Reality Check On The Kansas City Chiefs

It sounds like you recognize his coaching ability otherwise. And as much as I love Haley (and I do), and think he deserves another year (and I do), he needs SOMEONE this offseason to sit with him and mentor his ass on some of these key issues.

I think he has HC “in him,” but the more sophisticated aspects of it really do seem to escape the guy. Like his sideline comment to Romeo last week, when he complained about not being able to get the team to play well “unless their backs are against the wall.”

It’s as though Pioli took the cookies out of the oven before they were done…you know? Maybe he needed another 2, 3 seasons as OC first?

Gaither too, he could start next year

Yes, I would call McClain a key free agent. Not because of what he’s done but because of what he COULD do. I think they are underutilizing him.

Continue the joke

but that doesn’t mean we don’t draft a 1st round QB to start preparing for the future. Cassel is a serviceable QB if he has the pieces. We put an o-line in front of him that doesn’t get him murdered, and he could groom our QB of the future for a few years.

I just hope Pioli and Haley also agree.

Good post like usual HIV..Sure , most of the defensive guys have improved,but I attribute that more to Romeo Cromells coaching rather than Haleys coaching.

How can we look like this 3 years in……..if nothing else I thought we would have the offense down by now. At least organized.

Winning a few games can be an illusion. Harbaugh inherited a team that has picked near the top of the draft for 2 decades. Don’t cut Cassel. Trade him to some dumbass team for a 2nd round pick.

3/4 of an o-line, RB, average wideouts, excellent TE duo on offense…and their defense was straight illegal in terms of talent. Fangio has brought it out for the second time in the last 3 years.

I hear you, HIV, I hear you. But let’s compare an apple to an apple. Haley’s arrival and rebuild are more like that of Wiz and the Cardinals (odd, Coach Ken is Haley’s boy, right?). They patched up one side of the ball each season, picked wrong on QB’s, had a merry-go-round of playcallers (Wiz, Haley, Russ Grimm/Mike Miller, and now only Mike Miller)…some odd drafts, with value and with some reaches alike…

See what I mean? THAT’s more our story.

Baalke has picked some above-avg to great talent in SF, but he never got a coach who could HC until Harbaugh rolled into town.

I know it sounds a little like excuse making, and our defense has had its ups and downs. Our offense, on the other hand, has been consistently terrible.

This is kind of like how I still say the Brandon’s are the best duo of CB’s in the AFC. Our terrible pass rush just makes them look much less capable than they are.

However, for the love of God get a new OC. They have given Cassel ample opportunity to perform. I don’t see Pioli being stupid enough to ride him to the unemployment line.

with your zero fanposts. Improve the dialogue then if it needs improvement.

Alright, see you back here again once the defenses figure out the Denver’s offense. Just like the wildcat it will start to become ineffective. At least some of us can say that when the Chiefs start to become a consistent playoff team that we were here the entire time.

They’re my most fave college football team of all-time. And I’m a Pac-10 homie in general. But I’m not blinded by it though. I’d be gun-shy of any USC QB, too. I think Barkley will be better than Leinart, Sanchez and Matty Nice by quite a bit. I think he has the ability to be good to very good if put in the right system for him. I think Petey-C wants him, and I’ll let Petey-C have him – and I’d imagine Barkley would like that too.

But, USC IS a SYSTEM program that produces deep teams from freshman to seniors that learns and plays as a pro-style team on both O and D. So several of their players make attractive latter-rd. draft picks every year to contribute solid, more NFL ready players to flesh out your roster – but very few become excellent, impact players. They have a higher floor, but a lower ceiling, in other words.

The rest of the Pac-10 produces a few good to very good individual players here and there. But take a look at the numbers and quality of the players drafted the last 10-12 years or so. The SEC leads the way, followed by the ACC, then the Big-12, and then the Big-10.

I am intrigued by Brandon Weedon, too. Is Okie St. considered a “system” program? In the way … like compared to say Houston, Boise St. and Florida QB’s that are considered a product of their system, instead of having legitimate NFL-caliber talent, tools and skills. Weedon’s age doesn’t bother me if he could step in and be solid to purty damn good purty damn quickly; I’d take a Matt Schaub-type QB.

I like RG-3’s great potential-high ceiling, but he’s not as big as Newton and Vince Young – so I’d want a Ft. Knox of an O-line to protect him from taking the beating I’ve seen him take with Baylor’s horrible O-L. But I heard … I think it was when he played TCU … the talking heads say that RG-3’s parents were wanting him to stay one more year and pursue his Master’s Degree??? … something like that. But RG-3 does have some things to work on in terms of mechanics, and learning how to read NFL, pro-style D’s, and learning how to run a NFL pro-style O from under Center. I don’t think it’d hurt him to sit a year and learn, if he’s drafted next year … imo, and some others on these scouting websites. (shrug)

But yeah, I want the Chiefs to FINALLY role the dice on a QB that has the potential to become EXCELLENT. So RG-3 is growing on me more and more as the one I’d want the Chiefs to take. But Pioli and Haley LOVE pure, prototypical, pocket QB’s to run the E-P-O – so I don’t think there’s anyway they would even consider RG-3 … sadly. (sigh)