To some, he’s exactly the quarterback Andy Reid and the rest of the coaching staff say he is – that is, a QB perfectly molded for this offense. To others, he’s everything that’s wrong with the position, and a total disgrace to the Chiefs and the game of football. While it’s not a very common or popular opinion, I’m somewhere closer to the former of those opinions.
Don’t get me wrong – the way he was playing early this season (really the entirety of the season prior to last week’s game) was unacceptably bad. He was getting happy feet in the pocket, refusing to throw the ball deep, not seeing wide open receivers, and (even though it’s pretty much the only thing anybody could call him truly great at doing) he was missing the short and intermediate throws with regularity.