Tracking The Chiefs Problem Areas: Week 4 - What The Heck Are We Doing?

is our athletes this year are in sooo much better shape than last years roster. It’s made a beans bit of difference though.

1.On the penalties it was really 5 for 35 yards. Cant really count the 15 yarder on Page because everyone in the world knows it wasn’t a penalty and a penalty on a 2 point convert isn’t really anything.

2.On the offensive line I mostly agree. Was an improvement for sure. My feelings on the draw play are mixed a bit. It worked great on 2-3 plays in the first half but it seemed like the second half they blitzed a heck of alot more and they did for sure in the 4th quarter. Ill agree 100% that Cassel didn’t seem to know what to do when he had extra time and he seemed to be waiting for the perfect pass to open or something or was indecisive.

3.The running game looked pretty good to me up until the 3rd quarter, seemed to be a promising step forward. The only explanation I can think of for the Shotgun plays was to conserved clock incase it got stuffed but that might be a reach.

4.LB coverage wasn’t a glaring problem for me today. Passes to the TE were limited again and really the only guy catching the ball was Steve Smith. Not sure why we didn’t just stick a body on him permanently because it was clear where Eli was going the whole game and wouldve made them 1 dimensional in a hurry.

5.I liked the onside kick call. You have to remember Haley was being accused all week of giving up at halftime and now you’re saying he tried too hard to get back in the game? If it hadnt been for one guy on the Giants paying attention it was our ball. Haley called a good game for the majority and you can only really question a handful of calls.

I liked the onside kick call. If it had worked and we had gone down and scored a TD (big if)…everyone would’ve been calling the play genius. I think we haven’t been taking enough risk around here and I personally appreciated Haley going for it on fourth down in the fourth quarter (even with 10 minutes left) just because we were down by so much and needed lots of points to even make a difference.

I do agree on the discipline side of things. I feel like he hasn’t reigned in the penalties that have killed several huge plays this year. Additionally, I think someone needs to sit Charles down and tell him if he doesn’t hold onto the fucking ball (and then run with it), he’s going to be benched for the rest of the year.

Great comments also about the mismanagement of LJ…in the Wildcat, out of shotgun, etc. LJ is a bruiser, not the type to be using in these situations.

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Jesus I can’t wait till we’re good again.

O, D, and the officials. The unnecessary roughness against page was COMPLETE bullshit..but Haley’s playcalling in the red zone was nothing short of mystifying. This whole delayed draw to LJ out of the shotgun buisness had me pulling my hair out.

Especially when he did had some success with it, then did it again on the very next snap when the D was totally expecting it & made all the adjustments. Haley did take some shots though, and it looked to me like the pass blocking was holding up a c**thair better than last week.

Steve Smith was WIDE OPEN the ENTIRE game…I cannot believe we didn’t have him blanketed in double coverage. I was encouraged by the turnovers our D forced early on even though it made absolutely no difference in the outcome. It does seem like this D goes for the ball before the tackle, and that makes them VERY succeptible to the big play.

If they are going to go onside early on like that, they need to work on it a little more in practice, because they didn’t look too sharp.

Unfortunately the Chiefs suck right now and there’s nothing we can do about it. I’ll reserve calling for certain coaches heads until we lose to the teams we should beat.

I only watched til the first drive of the second half…and was sick of it…(it is DVR’d)

Partly cuz I was furious…partly cuz I knew I needed sleep to drive home late tonight…

That’s all sad but true. VERY sad, but VERY true. We are poorly coached and poorly prepared as a team. This isn’t a team you can compare to Vermeil’s 1-6 team in the early 2000’s.

Vermeil’s coaching was stellar. This play calling and coaching is desperate and uncoordinated. I’m very disappointed. Not at our record. I didn’t expect much really. There were way too many what if’s before the opener to have believed we actually had a chance to be a playoff contender this year anyway.

So, I’m not bummed about the record we have. I’m bummed about the poor quality of a team that we have. It’s bad right now folks, real bad. I’m just going to keep believing and hoping and praying. I’m a fan, that’s what I do. But boy has this been a let down so far this season. Wow!

I caught some talk on one of the radio stations last week and Grunny was saying that the day after Haley fired Gailey in the preseason he collected everyone’s playbooks and decided he was going with a whole new offense. If that is true then that explains a lot of the confusion and offensive penalties that have been occurring. It explains why we are still hiring and firing guys from the team weeks into the regular season. It also means we have a head coach that would rather be the offensive coordinator than the team’s leader.

Truly, the last time I saw a Chiefs team look this disorganized was the year Ganz “crashed”.

Well, nobody ever said it would be easy being a Chiefs fan, did they?

Seeing as how the major criticism of Charles is that he has the tendency to fumble the ball, doesn’t it make sense to NOT put him on kickoff return duty? isn’t that like knowing that your kid is liable to wreck your ‘Vette but instead of giving him the old station wagon you give him the’Vette … again … and of course you don’t even need to wait for that phone call because you hear the “crunch” when he backs out of the driveway

 There seems to be a lot of hair pulling. I’m bald now and its only been 4 games. Well it seems our play calling sucks, our defense calling sucks. The one good thing was LJ running from the power back position, and please no more delay draws to larry in the red zone. I’m going to out to buy a hat to cover my bald head.