Chiefs Make Changes at Right Tackle, Nose Tackle

but I am wondering if he was doing what the scheme calls for an NT to accomplish or is it because of the pass rush capabilities?

One of the few people on Defense that I thought was doing a consistently good job and we sit him. Awesome.

I don’t put too much stock in who’s on top of the depth chart.

Both guys play plenty of snaps.

But I doubt Ryan O’Callaghan will be much of an upgrade….I hope I’m wrong.

Say it aint so Tank….I though he’s been pretty decent. I didn’t really see too much from him against the Eagles…but then again I didn’t see much of anyone against the Eagles.

13-3 BABY

Bone for Edwards and Tank will probably be the starter vs Dallas.
Maybe Nduckwe would be moved to Guard if we had another tackle in the rotation.
Tommorrow is Tuesday maybe Langston Walker or someone will be wandering aimlessly around Arrowhead and get picked up. Maybe I need to go down there and just hang around for awhile :)

that used to be where he did a lot of damage…and his longer runs this year have all been outside….yet we continue to run right up the middle into the weakness of our line

Don’t know if it’ll make a huge difference, but I suspect that just having a better RT will allow both guards to do more pulling, more effectively.

But Edwards can do more just absorbing blockers and getting unglamorous push. I can see Tank coming off the bench and causing problems on offense because he’s more of a penetrator on passing downs. But against the run, Tank gets negative push.

Jamaal Charles moves ahead of Dantrell Savage as the No. 1 running back, with Savage No. 2 and LJ as last resort – the guy’s lost a step, lost power, lost something – at this point, how could it hurt?

This is probably Pioli/Haley ploy to get some negative PR off their back in terms of buying time to solve the O-Line debacle.

The O-line sucks – pure and simple. My pick is to change the C. All of the years KC’s o-line was good we had short stout C with intelligence (Tim Grunhard, Casey Weigmann)

Freaking Iswanger is tall and lengthy. Playing Center, you must have great low center of gravity – great leverage as you snap and back up to pass protect. Niswanger is slow in getting off after the snap, gets push off easily due to his height and lack of leverage when charged by opposing NT.

The way I see it, we have no one in the o-line unit that could make any difference in 2008 and again in 2009 because Pioli didn’t make any upgrade (NDukwe and Callaghan and Alleman) aren’t upgrade to McIntosh and B Richardson or Goff.

Chan Gailey put together that Thigpen offense for a reason – to make our o-line look mediocre. But when you want a conventional drop back passing QB – our O-line look horrific.

Hopefully O’Callaghan will be a better player at RT than Ndukwe. I don’t think he could really be much worse.

After LJ fumbled the ball yesterday, the camera was on him and it looked like he was crying? Anybody else notice that or was it just me?

Don’t forget about him next year. He is a good back and I am sure he will get a chance next year since he is a draft choice. I liked watching him in training camp, looked good and he is solid.

this is no surprise….we were starting a RG at RT.

Expect some degree of improvement (if only marginal) because the kid gets to play his natural position. Plus I think most poeple wouldnt mind eventually seeing

Albert Shields Alleman Ike O’Calleghan

Not a stellar line up, but one with some young potential that I think is probably our best available lineup. Opinions?