Patrick Mahomes is both a player carrying one of the great early-career résumés in NFL history and one whose production since the start of the 2023 season has not aligned with his reputation. The all-time quarterback talent has not led impressive offenses since his 2022 MVP season, but the Chiefs' success in this period has masked this alarmingly unexciting unit's work.
Kansas City slipped to 15th in scoring offense in 2023 but won Super Bowl LVIII anyway. The Chiefs' first-stringers managed to go 15-1 in 2024, also doing so with the NFL's No. 15-ranked offense. Through two games this season, the team's hopes of a reignition on that side of the ball -- perhaps the central organizational talking point this offseason -- appear misplaced.
While the Chiefs will certainly improve once Rashee Rice's six-game personal conduct suspension ends, that is unlikely to be a cure-all. Personnel misses have created deficiencies here, and Mahomes has gone from a player on pace to be the greatest ever at his position to one struggling to remind consistently of his early artistry.
This is not to say the Chiefs' offense is talent-less outside of its quarterback; the team has an All-Pro center (Creed Humphrey) and a Pro Bowl right guard (Trey Smith). It also has seen promising early work from first-round left tackle Josh Simmons. While many teams would envy that O-line foundation, other issues have dragged the Chiefs into offensive mediocrity despite employing the league's biggest star.
I was wondering when it would hit the football page
This is lame
I think it’s more than fair to question some personnel decisions they’ve made. But I don’t think you can lay much at Mahomes’s feet. With middling WRs, a past his peak Kelce and less than stellar line play, I’m not sure a QB can do much more than he’s done.
They went to the SB two years ago with a dominant defense and middling offense. Last year they were weaker, but still had enough magic to win alot of close games making their record look better than they were. Years ago they had Hill and Kelce in their primes and had a dynamic offense. This year the offense is older and defense weaker based on attrition. Other divisional teams are stonger and their schedule is full of playoff teams. Hard to stay on top of the mountain forever.
Last season was Mahomes own fault for taking out Rice for the season. This season so far is Rices fault for being stupid and costing them 6 games.
KC is giving Mahomes the ol Aaron Rodger treatment and just refusing to adequately address the WR room.
Maybe one should ask if Mahomes is as good as everyone thinks. People anointed him the GoAt, seems like he hasn’t done much without prime Tyreek and Kelce. If we are being honest, he was not the reason they made the dance last year.
How about we blame Taylor Swift for not hooking up one of her girlfriends with Mahomes 🙂
If you are going to paywall your site I’ll stop visiting
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The site content is plenty good enough. A subscriber should get more than just a badge. I don’t object to exclusive content and other perks for these fans provided a balance is maintained. If 90% of content becomes inaccessible to non subscribers then a drop in visitors would result. That’s what occurred at Pro Football Focus about a decade ago and why I switched to this forum.
I only show up for the comments, not like that is paywalled and since this is a rumor site you can find everything on PFT, BR, ESPN, etc.