Pete Sweeney

The long-term theory, the wide-lens theory, I should say, is that if you're able to have some sort of threat in the run game, which it really hasn't felt like the Chiefs had in quite a few years now, it should theoretically open up things for you downfield because teams will start feeling like they have to stack the box.

I think I was just mostly surprised that

If you had not known that he had gotten injured and he wasn't wearing a gigantic brace on his left leg, from a throwing standpoint, you really would not have known he was hurt.

And we're, what, five and a half months after a torn ACL and LCL?

Yeah.

I know that in the Andy Reid line about the schedule, but he's got to be ahead of whatever schedule that they had planned for him, in my opinion.

Again, not a doctor.

I thought that was interesting.

He didn't do 11-on-11 to reduce mobility, but he did do individual drills.

And watching him during those, working the pocket left, right, forward, backward, the different drops, those type of drills.

He looks pretty good in those, in my opinion, too.

I mean, but the Chiefs are being conservative from that standpoint.

They're not just going to throw him into 11 on 11.

And so I thought that was very interesting.

I thought Mahomes at the podium was pretty measured in saying, you know, I'm doing everything I can, but I understand that.

there is still a lot of runway between me and the light at the end of the tunnel.

I was trying to pin him down to some sort of timetable of when he could return to a full go of 11-on-11, but I thought he was candid.

He didn't really have an answer because the way that this works is the athletic training staff, the recovery team,

they give him very small incremental goals.

Bi-weekly, that type of thing, yeah.