Or just have an offensive line that doesn't unnecessarily hold when Mahomes is doing the very thing that makes him one of the best QBs ever.
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Ball hit him directly in the hands. Catch the ball.
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I agree with this take. The Chiefs haven't played their best football, except maybe for the Raiders game when everything came together. Even against Philly and Washington, they weren't firing on all cylinders.

Thing is, this season, I think the Raiders game is the outlier and the mean is something else. In a long season, a team will have a great game or two and a total stinker or two and what happens between them is more revealing of what the team really is. The games against the Raiders and Bills or Titans probably aren't who the Chiefs are. They are somewhere between those extremes.
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Uh.

In fact, that is exactly what happened.

Half this place doled out nothing BUT excuses for that guy for five years.
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Baltimore's needed every break on the books to not be a sub-.500 team at this point in the season.

The Patriots have needed a laughably easy schedule, with 2 of their wins vs. the Jets and 1 each vs. the Panthers, Texans, Falcons and Henryless Titans. They have one quality win against the Chargers and the game where they absolutely throttled the Browns. There's a LOT of fool's gold there.

I do feel bad for the Titans, though. That team was humming and would have coasted to the #1 seed. Now they're in a dogfight but still have a schedule that may allow them to limp their way to a bye. And if they get a bye, they MIGHT get Henry back in time for their first playoff game.

Buffalo is still the team in the AFC I'm most concerned with but it's sure hard to shake a loss to the Jags when they looked as bad as they did. That was a shocker.

I think the Chiefs can lose 1 and still pass them all but man there will be a lot of 'what ifs' if the Chiefs can't get that bye.
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This play is the epitome of what o.city and I are talking about.

Could/should Tyreek have caught this ball? Probably. Was high and hot, but definitely catchable.

But Mahomes is at fault here too. His footwork sucked, he threw sidearm from a ridiculously clean pocket and instead of hitting Tyreek in the numbers, he sails it high.


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Tyreek and Kelce should pay Pat 10k for every dropped pass, 25k for a dropped pass that is picked off.
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My friends and I were kinda kicking this around as well. I don’t think his drop/fumble was a result of that, but he’s been getting blasted this season. And I wonder if a few (not a lot, but a few of these in the dirt balls) are a result of Mahomes not throwing his WR into definite contact.

They have to work through this.
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Tell me, just who is my team? Who have I said is my team?
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If you have access, show the field version of where he hit Hill (or maybe Pringle IN FULL STRIDE (might have been our second drive) and the entire side of the field was open for a race to the pylon.

This team is just stepping on its own dick time after time. Those 5 or 6 plays make or break every game.

And we had 4 holding calls, with 3 accepted? Those killed us.
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Except Olineman are taught to get their hands inside and grab the chest plate part of the shoulder pads. That lets them maneuver the Dlinemen and keeps them from pulling away. As soon as Mahomes runs around in circles it makes the Oline "hold" when they weren't before. Trey Smith is using proper blocking technique. Mahomes is screwing that technique up.

In football, we had a word we'd yell when we had intercepted the ball. It told the defense to start blocking. I wonder if the chiefs could use something like that to prevent the holding calls. :-)
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That pass probably had at least a 75% catch probability rate… just like six of the other Mahomes’ passes that resulted in INT’s this season.
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I'd be curious if those numbers are actually available. My personal option is closer to 50% as it looked much more difficult at full speed than in the still.

With that said, if Mahomes sets his feet and throws over the top, he likely hits Tyreek in the numbers and the catch rate goes over 95%.
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The pocket was clean but Mahomes was trying to move to create a throwing angle. Its why he re-set and then threw it side-arm, he was trying to make sure he got it around that LB that was in that short zone and looking for a deflection.

That throw wasn't perfect but Mahomes was fine there. It has to be caught.
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He threw the ball too high and too hard. No reason to, pocket was clean. Mahomes is suffering from PTSD. Last year's poor protection made him skittish and the drops and ints this year have hurt his confidence. Andy needs to make Mahomes focus on proper fundamentals. WRs need their asses kicked about screwing up.
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