Herm Admits Pass Rush Horrible, KC Star Thinly Veils Its Contempt

by UCrawford on Oct 7, 2008 10:36 PM CDT

It only took Herm Edwards five weeks to admit what's been readily apparent to the rest of the NFL for quite awhile.

The Chiefs' pass rush is the worst in the NFL.

The Chiefs have a putrid three sacks in five games; that's tied with Cincinnati for last in the NFL. Even worse, none of Kansas City's starting defensive linemen has a sack. Linebacker Derrick Johnson has two, and backup end Alfonso Boone has the other one.

This shouldn't come as a shock to anyone. When your strong safety has as many tackles for loss (1) as the guy who's supposed to be your top pass-rusher you've got serious, serious problems. Like the kind of problems that should cost coaches, coordinators and/or GMs their jobs if it continues for another five weeks.

Fortunately for the Chiefs they have a bye this week to work on their deficiencies in practice. Unfortunately for the Chiefs their opponents in Week 7 (the Titans) have only allowed two sacks all year and they're also on a bye next week.

It's an open question, though, as to who's got a more jaundiced opinion of Herm's promises to improve...me or the Kansas City Star

Edwards said the Chiefs might blitz more often and use Johnson and Demorrio Williams more often in pass rushing roles.

Read more about those plans, and the way that might backfire, in tomorrow's edition of The Star.

Right now I'm going to say the Star, only because Jason Whitlock's been trying to point out how bad the situation is much longer than I have.

This is a FanPost and does not necessarily reflect the views of Arrowhead Pride's writers or editors. It does reflect the views of this particular fan though, which is as important as the views of Arrowhead Pride writers or editors.

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Jared Allen's just loving it

by KansasCityShuffle on Oct 7, 2008 10:49 PM CDT 0 recs

Allen

has 13 tackles 2 of which are sacks. Not that great but I would love to have it.

by cmpotter on Oct 7, 2008 10:56 PM CDT up 0 recs

Sorry

but even the great mulletman wouldn’t be doing much different if he were still wearing a chiefs uni. If we had coaches that actually knew how to utilize their players we could be doing much better on both sides of the ball.

by ComeSackMyQB on Oct 7, 2008 11:01 PM CDT 0 recs

Then how do you explain

His production last year with the same coaches?

by primetime 07 on Oct 7, 2008 11:05 PM CDT up 0 recs

I'm not saying I even want Allen

but facts are facts. The man’s a beast and if he was on defense this season, we’d be a lot better.

What we’re going thru now is growing pains. Had to be experienced sooner or later

by KansasCityShuffle on Oct 7, 2008 11:07 PM CDT up 0 recs

Growing Pains Implies Improvement

Right now the guy who’s supposed to be our pass-rushing DE appears to be getting worse.

Supporting the lesser of two evils is still supporting something evil.

by UCrawford on Oct 7, 2008 11:41 PM CDT up 0 recs

Agreed

In order to have growing pains there should be at least a little growth:) This defense has regressed.

by cmpotter on Oct 7, 2008 11:48 PM CDT up 0 recs

I have to stand with UC on that

"But what do I know, I’m like an empty room with a large ECHO"

by Lanier63 on Oct 8, 2008 8:28 AM CDT up 0 recs

+1

And he has 2 years starting in the NFL so it shouldn’t be this big of a jump for him. I have never seen the talent from Hali that he was supposed to have. Look back at most of his sacks and they are just clean up from tackles that Jarred Allen missed.

by tevans96 on Oct 8, 2008 9:07 AM CDT up 0 recs

I think Turk

has proved himself to be our best rushing DE so far this season. He should definately get his chance on the right side.

by Shawn on Oct 8, 2008 11:21 AM CDT 0 recs

Agreed

He’s looking somewhat decent right now (no sacks, but he appears to be getting penetration) so it couldn’t hurt to switch him and Tamba. It’s not like McBride’s going to put up negative sacks versus other teams’ left tackles. :)

Supporting the lesser of two evils is still supporting something evil.

by UCrawford on Oct 8, 2008 11:23 AM CDT up 0 recs

HAHA

I would be all for trying a switch, though McBride might need to drop a few pounds – he won’t always be able to bull rush the larger and smarter Left Tackles…eventually, he’ll need to be able to run around them.

by PVChiefsfan on Oct 8, 2008 2:41 PM CDT up 0 recs

True

But I doubt that switching him and Hali could really hurt. It’s also not like the defense is going to suffer so much if the move doesn’t work out that they’ll be crippling the team’s chances.

Supporting the lesser of two evils is still supporting something evil.

by UCrawford on Oct 8, 2008 2:47 PM CDT up 0 recs

If you were tryintg to knock a hole in a wall

and after the umpteenth try of using a feather didn’t work, wouldn’t you step back access the situation and try something different like a hammer maybe?

Its the same thing with this team…the same old thing has not worked yet..TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENT HERMAN!

"But what do I know, I’m like an empty room with a large ECHO"

by Lanier63 on Oct 8, 2008 3:09 PM CDT up 0 recs