Joking, right?

How can you say they played "better" against a 3-13 Tampa team (the youngest team in the league, by far)? Flowers was burned by a rookie for a 50 yard TD, wasn't he? And they allowed a bad team to score 10 points with a backup QB.

LeSean McCoy averaged nearly 5 yards a carry and Philly's a 70/30 running team.

Top? No. Reserve? Yes.

I expected FAR more out of our high third rounder than what I've seen.

Far more.

Good work, Clay.

Rep...that video is funny shit!

All salient points but the fact remains that they did show improvement. They have looked a bit better with each game. The competition is certainly a factor, and I don't think anyone will deny that.

Where the improvement has been, IMO, is in execution. From week to week it appears to me that the guys are picking up the system(s) and executing, rather than thinking, then reacting.

The secondary has the potential to be very good, but these are young players. I do expect them to make mistakes.

The running game has been excellent.

The pass protection has been solid. The OL, in general, has been solid.

I am very concerned about Cassel. There are definitely no excuses this year. It's "make or break" for #7.

I am also very concerned about our front seven; especially concerned with the DL. We have, however, shown a propensity for applying pressure on the outside (Hali and Williams), and have been successful with some nice blitzing. The key point, wrt blitzing, is Crennel's scheme appears to do a MUCH better job of masking the blitzes (as opposed to the past decade or so where our blitzes have been painfully obvious to anyone with functional eyes).

I had low expectations for this team going into preseason and I still have low expectations. 7-9 is where I see them, with a real possibility of 5-11 at worst, and 8-8 at best.

This is my biggest concern, at least among other fans. I'm afraid that too many people here aren't familiar enough with other team's rosters and their history. They're willing to overlook everything in favor of stating "improvement" where in fact, if you look closely, there's been very little evidence of individual improvement.

I'm not seeing that, per se. I'm seeing a better coordinated team, due to the new coaches and of course, Crennel. I'm hopeful they'll improve over the course of the season but with the current front seven, better rushing teams are going to kill the Chiefs.

Eh, I'm less impressed than you are with the offensive line. Niswanger still blows, Waters' play is rapidly declining, O'C has been outplayed by Richardson and Albert, IMO, is stuck in neutral. I had extremely high hopes for Albert and have defended him in the past, but I can do so no longer.

As I've admitted in the past few weeks, Lilja (who I thought was done) has been the best offensive lineman by far, and Albert isn't even a close second.


There are very few people that think otherwise.

The Chiefs will be a better blitzing team this year due to the addition of Arenas and hopefully, more playing time from Studebaker. I think Romeo will do his best to keep offenses guessing with blitzes from everywhere but the bottom line is that while that will be a effective from time to time, it won't be enough to cover up the glaring weakness across the front seven. The D-line is really poor.

I had low expectations as well although they've actually dropped during preseason. Where I initially thought this could be a 6-10 team, I know believe it's very possible they're once again, a 4-12 team.

This is a good take. OTWP is a complete dumbass

Preseason articles are about as meaningful as preseason games.

Get back with me after week 1 when we get to see an entire game with the starters and the coaching staff gameplans.

I am not making excuses, it may be damn ugly after week one but JFC it is ridiculous to get worked up over this preseason shit.

The article sucked ballz. It is nothing but a bunch of speculation off of 4 preseason games.

Save your ammo for week 1.

4-12 = doom for Haley and Cassel. It also means a MAJOR knock on Pioli; Cassel + TJackson are the albatross(es).

Agreed.

That has a lot of credibility coming from someone who probably can't spell his name without looking at his birth certificate.

Which contenders, other than the Jets, have looked like shit all throughout preseason?

It's been said many times that there are too many preseason games. So, if the season had started after preseason game two, do you think the Chiefs would be 2-0 now because they game-planned?

They've had six months to prepare in team workouts, OTA's, mini-camp and training camp, yet the offense is awful.

Do you expect that to change in 10 days because it's no longer preseason?

You saw a completely different team that I did this preseason.

Kansas City Chiefs? Is that the team you watched?

Guess what, in 10 days we get to see it on the field and the proof will be in the pudding. Like I said it may be ugly but I am not going to go into meltdown mode over some preseason shit. I only have so many meltdowns left in me I think and I want to save them for meaningful moments.

The running game, defense, and ST look night and day compared to preseason a year ago. If I were to go by preseason we have a top 2 running game and a top 10 defense.

I am not going to get too exited about those things either.

Which is why stats don't matter, especially if your ONE's are going against other team's Two's.

The Chiefs starters did not look dominant or even average against other team's first teamers.

They looked exactly like last's year's team. Unable to stop the run, unable to throw the ball.

I think that's what they call "seeing something with a jaundiced eye".