It’s put-up-or-shut up time for KP and time for us to see if he can be the man but is trapped behind MC’s ineptitude or if he’s just as bad as he looks.
Tomlin needs to let him loose for a half: if KP wants to work with MC to determine what plays work best for him, fine. If he wants to run a two-minute and call plays from the snap, fine. Hell, if he wants to go Varsity Blues, kick Canada out of the lockerroom and run the oopty oop, fine. Let KP (try to) cook.
The trade-off is if he looks as awful as he’s looked, he gets pulled in the second half in favor of Mason. We need a diagnosis on whether KP’s “regression” is Canada or if his earlier performance was all an illusion and/or wishful thinking on our collective behalf, and stat.
I think funniest thing is that this whole idea of play safe on offense, let your defense keep it close, win it at the end thing. Like, it makes sense to a degree, but what if instead, we allow Kenny to play a bit riskier football and let him uncork it, then rely on that elite D to overcome those mistakes but still put up more production on offense.
Either they don’t trust the D THAT much, the play caller is unable to design smart aggressive plays, or Kenny is scared. Which the latter sucks because if he’s scared then he definitely regressed.
I think he has too much pressure on him as it is rn anyways to play mistake free football