Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes is damn near unstoppable when he has the football in his hands and he’s looking to throw it anywhere on the field. Your only defense at times is to keep him off the field by running the ball successfully.
Mike Florio has a different plan to keep Mahomes in check.
The owner/founder of ProFootball Talk suggested the 49ers “send a message” with some late hits either while he’s near the sideline are already in his slide.
“At a certain point you trade the risk of 15 yards if you can send a message. And football is still a physical, violent game. If you can hit him – even if it’s close to sideline, even if he’s started his slide – when the championship is riding on it I think it’s a different analysis. And yeah, we may give up 15 yards or half the distance to the goal line. I mean, that’s the thing Peter, if somebody had blown up Patrick Mahomes inside the 5, OK, it goes from the 4 to the 2, big deal. So again, I’m not saying that should be part of the deliberate effort but the Super Bowl is riding on it. And if this guy’s going to think he can just run through the defense without any physical consquence, they need to dispel him of that notion the first time he tries.”
He would later try to explain himself better in article:
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Nobody cared and he still got blasted:
