Post by JABF on Mar 7, 2020 10:12:57 GMT -6
Interesting article here. Mahomes admitted he couldn't read defenses until halfway through last season. What can we take from this in regards to Trubisky?
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The Kansas City Chiefs’ 24-year-old superstar, fresh off winning Super Bowl MVP, has been making the media rounds recently. First with Yahoo Sports, in which he revealed his offseason plans, and now with the LeBron James HBO show “The Shop,” a preview of which was released on Friday afternoon.
And in the preview, Mahomes — who threw for 5,097 yards and 50 touchdown during his MVP season in 2018 – admitted something that stunned the cast, and should terrify the rest of the league.
“I really didn’t understand how to read defenses until halfway through like, last year,” Mahomes said, referring to 2018. “I understood coverages, but how to be able to pick up little tendencies defenses do, stuff that [Tom] Brady and them have done, stuff that they know it and they just do it. I was just playing.
“And then this year, I could actually recognize more and more stuff. And I think the more experience and the more I learn, then I’ll be able to go out there and call plays and do that different stuff because I’ve seen it. I still think there’s a long way for me to go there, and that’s where mentally, I think I can still get better.
The Kansas City Chiefs’ 24-year-old superstar, fresh off winning Super Bowl MVP, has been making the media rounds recently. First with Yahoo Sports, in which he revealed his offseason plans, and now with the LeBron James HBO show “The Shop,” a preview of which was released on Friday afternoon.
And in the preview, Mahomes — who threw for 5,097 yards and 50 touchdown during his MVP season in 2018 – admitted something that stunned the cast, and should terrify the rest of the league.
“I really didn’t understand how to read defenses until halfway through like, last year,” Mahomes said, referring to 2018. “I understood coverages, but how to be able to pick up little tendencies defenses do, stuff that [Tom] Brady and them have done, stuff that they know it and they just do it. I was just playing.
“And then this year, I could actually recognize more and more stuff. And I think the more experience and the more I learn, then I’ll be able to go out there and call plays and do that different stuff because I’ve seen it. I still think there’s a long way for me to go there, and that’s where mentally, I think I can still get better.
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Patrick Mahomes revealed something on HBO’s “The Shop” that raised a few eyebrows — especially eyebrows of those around Chicago who’re still waiting for Mitch Trubisky to become a “master of coverages.”
You can look at this two ways. First: Maybe it’s not so bad that Trubisky still isn’t the “master of coverages” Matt Nagy said he needs to be back in January. We’ll give the benefit of the doubt here to Nagy that he meant Trubisky needs to know how to read defensive tendencies on top of coverages. That’s fine, and if Mahomes only got it halfway through 2019, then maybe Trubisky isn’t far behind.
Or: Mahomes won the MVP — the MVP! — while he was “just playing” in 2018. That’s proof you don’t need to be a true master of reading defenses to have success as a quarterback. Talent comes first; coaching comes second. The Mahomes-Andy Reid pairing, then, was good enough to produce arguably the greatest season a quarterback has ever had while said quarterback didn’t totally know what he was doing yet.
But what Mahomes said isn’t as surprising as it might seem on first glance. Veteran quarterbacks will tell you it takes two or three years for someone to truly understand how to read defenses. It’s a process for a young hotshot: A rookie bursts on to the scene, defenses adjust to his tendencies and skills, and he then has to manage those adjustments.
What we saw in 2018 was Mahomes have immediate success, then figure out how to stay successful in 2019 despite defenses adjusting to him. That’s what quarterbacks in Year 2 or Year 3 should be doing; instead, Trubisky regressed hard his third year in the league.
The Bears can continue to bank on Trubisky's developmental timeline being different than the instant gratification provided by Mahomes and Deshaun Watson. But it's an increasingly difficult bet to justify.
Patrick Mahomes revealed something on HBO’s “The Shop” that raised a few eyebrows — especially eyebrows of those around Chicago who’re still waiting for Mitch Trubisky to become a “master of coverages.”
You can look at this two ways. First: Maybe it’s not so bad that Trubisky still isn’t the “master of coverages” Matt Nagy said he needs to be back in January. We’ll give the benefit of the doubt here to Nagy that he meant Trubisky needs to know how to read defensive tendencies on top of coverages. That’s fine, and if Mahomes only got it halfway through 2019, then maybe Trubisky isn’t far behind.
Or: Mahomes won the MVP — the MVP! — while he was “just playing” in 2018. That’s proof you don’t need to be a true master of reading defenses to have success as a quarterback. Talent comes first; coaching comes second. The Mahomes-Andy Reid pairing, then, was good enough to produce arguably the greatest season a quarterback has ever had while said quarterback didn’t totally know what he was doing yet.
But what Mahomes said isn’t as surprising as it might seem on first glance. Veteran quarterbacks will tell you it takes two or three years for someone to truly understand how to read defenses. It’s a process for a young hotshot: A rookie bursts on to the scene, defenses adjust to his tendencies and skills, and he then has to manage those adjustments.
What we saw in 2018 was Mahomes have immediate success, then figure out how to stay successful in 2019 despite defenses adjusting to him. That’s what quarterbacks in Year 2 or Year 3 should be doing; instead, Trubisky regressed hard his third year in the league.
The Bears can continue to bank on Trubisky's developmental timeline being different than the instant gratification provided by Mahomes and Deshaun Watson. But it's an increasingly difficult bet to justify.