10-09-2019, 08:39 PM
(10-09-2019, 08:23 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: Nothing is wrong with my post. Any good QB, after a period of time, is going to flee the pocket if no one is open. No one just stands back there forever. Plus, if no one is open and there's green in front of you, why not run?
Your point was, he's not a pocket passer and he will struggle if you keep him there. The numbers actually show you are completely wrong.
The numbers that you are showing are the times when he has 0 pressure. So sure... go with your wrong assessment. Keep loving you some Mahomes.
The truth is that when he was forced in staying in the pocket, due to his bum ankle, he overthrew his WRs by a much greater margin than he should have. The defense knew he couldn't escape the pocket because of his ankle and so they played him the way they would play a pocket passer like Brady or Dalton or Brees, which means he rushed his throws to compensate for his inability to escape. They got more pressure on him and while under duress, without his natural scrambling abilities, with his WRs not getting wide open, he missed his targets.
The Colts did keep the ball a long time, but it wasn't like they were scoring TDs, they only scored FGs. So Mahomes should have been able to stand in the pocket and deliver strikes, leading his team to a win, right? He had his chances in that game, but failed because he was made to stay in the pocket. Luckily for the Colts it was due to his ankle injury, since they weren't keeping him in.
