Pat Mahomes battling through
what reportedly was diagnosed as a high, ankle sprain
a scary hit early in the game and this is one of the things
that happened bodies get twisted together. Guys are big.
They're strong, they're heavy, the forces get applied. Look
like, ankle look like me. You were saying the other night,
sometimes that high ankle sprain hurts up into the knee,
so far
up into the, to the structure of the ankle, right? And
we
I was, I was concerned for Patrick. Hums because there was
no way he was coming out of the game. Even if there was
a fracture he was going to keep going
no matter what and they eventually had to tell him
you're going in to get it looked at or you're not going
back in the game period. So he went into the locker room.
Chad Henne did a great job in place of Patrick Mahomes
but he was back for the second
half. It was Willis Reed type stuff,
the way that he came back and play not that it was spectacular,
but
Pat Mahomes at at 60% if he was even at 60 percent, is better
than most quarterbacks. And just another reason
to understand and appreciate why this guy is so damn
special. That's damn right? I mean dead? You sure you want to
pick Joe Barone The Bangles against them right now? You
sure you want to do that, you want me to give you one more
chance to come back on that. And we think that after,
because at a, you know,
there's no, like this goes on, you're gonna go.
Damn, you're right. I am picking against this guy. This
is a little scary. I mean, what one
I mean, he magical competitor. I really I mean he's special
from that standpoint and I think the point is to is like
guys like this sometimes just don't
get the credit they deserve for how much they love the game and
they're a gym rat because we just call it so easy and he
just makes it happen. I have something Jason Garrett, said
it kind of said, right? When we were sitting the trailer guys
like
that, don't get that credit some time, but he's got it,
everything, he's got everything, he's got everything
you want, let alone, the physical. And that's what was
on display there.
A Love of the Game
a competitor that's is you know up there as any of the Great's
we've seen in the history of the sport.
That's a tough injury
and man just to battle through that and make some of the plays
and throws. He did just a phenomenal moment, it really
was. And just another, you know, Pelt on the horse or
whatever you want to say just to show the overall greatness
of this guy. I mean, first
off, we saw it here early on in the game.
I mean Jack Symbols game. Plan was good, right? Mike. We were
sitting there going, well, they're covered but hey, here
comes the jump pass. Scissor kick throw right. Which I mean
I've never seen before but he did that, then that hey, hey,
nobody opened, no big
deal, I'll just, you know, on the way down on the third down,
throw the ball and then of course things change. Right?
Mike when we saw the lack of mobility and he and apply
the game a different way but he
sucked it up and made it happen about as good as you can do it.
Here's Andy Reid, coach of the Chiefs and Mahomes
from, after the game, on the Mahomes injury, and
his effort to get back into the game.
Well, it was hard to get him out of the game. First of all,
he wanted to fight and so
we got them out, went to the X-ray, got it, x-rayed. Looked
at taped,
he came back and he said, he felt good enough to be
protected, you know, where he's not going to
get hurt, that's obviously the primary thing
and he felt like his Mobility was good enough where you could
do that. So
we do a few little things. With them on the sidelines and see
where he's at, put them in
and it was a short leash
obviously didn't want to go back and see it.
I don't want to go get the x-rays or whatever it was.
I wanted to just to continue to play.
I told him I would do it at halftime but coach, I mean, in
the best interests of me just made, he made me go
back there and get that x-ray before you put it back in
the game. And for a while, I thought I could get a get and
played through it. And then he said, you're not putting you
back in. So you might as well go get the X-ray
and then if it's if it's negative or whatever, I'll put
I can so I ran back there. Got the X-ray and was able to play.
Finish the game.
You got to make sure he's okay physically, okay, where he can
protect himself and if
he can't then he can't play. I mean, you have to go to
the next guy but he's a tough nut and he's very
I tell you he's competitive. He's very, very competitive.
I'm not coming out of a playoff game unless they take me out
and so I'm just gonna play. I love this sport too much.
I love this game. I loved playing with my teammates and being
able to go out there and And enjoy it together. And we were
we prepare all year to be in the playoffs and to playing
these games and
I'm glad that I was able to get back in the game. And I mean,
it's something that I just love competing in this Sport and
pain is pain and he got to deal with either way.
We were debating this in real-time in the bus
at the stadium because you were of the mindset he staying in no
matter what I'm like you know, he's a Sitting Duck out there
if he can't protect himself, they have to get him.
Off the field at some point. You have to protect the player
from himself and they eventually realized we can't
allow him to stay out there like this. He was to hobbled,
he was too clearly in pain and
and it look at work, they brought in Chad Henne, all he
did was author, the longest touchdown Drive in Chiefs
postseason, history 98-yard, methodical drive to get
a touchdown. And
Chris, I just think the psychology
when the Chiefs lose Mahomes.
Yep.
Everybody else stepped up right. Everybody else on
the Chiefs new offense. And defense,
we gotta step up,
we got to get it done.
And almost think the Jaguar is, the vibe was a little bit. I,
yeah, like we got out, right, right. And they did. Yeah. And
what they didn't really lock in the way they needed to and
the Chiefs, the Chiefs caught him. Yeah, that's I think
that's a fair way to say it. That did that was
a championship drive? That was a, that was championship-caliber
DNA that we saw there from the Chiefs where he went there.
That's a team. That's special understands wait. Next guy up.
Hey, wait, we got to rise to the occasion here because we're
not our total 100% selves here. That's where I think they're
different than yours past. You know, we've kind of hit on that
they're not. It's not as reliant on
Mahomes to always make magic
like we saw there.
I mean, you know their offenses good, their own lines. Good.
They can have they can lean on a running game for the really
the first time in a long time, in Kansas City, where they're
always Heard okay here Pacheco Pacheco. They didn't do that
enough in the game
but but that's where Mike and I know you and I when we had
dinner together Friday night, we talked about this a little
bit.
Just that one thing that jumped out to me about being at
practice on Thursday and this goes for a lot of the
really great teams in the sport.
There is first off, the practice was phenomenal and
they were sharp and flying around
but there's a belief
and a camaraderie in the team that just kind of oozes,
you know, Off of the practice field, you can feel it. Like
I was telling you let alone the energy, right? Mike, I was
trying to tell you, they were out of practice.
They were working hard as hell, but they had Smiles on their
face and I mean, it was Go, Go, Go. Whoo, but they were loving
it and it was like a team. You're going man, they're
hungry, they're ready to go.
And yeah, they got thrown a major curveball there
but show that, you know, they got something special and in
their flowing, in their, their, their body, their a little bit.
And that was, that was big-time performance by them
battling back. Back and staying staying ahead and win the game.
Only one that game by seven points. 2720, so the Jaguars
got the cover on a late field, goal and the Jaguars to their
credit did not wet at all the pressure. They didn't give up,
they didn't go away and they did have an opening when
Patrick
Mahomes was injured, but Mahomes came back and he was still
good enough. He said after the game,
he'll be good to go next week. I have no doubt that he'll
play. The question is, how effective will he be? And
I think back to Super Bowl 55 against the Buccaneers, when
you take away, just enough
of that special Aditi and elusiveness that he has
it it takes away something. Yeah, game and yes him in
a position where he can get sacked, he can get caught and
he had that toe two years ago and now he's got the ankle.
What they just need to do
is engineer their game plan
for him to get rid of the ball quickly. He's got to play like
jobber. Oh, sure. Rid of the ball quickly and don't try to
run around and do things because you can't try to run
around and do things. I'm glad you're going there because
I think there's there's there's some things here that I think
are good to unpack with this.
One had the Bangles a pretty good. You know,
we didn't see Joshua Allen running around yesterday, right?
They're pretty good at it.
We didn't see Mahomes really run around last year in the AFC
Championship game or even this year. So you know, this is
where I get into
like we've hit a lot this year, right? Mike would Mahomes
he's become more of a machine in the pocket
and maybe this is,
you know, God's plan, whoever football, God's plan of like,
hey, okay, you did, you were better in the pocket, you were
patient, you were
A jobber. Oh, like a little this year
and weren't always looking for the 50 yard bomb and checking
and down and doing things of that nature, right? That's as
where, you know, hopefully that comes back into his favor here
and
he's going to have to play Within the pocket. You're
right. I don't think he's going to be nearly as magical moving
around but if you can just move around and still throw the ball
and some awkward spots with his feet, you know, cockeyed or
whatever else
he still be able to
you know it's like we saw on social media one-legged
Mahomes.
He's probably still in the top 10 quarterback ranking, sure
Chris Simms to that's how damn good he is. So we'll see what
he can do, but we know they're a good team and they,
they pose a little more problems for you as a complete
offense, maybe than in years past, that hopefully can help
out that lack of Mobility from Mahomes.
I sometimes out there were take no-legged Mahomes,
maybe quarterback state
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