Originally Posted by htismaqe:
What exactly was wrong with what he did?
It seems like when it's time to run the ball, people want him to throw it all over the field. And when it's time to throw it all over the field and they fall incomplete, people complain he isn't running the ball enough.
So I ask again, what exactly was the issue? The play calling was fine, the execution was poor. Penalties, dropped passes, etc. It's on the players.
That seems clear, so I have no idea what the issue is. [Reply]
Originally Posted by htismaqe:
What exactly was wrong with what he did?
It seems like when it's time to run the ball, people want him to throw it all over the field. And when it's time to throw it all over the field and they fall incomplete, people complain he isn't running the ball enough.
So I ask again, what exactly was the issue? The play calling was fine, the execution was poor. Penalties, dropped passes, etc. It's on the players.
I don’t think anybody would ever criticize the team for wanting Mahomes to pass more. If they do, they simply don’t understand the way modern football is played. If anything, we ran the ball too much on a couple of drives today (which seems crazy to say considering the overall differential but that’s how good Mahomes is). [Reply]
Originally Posted by KC_Connection:
I don’t think anybody would ever criticize the team for wanting Mahomes to pass more. If they do, they simply don’t understand the way modern football is played. If anything, we ran the ball too much on a couple of drives today (which seems crazy to say considering the overall differential but that’s how good Mahomes is).
That's just the thing.
Football is situational. The Chiefs ended the half with a FG that should have been a touchdown because they threw the ball 3 straight times in the face of a pretty stiff pass rush. They should have tried to run the ball there. Instead, Mahomes was running for his life and threw the ball away 3 straight times. [Reply]
Originally Posted by htismaqe:
That's just the thing.
Football is situational. The Chiefs ended the half with a FG that should have been a touchdown because they threw the ball 3 straight times in the face of a pretty stiff pass rush. They should have tried to run the ball there. Instead, Mahomes was running for his life and threw the ball away 3 straight times.
Agreed. I'm not one to second-guess play-calling, because I think it's really weak with EB and Andy at the helm, but I wondered what a screen might do there. Maybe our backs aren't fast enough to execute it effectively with Damian gone. I don't know, but our our RB screen game has been largely absent. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla:
Agreed. I'm not one to second-guess play-calling, because I think it's really weak with EB and Andy at the helm, but I wondered what a screen might do there. Maybe our backs aren't fast enough to execute it effectively with Damian gone. I don't know, but our our RB screen game has been largely absent.
Bucs LBs are really fast and rally to the ball on screens very quickly. They basically stuffed the Rams screen game last week. Pretty sure Andy decided not to give them a chance to blow up a screen pass for negative yardage. Iirc, we ran one screen, to Kelce for 1 yard or 0 yards, and that was that. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Megatron96:
Bucs LBs are really fast and rally to the ball on screens very quickly. They basically stuffed the Rams screen game last week. Pretty sure Andy decided not to give them a chance to blow up a screen pass for negative yardage. Iirc, we ran one screen, to Kelce for 1 yard or 0 yards, and that was that.
Gotcha. That makes sense and perfectly illustrates why I don’t tend to second-guess the Chiefs’ play calling. [Reply]
