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Originally Posted by BWillie
The argument that Alex Smith's last season stats were similar to Mahomes stats this year is a bad one IMO. It's an interesting nugget but the holes in that are that Mahomes played in 1.75 less games and had a 1,300 yd rusher in Kareem Hunt. Kareem Hunt was also amazing in the passing game.
It was sooo much easier to chuck it deep that year with the presence of Kareem Hunt. You saw this offense with Kareem Hunt + Mahomes and it was frightening. Mahomes averaged 37 points a game with Kareem Hunt.
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Terrible argument. No one is mentioning the crucial situational areas that Mahomes made this offense much better in like 3rd down offense and redzone offense. Alex was always below average in both while we've been the best 3rd down O in football for 2 years now under Mahomes. And while redzone O was down compared to last year's, it's obvious the lack of running game and Mahomes not being healthy was a key culprit to that this year...and the redzone O has been flawless in the playoffs.