Keeping an Eye on the Chiefs Week One Opponent
by Joel Thorman on Aug 25, 2009 8:00 AM CDT
in 2009 Kansas City Chiefs Training Camp
Email
Print
The Ravens are currently 2-0. Here's how I can sum up the difficulty of the Kansas City Chiefs week one trip to Baltimore:
The Ravens defense scored more points in last night's game than the Chiefs have since December 21, 2008.
The final tally? Two interceptions, two touchdowns.
The picture to the left is 345 pound Haloti Ngata returning a 25 yard interception for a touchdown.
The Ravens defense was constantly in starter Mark Sanchez's face. His first pass went for a pick-six to Ngata. Ray Lewis nearly had another interception. Jameel McClain added another defensive touchdown.
That's the bad. Here's the good.
On last night's telecast, the announcers were praising Joe Flacco for having such a strong arm. However, he completed only eight of his 18 passes last night. If I'm the defense, I'm taking a 44% completion percentage from the opposing quarterback every time.
Flacco does have a big arm though. Two of his eight completions went for 94 yards. However, the other six went for a total of 26 yards.
I was hard on Flacco last year, despite the Ravens appearance in the AFC Championship game. With a 44% completion percentage, I'll probably be the same way this year.
Here are the stats to game one stats against the Redskins. Here is a link to game two stats against the Jets.
Here's how starting quarterbacks have fared against the Ravens defense so far in preseason:
- Jason Campbell: 3/6, 38 yards
- Mark Sanchez: 3/8, 43 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT
After watching this defense last night, I'm getting more and more worried that Matt Cassel is in trouble. They're all playmakers and consistently put pressure on the quarterback.
Cassel had a hard time avoiding sacks in last Friday's game against the Vikings and will likely be putting those legs to good use week one at Baltimore.
29 comments
|
0 recs |
Do you like this story?
Comments
Anyone hear?
26 scouts at that game last night watching Baltimores LBs b/c they have so much depth at that position..I would say we had a scout there most likely…Just something to think about if a linebacker gets dropped from the Ravens
Matt Cassel may just die that day
(knocks on wood)
"The first step to penetration... must not be lateral"
-Confucius, in contrary to Glenn Dorsey lining up in the 2-tech
God
the last thing I want is Cassel flushed out of the pocket and crushed by Lewis or Reed
Great players dont win championships.....Great TEAMS win championships
You know ...
Cassel played last year, too. Got sacked 46 or 47 times. A few of those were by Baltimore.
He survived. In fact, he not only survived, but he did it without an injury.
He’s not Brodie.
Right
I think the Ravens will likely win the game but Flacco won’t win it for them – if anything he’ll keep us in it.
by Joel Thorman on Aug 25, 2009 8:24 AM CDT up reply actions
...
we’ll see i guess. When you have that arm and decesion making ability sitting behind center of one of the best O-Lines in the league, i think thats a chance to win it for them every game.
Umm, what are you all going on?
Here’s how starting quarterbacks have fared against the Ravens defense so far in preseason:
Jason Campbell: 3/6, 38 yards
Mark Sanchez: 3/8, 43 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT
Not exactly Tom Brady or Peyton Manning, and certainly not Matt Cassel caliber. Let’s wait until Baltimore actually plays somebody before jumping to conclusions!
Negative Ghost Rider the pattern is full...
Flacco
Maybe you guys didnt watch the game, but his recievers dropped a lot of balls, and probably 5 of those incompletions were blown plays, sack avoidance throws. Flacco and the Ravens offense is something to be worried about.
I saw that one drive
Where he had multiple completions in a row -that was impressive.
But overall, he wasn’t great but not bad either. Kind of a meh.
by Joel Thorman on Aug 25, 2009 8:41 AM CDT up reply actions
You can't make mistakes against these teams
Teams like Baltimore and Pittsburgh with sick defenses win by forcing the other team to make mistakes. They don’t need power house offenses when they have D that can play like that.
This is a game where we can find out what Chan is made of. We need a game plan that confuses the shit out of the Ravens D while keeping Cassel out of situations where the Ravens can get to him.
I think they should really focus on the run and use a lot of play action and bootlegs. Have Cassel getting rid of the ball quick. Dink and dunk on these guys with safe plays and try to get down into FG range as much as possible. Then every once in a while, on a non passing down, have Cassel throw deep to keep them on their toes.
If we have any hope of winnign against the it has to be game plan, ball control and our Defense needs to creat a couple of turnovers.
I think we can win this game on Succups leg if we play it just right.
D-Bowe, Mark Bradley, Bobby Engram and Turtle. Four Chiefs WRers. 4 Pro Bowlers.
Let's see if Chan has the stones
to whip out the Annexation of Puerto Rico!
Or maybe he can translate the Flying V to football?
Aah, If only I were an O.C….
"The first step to penetration... must not be lateral"
-Confucius, in contrary to Glenn Dorsey lining up in the 2-tech
by ArrowSpread on Aug 25, 2009 8:42 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Also, the Jets did okay last night running the ball...
We need to get the run game going early against these guys.
by Chiefsfan1970 on Aug 25, 2009 9:01 AM CDT up reply actions
I found it humorous on NFL.com they said Sanchez had his "ups & downs"...
that’s really pushing it. He looked terrible. Not saying it’s a definite sign of things to come. That’s a tough defense to play against, but he had, like one completed pass all night – for a touchdown, granted – and other than that, they stuck to the ground game because he couldn’t complete a pass. And even then he botched one of the hand-offs.
Not trying to say Sanchez is doomed, by any means, just found it funny that NFL.com said it was full of up & downs, when really he was pressured all night, and didn’t complete a pass until the end of the 2nd quarter when they scored a TD, then they took him out of the game.
Wasn't it the Vikings?
Cassel had a hard time avoiding sacks in last Friday’s game against the Texans and will likely be putting those legs to good use week one at Baltimore.
I call shenanigans!
When was this thing written?
"The first step to penetration... must not be lateral"
-Confucius, in contrary to Glenn Dorsey lining up in the 2-tech
The neat
thing about football is, you never know what team is going to show up on a given Sunday.
Not saying we can win this game, but sometimes the opposing team under estimates their opponent and doesn’t show up.
Hey miracles can happen ya know :)
Good game plan, execution, a couple turnovers, and some luck...
And we could win the game. if we do, that will fire up this team BIGTIME. It would be almost like winning the freaking Super Bowl to some of these young guys.
Everybody on the team would totally buy into Coach Haley if we won this game.
Their defense is outstanding but theyre overrated at the most important position on the field...
and thats Flacco. Easily the one of the most overrated and overhyped QBs in the league. Believe it or not he’s just not that good so if their running game is held up this is a winnable game.
"Success is never ending, failure is never final."
Comments For This Post Are Closed
Secondary Sidebar
User Tools
FanPosts
Community blog posts and discussion.
Certain photos copyright © 2012 by Associated Press or Getty Images. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of Associated Press and Getty Images is strictly prohibited.
