{"id":12444,"date":"2024-10-27T23:05:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T23:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=12444"},"modified":"2024-10-27T23:05:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T23:05:56","slug":"match-day-live-chiefs-quarterback-patrick-mahomes-goes-off-with-concussion-scare-shortly-after-scoring-td","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=12444","title":{"rendered":"Match Day Live: Chiefs Quarterback Patrick Mahomes Goes Off With Concussion Scare Shortly After Scoring TD"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The quarterback has more interceptions than touchdowns this season. But his struggles speak more of a player adjusting to circumstances than one in decline.<\/p>\n

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Seven weeks into their bid for immortality, the Kansas City Chiefs are undefeated. They\u2019ve ripped off wins against the likes of the Ravens, 49ers and Bengals on their way to a 6-0 start. On defense they\u2019ve been elite, putting a succession of the game\u2019s best quarterbacks through the blender. The back-to-back champs should have the feel of a runaway juggernaut, but something is amiss with KC\u2019s offense.<\/p>\n

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Given his body of work, Patrick Mahomes is the best quarterback in the NFL. That isn\u2019t an opinion, it\u2019s a statement of fact. But through the opening stages of the season, the Chiefs have fielded a middling offense and Mahomes has been a statistically middling quarterback. The Chiefs\u2019 offense has yet to score 30 points in a game, despite facing only one defense in the top 12 in EPA\/play, a measure of a unit\u2019s down-to-down effectiveness.<\/p>\n

Hand Mahomes that kind of schedule in an ordinary year, and you could hand in your MVP ballot in October and hit the cocktail bar. Instead, the Chiefs\u2019 quarterback is off to the worst regular season of his career and Lamar Jackson is, correctly, favorite to win MVP for the second year in succession. Mahomes, on the other hand, is completing a solid 67% of his passes but has thrown only six touchdowns to eight interceptions. His passer rating through seven weeks (82.5) is 20 points below his career average (102.5). If that\u2019s not enough, Mahomes has had more games this season where he\u2019s thrown for fewer than 150 yards than he has games where he\u2019s eclipsed 300.<\/p>\n

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But those figures are not illustrative of Mahomes\u2019s overall game. There have still been moments of individual brilliance, with the quarterback dragging a beleaguered offense over the line in tight contests. He continues to influence games with his legs, scrambling to avoid negative plays or to keep the chains moving. But, as we approach the half-way point of the regular season, KC\u2019s passing game has hit one of the lowest ebbs of the quarterback\u2019s career.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just don\u2019t think it\u2019s normal for what you\u2019ve seen from us because there\u2019s not a lot of passing touchdowns,\u201d Mahomes said this week. \u201cThere\u2019s been a lot of turnovers, especially by me. So, I think it\u2019s just showing the versatility of our team. It\u2019s not just about me. It\u2019s not just about the stats and the light show and stuff like that. It\u2019s about playing team football.\u201d<\/p>\n

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At his best, Mahomes is an offense unto himself: a slick playmaker who warps defenses, dicing them up from the pocket or extending plays to engineer shots downfield. But that version of Mahomes has yet to show up this season. These days, Mahomes plays with old-man savvy. On a possession-by-possession basis, he toggles personae. The old swashbuckling Mahomes is in there, ready to burst out when required. But Mahomes, who is still only 29, now spends prolonged stretches of games channeling late-stage Drew Brees, handing the ball off to the team\u2019s bruising runners and methodically marching the Chiefs down the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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