Kansas City Chiefs Still Unsettled Late In Preseason

Cassel is not the answer. I’ve been really hopeful but dude looks horrible. We have too many weapons to not be moving the ball.

Shout out to section 339

There’s no excuse for not moving the ball

DEX @ QB with Jones & Charles on his side’s WildCat… I think Cassel will be way better once Charlie & Todd Open’s the play-book & stop playing around…this is pre-season they want to show everything to the chargers lol…

well it seems that cassel is the type of QB that needs more time to check of his
opposition our running game is going to be great our defense has the chance
to be the best in league there fast but the over play a lot there inability to get to
the QB (even if they are hurrying him puts way to much pressure on the DB’s
but this is all evident i know but if we can just not over play so much on d
they will get better so will the o line once the starting line gets to play together
more RED

of signs that they are “getting it”. Plainly put, Philadelphia has a pretty potent offense which threw the kitchen sink at the Chiefs defense last night and the “D” rose to the occasion. Studebaker and company played some pretty fair defense. Not perfect, but pretty good.

The offense is showing some signs of life. Not exactly where you want to be at this point, but still not totally sucking. The offense needs to be scoring some points.
They also need to be converting those third downs. This is where the team needs work.

Magee was in there at LDE in the 1st quarter, for Pete’s sake.

More than their opponents, so far, the Chiefs appear to be trying to raise up and evaluate the guys farther down the depth chart. They’re still looking for combos that will work, and this might mean rotating Shaun Smith in with Wallace Gilberry as a duo, when/if Jackson is out on 1st/2nd down.

They appear to be looking at stuff like that. It’s not like they NEEDED Barry Richardson at left tackle. Nevertheless, he got some looks against the Philly #1s.

One false read we may be getting on D is from the poor OL play of Philly. Vick might be starting sooner, rather than later, because Kolb can’t outrun all the LBs that are likely to be coming free on the blitz against this OL.

Sure, they’ll continue developing after that, but MNF will be the first time we really see the Chiefs trying to bring it for 4 quarters. I’m not saying their depth players weren’t trying in preseason, but I expect they’ll add them to the mix much more judiciously. For all I know, what we’ve seen so far are just injury scenarios, to see what they can/can’t do if the worst happens.

They still have some starters they’re not overjoyed about, with players they’re hopeful about getting some reps.

As for the Cassel-to-Bowe or Cassel-to-Chambers issues, it looked to me that they’re executing quite well, with Bowe looking like a real BEAST. But I don’t think they want to draw much attention. Just make a few catches to see what they have, and then go back to work on the RB game, with a fairly large committee of ’backs, seeing what they can do on the ground and working out the details of yards after catch after the dump-offs and swing passes.

Seems like when they were going no huddle it was clicking for the most part. I know we won’t see it a lot til the regular season but still. I think these guys are under a lot of pressure to perform and seem nervous. At least the O does during their first couple of drives.

Makes it easier for Defense to key in on it, and take us out of the game.

We have the lowest player payroll of any team in the NFL. Our highest paid players are draft choices who have yet to prove themselves in the NFL. So in tight games against winning ball clubs, our identity is that of the underdog, the dark horse.

It it difficult to imagine that high-salaried teams hate playing us? What I mean is who wants to lose to an overachieving, underpaid group of nobodies?

We’re the Chiefs. We virtually ignore marquee players in free agency and make do with what we have, and we hope that it’s enough to get use to the playoffs.

Matt, we’ll find out in two weeks whether it was by design or just utter chaos.

I’m guessing that the truth is somewhere in between. From everything I’ve seen, it just appears that the Chiefs are just trying to find out what they can and can’t do.

Still, I don’t think it is unreasonable to think that the same coach & gm pairing that makes employees close their curtains during practice, doesn’t let anyone talk to the media, and has “indoor walk throughs” would be trying to hide their identity/strengths a bit. The less pre-season game film we give the Chargers, the better.