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Originally Posted by Chris Meck
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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He is just not playing smart football. From what we have seen and subsequently heard him say, his pride is his downfall right now.
I can't think of any situation in any game where you justify throwing a deep ball into double coverage instead of taking a wide open 15 yards unless you are just down and desperate. We were neither.
Mahomes needs to figure out it's okay to play ball control. No one will think lesser of him because he threw higher percentage passes that extended drives and resulted in scores.