Five Good Stats from the Chiefs' Loss to the Jaguars

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh kay……

he would have cleared 180 yards.

Unfortunately, he only received 9 touches. Not sure why Haley abandoned the run when we were doing a very good job of it.

so we stopped? Man when your 1-6 and trying to evaluate players why didn’t we just run more and NOT on 3rd down shotgun up the middle plays…OMG over and over and over with those…..

I really was excited to see how ferocious Savage and Smith seemed running the ball. They need a line granted, but that’s the intensity I haven’t seen all year. Of course Charles is still a threat.

Over all I wasn’t disappointed with Cassel like usual, I still think you have to consider that most of his good stats came in the final (3 minutes was it??) with those two scoring drives. Still he didn’t turn the ball over again and that is a plus no matter how you slice it.

Interesting comparison of him to Aaron Rodgers yesterday I saw. Says they both want the big play sometimes too bad and hold the ball too long looking for it. Sure Cassel is used to Moss or Welker getting open eventually lol.

Chambers added speed presence for us. That was good.

The only thing is….as I’ve heard others say in here on AP before and I agree with…why do we always wait until the game is basically out of reach and then all of a sudden get creative? All of a sudden play with urgency and speed? Seems weird to me that we can do in the final 2 minutes of a game what we can never do during the whole game.

Anyway, our record says it all, so the few bright spots we could take away from Sunday are encouraging since there’s nothing else to hope for this year except glimpses of hope here and there.

Good morning AP!

In his post game Haley said the play calling was predicated on the Jax D. Things like lots of run blitzes.

Deep into the 4th quarter the chiefs had 183 total yrds…..the commentators noted this during the game…MJD and the Jag reciever who burned Brown(forget his name) had 260 yrds by themselves……Mat Cassel really did nothing until the last 3 minutes of the game….his best stat..0 turnovers….

I left the game just fed up and when my girlfriend and I got back we thought the final score was a mistake! Not sure if thats good or bad sure is frustrating.

Tyson finally looked the part. It was great to see him help stuff the run.

That’s all I’ll say so I do not get a warning by the website about expressing in a respectable way my views on what the Chiefs need to do to improve the team next year.

He was all over the place and in the quarterback’s face.

I absolutely do not want to see LJ back on the field again (other than maybe in goal line situations, and even that’s iffy). He was able to avoid some tackles in the backfield that there is absolutely no doubt would have brought LJ down. I’ve been pretty supportive of Haley so far, but if LJ is #1 again next week I’m really going to be questioning his motivations. I understand that Charles is more of a fumble risk, but I’ll take 5 fumbles over a season by a 5 ypc back over 1 fumble per season by a 2.7 ypc back any time.

I don’t know what to think about his performance. Jax is about as bad a D as we’re going to see this season, and Cassel/Haley weren’t able to put anything together for 56 minutes. It’s nice that he’s shown composure late in games, but they need to do it early & actually take control of these games. I don’t know if it’s a function of the play calling or talent, but something needs to change. I’m not down on Cassel at all, but I won’t be sold on him until he’s able to engineer some of these long drives in the 1st & 3rd quarters…consistently.

Why Haley doesn’t start calling plays like he did in the last three minutes sometime during the first 57 minutes.

It’s called garbage time. The other team is ahead by two or three scores and there’s not enough time for you to come back so their defense doesn’t care if you score. It’s not that Cassel gets any better, he still stinks.

I agree that it might be premature to crown Cassel our best QB. He did look pretty good the last 5 minutes, when the game was long gone. But…..how about the chance to score a TD in the 1st qtr, when his pass to Long at the goal line was a second late. Beurline saw it right away, the ball wasn’t thrown when Long was open. Then there was the pass play early in the fourth qtr, when Bowe was wide open deep down the middle on a seam route. Cassel badly overthrew him. Both these plays were when the game was still in doubt.

Of course, I, too, am sadly amazed at Haley’s play calling. It just seems obvious that when something (the running game) is working, stay with it until the oppositon stops it.