Just My Observations From the Game

No Ints and no incompletions. :)

Thanks for the write-up, rec’d.

Stanzi played much better than statistics would indicate. The guy showed a lot of moxie.

I think Stanzi will hold the fort as backup. He needs more help than he got last night, but in a real game he’ll get it.

I liked the way they played last night… I think houston will gived studey a run for his money. I’d like to see how jh does against first string lineman.

and what part of the 808 are you from? i’m living on the north shore of kauai right now. loving the aloha

Not only was he all over the field making plays but he showed alot of versatility. I rewatched the game this morning and when Miller was in the game he lined up at three different LB positions(all but WILB).

is the Josue Paul guy from the same college as Pioli. But I think it was Chandler Williams (8) who was taking punts. He was pretty bad on the first one he tried to take.

was projected to go in rounds 2-4, hardly a reach considering we took him at 4.21. Don’t remember about Miller but afaik, Brown was a steal according to his pre-draft scouting reports.

Either into a zone or in man. He dropped back reading the QBs eyes that led directly to the Erik Bahktari sack. Houston started to drop back, QB looked in his area Houston made adjustments and then Erik came around the edge. The biggest knock on him was his coverage(a lot like Tamba he was just never asked to drop) the fact with the little camp time he has had and was able to do what he did last night was very impressive to me.

Our blitzing needs work(of course this was with 2/3/4th stringers) there were a few times when the guys blitzing all got bottled up together and led to no pressure and no coverage.

Powe showed up well out there, I dare say that this years #95 might easily replace last years #95.

I focused on Houston last night, when NFLN reairs the game(Monday at 3am IIRC) I have it set to record and I’ll try to take notice of Brown when he is on the field

Thanks for that.

You’re being very kind though.

This was the most dismal and sloppiest performance by a Chiefs squad in the pre-season that I’ve ever witnessed since their inception that I can recall, and I’ve been watching since the Chiefs were born.

But I expected it, will all the UDFA’s in there, flying around helter skelter, making it impossible for the regulars to perform the way they intented too.

The Chiefs just need to get to the cuts, to give the keepers more time to work and play together in pre-season.

It’s obvious to me, and should be to the Chiefs staff, who the keepers are and who the cuts are going to be.

The sooner they start cutting the crap off of the roster, the sooner they rid themselves of all the confusion on the field.

I’m of the opinion right now after witnessing this mess of a game, that the team will get exponentially better, with every 5 or six cuts down to 53.

JMO.

Morris had the Bucs playing like a regular season game? So much blitzing and doing things that didn’t seem to evaluate the talent that he had because when you rush 8 at the line, you can’t see the 1 LB or DL do their job specifically. I’m proud that Haley didn’t freak out, go into a rage and do some trash-talking/finger-pointing in the middle of the field at Morris…I think Haley just let it go because Morris is a young coach and got caught up with it being their first game after the lockout. Haley will have a good evaluation of the team talent while Morris and the Bucs will have a win…and that’s it. I hope they progress, but if they keep playing like this then I think they’ll hit a wall soon…

This is way better than my observations.

I think I agree with literally every single point 808 made. Even the Colquitt one. He just didn’t look right to me. I was shocked at how football ready Justin Houston looked. Pretty smart looking for someone who failed a drug test right before the NFL combine. You’re the man 808.

Felt the same about this, especially Miller and Brown. Houston impressed me. I didn’t expect that kind of speed. Completely agree that Haley did this to make a lasting impression on the rooks and back-ups. Definitely make whittling this team down that much easier.

I agree Houston looked pretty good. You didn’t mention it but he JUST missed a sack by the tips of his fingers.

This morning I watched through again with the FF and Slow buttons trying to watch the DL and some LBs. They played Bailey, Toribio, Gales lineup a lot. And Bailey Gales tandem in the 2 down set. I’m not a good evaluator at all but didn’t think Gales was as bad as you mentioned. One thing I liked about him as well as Powe and Toribio is that they seemed to stay hustling a lot. Even when the play got behind them they turned and ran all the down the field after it. Powe finished off Johnson on that long gallop he had. Granted, that gallop was sucky in terms of all the missed tackles left in the wake.

Greenwood was all over the place. And, Baldwin is going to rock – big time I think.

No one even came close to you NaNz!

I appreciate your commentary on what was actually happening on the field..

So much better than the ‘between the lines’ / ‘inside joke’ type of stuff that we’ve had to filter through today.

Very refreshing – THIS is why I read AP!

I watched him the entire game….every play.

He wasnt spectacular, but neither was anyone else.

He was left in there too long on some of the Bucs drives….he got gassed and was not as effective as he should be.

But to say he should be cut after the first preseason game? You need to watch the game with your glasses on next time!

I will say, I think Palko should have been cut at halftime. He and Croyle are the two worst QB’s I think I’ve ever seen.

I recall a play where the runner was headed away from him into a closing lane. Houston, rather than fight through garbage, hustled around the back edge to seal the back end of the lane. He didn’t get the tackle but had the last guy missed he would have been there to shut him down.

The only thing I disagree with is Toribio. I think he was pretty much manhandled all night.

Horne made a couple catches and the pass you thought was way behind Tucker, I considered a very catchable ball that would’ve been a key 3rd-down conversion, and Tucker, whose main attraction was surehandedness, muffed it.

Baldwin believes every ball in reach (and he has a helluva reach) is HIS. This alone makes him pretty special, to me, and valuable to the team. The protections were poor enough that you have to use Randy Moss tactics to get him going. But Baldwin looks a lot tougher in heavy traffic, like it takes more out of the DBs than it does him, which reminds me of Otis Taylor. Bowe is also a bullying WR, when put in the right situations. This looks like it’s gonna work.

I’m going back and forth on D-line and still getting jersey numbers straight for some of the players, like Bakhtiari and amoora-moora or whatever his name is.

Ugly as that game was, I see numerous places where better-than-2010 players are going to push some 2010 players out. I also see some 2010 players who keep hanging in there, and are showing something new. Standout in that regard is Quinten Lawrence, who’s a tracklete, who somehow didn’t catch on as a WR, but appears to play CB fairly well.

Brown seems like a natural for press corner. It may not fit what they want to do all the time, unless he can just come up and press all day long, while the rest of the D plays 10-on-10. Anyhoo, I LOVE seeing a corner who can’t WAIT to get his hands on the WR. It’s disrespectful and confident to the point of arrogance.

Chiefs ran a LOT of passive man-off coverage against the slot. Still waiting to see the slot DB up at the line, challenging the receiver physically and, like Ronde Barber did to the CHIEFS, using that in-tight position as a launch pad for the blitz.

BIG NEGATIVE: Wrapping-up and tackling. One guy who impressed me with his tackling was Quinten Lawrence, as much because of his semi-failed WR attempt. He may never be a great route-runner, but he’s a physical football player, with better instincts as a defender than I expected.

There may be some guys who caught our eye for good highlights, who end up being downgraded because of some tackling lowlights, on ST and regular D.

And the game’s not too big for him when he gets the ball. You have your work cut out for you bringing him down.

But we definitely walked away with some bruised EGO’s!

Pre-Season or not that was one large GOOSE EGG on the scoreboard!!!!!!!!!!!

Your breakdown helped me make more sense of what I was seeing. It’s been a super busy weekend, so I’ve not had a chance to re-wind and this post gave that to me.
Thanks for taking the time to write this up

My POV is Bailey could take snaps from Dorsey

in subpackages as a 2 gapper, leaving Gilberry as the pass rushing Dlinemen this year. I know I’ve brought that point up and not many agree with it

I don’t start arguments, I provoke thinking. -Me

Things was gettin’ too skinny, up above, BAMF. Even though Bailey was at LDE most of the game, I think he’s going to push Dorsey (if anyone) for playing time.

NOTE: First defensive series had Bailey at LDT and Jackson at RDT on 3rd and 3. Be looking for more of that sort of thing. In my view, depth at DE is as much about having the freedom to slide Jackson/Dorsey/both inside in the nickel, as anything else. FWIW, Jackson was noticeably quicker off the snap and ran his blocker right into Freeman’s lap. No stat for that, but I know it’s why the pass came out so quickly for the incompletion. To his credit, Bailey was only about half-a-step behind Jackson with his bull rush. He didn’t look as good, later, head-to-head, but it’s there, baby.

Anyhoo, I DO think the issues with the nickel are solved.

I wonder how many snaps Dion Gales is going to get. Head more in the game, but tendency to commit the cardinal sin of overpursuing. D-Line needs to keep the offense honest. Back-side pursuit should never be caught the wrong side of the cutback. DE in pass rush can be beaten in space by a mobile QB, but the idea is NEVER be beaten to your inside shoulder and just make sure he has to take the LONG way around to beat you outside. Gales, meh. That may explain the influx of new DLs. I halfway expect NOT to see him much at all in Game 2. I think he’s down to somebody else fucking it up badly enough for him to get another shot.