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Originally Posted by kcclone
Not an easy assignment. I think your only hope to defend this offense is to get pressure with 4 and drop 7 (probably 6 DB's) and hope you can somehow contain our run game from that.
If you tie up 1-2 of your outside rushers by playing contain on Mahomes, then you either have to bring pressure with the blitz or go with a soft rush (3 or 4) and hope he doesn't have all day.
I like where our OL is at currently, if they don't try to bring pressure.
Mahomes showed plenty of patience last week. Eventually someone gets open if you don't pressure Mahomes.
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The problem with that, as it has been all year, is that you're basically designing a defense to keep him in the pocket. As Colinsworth said last weekend, the idea that Mahomes doesn't operate well in the pocket is a myth. You're inviting him to pick apart your defense.
The Patriots don't have Ford, Houston, and Jones. A 4-man rush isn't going to get it done. They're going to have to blitz and try to make him uncomfortable, which means he's going to be scrambling a lot. If they try to use a CB, somebody isn't covered well enough.
Of course, we're both talking about hypotheticals. As you can see from the discussion we're having, you really can't stop Patrick Mahomes.
