SoonerLou
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Posted this in another thread.Murray is, much of the time, fun as heck to watch. I don't really dig his personality, and I don't think he's doing the classwork/film study to be great, which I think is ultimately going to hold him back.
A lot of his TDs, IMO, are vultured from a running back in a more functional/balanced offense.
I think that we can all agree that his biggest plays are happening outside of schedule/play design. I don't see that he's working on the hard, boring, awful work that fixes and tweaks those little mechanical things, or wants to.
22 yard TD vs. 49ers
21 yard TD vs. WFT
14 yard TD vs. WFT
12 yard TD vs. Dolphins
8 Yard TD vs. Eagles
15 yard TD vs. Bills
Not to mention the rabbit out of his hat runs vs. the Seahawks and Lions where nothing was there and he found the endzone. Lions run was an under center boot I believe.
There was a few times where he could have "goosed" the stats more, but it seemed like we were determined to get Drake in the endzone.
I dont think he'll be a 10+ TD guy every year though. However, 7 to 8 seems likely.
And also is he not doing the work or is he not simply applying the work to the field yet? Those are two different things. Mahomes mentioned on a team loaded with speed/great players, coaching from Andy Reid, etc that he didnt really figure out how to read post snap defenses until midway his 3rd year.
"I understood coverages but how to be able to pick up little tendencies defenses do, stuff that Brady and them have done, they know it, and they just do it," Mahomes said on the show. "I was just playing."
"This year I could actually recognize more and more stuff," Mahomes said. "The more experience and the more I learn then I'll be able to go out there and call plays and do all that different stuff because I've seen it. I still think there's a long way for me to go there."
Russell Wilson said on Cowherd that it took until his 3rd year to get it. Was last year's struggles from Josh Allen because he wasnt putting in the work? Or he just couldnt convert it from practice to games yet.
Idk maybe Mahomes wasnt putting in the work.