Kansas City Chiefs Depth Chart Has No Changes In Week Two

He needs to work on his route running and getting off the line. He trys to stutter step to much instead of running his route. The DB’s aren’t even pressing him and he is trying to juke them. Run your route catch the ball then put the moves on. Just look at the tape and you will see it.

I would want around 10 of Cassel’s pass attempts to be directed towards Charles and Dex, which increases their opportunities, and makes Cassel’s job much easier

I agree that they need to pass more. One third down conversion is not goin to cut it, you can’t count on the special teams winning the game for the Chiefs. Don’t take carries away from Jones & Charles. Keep Dex in the pass and return game.

and it was raining out. you can use that to excuse some of it, but i’m using it for the specific purpose of talking about the game. it was raining. better to run, especially with cassel as qb.

it is probably a difference of philosophy, but I believe more in passing on second and short and third and long. yeah, when we’ve established the run, go with play action. I even said KC should throw some deep balls in this game, and they tried. But throwing on first down with an inaccurate qb makes converting 3rd downs much more harder. after all, when you can’t complete a pass on a conventional running down, how do you expect to complete a third and long when the defense is basically assured of a pass?

especially with the rain.

and even more so when cassel was at 45%

I agree that Cassel should be around 30 pass attempts a game. Last year he was around 31/gm.

I’m just saying not in this game. not so much the number, but the % in this game. And furthermore, that % should change weekly depending on the opponent, you know, game planning.

And having the rain fall is part of that.

I see Charles at 15-20 carries
and Jones at 10-15.

30 pass attempts, and 30 carries between them. 10 Carries for McCluster would be nice, but maybe unrealistic. Don’t want to wear him down too much.

In the end, we basically agree to a tee. Except for Cassel having those 22 pass attempts last night. It killed our offense.

Should’ve been slanted more toward the run last night. Good running teams generally fare better on bad footing than the defense, especially if they have runners with good power (Jones) and balance (Charles).

saved a big play, showed his speed

he was an animal, along with Dorsey, Flowers, and many others

I saw one quarterback who couldn’t or wasn’t allowed to throw the ball much because his coaches didn’t trust him…

And one QB who could pretty much get the ball down the field with complete accuracy at will.

And here’s the tag lines….the numbers don’t lie. There isn’t a QB in the league who wouldn’t be happy if he could trade an unknown future to have a guaranteed stat line like this for the rest of his career in the NFL.

Rivers: 22 of 39 for 289 yards and 2 TD’s and a QB rating of 98.0

pursuant to that, there isn’t a QB in the league who would want to trade an unknown future to have this one guaranteed for the rest of his career…which would be about 2 more games.

Cassel: 10 of 22 for 68 yards and 1 TD for a QB rating of 68.0

At some point, we will have to start asking some hard questons. But most QB’s would tell you that if you wind up with that stat line of Rivers in the NFL…you had a fine passing day.

Only reason he didn’t get the game tied on the last play, was the Malcolm Floyd slip.

Let’s be honest about this. It’s a great win for the Chiefs, because we manhandled them in two other phases of the football game. For that I’m both proud, encouraged and extremely hopeful and excited.

But let’s face the facts….both teams QB’s and Receivers played on the same field, in the same conditions, and in the same rain.

Which should be a clue to any prudent person, that we have work to do in the passing game, if we’re going to keep any respect we’ve earned back in week 1.

unfortunately, our 60 million dollar QB contributed the least of everyone. But at least to his credit, he gave most of the credit to the D and ST’s after the game.

Copper had a fine game on ST also.

Falcon clued me in to Copper on ST’s or I might not have noticed that much.

He’s definitely on the team because of ST play.

But he damn sure knows it NOW….

I’d bet my AP membership, the next wet field we see, Haley’s yanking him immediately.

I can have one on Berry. I love all of our rookies in fact. What a class!