Arrowhead Report's Tucker Franklin explains how the Kansas City Chiefs' offensive talent at skill positions will not be enough to overcome poor offensive line play.
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00:00 Paula Jean she asked will the skill players of the Chiefs including Mahomes
00:04 Their strengths be enough to outweigh the loss of Caliccio simile and the rest of the poor offensive line play Paula
00:12 I thank you for your question short answer. No, I don't think it will be
00:15 The offensive line is more crucial than a lot of people think
00:20 The whole running game is based on offensive line play
00:24 It's based off of box counts and how well you block when the running back gets the ball
00:28 He can't control the blocks in front of him. He is a reaction player
00:32 This is this is the whole thing about you know, why running backs don't matter if you who is it Ben Baldwin has a site
00:41 About running backs don't matter and it talks about a nerd human translator when saying that
00:47 That's one of the articles I read and I was like, oh my goodness
00:50 Like that's that's a good article what they're saying is not, you know, Clyde, we're so obviously a great talent
00:56 He's a great football player his involvement in the passing game is gonna be very crucial. I think of the weeks moving forward
01:01 Yeah
01:02 Connor mentioned something on the podcast about putting him in the slot and I think is genius because you
01:07 Automatically get a mismatch with a linebacker with Clyde Eberts Hilaire and he can you know create space and he is so good in space
01:14 That she's haven't been able to put him in space though. And that's why we've seen kind of his dip after week one
01:19 He did have a really good week one. It was kind of a breakout game
01:23 So I can't really knock him that much because not a lot of not a lot of teams knew who he was or what?
01:28 He was gonna do obviously there's film from college
01:31 But the Chiefs offensive line hasn't really helped and we've seen Patrick Mahomes run all over the field with this offensive line
01:38 They're kind of struggling to contain three four man rushes
01:42 Which they shouldn't do and Patrick Mahomes is trying to make things happen now
01:45 I do think that some of this does fall on Patrick Mahomes. I know we don't like to talk about Patrick Mahomes doing wrong
01:51 I know that that is uncomfortable for cheese fans
01:53 But Patrick Mahomes might not be perfect when it comes to dropping back in the pocket and having a pocket presence now
02:00 I do understand that he did get his ankle stepped on several times by Cameron Irving last season
02:06 But Cameron Irving's no longer on this team. He's not so I think that
02:10 The skill overall will not be enough to compensate for a poor offensive line performance
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