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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

People have been mis-stating 'What Andy Reid looks for in his quarterbacks' for years. Andy Reid has had ONE rote, robotic quarterback under center for him in a 20 year career. One. Alex Smith.

Meanwhile he's had his greatest successes with aggressive, improvisational passers who can take the bedrock principles of his offense, use them when they're available and pull something from the fire when they're not.

I absolutely believe that he came to KC and wanted someone that would just do what's on the paper because he came into a franchise in turmoil and lets be honest, Reid's last couple of years in Philly weren't exactly sterling. He wanted to make sure he still had it and the way to do that was work with a steady variable under center.

He has the franchise back on track and he has his confidence back. He knows that this hard-wired, by the letters quarterbacking isn't going to work anymore in an NFL where defenses can only succeed by creating a maelstrom of shit for the QB to wade through. You can't blow guys up over the middle to dislodge the ball anymore. You can't rough up WRs in their routes (or even touch them, really). So you have to just create havoc and Smith was simply not handling that havoc well.

Reid saw it. He knew it. He's a 59 year old man that didn't spent the next 2 first rounders on a guy that's not going to do anything to help this team he's gumming his dinners. Because if Mahomes sits for 2, he still needs the 3rd year of live fire before you know anything. You think Andy Reid made gave up 2 picks so he could have a guy ready to rock in ****ing 2020?

What a bunch of idiocy. I think Andy Reid drafted Mahomes with the belief that there's a chance, albeit small, that Mahomes starts THIS YEAR. Not on day 1, but by week 17.