If you watch his face after he straddled the sideline and knew the hit was coming, he was NONCHALANT about the contact, it almost looks like he just brushes him off before the DB tries the strip.
Originally Posted by Megatron96:
I've seen this sentiment repeated several times over the last few days. What they're saying is that there is no defense for Pat Mahomes. Which we knew. He had trouble with man-to-man press coverage for a minute, but now he's one of the best QBs at beating it. And he's always been the best at beating zone. You can't blitz him, because he's the best QB at beating the blitz. If you send 3 and drop 7 with a low LB spy, Pat manipulates the 3 rushers, gets outside of contain and either throws for big chinks or runs for TDs.
He has no weakness, there is no solution for defending Pat.
In football when this happens, the defense has one option which is to put as many hits on the QB as they can to try and compromise either his will to run and make him get rid of the ball early out of fear, or to actually hurt him enough to compromise the accuracy and even velocity and touch of his throws. Or both.
On the surface, because it's our QB, it feels like dirty play, but this has been a part of the game since before I was born. It's simply a part of the game. I can't cry about it now.
But honestly, I don't think this will be an issue. Even if they try to use this tactic, I don't think they're going to be able to either hurt him or get in his head.
Pat has an incredible ability to avoid big hits. So I don't see him taking a big shot, so long as he sees the rushers, and the OL does its job.
And we know you can't get in Pat's head.
Yeah, we had another QB like this- his name was Joe. It took a late, dirty, helmet to helmet hit by the fucking Bills to get him out of the game. It cost us a trip to the SB.
So when I hear these dirtbags advocating late hits on Mahomes, I take it seriously and I hope the Chiefs and the NFL do as well.
Fuck these guys and their thinly disguised Mahomes hate. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Halfcan:
Yeah, we had another QB like this- his name was Joe. It took a late, dirty, helmet to helmet hit by the ****ing Bills to get him out of the game. It cost us a trip to the SB.
So when I hear these dirtbags advocating late hits on Mahomes, I take it seriously and I hope the Chiefs and the NFL do as well.
**** these guys and their thinly disguised Mahomes hate.
I completely agree about the dirty hits. But what Nate is talking about is legal hits within the rules of the game. Of course, some of those hits would be on the edge of legal, but that's how the game is played. As a player, you take your game as close to the edge as you can, which means sometimes you're going to be wrong and your hit will be outside the framework of the game. That's what Nate is talking about and advocating and I would agree with him. It's how the game has always been played and how it should be played. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Megatron96:
I completely agree about the dirty hits. But what Nate is talking about is legal hits within the rules of the game. Of course, some of those hits would be on the edge of legal, but that's how the game is played. As a player, you take your game as close to the edge as you can, which means sometimes you're going to be wrong and your hit will be outside the framework of the game. That's what Nate is talking about and advocating and I would agree with him. It's how the game has always been played and how it should be played.
Nate is a Chief hater and has picked against them nearly as much as Skip and Prickso. He would love to see Mahomes hurt and the Chiefs lose. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Halfcan:
Nate is a Chief hater and has picked against them nearly as much as Skip and Prickso. He would love to see Mahomes hurt and the Chiefs lose.
This is something I see here but don’t understand. Why give a crap what the media thinks? We will win this on the field, we don’t need to win it on NFLN or ESPN. Let them hate, it doesn’t hurt us.
Originally Posted by splatbass:
This is something I see here but don’t understand. Why give a crap what the media thinks? We will win this on the field, we don’t need to win it on NFLN or ESPN. Let them hate, it doesn’t hurt us.
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It is not that I care what they think- it is the constant barrage of fake news, bullshit SJW and negativity hurled at the Chiefs since training camp. They have been running a smear campaign against the Chiefs and now are advocating hurting Mahomes. Fuck these idiots that hide behind their "journalist" titles while pushing a false narrative against a great football team. [Reply]
Oh, man. I wish these guys would shut up and stop giving the 49ers ideas! The last two years I'm sure no team thought it might be a good idea to hit Mahomes. They've been laying off just to be nice. It surely can't be the fact that he stays a step ahead and just out of reach. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Megatron96:
I completely agree about the dirty hits. But what Nate is talking about is legal hits within the rules of the game. Of course, some of those hits would be on the edge of legal, but that's how the game is played. As a player, you take your game as close to the edge as you can, which means sometimes you're going to be wrong and your hit will be outside the framework of the game. That's what Nate is talking about and advocating and I would agree with him. It's how the game has always been played and how it should be played.
Then it should become like hockey every time Gretzky gets on the ice Marty McSorley is on there too [Reply]
I see his point though. It`s a bad time to be a defender because if you hit a QB too hard or along the sideline (even though he is considered a runner) you will most certainly be called for roughing or unsportsmanlike conduct. When PM ran for his TD it appeared defenders began to let up as he approached the sideline before PM turned it upfield. Then again it appeared defenders were scared to hit him at the goal line. Most of us with a bit of grey in our hair know that a QB would not have gotten that TD in the 70s and 80s. He would have woken up in the fifth row of the stands. Having said that, smart QBs are taking full advantage of this hesitation by the defenses and I cant blame them. [Reply]
