Chiefs Get of Mark Castle's back!

bowener · 11-10-2009, 01:31 PM

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Originally Posted by POND_OF_RED

I for one would like to see him throw to the first down marker on 3rd down. Not sure if this is all on him or on the coaching but it just pisses me off to see a QB throw 10 yards short of the 1st down marker on 3rd down. Of course you're not going to throw many INT's when you are throwing check down passes well short of the marker.

I know you have got to understand football better than this. It's not like every single WR is running short of the marker! It is typically the case that we are in 3rd and long, correct? So this tells teams that we are either going to (A)run the draw up the middle, or (B) throw for the first.

The draw up the middle scares no one with our OL, so teams go with option (B) and "pin their ears back" so to speak. Basically, we get in too many 3rd and longs for whatever the reasons, and once we are in that situation we are one dimensional with a very subpar OL (understatement).

It does not take a lot of imagination to see that once the blitz is on our OL crumbles (even without a blitz) and Cassel has little time to drop back, go through his reads, then throw the ball. This short amount of time is either going to cause him to throw an inaccurate pass or throw early to unanprepared/covered WR, or god forbid, force him to throw to the check down or the under route as his other WR's have yet to create any separation or make their cuts.

It is pretty easy to see with our group of WR's why if Cassel has little time to throw, they are not open yet. None of them are speed demons (maybe Chambers now) so it is pretty unlikely to see Bowe streaking down the sideline with a step or 2 on his man just one second after the snap. Now consider that teams can press the WR's at the line and this really starts to slow things down.

If teams don't blitz they can easily cover all our WR's in man or zone, and allow the 4 DLman to get enough pressure to get a sack or force a tough throw since our garbage OL can only block for about 2 seconds it seems.