Donovan Jackson in rd1.

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(01-25-2025, 03:38 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: If I recall correctly, Mahomes spent the Super Bowl he lost running for his life. His OL was worse than our OL. Then the following year, they sign Thuney and draft Smith. We are in a familiar situation, we too need not 1, but two top quality guards.

In my opinion at a minimum, we need to go after one great guard like Thuney in FA and spend a 1st or 2nd round pick on a second.

KC went in decimated at T, not G.  IOL wasn't the issue.

For another, Tampa had KC covered all the way around that year. They had put up 31 by the end of the 3rd quarter and just sleep walked through the rest of the game.  Pressure on Mahomes was just one issue of many.

A huge issue is that KC and Mahomes were not going to enjoy the same sort of calls that they normally get when playing against Tom Brady.  There's a thread in JN breaking down the disparity of penalties between KC and the other playoff teams.  That really makes them hard to point at as an example of how to build a team.  You simply can't count on getting the amount of referee favoritism they do.  And the BS their OL gets away with is legendary.  They get away with murder, for one, and if they give up a negative play, there's a good chance the refs will bail them out with a phantom/ticky tack call on the opposing defense and wipe out their mistake.

But the smoking gun is why did they move their All Pro LG to LT?  Because they know it's way more important than G.