ankle keeps having shit happen to it week by week and it never really improves. Maybe Pat gets enough rest into it over the bye week for it to no longer be a problem, but maybe it takes longer since a few more weeks of potential damage would have been piled up onto it.
The dislocated kneecap, as ****ing awful and scary as that was to think about, ended up only keeping Pat out for two games plus the remainder of the Denver game. As he's rehabbing that knee, the ankle gets its rest. And when he came back from the knee, yeah, it might have taken some time for him to feel completely comfortable with it, but now he's got a basically 100% healthy ankle, and that's the way it's been since coming back from the knee injury.
So at the end of the day, we were lucky and the dislocated kneecap was far from a season ender. And it also gave us back the version of Mahomes with the healthy ankle. As weird as it is to say... that forced time off for Mahomes is one big reason why we're so damn lethal right now.
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For sure. There was always something. Chargers game with the awful field. Oakland game with the insane wind. It was the Oakland game after the bye week where we saw that burst again. I remember he almost threw an INT on a play where he exploded into a running throw, then the wind completely stopped the throw in its tracks. But I was just glad to see that quick acceleration burst we hadn't seen in a while.
And credit to Matt Moore too. If he looked like a disaster in Green Bay, who knows if they might have rushed Mahomes back to start vs. Minnesota. I know he's a free agent next year and Henne did nothing to lose his job, but damn did he get the job done when asked to do it. He's a big reason why we get to see this healthy version of Mahomes.