Whitlock Grades the 2009 Kansas City Chiefs

“Bobby wade has good hands” ROFL

Horrible writer. Never makes sense and has in no way any experience in the field of analyzing players/coaches. Needs to find a new job like a professional food taster.

I could do your job better Witlock! an im not saying your job is easy but you just really really suck at it.

Jason Whitlock is a dumbsh*t “extraordinaire, par excellance”.

I’d give Haley a D or maybe a C from the way he adjusted as the year went on. The first half, I was ready to fly to Kansas City and punch him in the throat, but he showed me in the second half that he is able to adapt and its clear the team did not quit on him.

And everyone else is too hard on Whitlock. As soon as you see his collumn, people put the obligitory “He’s an idiot” statement regardless of what he says. Not everything he says is idiotic although some is pretty funny (ie: Wade’s hands)

“Ryan Succop, K: He’s a bit overhyped because he was the last player selected in the 2009 draft.”

Because you know everyone wants to be the last player picked in the draft to get all that “hype”.

He’s a reactionary for the reactionaries, and I only agree with him on any given subject about 50% of the time, but I’ve always liked his moxy.

Plus, bonus points for the Sean LaChapelle reference.

Was one punt inside the 20 from the NFL record(only 6 touch backs), had only 40% of his punts returned and had a ridiculous 24 fair catches while maintaining 45+ yard/punt average. Thats probably one of the best years by a punter but just “good” for whitlock.

I took basic chemistry, doesn’t make me a chemist.

And while he may want Haley to be patient, the NFL is not patient when it comes to awarding success.

But I hope he isnt as dumb as the guy suggesting Wade Smith is the answer at RG next year.

because he was upset he wasn’t given the keys to Arrowhead stadium. I was surprised to see that I actually mostly agreed with him in his Pendergast comments – but not about being scapegoated by Haley.

Suppose Pollard got an A++ last year for destroying Brady’s knee then huh?

DJ- C+ – He did very well at what he does well. He played pass protection and read the QB’s eyes getting 3 int’s. But other than those 3 ints and his superman sack on Big Ben he was completely invisible on the field.

Gilberry- C+ – Yes he got 4 1/2 sacks this year but he only plays Nickle situations that i saw and the one game he had to play end during running downs we gave up 260 rushing yards.

Wade- F – He had a good first game but followed it up by disappearing only reappearing to drop passes every once and a while.

Cassell- C+ – He has a lack of weapons around him especially for the first 10 games. I know he has been inaccurate this year but other than Bowe he didn’t have any time with the receivers in camp to get into a timing with them. He holds the ball too long but a lot of great quarterbacks do that when they want to make a play and this will change as he matures.

Haley- C+ – Having to constantly deal with a changing roster and trying to evaluate players at the same time its understandable that it took so long to gel. I love his moves in the preseason benching Bowe, deactiving Charles, and making Johnson into a coverage LB.

His columns used to be bearable. I used to enjoy the grades at the end of each season.

Fatlock has gotten too full of himself. Anytime you read one of his articles, it’s abundantly clear that he has some sort of personal vendetta towards Pioli. I don’t get the Egoli thing, considering Shitlock has one of the fattest egos in KC. The grading was horrible. Chan Gaily? Really? Chan gets an A because our coach struggled without him? Really Jason? I didn’t know this class was graded on a curve…. and that students who were expelled could receive a grade. And the Bobby Wade bit. WTF?!?!:

75 Bobby Wade, WR: The only player on the roster with the necessary midsection courage to yell at Haley. How can you not like Wade? He’s a solid No. 4 receiver and a borderline No. 3. Wade runs good routes and has good hands. If he’s back next year, I’ll bet a thousand dollars he slaps Haley before the bye.

Good routes? Maybe. When he doesn’t fall down. Good hands? You’ve got to be kidding me. The only reason Jason is on his knees for this guy is because Jason thinks Wade is some kind of tough guy for standing up to Haley. I doubt he’s the only one. Warner and Boldin both used to get into it with Haley. The difference between them and Wade is that, well, they’re legitimate players. I look for Wade to be gone, not because of his shouting matches, but because of his level of play.

Bottom line is that Whitlock is a washed up shock jock sports writer. These grades were horrible. The jokes were stale. Whitlock is simply a tool trying to milk his time here in KC. But hey…. it pays the bills. I ain’t hatin’. I’m just tired of this jackass wasting valuable paper.

Same Whitlock different Chiefs management. Ever since Joe Po left the The Star I really have found no good reason to read the columnists.

…but in mid-season I was ostracized by the Whitlock “supporters” here for commenting on his poor journalistic coverage and opinions, yet now I see most folks berating him for what I’ve seen for a long time.

I’ll take Posnanski and I miss Flannigans reporting as well.

Jason is nothing more than a blogger that is getting paid to have his opines published in print. I would also point out that I’ve seen better writing by more folks on AP than on Jason’s best writing day.
The great part about having it in print is using his columns as a piss pad for my dog.

Each player’s entry was just a poor excuse for him to rip on Coach Haley. Whitlock didn’t put any thought into this except how he could attack the coach while somehow making it look like he’s talking about individual players. A simple goal, but he failed at it miserably. Giving Chan Gailey an A for getting fired is egregiously stupid. I don’t think Whitlock sleeps at night because he’s too busy foaming at the mouth over how much he wants to kill Todd Haley and his family. His irrational hatred for the man clouds his judgment. He spends hundreds of words bashing Haley, gives shitty players high grades for fighting with the head coach, and then, when it comes time to give Haley his inevitable F grade, he claims that he doesn’t hate the guy? Give me a break.

Of course, the whole thing is probably an act so he can stir the pot and keep himself relevant in some small way. Either way, it’s pretty pathetic.

Whether any of us die hard fans want to admit it or not….a lot of people are pointing at this team and laughing. We have looked like a bumbling mess for most of the season. It started when we were the first team in history to fire our offensive coordinator a week before the seasons started. Whether that was the right decision or not, after that happens, every mistake you make, or bad play call made, people are going to point to it and say “see, I told you so”.
Let me say, that I want Haley back next yr and I think he has done some good things that I would like to see him expand on. We need more talent and I expect us to get it, but Haley has to be better. Haley has to be able to recognize talent and not have guys sitting the bench that should be on the field helping us win(JC never got a chance til LJ screwed up).
I totally agree with Whitlocks grade on DJ…he should have been on the field more. He made quite a few GAME CHANGING plays in his limited time on the field.
To prove my point about Haley and what the rest of the NFL thinks of him and this team….NFL Network has a coaches show with Mariucci and B Billick. The segment was about how the economy is effecting owners decisions to retain lackluster coaches. That firing a coach under contract means you still have to pay himAND the new coach brought in.They flashed the faces of a few coaches that they thought are on “the Hot Seat” that could be retained because of the terrible economy….among these faces was Mangini,Raheem Morris,Spagnolo, Cable and…wait for it….Todd Haley.

Like Whitlock, most of us have our own arbitrary reasons for grading someone — be they a player, coach, or member of the front office — higher or lower than Whitlock did.

It may be that we hold a personal affinity for certain players (I’ll admit I’m a Jon McGraw fan, for example). Whitlock likely does, too (except he likely knows the players far more personally than we do).

Or, it may be that we have a skewed perception of how good a player really is, likely because of what we’ve read on the internet and overblown reactions we have to one or two bad plays that stand out in our mind (for example, everyone here labelled Jamaal Charles a fumbler early in the year and, yet, he has only 4 fumbles this year and ends the season as our hope for the future). Whitlock likely does, too.

And yet, while disagreeing with Whitlock’s opinions — and rather than rebuffing his opinions with facts — a lot of people here blast him (often with pejoratives and name-calling while complaining of Whitlock resorting to pejoratives and name-calling) simply because his arbitrary, skewed opinions don’t match their own arbitrary, skewed opinions.

Ironic much?

I think Cassel should get a C….He is pretty much right on about everyone else cept Haley and Wade.

The thing about Wade is, I don’t think he is serious enough. We’ve seen him make a few good catches. Those first couple of weeks he came in and did really good for us. After he secured the job it was like he stopped trying as hard. Seems like he just wants that paycheck and nothing else. Time to send him his walking papers if he doesn’t get his head into the game and show us he has what it takes to be a part of the Chiefs franchise in the off season.

A for A-hole and an F for F-you.

Man, I hate him.