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Tossed Salad & Scrambled Eggs
Join Date: Jan 2009
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*****The Patrick Mahomes Thread*****
IT ****ING HAPPENED
OP UPDATE: 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! Last edited by Dante84; 05-17-2017 at 09:40 AM.. |
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Sauntering Vaguely Downwards
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Columbia, Mo
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Like if Kelce doesn't break open, it's a scramble drill and if we're lucky he throws it away. It's impressive as hell that he's sitting there re-aligning guys and making protection calls on the fly, but if the Steelers defense was confused, you gotta figure half the skill positions players were a little iffy about what they were up to as well... |
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Most Valuable Villain
Join Date: Dec 2006
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#15723 |
I'll be back.
Join Date: Nov 2002
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That also speaks to Kelce's intelligence. Which you know...has been in question on a weekly basis to this point.
But that looked so natural and without panic that I thought it was part of the play design, like an old Vermeil shift. We are dealing with a football savant. |
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Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Texas
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I'll be back.
Join Date: Nov 2002
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So Pat is going to have to start hitting that checkdown in the middle of the field, or you know, just chucking lasers into the window down the sideline between the safety and corner, which Tyreek will then take and shimmy around the closing safety for a 50-yard TD. I think we know what option he takes. ![]() |
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#15726 |
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Studio City, CA
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They will definitely try to limit the deep cover two-blowing Kelce passes.
I know I'm starting Sammy and I suggest everybody else does as well. |
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Sauntering Vaguely Downwards
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Columbia, Mo
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I mean shit, simple angle routes, flag routes or deep outs will be open for days. Those safeties can't keep inside position on a guy with Hill's quickness, especially not as his route running has developed and if they cheat he can go over top of them. Meanwhile Watkins presents many of the same problems on the other side but is arguably a better pure route runner. Meanwhile if they do anything at all to try to shade out that wide, Kelce absolutely massacres them. I think a Tampa 2 gets absolutely murdered. Like I said - 2 deep man is the best anyone can hope for against this offense, IMO. Keep them underneath, make your tackles and pray that Mahomes gets impatient and makes a mistake a couple times a game when he gets tired of having to lead drives 13 plays and 5 yards at a time. |
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Sauntering Vaguely Downwards
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Columbia, Mo
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Reid isn't in question and Mahomes...lord man, kid just amazes me with every clip. Kelce's a damn smart player. A knucklehead, but when you look at how he plays the game - damn he's clever. It's what makes him such a nuanced route runner and it's how he's become such a devastating blocker. Dude knows the angles and knows the game inside and out. And y'know what - Tyreek Hill's been a remarkable revelation as a football player to me since about mid-season 2 years ago. Not because of his athleticism, but because of the little 'recievery' things he does. It was that Broncos Monday nighter where Santos put it in off the upright that really amazed me. He just knew how to use foot fires and shoulder fakes; knew how to use his hands to get a release and knew when/how to set down in zones. The dude knows how to play WR. He's not quite perfect yet but for a converted RB to have all this come so naturally to him so quickly...just blows my mind. Especially in a system this complicated. Then you look at Watkins out there running routes as the X, Y and Z and seemingly doing so effortlessly. The big deal with Maclin was how he'd come into this system and hit the ground running because it takes guys WRs at least a year or 2 to fully grasp the Reid system of option routes, etc... Well damn if Watkins doesn't appear to have it figured out in 8 weeks. I mean there are some guys on the offensive side of the ball that just know how to play the game. The Anti-Murray's so to speak. Because for as well as some of the offensive players seem to grasp the little things, we sure seem to have some dudes on defense that...uh...don't. |
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Join Date: Jun 2008
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Dumbasses saying he was mad week one are dumbasses |
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pie is never free
Join Date: Sep 2006
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Andy Reid Supporter
Join Date: Apr 2012
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Best way to stop this offense is to get pressure right up the middle consistently and have 2 good corners on the outside. Mahomes got sacked once in preseason and once last weekend bc he stepped up too far and the C was being pushed back.
Even then you can only hope to do that for so long. Can’t get pressure there every play. Jags could only do that for one half in the AFCCG. Man that Jags game is going to be the litmus test. Broncos, Bengals and Browns defense will be a nice test as well. |
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Join Date: Nov 2002
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pie is never free
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#15735 |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: L.A.
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