latest "Woe is me" story on Dorsey in todays Star.
I think id be perfectly happy if the Chiefs never drafted a defensive lineman in the 1st 2 rounds ever again........
http://www.kansascity.com/2012/11/05...fs-dorsey.html
After latest injury, time may be up for Chiefs’ Glenn Dorsey
Defensive lineman Glenn Dorsey swatted at the ground in obvious frustration at one point of last week’s game in San Diego, his calf injured again in his first game back after a four-game absence.
Dorsey may return at some point this year or perhaps this injury has ended his season. Either way, his career with the Chiefs appears to be winding down and certainly not the way they envisioned with they made him the fifth pick in the 2008 draft.
The Chiefs thought at the time Dorsey would be the centerpiece of their massive rebuilding project and a dominant defensive tackle the likes of which hadn’t been seen in a Kansas City uniform in years.
It never happened for Dorsey. A year after he was drafted, the Chiefs changed defensive systems to the 3-4, one not ideally suited for his abilities.
He became a useful player but not as useful as any team hopes the fifth pick of the draft would be. He is only a part-time player, playing against the run but coming out of the game in obvious passing situations.
His contract expires at the end of the season and the Chiefs are unlikely to spend a lot of money on a part-time player, so it’s more likely Dorsey will move on.
“He can play in the 3-4 but we drafted him to do something different,” said Herm Edwards, the Chiefs head coach when they drafted Dorsey. “They’re asking him to do something he can do but might not be the best thing for him. Sometimes it doesn’t work out. He’ll have an opportunity to go somewhere else if he doesn’t come back to Kansas City.”
Current Chiefs coach Romeo Crennel sounded immediately after the game in San Diego like Dorsey’s absence this time would be even more extended than the one that just ended.
He has since backed off those comments, suggesting Dorsey may not be out of the lineup that long.
“I was more disappointed, I guess,” Crennel said. “He’s a player who’s been working hard to get back on the field and then he gets back on the field and then reinjures himself. When you reinjure yourself after an initial injury, it’s not as good, so I was a little disappointed about that because Glenn is a good, solid player for us and has been a good, solid player for us. I think probably I let my disappointment show in the comments I made about him.
“We’ll have to see how that plays out.”
Even before the Chiefs switched defensive systems, Dorsey had a disappointing rookie season while playing for Edwards. But it’s not unusual for defensive tackles to take some time to adjust to playing in the NFL, so the Chiefs remained optimistic about Dorsey.
Then came the system change, one that affected a lot of the Chiefs defensive players but perhaps Dorsey the most. He was suddenly asked mainly to keep blockers away from the linebackers instead of making plays himself.
“He does a really good job in our scheme and in our system,” Crennel said. “He’s a pretty solid player for what we ask him to do.
“I remember (when Dorsey came to the Chiefs) that he was a good player and that there was a lot of press about his abilities and his ability to go on and come into this league and have an opportunity to be a solid player. I think here again, he’s another one of those guys who went from (a 4-3 system), a penetrating kind of defense, to a head-up, two-gap kind of guy. Since he’s done that, since I’ve been here, he’s been a solid guy for us.”
Despite that, Dorsey doesn’t get a lot of chances to rush the quarterback. He never developed as a pass rusher, something that shouldn’t be affected as much by a change in systems.
“Sometimes those guys who you put head-up on an offensive lineman, when a pass develops, they have to get to the edge and it takes time for them to get to the edge, whereas those 4-3 teams, primarily everybody is already lined up on the edge,” Crennel said. “That’s one or two steps that those guys don’t have to take, but in our system, we play our system to help against the run and then our linebackers are the guys who generate the pass rush.”