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They're special team's gunners and there's a special team's portion of practice every day. You bet your ass those gunners spend time tackling. And ultimately I've always kinda viewed their role as a redirect anyway. They're there to maintain the edge and push the returner into the middle with your aforementioned safeties and linebackers. But hell, those WRs were all playing DB in high school at least - it won't be their first time hitting someone.
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If I remember right, DAT was the main gunner and was pretty good at it until he got hurt very early and Kemp took over. It appears that they've let DAT go.
I found it surprising that he won the job because DAT wasn't a big guy at all.
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Will Dieter ever amount to anything for the Chiefs? Who knows but I wouldn't write him off just yet. Still, I'm in the camp that he will be cut before the season. I don't buy that him being good friends with Patrick will make a difference on whether the team keeps him over a better player, if they feel there is a better player.
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He apparently has the trust of Toub and that means more for a #5 WR than anything since that's where they'll contribute the most.
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He had 8 more ST’s snaps than Dieter in the playoffs. That’s it. And that’s what you’re basing Kemp’s ST’a value on, snaps. Does that mean Dieter has his trust too?
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I mentioned 3-cone. It's a common thread in feel-good underdog success tales of dudes who come from out of nowhere to have a decent and sometimes even a spectacular NFL career.
Where the hell did Adam Thielen come from? He wasn't invited to the combine, either, and everybody from high school to his Division II college has said, "I mean, yeah, he's good, but I wouldn't call him anything special." The answer is his 3-cone. He had a top 20 3-cone, and when combined with adequate speed and vertical/long jump numbers, scrappy gym rats like Thielen can take that plus all the experience with being "the guy" at his shitty school for 4 years, work their ****ing asses off, and scratch and claw their way into finding a niche. And in Thielen's case, his niche was in the NFL record books (most consecutive games with 100+ receiving yards). Gehrig Dieter doesn't have Thielen's college experience. He doesn't have his 3-cone or his speed or his jump. He MIGHT have his work ethic and attitude. He's just got nothing. No, I don't care if he's bumming around near the bottom of the roster, but if my troll post from earlier actually comes true and we re-sign that bitch to anything more than he's worth, that's when he's gonna start to feel the wrath of Chiefs fans. I mean, he could also start producing, but I just don't think it's reasonably possible for him to do anything significant at all. |
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Dieter killed us in the '14 World Series.
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Pat and Dieter catching fish
Mahomes will probably just pay Dieter to be his *insert random thing* manager or something like that if he gets cut and out of football so I think he will be fine regardless. I don’t think he became friends with Mahomes for financial reasons or anything like that but it certainly could pay off for him in that regard.
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My point is that people look at the total ST’s snaps Kemp had on the season compared to Dieter (which was significant but mostly because Kemp played in all 16 games), but what does that matter when they were playing about the same amount in the playoffs and Dieter clearly passed him on the WR depth chart? |
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Dieter didn’t get that glowing profile on last weeks Franchise by accident
You don’t have to like it, but he is making this years team |
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He was coming into his own before that Achilles injury too.
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