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We forced the defenses into this scheme by making people look foolish for three years.
Now they're going to stay there until we adjust.
We haven't adjusted yet. The way to beat that style of defense is to run the ball against the light box, and hit short and intermediate passes, getting the ball out fast to mitigate the pass rush and take advantage of the wide open flats with your backs, slot receivers, and your TE over the middle. Brady won most of his rings doing this. Multiple times last game, Mahomes had Kelce 10 yards plus in the middle, but instead chucked it deep into double coverage. He had backs in the flat with 20 yards of green in front of them.
That's just not smart. He'll come around, but right now, he's making bad choices. All of this commentary is about MAHOMES, and if you want to talk about dropped and tipped passes and lax ball security with backs and receivers, that's an adjacent but still different issue.
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