Chiefs Depth Chart: Looking At Linebackers

Chuck Norris, you better watch yo back!

you even laugh horribly ;-)

How could we cover, anybody?

Williams is a liability on ST, IMO.

you need your backup LBs to be athletic and contribut on Special Teams

You go get beer’s during punts and kicks Sippio? Greenwood was all over last year! Plus they locked him up a day or two before the lockout when they didn’t really need to. Haley told him to work hard over the summer cause they wanted to use him more this year. That tells me they see somthing in him and he’ll be sticking around. Defensive player of the year his last year at Concordia, kid can play, just needs a chance!

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My first time to Arrowhead a few years back changed my life. Best experience as a Chiefs fan ever!!

Sheffield may be good but Studebaker is coming off a year playing behind one of the games best OLB.

Studebaker always seems to be around the action and looks good out there. Don’t know if a guy coming off a missed season will unseat him.

He could make them even better as a 3-down ‘backer, if he didn’t look lost in coverage.

Already hearing things that suggest he’ll be Hali’s backup on the right side, and replace Hali on the right side in the nickel, with Hali shifting to the left side. It was a suspicion of mine, early on, that I’m LEAPING to conclude is the case, on the basis of Richardson having an easier go against Houston in 2 snaps in 1 practice report.

I never thought Jared Allen was better than Hali on the weak side, but Hali was better than Allen on the strong side. Same thing might happen with Hali and Houston, although Houston might actually be a step quicker/better in pursuit from the weak side than Hali OR Allen..

If this happens, it’ll suck for fantasy geeks, but I’ll be OK with it, because Hali got PAID (plus he’ll have more meat to his right than he had in his stint at LDE).

They make great special teamers especially now with the wedge rule changing last season. I think we’ll see 6 Dlineman and 10 LBs.

The best option we have

Agree with both of you that if Miller stays healthy, Walters is kaput.

Furthermore, you’re putting your finger on a problem KC isn’t done solving. The nickel subpackage is almost like a 2nd defense. Here you are, wanting to be 2-deep at NT (at least), even though the base D might be running 50% or even LESS of the total snaps. Gilberry and Bailey might be the key to making it fall into place. At least one of them must be able to play DE in the base 3-4 defense, and then things get easier for the organization (albeit tougher for guys like Dion Gales).

I wonder who’s going to leave and then return, later. It seems possible that if Powe has a strong rookie campaign, Toribio could be shown the door. I can’t remember Toribio’s contract length, but I think they could afford to eat it, if Powe is more ceiling than floor and sooner, rather than later, and with Toribio gone, one of the slew of WRs/LBs in camp, now, might reappear in November or December.

I can see them wanting to get bigger, but they have to find as many 3-down players as possible, or suffer a shortfall somewhere. Traits I keep saying are only of minor importance could be the deciding factor in who stays and who leaves.

Dust settling doesn’t mean week one but moreso heading into the offseason.

I mean a LB making a Dlinemen tradeable is kind of out there…

what does Shef have to do with Gil? totally diff position group …

Then Studie become the expendable one, not Gilberry

Down with the hypocrite!!!!

ST is an area where the 5 yards will make teams SLOPPY with their special teams, or unmindful of depth at those positions, thinking they can make it moot with their kicker.

A contrary thinker, looking to get an edge, might PLAN to run the ball back more often from inside the EZ, any time the coverage team looks questionable or complacent. Put a big run-back from 8 yards deep in the EZ.

And from the kick COVERAGE side, you can just as easily look at the 5 yards as that much more hang-time you can put on your kicks, and aim to drop the kick just this side of the EZ, and the 5 yards putting your COVERAGE guys all that much quicker to the ball on those longer-hanging kicks. A guy approaching it from that angle might squeeze a few big plays out of ST, and I wouldn’t put it past Haley to do all he can to MAKE that coverage unit that much better.

And the new 5-yard rule doesn’t have any impact on the punting game, so the outside-the-box thinker might NOT change his thinking of how to build ST.

it IS his job to be “all over the field” and defend the short pass routes … and that he does better than any other LB we have

Very little run support from Hali.

I kind of like the 2 big backs in a regular pro set. Potential for a balanced attack out of a pretty jumbo-looking package. I prefer to see that 2nd WR split wide, rather than the 2 TEs, if I’m going big in the backfield.

What I’ve read of training camp reports suggests that Bannon is something of a project.

I’m really rooting for Studebaker, but I think they’ll have a better defense if he is in the fight of his life for playing time at SOLB. It’d mean that the new guys are BETTER, and give the Chiefs something we didn’t see enough of, last year.

\I like the base front 5 so much, with Houston AND Hali holding down the OLB spots, I’d also like to see them run some nickel behind that Hali-Jackson-Gregg-Dorsey-Houston front, at the expense of SILB, which, if it worked well, might make the pickings VERY slim for all those LBs currently on the roster.

Sounds like a great pressure defense to me

Stude inside with DJ gives you two good cover LBs with Houston (or Sheffield) and Hali on the outside, would be pretty interesting.