Chiefs Injury Report Includes Jonathan Baldwin And Three New Names

that is subtraction by addition, is it not?

And I’ll level with you. Except for thinking he’s something of a crybaby, when I saw the Jets land Ladainian, it looked like upgrade, to me. I wondered why the Chiefs didn’t throw a little more weight around for the more explosive runner with the better receiving skills.

With all the negativity towards Jones, though, my Team Football self r’ars up and I see Jones as your standard halfback. As such, he’s the journeyman bellwether for where the team is. If the O-Line is winning its battles, he’s the all-around guy, like Emmitt Smith, who lets you run and pass out of the same pro set formation, all day long. Simple formations, but you do a lot of different things out of them.

You start using McClain a lot like the Redskins were using Todd Heap. Half the time he’s slamming up the gut and LBs are just trying to stay out of his way. It gives you a beautiful changeup, then, when your ’tweener (FB/TE) runs right past the LB, who was anticipating having to fight off the block and stuff Jones, so he even moves AWAY from McClain, a little bit, and his body lean forward, taking him TOTALLY out of any coverage on McClain, who settles in behind, and makes the easy catch.

But being MEAN AND NASTY as a blocker for Jones, whom the Chiefs stupidly keep sending up the gut. The game-turner is showing EXACTLY the same formation, only now Jones and McClain both are looking to jack somebody up, while Cassel takes an extra second or two to survey the field. Love having those two guys in to pass protect, or filter into the flat, during lulls in the pass rush, or catching pick-n-roll screens, and McClain has an impressive skill set for that old Bill Walsh-style FB, who’s a beastly blocker who’ll make the catch for you, too.

And why so often?