Taking a Look at the Kansas City Chiefs Play Calling

the fact that we stuck witht he run for so long helped open up for the passing game. It paid off when we were still close and hit that 50 yard bomb to Bradley. The threat that we might run, however pitiful the outcoem might be, probably helped open things up for that drive.

It is easy to say that we should have been passign the entire time but if we had given up on the running game too early I don’t know if that drive would have happened. Remember at the end of the game when the Ravens knew for sure we were passing they were all over tha back field.

I think the game plan was pretty solid with a back up QB vs. a top 5 D.

I expect to see a more agressive approach this week. Especially if Cassel plays.

I’ve noticed that a lot of our posts analyze how we play, what our weaknesses are, what our strengths are, and in this particular case play calling. I fully understand that a professional football employee (player, coach, scout) is perfectly capable (more so than we are in most all cases) of figuring this out, but what if opponents have scouts purposefully get on other teams websites like this one and find strategies like this that is already in print. They will then use our own info against us. If this is the case, then we are giving our opponents a better advantage against us because we have so much more traffic than other site.

I also understand that a majority of the posts are opinions, but we back our opions with facts that we research. This “scout” that I am referring to would take most posts with a grain of salt, but we do consolidate important facts into a post. And since it is already printed that we can gather more info faster.

Please note that I am not trying to make a stab at you Chris for this particular post or any post by us all for that matter. But I was just wondering by us posting factual statistics like this that we aren’t giving our team that we love a crutch before the game even starts.

respecting a tough D is one thing, fearing it is another.
I thought, and please correct me if I’m wrong, that Haley seemed afraid to throw much at the Baltimore defense in the first half.

Play calling was vanilla and conservative.

Maybe he didn’t trust Croyle, maybe he didn’t trust the OL…
probably both

But, there are ways to attack an attacking defense…
screen passes, play action, quick slants, etc.

I would have like to have seen a more creative script with Charles getting the ball in space, and croyle on the bootleg, Lawrence in the game… etc.

But, I’m not the OC, so I don’t know what they were seeing out there. I just hope that he’s more creative vs the Raiders

First game as head coach, backup QB and playing a top 3 defense. He probably shouldve come out and punched them in the mouth but cant blame him for what he did. I think we overrespected the Ravens D badly but hopefully this weekend we come out a little more aggresive to keep the ball moving and give our defense half a chance to catch their breath.

Not gonna nit-pick to much, as I feel he did what he could with what we have. Playing a top 5 NFL defense with a JV O-line is not the time to start calling plays that take time to develop down field. Hopefully this week we can find a way to get the ball to our skill players in space. Charles in particular. I still have no idea why we run a sweep on a 3rd and 8 against one of the faster defenses in the league. But as long as we can continue to show progress from week to week I will remain optimistic. Either way though, the sight of Haley dropping F-bombs and blowing an O-ring when someone makes a dumb mistake is a welcome change to the “pat on the butt, go get ’em next time” attitude I saw the last 2 seasons.

Th wosrt thing about Haley’s gameplan was for the first seven 1st and 10’s in the game, we ran. Not until the 4th Quarter, at the 8:10 mark, did we pass on 1st down. That has to change, and I have faith it will change, because that’s not todd haley’s normal MO.

I’m not much on stats as there are way too many variables that can’t be included into the formula; however, these were very interesting #‘s to look at to begin to see Haley’s tendencies. Naturally every week & every situation will be totally different: different plays will be called depending on which QB is in, whom we’re playing, what is working & what isn’t.
Bottom line: I feel secure that Haley will be able to adapt & change tendencies upon what the situation dictates whereas I don’t think we’ve had that ability to do so recently! It was nice to not know exactly what we were going to run each play & I’m sure that will pay dividends going forward.