What was going on here…..?

reed smartly didn’t tackle him. You know it would’ve been an instant roughing the passer even if the hit was clean. Good play by reed

 

The was a big whiff. Mahomes still had the ball in his hands, Reed could've generated a turnover there.

 

The NFL has decided that other teams are not allowed to hit Mahomes

 

I think Reed sees Mahomes and our player coming in so avoids it all. Any Safety would love that chance to hit a player. So I have to believe he avoided the hit on purpose.

 

At that rate of speed Reed could have ended Mahomes's season.

 

I thought the same too but look close at the video, reed swats at the ball and knocks it loose but mahomes gets control back and tosses it away..
he was trying to avoid a penalty, I thought he may have whiffed but this angle and zoom you can clearly see him hit the ball away.

 

I can see Reed getting clowned in the film room...

 

Maybe Reed thought he had picked off the ball and was racing into the Chiefs end zone. Just another whiffed tackle by a pro defender, which happens multiple times in any game. Usually, they make it look a little better than this.

 

I woulda preferred it if Reed did something like this

 

I think that was CGI.

 

Of course he knew that he wouldn't be hit. I'm sure Reed knew good and well that he would have been ejected and suspended probably for the next two games.

Mahomes is hugely important to the NFL, now even more than he was in previous years. He's a much more reliable deliverer of the football to Travis Swift than Blaine Gabbert could ever hope to be.

 

It was a ghost. That happens on film at football games all the time now.

 

I like Mahomes, but that was a chance to give him the Mike White treatment.... all's fair in love 'n war

 

Good eye! I missed that, too and thought he completely whiffed.

 

Mods, please change thread title to:

"Who's faster: DJ Reed or Jim Sweeney?"

 

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