Jon McGraw Is Active For KC Chiefs Today

And he gave their return game instant respectability. I had an aversion to adding two short-stack KRs in the one draft, when I thought KC needed to get into the top one or two tiers in the trenches, to make the guys they HAD more consistently productive runners.

My impression of him has always been that he’s a better eyes-forward, and a good guy to have as a freelancer, but a clear size mismatch against a pretty wide cross-section of NFL WRs. I always thought that I’d want him to maul at the line, but not get caught in trail position against tall wideouts. I liked the blitzing reputation he had, but giving up the mismatch in the slot takes the edge off the blitz threat. Unfortunately, I’ve only seen him up and jamming a small number of times. Most of the time I see him, he’s giving the first move to his opposite number and in trail position the rest of the route. He’ll make the reliable tackle, but without getting a body on his guy, he needs help in front and/or over the top.

To be a really good corner, Javy would have to be a MUCH better athlete than everyone else on the field (faster, shiftier, and more vertical), like Daryl Green (sp?) was. I think Javy’s as good an athlete as anybody on the field, but he’s giving up close to a foot to a lot of the opposing WRs in the league. He (and even Brandon Flowers) is a guy whose ultimate would be playing safety behind big, athletic corners. Handling man coverage very well, on the changeup, but keeping eyes front, reading plays, and reacting. Javy has an extra gear, which means he can cover a lot of field on the long ball. Flowers, after that 3rd and 18 he gave up, maybe isn’t cut out to be a free rover, after all. But I LOVE the Blaine Bishop kind of safety, especially with a shut-down corner or two on the same squad. Very hard to QBs to parse where those guys are and what their intentions are, especially when they’re trying to hurt you off the hard play fake, and take their eyes off the secondary, when those little guys can disappear on ’em and never be re-acquired.

I just hope the Chiefs come out physical against the Broncos, today. My worst fear is that they’ll come up to stop the 3-headed monster (McGahee, Moreno, and Tebow), and get beaten right off the line, without getting any jam, and Tebow will launch a lame duck over everybody’s head, except the intended receiver. Our corners need to do more re-directing at the line than they have been doing.