Arrowhead Report's Tucker Franklin and Jordan Foote discuss Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes improved decision making and how he showcased it against the New York Jets on Sunday.
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00:00 Patrick Mahomes decision-making has has been really good this year whether it's you know on the RPOs or just situational
00:07 decision-making because we talked about sometimes him taking sacks or
00:11 You know sliding down short of line of scrimmage to just kind of fight for another down or play play another day
00:16 Yeah, and I mean that's gonna come with experience I think and you can kind of look at potential interceptions or
00:24 What a turnover worthy plays or stuff like that and obviously those are going to be there with any quarterback
00:30 Guys thrown one interception all year the more he sees looks and the more he plays the better
00:36 He's going to get mentally and we're really seeing it this year. He's taking both the defenses given him and on Sunday
00:42 They gave him quite a bit
00:44 Yeah, they really did and I think it's so interesting the Jets went into this game
00:49 Probably not wanting Le'Veon Bell to beat them. I think that's probably what they said. Okay, okay
00:53 We're not gonna let Le'Veon Bell beat us. He only had seven yards
00:56 I think so he didn't beat them and it's now fun to see the deep ball return to arrowhead
01:03 It's not like it went very far
01:05 The deep ball didn't go away and hide in a closet or hide in the ball chest it went and
01:11 It was just on the sideline for a little bit. It was a little Chad Henney action
01:14 We've seen Chad Henney two weeks in a row
01:19 We're gonna get used to seeing Chad Henney might see him might seem a good next week when they take on the Panthers because the
01:25 Panthers do not look good. They just lost to the Falcons, which is not great
01:29 So, yeah, I mean
01:33 Chiefs offense looks really good. Now. The Jets are bad. I get it. The Jets are not good. They're very bad
01:40 Yeah, the Chiefs are in this low of their schedule where they should be beating teams like they're beating them
01:44 I think it's encouraging to see them take a
01:47 26 point win against the Jets a 27 point winning as the Broncos in this stretch right here. So I think that those are positives
01:54 Yeah, and we've talked I don't remember what week it was
01:58 It might have even been last week with our unnecessary roughness in our mailbag where?
02:03 people think that the Chiefs play down to their opponents and I mean
02:07 the numbers kind of show a little bit of that in the past, but
02:12 it's all back to that Vegas game and I wish we could just kind of wipe that from our memories because
02:18 Vegas is four and three. They're a decent team. They could push for maybe a playoff spot as a wild-card team
02:24 They are not nearly as good as two cheap
02:27 so like we can just wipe that away, I think in a few weeks after the by the Chiefs will come back and I
02:32 Don't want to start anything. I can't finish but I don't think that game is going to be particularly close
02:38 But anyway, the Chiefs really they should be beating teams like this. I mean, they're clearly better. They're better coach
02:44 They have better quarterback play the skill position players are better. The defensive stars are probably
02:50 Comparable if not better the defensive coaches are better. I mean special teams is playing better. The Chiefs are just better
02:57 I mean they are
02:59 Yeah, and it showed on Sunday one of the things that I really took away from these press conferences
03:05 I really like playing the audio for you guys
03:06 I think it's really really good for you guys to hear all this but
03:09 Both Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes talked about the RPO situation
03:14 RPOs or something that's taking over the game if you don't know what an RPO is
03:18 I guess I should have told you what the acronym for RPO is sooner, but it's a run pass option
03:22 So pretty much you have Patrick Holmes has like three decisions to make number one
03:27 If he's gonna hand the ball off to Clyde Everett Soler or if he's going to hand it off to
03:31 Love Bell whoever the running back is he's got that decision. So he's probably reading
03:36 The end so he reads that if the end doesn't bite or if the end bites on the run
03:42 He pulls it he can honestly choose to run it towards that inside if he bites down hard enough
03:46 And then he also has a route attached to it
03:49 so usually they are routes that find space in the zone that she's were being very effective against the zone that the
03:56 Jets were running Travis Kelsey my word Travis because he does not get enough credit
04:01 We're gonna talk about him a little bit more
04:03 but Travis Kelsey was really good at finding these soft spots in the zone and
04:06 Kind of sitting down waiting for Patrick Mahomes to hit him on those passes and Mahomes his playmaking has gotten really good at that
04:12 Here's what he has to say about running RPOs just in general the kind of the alignments of
04:17 Defenders they were really focused on stopping the run which they did a good job of doing we have to obviously try to be better
04:24 there but
04:26 They were coming down fast and I the guys were getting open in space and I was putting in their hands and I think the
04:30 The biggest thing was he kept calling those plays
04:32 He kept giving me the option to do
04:34 Run or throw the pass and I think when you do that
04:37 It's really puts a lot of stress on the on the defense now
04:39 I really like what Mahomes has to say there but here before we get into that
04:42 Let's get in to what Andy Reid has to say about Mahomes decision-making when it comes to running those RPOs
04:47 I mean he was spot-on today. I mean he he was a sand and shooting and he's very accurate with those things
04:53 Seeing him I'm saying then this throws are good too. So if he pulls it
05:00 But at the same time he's patient with the run part of it
05:03 He's got a good feel of the game and what's happening with it down and just why to feel position all those things. So
05:08 full trust in him
05:12 So Jordan now that we heard what Andy had to say about Mahomes is decision-making
05:16 What do you think about his decision-making? It's kind of hard to disagree with him on that
05:21 Yeah, I I read an article
05:23 during the week about Russell Wilson and the Seahawks and
05:29 the writer called it a
05:31 You're dead moment
05:33 Like he gets the line of scrimmage and like Peyton Manning had it
05:37 Tom Brady had it all the great ones have it Aaron Rodgers has it where you gets the line and
05:42 You're dead like the defense is done. No matter what they throw at you
05:45 No matter what they throw you post snap pre snap any of that stuff
05:49 Patrick Mahomes is in his third like full season as a starter
05:53 He's already getting those you're dead moments like he's admitted in the past that it took him a little bit to learn how to read
06:00 defenses even on simple things like RPOs
06:03 We rarely see Mahomes take the ball and tuck it and run because that's just not who he is
06:08 But we see him connect with short slant routes. We see him connect or hand the ball off to his running backs and he always
06:16 seems to make the right play and it's
06:20 Preparation it's him just being a smart kid. It's Andy Reid putting him in good positions to succeed
06:26 He almost always makes the right play whether it's with the ball in his hands or handing it to somebody else
06:31 It's really really really good
06:33 You
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