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Originally Posted by OnTheWarpath58
In all honesty, I think it's really impossible to tell at this point.
As a fan, it seems ridiculous that he's riding pine behind McIntosh at RT, and is THIRD on the depth chart at RG behind Jones/Smith.
Which leads to the coaches perspective.
Do the coaches honestly think he's not good enough to start, and the fans are dead wrong - or are the coaches incompetent, and a kid with serious potential is not getting the work he deserves?
Situations like this one, as well as the Page/Pollard/Morgan situation, are just one of the many reasons I want to see an entirely new coaching staff in here, ASAP.
As a fan, I WANT to believe that Taylor is our 3rd best OLman. I WANT to believe that Morgan is better, even as a rookie, than Pollard or Page. I WANT to believe that with better coaching, we actually have some talent on our front four.
But it's going to take another coaching staff for me to pass judgment on most of these guys.
At this point, it is all but impossible to determine what we have based on who the coaches are, IMO.
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Morgan's dealt with injuries this year so it's difficult to say whether or not he'd be an improvement at this point in time. With the ascension of the rookie cornerbacks (Leggett, Carr & Flowers), I'm holding off on judgment of David Gibbs because it appears that they are all improving from week to week.
That tells me three things:
1) Gibbs is an adequate coach.
2) The talent at cornerback is greater than at any time this decade.
3) Pollard and Page have plateaued.
Personally, I feel that the Chiefs haven't evaluated their offensive line talent properly. Niswanger showed great promise at right guard last year before injury. In an effort to get him on the field, they moved him to center. Herb Taylor is a much better left tackle than they anticipated. Good enough to have gone a different direction at pick 15? Hard to say. But he has enough talent to be starting at left tackle, left guard or center, IMO. He'd be a short term solution at right guard or right tackle, not long term.
Again, this is just
my opinion of the line play, to which I pay very close attention.