Five Good Stats by the Chiefs in their Win Over the Raiders

On Charles 40 yard TD a number stood out to me on the replay and that was 87 throwing a key block. We’ve been struggling to find a TE that can actually block all year but it seems to me we’ve always had him and its curious why he isnt getting more playing time considering how horrible the TE position has been,

I dont think he had his best game. Again he bobbled to possible INT’s against Oakland.

But I think he had some close coverage both on the deep pass and the short pass

Just like my post about him breaking out. He got caught up in doing his best and running his legs off to make plays.

Congrats to Charles for showing how good he can be and proving my post right…

I take full credit for Jamaal’s performance….yes…your welcome…

because it keeps lingering on the right hand column!! Right now we could use a little M&M

marty and montana!! BRING IT BIT*he$!!

against the redskins and raiders, sigh, lets see what the other 7 games bring.

finally decided to put a couple of balls downfield to help open it up for the running game. So what Cassel got a pick; the D came to work and did what they needed to and maybe with more work we can score more than 16 points regularly.

Most of the problems were execution problems and that falls on the players. Fumbles, botched snaps…there is nothing the coaches can do about that. The Chiefs made a lot of blunders yesterday but they also made a lot of plays.

I thought as I have most of the season that when the Chiefs were playing in an up tempo mode they moved the ball the best. But some reason it would only last for a while then it would slow down again. Every time the offense struggles it seems like they are playing as slow as possible, but when the tempo speeds up everyone seems more into the game and executes better. Maybe it’s just me.

Hah. We can’t take any credit for that, nobody does a better job at that than JaMarcus himself

I mentioned this somewhere else but it bears repeating. Even when you take off that longest run of 44 yds, his average is about 3.47 yds/carry.

The oakland receivers played worse than Jamarcus Russel they dropped like 14 passes but thank goodness for that right? lol

Cassel finally just threw the ball to his WRs and let them be WRs. You have to allow for your players to make plays and when Cassel was holding on to the ball and not risking the pass, nothing happened. Chambers and Bowe are bigger then any DBs in the league. As much as people complain about Bowe and his hands… he makes plays. When there is one on one coverage, you throw it up there and make them earn their pay checks. I like having Chambers on the team… he is not washed up and is very good still. He will also be a great compromise to Bowe. Chiefs should draft Golden Tate to give Cassel another great option when throwing the ball.

The bottom line is… Cassel had one his best games of the season, even though Stats did not show it. Someone finally got to him and said “Just throw the ball”… and he did.

Not a stat… but great to see.

One of my absolute favorite things about yesterday’s game was seeing that this defense now seems to know how to defend against a bootleg pass. There were at least two of them that were defended PERFECTLY. I they even tried to roll both right and left and our D covered it. After seeing us get burned time and again for the last 2 seasons to see our D do a perfect job was, for me, like water to a man dying of thirst.

I thought that Bowe ran better routes than I’ve seen him run in the past. I think Chambers presence is going to make Bowe a better player as well. I’m very excited about where we are with our receiving corp right now. It’s taken time but I think that by the end of the season this group will be making us a solid offense.

Other than some problems Alleman had I think the O line was much better. Cottam and Pope are a definite upgrade over Ryan.

Lots of problems to fix still, but some very positive trends. I hope we bring in a couple of safeties in the next couple of weeks.

My wife, a little high on Benadryl, sat with me and watched the game yesterday. She knows the Chiefs pretty well, but doesn’t much care about the NFL beyond that. She asked me, “Who’s [the Raiders’] quarterback?”

I said, “Jamarcus Russell. Worst QB in the NFL.”

The Raiders, at that point, had the ball and had just handed off for a two yard gain. The next play, Jamarcus threw it. As soon as I saw it was a pass play, I said, “It’s going to be incomplete.”

It was.

The next play, he also threw. I said, before it left his hand, “This is going to be a bad pass.” It was. It landed at his receiver’s feet. And then they punted.

She said, “Does he play that bad every game?”

“Pretty much.”

This happened again, pretty much in this same order, on the Raiders’ next two drives as well.

She shook her head. “They really need to pull him.”

I shook my head, “Nope. The longer they keep him playing, the better chances are that we’ll win.”

At that point, she went back to bed.

This kid has gotta to get more playing time. All I see was him every game – if not special teams tackle – in the Oak game – all he does is show up wherever the ball is.

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Chiefs LBs had the most tackles, nice to see our CB & S aren’t having to save the day all day.

Still want to see more out of T Jackson though.

Of our first game against the Raiders. I’ll take this one in trade !!