Matt Derrick

You've got to come up with some wrinkles that other teams – and that may mean borrowing from what some other teams are doing.

Yeah, and, you know, that to me, what's the purpose of a lot of the things that they're doing?

You know, when they were running the RPOs and that was a key part of the offense and everything,

I mean, you think about the fact that it was largely because at that point, they just didn't have much of a run game then either.

But I think it was probably a little bit better in the run game.

Last year, I think it was just the talent that they had at running back.

And it's not necessarily a huge knock on either guy.

I think it's more about the fact that Kareem Hunt is 85 years old and Isaiah Pacheco just has never recovered from the ankle injury.

You know, they had some guys back then, you know, like they had years where Gerald Williams was their leading rusher.

I mean, you had to scheme that run game.

And the RPOs were a big part of that.

But, again, the RPO part of it is the read's a big part of it.

And if you just abandon the read part of it and you're running RPOs and everybody in the league knows that 90% of the time it's going to be a pass and that you're not really –

doing a read-off of it, you know, your quarterback's not looking at his keys.

He just knows that he's going to throw the football 90% of the time.

Nobody's falling for that.

So, and, you know, and I think Mahomes absolutely got to a point.

And this is something, and I'm trying to remember, I think it was last year that Brad Veach said, and it could have been this year, but I feel like it was last year, that, you know, he said that and talked about things getting in Mahomes' head and just he's seeing things that aren't there.

And I think that has been a huge part of what's been wrong with the offense has been just that, you know, so much of it has been on him and so much of it has been on him to say, hey, here's the game plan, Patrick, make it work, rather than giving him the game plan that's going to work, that he doesn't have to make it work, that there's a big punch of it that's just going to work because you've got a better scheme than the other team, you've got better execution than the other team, and you don't just have to take advantage of your quarterback's

greatness to pull it off.