Analyzing Patrick Mahomes' Performance and Future Outlook

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00:00One of, to me, the biggest sign that the notion of Mahomes can just flip this switch whenever

00:07he wants was the Houston game.

00:10Because that was a top-five defense in football.

00:15And he looked the same way he had in the regular season.

00:18Made some plays, not that great.

00:20And the notion, again, for a lot of people was, it's Houston, he doesn't care, he's not

00:25trying.

00:26He'll figure it out.

00:27And then he was great against Buffalo.

00:28But to me, Buffalo was a much worse defense.

00:31And then we saw what this looked like against Philadelphia.

00:36So I will go to you first, Donny.

00:37Your takeaway specifically on the Patrick Mahomes performance and maybe what it means

00:43big picture.

00:44Big picture, I don't think it means all that much.

00:46We know how talented a quarterback he is, and the way you get to a quarterback and rattle

00:50him in any situation is, you don't even have to blitz and the four guys are getting home,

00:54which means every time he takes that snap, the first thing he's looking at, did the defensive

00:58tackle blow up my guard?

00:59Is Joe Tooney on the left side who is a guard playing tackle?

01:01Oh my goodness, did he get a handle on a defender?

01:04But for me going forward, you saw what happened a couple of years ago, more than two years

01:08ago, when Kansas City got beat in the Super Bowl by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

01:12Almost the same MO.

01:13They crushed the pocket left and right.

01:15Andy Reid made adjustments by going out in the offseason and rebuilding that offensive

01:19line.

01:20So if you tell me that that same MO was going to happen, which when you lose the Super Bowl,

01:23it stings.

01:24And as soon as you lose, you're like, you know, right back to the chalkboard.

01:26Why did we lose this football game?

01:28Well, we got dominated in the trenches.

01:30So let's just say they get a left tackle that's serviceable and a right tackle that's serviceable

01:34and they go back to have one of the best centers in football.

01:36Tooney, one of the best centers, excuse me, one of the best guards in football goes back

01:40to guard.

01:41They're going to be right back where they were.

01:42Rasheed Rice is coming back next year.

01:44You know, another all, I was going to say a true offseason with Marquise Hollywood Brown

01:48at the wide receiver position and also taking a look at Xavier Worthy.

01:51And they might add on.

01:52Who knows if Travis Kelce is going to come back.

01:53We'll talk about that in just a little bit.

01:55But for me, it was a shocking display of how Patrick Mahomes, he said the 11 QBR rating.

02:02We've never seen that before.

02:03But I'm not looking at this and hey, you know what?

02:05The dynasty is crumbling.

02:06They'll never get back.

02:07Patrick Mahomes isn't 41 years old like Tom Brady or Aaron Rodgers at the end of his career.

02:12He is right in the middle of his prime and Andy Reid is coming back next year.

02:15I'm not worried about Kansas City.

02:17They'll be in the playoffs.

02:18They'll be playing for an AFC championship game.

02:20And it won't be crazy if somebody says, you know, Donnie, fast forward.

02:23They're back in the Super Bowl next year.

02:25Adjustments will be made, which means beef up, Joe, that offensive line.

02:29Yeah, there'll be a contender for the AFC championship.

02:32I believe that.

02:33And I think they need to change their offensive philosophy a little bit.

02:36You saw it in garbage time where you saw Pat Mahomes go deep to Xavier Worthy.

02:41Those plays were far and few between throughout the regular season, whether it be the lack

02:46of experience, maybe out of Xavier Worthy and the lack of confidence.

02:50But that was the biggest transformation.

02:52When you look at the offense, when they used to have Tyree kill to what we see now, a lot

02:57of the throws throughout the regular season, even when Rashid Rice was in there, were over

03:01the middle.

03:02They were short to intermediate routes.

03:04We didn't see those chunk plays in terms of post patterns, fly patterns, the aging wide

03:09receiver.

03:10I think in terms of Juju and DeAndre Hopkins hurt them to a capacity and to a degree.

03:17But now when you have Rashid Rice coming back, you have Xavier Worthy and now a healthy

03:22Hollywood Brown, you have to get back to that offensive chunk plays and allowing and putting

03:27the football into your quarterback's hands.

03:30And I'm talking about grip it and rip it, throw it deep so you could set up the rushing

03:34attack.

03:35They need a legitimate running back, the journeyman running backs of Isaiah Pacheco.

03:39Even though he's a younger running back, he's not a lead and explosive.

03:43You need a guy, a homerun hitter, whether it be Gente or someone in this draft that

03:48can take it from point A to point B to take the pressure off of that offensive line.

03:53So I agree that they should try and do those things, but I don't understand why them never

04:00doing any of those things was so okay with everybody.

04:03Well, I do understand it's because they won.

04:05Nobody cared.

04:07But does anybody now want to acknowledge that they haven't looked to the same for a few

04:12years now?

04:13No, we'll be on.

04:14It's not like all the same in the game.

04:16They were winning different ways.

04:17They recognized from an, I believe from an organizational standpoint, they didn't have

04:22the elite speed on the, on the perimeter anymore.

04:25They try to have that with Rasheed Rice.

04:27He was developing into that type of homerun type of hitter.

04:30And then he got hurt against the Chargers.

04:32And all of a sudden their identity and M.O. changed.

04:35We're going to methodically win games, lower scoring, rely on the defense.

04:39But then you get exposed when you play a complete team like the Philadelphia Eagles

04:44that are there from an offensive perspective, but oh, by the way, have the best defense

04:49at every level.

04:50Kev, look at some of these other teams.

04:52You want to talk about some of the teams that they played, the Chargers in the division.

04:56They're not a lead at every level of the defense.

04:59They don't have a legitimate secondary, a legitimate linebacker core and a dominant

05:04front seven.

05:05You can have one or two pieces, but not a complete team.

05:09And that's a difference.

05:10I think when you look at the Eagles, they are legitimately complete at every single

05:15level.

05:16You're talking about four defensive tackles in lineman, linebackers to the Kobe Dean when

05:21he was there in Zach bond, I mean every level for the most part of the secondary.

05:26So where, where do you expose Philadelphia?

05:29You don't.

05:30So I think that that is true.

05:32I just think that if Patrick Mahomes is who everyone thinks he is, and I'm not saying

05:38I'm outside of that, the way he has played for two years now could only be explained

05:45away by he's not trying just wait for the playoffs, right?

05:50And then we saw that was not the case.

05:53These are numbers that we pulled earlier this week on game time decisions.

05:57First five seasons as a starter, passer rating, total touchdown yards per attempt.

06:03First in this league by a mile last two years, 17th and passer rating ninth in total touchdowns

06:11and 20th in yards per attempt.

06:16Is that not concerning to anybody that for two years now in the regular season, he has

06:21statistically has no argument to be seen as a top eight, 10 quarterback in the league.

06:28I think part, I think part of that is the person.

06:31I think part of that is the personnel in the play calling, meaning when Andy Reed says,

06:36you know what?

06:37We don't have speed on the outside, so we're going to call plays underneath.

06:40We're going to go to Travis.

06:41We're going to go to obviously Xavier worthy on sweeps on reverses on short routes.

06:47See if we can.

06:48They don't have or didn't.

06:50I can't remember a game where Pat Mahomes was throwing 25 and 30 yards down the field

06:57vertically.

06:58Everything was underneath Donnie for the most part.

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