whats that have to do with Charles getting hurt? This really isnt making sense....

I am very interested in seeing if the Chiefs are going to be players in the FA period this year...

You can't run the guy 400 times a year, I get that. But, you also can't be afraid to use your best players. If he's their playmaker, he has to be ready when they need him. In the future, without one of the weakest schedules in the league, they'll need him a lot more. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like he's up to the task.

I'm calling bullshit on Charles being injured.

seems to me they have to....we need more help at WR than a rookie can provide...we need more help/depth at OL too

you could bag a vet RB for reasonable $$$

If that happens then it sets up for drafting some Line help in the first few rounds...

I think it was the Weis flu...

Then what?

As is certainly your prerogative.

But do you really believe they froze him out? I think coaches have some serious egos to them, but I don't think so poorly of them that I truly believe they were icing Charles for the sake of assuaging their own egos.

There is nothing to be gained by sitting him, especially not when they showed they would use him repeatedly early in the game (to great success no less).

If you don't like the injury explanation, what explanation do you like?

When you hear hoofprints, don't go looking for zebras. The conspiracy angles are pretty damn farfetched. Meanwhile, Charles stopped getting the rock after he put his head down and tried to lay out a tackler. Immediately afterward he was laying on the sideline for a spell, never to return to heavy usage.

Occam's razor speaks quite loudly here, IMO.

Shut the **** up, you flip-flopping douchebag. I know what I'm talking about regarding what's happened since I've been here, which is what I was referring to, and what DJ's and I were posting about.

I still they they paniced....

Dude, he didn't sit. That's the thing.

You're telling me was was too injured to get the ball - while getting it 3 times, including on the most important play of the game to that point - but he was OK enough to be used EIGHT times in pass protection, picking up the blitz 3 times and fanning once?

If he was hurt, as Haley has implied, he shouldn't have been on the field. He certainly shouldn't have been used in pass protection.

But he was on the field. Quite a bit, in fact.

We just quit using him for anything productive.

No, it's not. Come on, you know that. Jackson and Cassel never stood a chance with a group here, and the bitching about McCluster has been like that, although to a lesser extent.

I agree with this. One extreme is as bad as the other.

I'm saying we stopped using him heavily.

If you've got a guy out there nursing a stinger, a concussion or a bum hip (who the hell knows what he hurt), then you don't stop using him entirely - you just stop using him as heavily.

I ask again - what's your explanation? Are you really just going to say "They were too stupid to know he's good..." -- seriously? C'mon, they ran the guy heavily during their offense's most productive period. Oh, and he nearly set a record for YPC. The staff knows he's good. Alternatively -- do you believe Weis and/or Haley were trying to prove a point? Because I'm pretty sure you don't prove anything by pissing down your leg in a playoff game. I don't think icing Charles proves anything.

If you're going to say the simplest explanation is inaccurate, you have to proffer a reasonable alternative. To this point, I've yet to see one. What I know is that he was used heavily for a spell of effective football. Then he lowered his should to deliver a hit against a bigger guy, got treatment on the sideline and was not used nearly as frequently for the rest of the game (nor was he as effective when he was being used).

If he was out there in pass pro, perhaps it was a decoy effect. If he was getting the ball on the 4th down, perhaps it was because that was one of those times where you go to your ace, even if you think he only has a carry or two left in him.

The alternatives just don't make a lot of sense.

I've said it often and I'll say it again, give me Von Miller.