On Patrick Mahomes, decision-making and reading defenses

Patrick Mahomes talked on HBO about learning how to read defenses. When? In the pre-snap phase. What happens on a given play for a QB?

Patrick Mahomes seems to have it all.

An MVP award last season. A Super Bowl MVP award this season with a ring he will soon get to put on his finger. The scary part? He might just be starting to tap into what he can become as a quarterback.

The Super Bowl Champion got a little bit of attention on Twitter this week, when a scene from an upcoming episode of HBO’s “The Shop: Uninterrupted” was made public. In the clip, Mahomes relays how “[he] didn’t understand how to read defenses until like halfway through last year. ” He went on to say that “I understood coverages, but how to be able to pick up little tendencies defenses do, stuff that Brady and them have…I was just playing.”

Now, part of the attention that followed came along the lines of “[h]e can’t read a defense yet?” As Twitter does. But what Mahomes is really diving into is how to decipher what a defense is doing, before the snap, so it is a good time to outline what happens in a quarterback’s mind over the course of a single play.

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