Burner vs Quicker

The always great “you don’t even watch football” defense. That will never get old and is always good for a laugh.

Intepret stats to show positive, or ignore them to show negative. It really doesn’t matter. No one is refuting that Cassel doesn’t need to continue to improve, but to call him anything other than “improved” and/or “a work in progress” is pointless.
Or it means you “don’t watch football” :-)

and you see the same thing over and over. Just hand him the ball and watch him run. And when you’re done watching those highlights, come back and tell me you don’t think we need to incorporate the wildcat more. Especially with JC behind him.

Use them together, on options or even screens, Dex threw a 27 yd TD pass against LSU, he has the dynamic to do whatever he’s told, but he excels from behind the OL. Because he can do so many different things, we should be using him much more often than we did last season and finding ways to allow him to make plays for us. Even if its just a diversion tactic. My problem with that tho, is that was about all we did with him last season.

Dex has the ability to explode from the line of scrimmage, he finds ways to get into open space, and looking at his tape, once he does get into open space, there is no way he runs a 4.53 40. He blew by Florida, LSU, and Tenn (the Tenn game Dex scored 4 TD’s, ran for 282 yds and had 42 receiving yds, Monte Kiffen had no answer for him, and that was with Eric Berry and Dan Williams).

IMO he needs to get a lot more touches, let him make some big plays and then use him as a diversion. Offset the defenses. We’re going to need all the help we can get against the D’s we’ll be facing this season.

That would show a lot to me about Cassel the Leader.

Cassel can arrange those easily and pay the lunch tab too,

With all nine of his receivers and 4 TE’s

Hall was a KR. That was it. Dex is a player and I agree with you there. During his college days he shaked and baked all over the field (typically coming from behind the line) and made many people, our own Urk Berry included, look stupid. I’m pumped we have him, I don’t think he should touch the ball every play, just every other play…jk.

I do think he needs to see the ball more and be used in sets that he ran in college, like the wildcat, in screens, and as a running back coming off tackle. He has a quick burst to the edge like JC and he jukes like he’s straight out of Madden. I worry about his health more as a slot man than I do as a RB.

I still have Sly Morris hangover, maybe. I really liked the way the kid played the game, but college ball turned out to be his ceiling. DBs play a lot rougher and stand taller, and even the ones who don’t stand taller play meaner. I think I’d be holding my breath every time I saw Titus Young being tackled from behind by a big safety.

And you can afford to drop a few pounds after NFL-caliber conditioning. Still a load for DBs, without losing any speed.

But on Walter, the difference is closer to 10 pounds than to 20. 220 versus 209.

While I’m “on record” as preferring an OL, this convo is getting me to consider Hankerson as maybe being a good value for the Chiefs at the bottom of the 2nd, if he’s still on the board at ?#55?

We have no idea till he does it and no idea until we draft him.

But keep in mind, the real concentration of 30-year-olds is in the trenches. Edwards, Smith (is close, isn’t he?), Waters, Wiegmann (Lilja is late 20s?).

NT: An old Nose(Who isn’t on the roster IIRC) who’s effectiveness waned in the latter half of the season. A DE-NT(Who also isn’t on the roster IIRC) who’s more effective at DE, and who’s effectiveness also waned throughout the season. Or the 3rd string UDFA, who in no way shape or form is ready to start.

SOLB: Old ineffective leader, younger player who has unknown potential, or a rookie who was injured last year with a neck injury.

WR: One great WR who disappears sometimes in games, an old WR who wasn’t even on the playing roster 3/4 of the time, a slot guy who may be better out the back field, and a speedier guy who could develop into something but right now isn’t a starter.

Basically from what I can see two positions have unknown talent potential in the wings, and both of these need another body(Rookie or FA) in there to provide competition. Nose Tackle seems to be the only position where we can’t wait for talent to develop, the issue is drastic there. I’d include Center as well to the other side of the trenches.

Matching the 2010 record is going to take more in the trenches. Seems to me like Pioli likes to spread out the upgrades. Maybe ONE high OL pick to immediately start, instead of 2. And maybe just ONE d-line addition (DE or NT. I think Smith gives the Chiefs flexibility on that.) and the whole position group might solidify. I might even prefer just the one DE, because I see instant upgrade in Smith over Toribio, and I think maybe they could find a more convincing pass rusher at DE than Smith. While I’m a big fan of nickel, I think maybe KC played more of it than they wanted, because they knew they couldn’t hold up once Edwards wore down. Just splitting snaps with Smith makes Edwards better, imo.

For all the criticism, I’ve seen numerous occasions where Edwards DID bring it. Was it Bewsaf or Kalo or ? who did the nice d-line breakdowns last year, or am I just imagining things? Seems to me like Edwards had some decent games, and Toribio didn’t have quite enough lead in his ass to come off the bench and hold the point.

With the ZBS if we employed a rookie RT or C or G that should help them progress faster since its not 1v1 man blocking

He’s a great route-runner though so there is a possibility.