I was screaming for the Chiefs to do this to start the second half of the Bills game.

The Chiefs never run a tempo or no huddle offense outside of the end of game/half situations for reasons that are not clear.
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For all of his genuine innovation, Andy is incredibly stodgy and stubborn about certain things
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Andy is not particularly good with clock management. Hurry-up/2-minute drill offenses compress your decision-making window and apply temporal pressure. In other words, shit overwhelms him...or at least that is what it seems like from past experience.

He needs to give PM2 more control of the offense. Hand him the reigns on a few series...see how he handles it. Let him run an up-tempo offense when unexpected, i.e. in the middle of a quarter, not just at the end or when trailing.
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Let Pat cook!
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Andy seems like he's been very slow to fully trust Patrick.

Harbaugh has total trust in Lamar, McDermott seems to be already there with Allen. Hell, Brandon Staley trusts Herbert so much that he's basically going for it on every single fourth down.

Andy is old school and he hasn't had a QB like this as a head coach, but he needs to get with the times and take the training wheels off Mahomes.
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Evidence of the claim in that first sentence please? Because I believe once Mahomes finally learned to read a D, Andy fully trusted him. Hell Andy wanted to trade up for the kid and then traded away Alex Smith after a year. Gotta have a lot of trust to do that to a QB that went to the playoffs year after year.
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Stefanski seems to trust Mayfield more as well. Just look at the 4th down attempts by the Browns in Week 1 compared to Andy kicking field goal on 4th and short.
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The 4th down question is a perfectly fair criticism on its face

But my question is, is it a matter of not "trusting" Mahomes enough... or is it simply just that Andy comes from the old school where you don't take "crazy" chances like that except in obvious situations?
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He's got a young coach in his division who showed him a few weeks ago what to do with a stud QB in those situations. Balls to the wall.
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The offense and certainly not Mahomes isn't the issue. Stop wasting your damn time talking about it.

Prior to Sundays game he was on track for a career season statistically with 30% fewer possessions than he should be getting.
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I knew someone would beat me to it. What teams are doing is nearly identical to how defenses limited Peyton.

I’ve wondered if a no huddle with Hill, Gordon, Kelce, Gray and Williams would allow us top level versatility that every skill position can split out wide or inline block for runs to give us more beef to overload the defenses trying to load up with DBs to force us to kill them with a thousand cuts.

Ok, then here’s a few 300-360 pounders to pile drive those DBs into submission.
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There are things they should also just know to do...I personally think you should tease the defense with a Kelce/Fortson formation. The minute they play thar as a run set immediately get into no huddle and attack it.
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I hear you, and agree... just not sure old dog Andy is open to learning any new tricks in that regard
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Yep, personnel mismatch is best time to do this! Roll out a "jumbo/run-first" package, e.g. 2 TE set, see if D counters with a run-stopping personnel group, then go no-huddle pass-first and burn their ass.
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Mahomes is our 2nd leading rusher with 153 yds lol. No one respects our running game or CEH. Are you telling me if we had King Henry they would still sit back in a 2 deep look? I don't buy that at all.
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