Welp, That Wasn't Good

['Hamas' Jenkins]

That looked like a bad football team that wasn’t prepared to play. That’s probably as succinct as I can be, but I do think there was a little more to it than just that.

1) The Baltimore game last year really exposed us. Since we switched to a 3-4 with OLBs who can’t cover, a number of people commented on the fact that the Chiefs would be abused by tight ends and by receiving backs. For a completely bizarre reason, no one really attempted to do it until Baltimore in last year’s WC game. They showed our complete inability to cover the TE, and Buffalo followed that script exactly. I imagine that will be a recurring problem, as none of our LBs, save for Johnson, have the ability to cover in space, and our safeties really aren’t that good at it either.

2) Some of the offensive ineptitude was due to the coordinator change, but I don’t think you can lay it all at the incompetent feet of Muir. That said, I don’t think he has any business coordinating an NFL offense, but Weis looked better than he probably was last year because Cassel’s numbers were so aberrational. His INT rate was so low, and his TD rate was so high (despite the fact that we didn’t move the ball through the air) that it made it appear as though he was far better than he was. If I were to draw an analogy to Cassel’s 2010, I’d say it was a flyball hitter who had a .380 BABIP. When he regresses this year, partially to his luck normalizing and partially due to playing a harder schedule, it will make Weis look smarter than what he was and Haley and co. look worse.

3) I wonder if the lockout actually will have the opposite of the intended effect. Perhaps the cohesive “character” teams will look worse and the “talent” teams will look better because there was so little time to instill and refine a system, so it takes on more of a sandlot aspect. It’s complete conjecture, but it’s just something that popped in my head as I watched some of the early scores trickle in.

4) Haley’s not in danger this year, but he probably should be, as the coaching situation is one entirely of his own making and the guy he fired put clown shoes on him today, while the other guy he ran off looks golden simply from a lack of association. Cassel probably goes before Haley, even though it shouldn’t be an either/or situation.

5) The clamoring for Stanzi worries me just a touch. He had a fine preseason, but he wasn’t an elite player by any means, and I think handing the reigns over to him or keeping them in Cassel’s hands could be an egregious mistake. I guess want I mean to say is this: if and when the season gets away, give him some run, but unless he does something absolutely extraordinary, don’t let his play influence your desire to go out and acquire a quarterback early.

That’s all I really have. At least…Warpaint looked good today??

[milkman]

Originally Posted by Bo's Pelini

I didn't agree with the strategy. Usually the starters play 1 series in the 4th game. I understand it's different this year but I wish they would have done this vs the Rams. Regardless the team still looks totally unprepared.

I thought the stategy was a good one, though I think he waited too long to ramp up the practices.

But in hindsight, with Cassel looking like a backup QB at USC, I don't think this stategy, or any other, had any real chance to succeed.

[Hammock Parties]

Originally Posted by aturnis

That's and understatement. This team looks like the Cleveland Indians in "Major League" before they mounted their comeback.

So all we have to do is get a cutout of Clark Hunt and start ripping off pieces of his suit every week until he's fully nude.

[Hammock Parties]

THERE'S ONLY ONE THING LEFT TO DO
WIN THE WHOLE ****ING THING

[lcarus]

Originally Posted by aturnis

An idiot indeed. Guess he doesn't realize that our starters played no more this preseason than the average team, and if anything, less.

I thought he was just making fun of the spelling. Guess not.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by DeezNutz

Romeo's answer for Gates was an injury.

He stacked double coverage on him IIRC. Gates may have been hurt in the second meeting though. I don't remember.

Hell, I may be hallucinating. I haven't gotten much sleep in the last couple weeks.

[Coogs]

Originally Posted by milkman

I thought the stategy was a good one, though I think he waited too long to ramp up the practices.

But in hindsight, with Cassel looking like a backup QB at USC, I don't think this stategy, or any other, had any real chance to succeed.

Spot on with the whole post.

[Chiefnj2]

Originally Posted by milkman

I thought the stategy was a good one, though I think he waited too long to ramp up the practices.

But in hindsight, with Cassel looking like a backup QB at USC, I don't think this stategy, or any other, had any real chance to succeed.

The strategy sucked. The whole preseason sucked. Cassel sucked, but certainly wasn't the only reason the team lost.

[burt]

Originally Posted by Gif Horse

So all we have to do is get a cutout of Clark Hunt and start ripping off pieces of his suit every week until he's fully nude.

It sucks that I am out of rep....this was golden....

[milkman]

Originally Posted by Chiefnj2

The strategy sucked. The whole preseason sucked. Cassel sucked, but certainly wasn't the only reason the team lost.

No, Cassel wasn't the only reason.

The points you made in another thread regarding tackling and getting pushed around are right on point.

But I believe the plan would have worked had Haley not waited so long to ramp up practices, and those issues would not have been issues, or at least not to the extent they were today, as well as the fumbling problems we have as a team.

But at the end of the day, I think we lose this game regardless, because Matt Cassel is just a terrible QB.

It might not have been as embarrassing, but a loss is a loss.