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mes took the league by storm in 2018. Can they Rashad Fenton Kansas City Chiefs Jerseys , and he, do it again in 2019?That’s one of the biggest storylines of the 2019 season.Whenever someone like Mahomes emerges out of the blue and dominates the way he did, opposing defenses spend the offseason obsessing over coming up with ways to slow him down. The 13 teams on the docket this year (he plays three of them twice) surely have studied every game, every snap, every throw for anything that could be used to keep Mahomes from doing to them what he did to pretty much everyone last year.The Patriots may have provided the blueprint for the rest of the league in the AFC Championship game, which didn’t exactly shut down the Kansas City offense but ultimately slowed things down enough to outscore them in overtime. Although the Chiefs require a defense to cover every blade of grass on the field, given the power of Mahomes’ arm and the speed of Tyreek Hill‘s feet, the Patriots chose to defend the deepest areas of the field, keeping the ball in front of them and forcing the Chiefs to move more deliberately than perhaps they’d like.Ultimately, nothing any defense does may matter. Mahomes is at his best when he’s forced to improvise, and there’s no amount of planning that can keep a guy with uncanny gifts from winning what becomes a schoolyard scramble. If defenses decide to avoid chaos, Mahomes has the arm and accuracy to pick them apart from the pocket.That said, it won’t be easy for Mahomes to match what he did last year. But just because other quarterbacks have struggled in their second seasons as the starter Kansas City Chiefs Jerseys Stitched , we’ve already seen that there’s something very different about Mahomes. If that’s the case, the 2019 Mahomes will be the 2018 Mahomes — and maybe even better.So get ready for more funny-body throws from various arm angles, with no-look passes and left-handed passes and Fran Tarkenton scrambles and balls heaved off the wrong foot or with no feet on the ground at all. No amount of coaching can stop that kind of special talent, and it’s something the NFL will get to enjoy for as long as Mahomes has the physical ability to do it. Kansas City lost Mitch Morse and Chris Conley to free agency this offseason, but the Chiefs head coach didn’t seem all that worried on Monday."Most fans are well aware the Kansas City Chiefs defense underwent a major overhaul this offseason with coordinator, scheme and personnel changes. The offensive changes—specifically the losses of wide receiver Chris Conley and center Mitch Morse, who had 802 (76.75%) and 678 (64.88%) of 2018’s offensive snaps for the Chiefs, respectively—have gone a little under the radar. But not to Chiefs head coach Andy Reid, the man responsible for making sure his No. 1 offense does not skip a beat in 2019.“We lost some guys, some guys we’ve counted on here for a few years,” Reid said during his opening offseason press conference Monday. “They’re good football players, and we wish them the best, on both sides of the ball Rashad Fenton Jersey nfl draft , but [Conley and Morse] for sure.”The Jacksonville Jaguars signed Conley and the Buffalo Bills signed Morse during free agency.“They’re going to do a great job,” Reid added. “It was good to see Nick [Foles] and Conley get back together (in Jacksonville) and then Mitch went up with a close friend of mine (Bills head coach Sean McDermott). They’re all in good hands and they’re going to do well.” But Reid and the Chiefs are now tasked with finding ample replacements.“We have to fill in those [spots],” Reid said. “We were lucky enough to have Austin [Reiter] here to work some at center and did a nice job when he was in there and we got good competition at that spot, so I’m not worried about that.”With Morse dealing with a concussion and Jordan Devey on injured reserve (torn pec) during the middle of the 2018 season, the 27-year-old Reiter started four games for the Chiefs and performed well. The Chiefs rewarded Reiter with a contract extension in early December.Whereas you may think finding a receiver to replace Conley could be a different story, Reid sounded especially high on Demarcus Robinson on Monday.“D-Rob’s grown the last couple of years, and it was important that he took that step up this past [season],” Reid said. In his limited role (40 percent of offensive snaps), the 24-year-old Robinson caught 22 passes on 33 targets for 288 yards and four touchdowns. Robinson had a touchdown in each of the Chiefs’ final three regular-season games.“He and the quarterback (Patrick Mahomes) have kind of a unique chemistry that goes on, and they’ve had some big plays there,” Reid added. “The quarterback likes him and has a lot of trust in him... I can’t tell you exactly how it came about, but it came about. The one thing I can tell you—D-Rob will continue the play. There’s no pulling up on a play. Sometimes guys will take a breather on the back end if the play’s going over here (the other side of the field). D-Rob’s 100 miles an hour getting over there. You think about how many plays he made this past year by just that sheer hustle on every play. Our quarterback knows if he gets in trouble, somewhere D-Rob’s going to show up. He’s developed a little of that trust and chemistry I think.”Reid said Robinson fits right in with the team’s top two receivers.“Keeping Sammy (Watkins) in there working Womens Rashad Fenton Jersey , I think is good, too. He can play anywhere in there, so I think we’re good inside, outside, and with Tyreek (Hill), also. I think that’s a pretty good corps right there.”As of now, the third receiver position appears to be Robinson’s job to lose. That is, like anything this time of year in the NFL, subject to change. The draft begins next Thursday night.