They had like 180 yards rushing, and a good portion of it was out of blue and brown formation with 22 personnel at times even.

Totally not the scattergun pass happy offense with no real plan of attack beside "Patrick make it work."
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I mentioned in the Pacheco thread I also think Pacheco is a better option out of shotgun. Watch his feet pre-handoff and before he hits his holes. He has really active feet which allow him to do a lot more things instantaneously including some misdirection. I know not all shotgun is RPO but there’s plenty of debate on whether shotgun limits some of what we can do. These types of things might at least help us with the running game.

Which brings up the next related question… I personally believe shotgun allows mahomes to be mahomes, but I also get the advantages of playing under center. Is there ever a point where we run more and more under center?
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Mahomes will always be Mahomes when the play breaks down, and THAT is when he's needed to 'don the Superman cape', so to speak.

I think we definitely are at the point where The Chiefs (Andy Reid) need to make a commitment to actually running the ball to counteract all the coverage-based defenses Mahomes is seeing. Bring them safeties up.

And that means both running more and operating from under center more.
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