passes in a record-setting performance against the Steelers
www.chargersauthorizedshops.com , one that gave the Chiefs a big road win and may have stamped them as the AFC's
top team, when someone asked him how he planned to celebrate his
birthday.Mahomes said he planned to watch film of the San Francisco 49ers.If
that was merely the politically correct answer, though, and the 23-year-old
first-year starter planned to hit the town, he should have no shortage of Chiefs
fans willing to buy him drinks.They'll probably still be celebrating St.
Patrick's big day."I don't think that you could expect more from anyone," said
Chris Conley, one of five different receivers to catch a TD pass."He's handled
the times where he's made the plays really well. He's handled the times where he
hasn't. That speaks volumes."To be frank, there haven't been many times where he
hasn't made the plays.Mahomes was so dynamic in a Week 17 win at Denver last
season that the Chiefs traded away Pro Bowl quarterback Alex Smith and gave
Mahomes the starting job.Then he threw four TD passes without a pick in a
near-flawless performance in a road win over the AFC West-rival Chargers to open
the season.But his performance in Pittsburgh, where the Chiefs hadn't won a game
since 1986, was the kind of transcendent display that Chiefs fans have been
pining for since Len Dawson was taking snaps.Mahomes was 23 of 28 for 326 yards,
which means he threw more touchdown passes than incompletions. He made all the
right checks, scrambled when the opportunity presented itself, and kept his
poise when the Chiefs squandered a 21-point first-quarter lead by engineering a
near-flawless second half."Everybody knew how strong of an arm he has," Steelers
cornerback Mike Hilton said, "and he was making some decent throws, and his
playmakers made plays."Yes, it helps to have a dizzying array of talent
surrounding him.Kareem Hunt ran for 75 yards to provide just enough offensive
balance. Travis Kelce had seven catches for 109 yards and two scores, and Sammy
Watkins had six catches for 100 yards, lest anybody worry after their quiet
openers against the Chargers.Tyreek Hill added five catches for 90
yards
Los Angeles Chargers Womens T-Shirt , all in the second half, with another touchdown to punctuate his typically stellar outing.Still, it takes the
quarterback to deliver them the ball."There'll be games where teams try and take
away one or two guys and that's the good thing about this team is that no one
really cares about who is getting the shine," Mahomes said, after spending a
hefty amount of time praising his teammates. "Everybody just wants to
win."Nobody more so than Mahomes, whose 10 touchdown passes through the first
two weeks of the season broke the NFL record of nine shared by Peyton Manning,
Drew Brees and Charley Johnson.Those touchdown passes have gone to seven
different receivers, including fullback Anthony Sherman, which matches the
number of guys that caught TD passes all last season.And those six TD tosses
against the Steelers matched Dawson's 54-year-old franchise record for a single
game."It just speaks to the weapons that we have on offense. They can't stop
everybody," Mahomes said, "so for me, it's just about getting it to the guy that
has the man-to-man coverage or has the open area. Those guys were getting open.
The offensive line was blocking great. It was making my job easy."Perhaps the
only downside to so much success is that the expectations surrounding Mahomes,
which were already soaring in training camp, have soared to an almost impossible
level.One sports talk radio host wondered Monday whether Mahomes will break
Manning's record for TD passes in a single season. He's on pace for an absurd 80
of them, and while nobody expects him to maintain such a pace, the reality is he
needs to average just 3.2 per game to top the record of 55.Then there are the
expectations for the Chiefs. They've already beaten two teams that were thought
to be playoff contenders, on the road no less, and done so in fairly convincing
fashion.It's hardly surprising that Chiefs coach Andy Reid tried to keep
everything in perspective when he met with reporters on Monday. But that job is
becoming more difficult each week."The key to this thing is that you're growing,
that you keep growing. The more that these defensive coordinators have to study
it
Los Angeles Chargers Hats , you keep answering that bell, so that's his challenge right now," Reid said. "Is everything going to be roses? No. But he's
seeing things right now and doing a nice job."Kyzir White brings ball skills to
Chargers linebacker group In the Chargers’ 31-20 week two victory over the
Buffalo Bills, safety-turned-linebacker Kyzir White walked away with the
second-highest game grade on the entire team with an 86.7. The grade was good
for fourth among all linebackers across the league while his coverage grade of
90.5 was second-best among his position group.For those that forgot, White was
technically a safety during his time at West Virginia. His position, nicknamed
the “star” on the Mountaineers defense, was a hybrid role where White could use
his plus-size and physicality to step into the box and defend larger receivers
and reinforce the run defense.In Gus Bradley’s defense, White gets to thrive in
a similar role, one that was made famous bythe Arizona Cardinals and how they
use Deone Buccanon as an uber-athletic linebacker even though he weights just
215 pounds.White is tasked with being the “run-and-chase” backer. He gets to
clean up the backside of runs and shut down any attempts to slip a player out of
the weakside of the formation.To help ice the contest against Buffalo, and put
an exclamation mark on his stellar performance in coverage, White diagnosed a
pair of crossing routes as the Bills attempted to throw themselves out of the
shadow of their own endzone. While easily staying stride-for-stride with the
tight end, White jumped in front of the underthrown pass to record the first
interception of his NFL career.And, for what it’s worth, it’s not to see the
Chargers with a linebacker that didn’t have to sacrifice height for athleticism.
I know this may be nit-picky, but it’s just never sat right with me that the
Chargers have played the last two seasons with guys like Denzel Perryman (5’11),
Jatavis Brown (5’11), and Hayes Pullard (6’0) roaming the middle of the
defense.White gives the Chargers a type of player that they haven’t had in
recent years and should be used as a prototype going forward.
