Damion McIntosh Still Starting Right Tackle

by UCrawford on Oct 8, 2008 4:39 PM CDT

So much for the hope that Herb Taylor will get a shot on the right side against Tennessee. According to the Q & A with Herm Edwards from the mothership, Damion McIntosh isn't going anywhere.

Q: When Branden comes back are you guys going to move T Herb Taylor to the right side?

EDWARDS: “Herb is a swing tackle, he can play both sides. We’d like to keep those guys together. (T) Damion (McIntosh) has been moved from left tackle to right tackle so he’s kind of learning his way. As well as our right guard (Adrian Jones), he was a tackle before. So that’s something we’ve got to shore up, we’ve got to do a better job over there. Herbie (Taylor) can play both sides and obviously he did a good job last week. He’s come in and played pretty well. We’ll just take a look at all those kinds of situations and see what we need to hit.”

Here's a question...what exactly is it that McIntosh does that has Herm convinced there's any potential? He's given up a sack a game. He got toasted last week by a second year defensive end who had half a sack for his career before playing the Chiefs. He's so slow in pass-blocking that we can probably count on seeing our opponents' best pass-rushers going up against him for the most of the season even if Branden Albert doesn't turn into a franchise left tackle this year. He can't open holes in the run game against capable defenses. And he's 31, so this is likely as good as he's ever going to get.

Seriously, what in the hell is Herm doing during the week when he's supposed to be watching film of the games? Does he even watch film of the games? Hell, does he even pay attention to the games when he's sitting on the sidelines?

H/T: KCFanatic

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Ugh

I read that and just cringed. Herm reminds me of my old man…stubborn as hell – I just don’t understand it which I always wrote off as the generation gap.

by primetime 07 on Oct 8, 2008 4:40 PM CDT 0 recs

Good Point

And he’s 31, so this is likely as good as he’s ever going to get.

And chances are he’s going to regress (which he already has IMO).

by primetime 07 on Oct 8, 2008 4:41 PM CDT 0 recs

Does this give you

Any idea what lies ahead, if Herm is our future? He will not adjust, even on a bye-week! This guy makes my consistent bitching about him relevent. Man this sucks.

by Eric Allen on Oct 8, 2008 5:06 PM CDT up 0 recs

It's A Dark, Bitter, Bleak Future With Herm

I think can’t think of any other coach currently in the NFL who can make the Royals look like a paragon of competence by comparison.

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

by UCrawford on Oct 8, 2008 5:08 PM CDT up 0 recs

And he’s 31, so this is likely as good as he’s ever going to get.

You make an excellent point here UC, I mean, I can understand at some level that they need to take a good long look at players like Carr for instance, even though he got torched a couple of times last week – he’s a young player, makes sense. Let’s get a good long look at him – and honestly from what I’ve seen Carr could end up being the real deal… something to get excited about.

Then there’s Big Mac. He’s 31. Granted, he is learning a new position, however I think it’s important to note that MANY O-Lineman are able to line up at more than one position. Second year man Herb Taylor for instance. SacIntosh has now had, what, 8 or 9 games (including preseason) to get comfortable in his new position yet TV announcers can see that his feet are just in the wrong places to make the blocks he needs to. He’s allowed sacks in every game. He couldn’t run block even if he was going up against my 93 year old Grandmother. It actually makes me want to cry to see a man his size with a TE right next to him get DOMINATED consistantly.

He was never the answer at LT, and if he is the answer at RT it won’t be for long, he’s 31. If he can’t block with TE help, I don’t know what to say. Barry RIchardson and Herb Taylor are breathing down his neck, shoot, give them a chance…

I’m so sick of seeing flashbacks of his poor blocking in my nightmares that it’s really getting old. If everyone in the US, from fans to not-fans to TV announcers to bar room bouncers can see that he sucks, what does it take for a Chiefs coach to notice it? I’ve been all for giving EVERYONE on this Chiefs team from the front office to the coaches to the players every chance to get it together this season, but PLLEEEAAAASSSSSEEEEE, this is out of control.

UC, it took me a while, but I am certainly starting to have a much clearer understanding of your point of view on several subjects =)

by KCFanatic on Oct 8, 2008 5:57 PM CDT up 0 recs

It Took Me Awhile To Get To This Point Too

I’m just not as patient as some :)

I was willing to give Herm and Carl a chance right up until their handling of the QB situation this offseason. From the point they went into the season with Brodie anointed as the starter for no good reason I knew they were just delusional and/or incompetent. And I’d have been willing to eat crow on that if they’d shown anything this year that proved me wrong. But they haven’t.

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

by UCrawford on Oct 8, 2008 6:05 PM CDT up 0 recs

And it’s looking more and more like they won’t.

by KCFanatic on Oct 9, 2008 3:37 PM CDT up 0 recs

wouldn't

you just love to see Herm take just one snap behind that line in the Tennessee game!

by REMWHEN on Oct 8, 2008 7:00 PM CDT 0 recs

He

probably still wouldn’t think there is a problem

by REMWHEN on Oct 8, 2008 7:09 PM CDT 0 recs

mcsac

Hard to argue with you on this one. Is Richardson really that bad? I shudder to think that.
We are at least two and probably three linemen away from solid.

by dklogue1 on Oct 8, 2008 7:55 PM CDT 0 recs

I don't think it's a function of Richardson or Taylor

I think it’s a matter of Herm’s extreme stubbornness to admit a mistake and make a change.

It’s like he thinks that if he just leaves MacIntrash in there, eventually he’ll have a game where he isn’t a department store revolving door. Then Herm will be vindicated for leaving him in – “see, I told you he was learning, it just took 10 games for him to finally have one good one! See, I was right, now we can move forward.” This whole “continuity on the line” excuse is garbage. You want continuity on the line when you have good players that are working well together – like we had in 2003-2004. Continuity means nothing when one (or two) of the pieces is/are ill fit. You would think he would want continuity with what will be the future of this team. Let them learn now so that if we are competitive in the future, your foundation is already built. If he thinks Tosh is part of the future of this O-line, we’re in worse shape than I thought.

It’s the mentality he had with Thigpen. It’s the mentality he had in the playoffs when Green was playing horribly vs. Indy. Instead of making the change, he was stubborn and stuck by his original choice… even when it meant losing. It was his mentality with Eddie Drummond.

Herm needs to learn when to pull the plug… when to sell a bad investment… when to dump a crazy girlfriend… so on and so on.

If he wants his players to “play to win the game”, he needs to put them in a position to do so.

by Ochophosphate on Oct 9, 2008 8:17 PM CDT up 0 recs