That’s 100% on Mahomes

I mean, Mahomes threw the ball to James because the back pushed him over. That should be called

People get freaked out too easily. Maybe we’ll lose, but this game is still very winnable

Just seeing a lot of Mahomes hesitating and not taking open shots.

Mahomes’ completion percentage is like 23% higher.

So this video isn’t too bad at breaking down the overall problems with the blitz: the Chiefs are struggling with it more than in years past, and that’s mostly due to sight adjustments being worse than previous years when Mahomes had either Hill or Smith-Schuster.

However, I think you’ll see this problem quickly correct itself if Rice consistently beats man like he was Sunday. Also, Mahomes destroyed the Eagles in week 11 when they blitzed.

So yeah it’s been an issue, but it’s an issue that works itself out like a lot of other receiving issues if Rice can give the work.

I really hope we just renovate Arrowhead. It’s become such an iconic stadium.

Speed is not an issue for him being a WR1. Look at the top speed for a bunch of other WR1s like AJ Brown or Davante Adams. They have the same speed as Rice.

He is definitely a high WR2 right now who, if he performs at or above the level we saw vs the Raiders, is a WR1. I think that potential is what people are more pointing out.

I think with the emergence of Rice as the #1 WR you’ll see Kelce able to get more favorable coverages, too. So we are likely to see some better numbers from him down the stretch.

That 2022 draft class just gets better and better.

He’d be WR1 on a decent number of teams with a performance like that. Not saying he’s top 5, but neither was Juju last year.

This game showed you what the real Chiefs offense looks like: Mahomes, Kelce, Pacheco, and Rice. Plus a little bit of depth help from Gray and Watson. That looks like a good offense to me.

I was initially joking about having to go to r/nfl, but this sub ain’t it. Where ever the toxic, negative fans are coming from I hope they disappear after a while.

So a couple points on this film:

- Slow the playback of the film to 0.25 or 0.5. You’ll see the plays develop much better.

- Rice runs his routes fine. They need work, but they’re not bad enough to be a huge problem. Routes are supposed to get you open in “windows” and separation from defenders is not indefinite. Rice has plenty of open windows on film here.

Also, Mahomes misses a bunch of wide open players. Here are just some of the time stamps I noticed just watching through once:

- Pop at 0:24.

- Rice at 0:32 has inside leverage and Mahomes has him in his read as long as he throws on schedule but he holds.

- Toney at 0:43 is ridiculously open.

- Both Rice and Kelce have good inside leverage at 0:51 but Mahomes understandably goes to Kelce.

- Rice is wide open at 0:59 if Mahomes had just kept him in his sight instead of moving on to his next progression.

- Mahomes has Kelce at 1:07 but instead throws to Watson for an interception.

- Rice at 1:26. Mahomes really could have gone to Rice instead of Watson.

- Kelce at 1:34 is wide fucking open and I have no idea what Mahomes is doing here. This one is really bad.

- Kelce at 2:05 and Mahomes just misses this throw from waiting a touch too long.

- Kelce at 2:59 is far more open than Watson and should be in Mahomes vision.

- Rice at 3:12 but Mahomes just does not go into motion even though Rice is in his progression and Rice has plenty of space.

- Kelce at 3:21 is a good read by Mahomes but the throw is too far in front.

- Rice at 3:40 badly beats his man.

So watching this, I notice Kelce and Rice getting open a bunch of times and Mahomes either waits too long or throws to Watson instead which ends up as either an incompletion or interception a lot.

How negative this sub is this year makes me long for how negative it was last year, and I hated it last year, too. At least last year we had memes.

No, that’s not my argument at all, and my TLDR doesn’t say anything near that. It’s that the receivers people are bashing are the same or slightly better on drops than last year. I’m simply adding at the end why those receivers can both be the same on drops and Mahomes can be trending towards more dropped passes on the season than last year.

PFF has Mahomes at 19 drops on the season. I don’t know where this 26 number is coming from. People cite the number, but can’t give its source.

Its not a surprise though. Every team looks at basic stats like this. Every team can tell who the best members of a particular position are. Rice being the best receiver would surprise no one.

We just lost to the Eagles because we over relied on two highly unreliable players - Watson and MVS. Look at any other top tier team - Eagles, Cowboys, 49ers, Bengals, etc. They do not spend a bunch of targets on WR3s. You feed 2-3 players most of your attempts, and spend 20-40% on your WR3s. That’s normal. The Chiefs should be targeting either Kelce, Rice, or our third best receiver - probably Toney - 60-80% of the time. Everyone else gets the remaining attempts. That’s exactly what we did last year with Kelce, Smith-Schuster, and MVS.

Right now our 3 most unreliable receivers - MVS, Watson, and Moore - are getting about 35% of attempts among our WRs and TEs. That’s just for our 3 most unreliable players. That’s just too much for those guys. You need a receiver to be “the guy” for Mahomes who is on the field 90%+ of snaps. That’s Rice.

Aren’t Mahomes and Jones higher paid than any player on the Eagles’ roster?