ti-amie wrote: ↑Mon Oct 25, 2021 12:45 am
What has happened to that team? I watch the Red Zone but they stayed long enough at one point to say that this years team is really not what anyone expected. And that was before the hit.
There have been signs that this was going to happen just not quite this bad, but honestly, the football media are Mahomes apologists of the worst order, so objectively critiquing the Chiefs hasn't been high on their list.
The O-line was declining last year. They tried to act like it was about that one player that is a doctor that took the year off to help with fighting covid, but it was never just that. The defense wasn't stopping much last year, and it's obviously even worse this year. I can't remember the exact stat, but it's something along the lines of the Chiefs have only covered their Vegas spread odds once or twice since the beginning of last season. That is just WOW! It's living on the edge. And more of a sign that "experts" shouldn't be that shocked that this was on the horizon.
All it's taken is one spin and throw from Mahomes to Hill to have the football media going all fanboy and forgetting anything they may have said that would resemble criticism, but given it's becoming more glaring now, I'm assuming we'll get more breakdown on what he's doing wrong and adjustments needed. For sure he's forcing the ball too much and entirely too cute entirely too often with the ball. He's also very fast on offense a la Chip Kelly, and that is problematic for defenses as Kelly had to learn the hard way. So we'll see what else is wrong (I think) as the Chiefs odds of making the playoffs continue to drop and actual analysis starts to be done on what's wrong with them.
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