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Damnit, Sauto! Yeeeuuuuuuw fetch-a sake now! Chop Chop!

( no hate here Sauto, I would have laughed at that reference regardless of who it was directed at )

Okay, where to start.

#1) If you are going to act like you are a journalist, do some research. Subscribe to the archives of newspapers if necessary so you can go back and look at what the reaction was.

#2) DV hired GR because he knew the division, and DV had known him for 20 years.

#3) GR's schemes were based on outsmarting an opponent more than just solid defense. They wanted you to make a mistake. Remember, GR and DV used to say that a sack also means that you can't intercept the ball. GR was constantly in bend but don't break mode and force them into a mistake. When he first started in Denver, he had a novel approach. The league catches on to schemes. You can be a genius for a year or two, but the league catches up quickly.

Remember, the Chiefs players saying that GR treats football like Chess, but it is really more like checkers?

But, GR's schemes weren't his biggest problem. The players lost faith in him. And, the capper, the final straw was that at one point in the Indy game, right after Manning had completed a third down pass..... The players looked to him on the sidelines and he just shrugged. He didn't have an answer. The players look to the coaches for answers. You have to at least PRETEND to have one. When you are sitting there, clueless on the sideline just shrugging your shoulders as if you have already lost the game.... there is no coming back from that.

Two words. UCLA.

Yep. GRob was a staunch proponent of the "bend but don't break" defense. The idea is that a 15-play drive is nearly impossible without making a back-breaking mistake. To be honest, when implemented correctly, it does work. Unfortunately for DV and GRob, their defense never had to contend with long drives because they gave up an historic number of big plays.

There's not NEARLY the amount of talent on that Cardinals defense that you contend there is. They're light years ahead of the Chiefs, for sure, but they're not even close to Top 10 in terms of talent.

As a Chiefs fan I refuse to believe he is worse. It would be too much torment to allow myself to believe he is worse. So I'm covering my ears and I'm going to enjoy the games. Once Pendergast is fired I will allow myself to feel the hate.

The Cardinals never had a good enough defense to go 9-0...

GROB did.

Actually that's what LJ said about the Offensive play calling during the Herm Edwards era, but whatever.

They shouldn't be ranking 26th in defense is my point, not that they're awesome.

I'd say they had at least as much talent as 06/07 Chiefs.

How much of that was the coordinator? How much of it was something else? There's so many variables to include that bitching about Pendergast at this point just doesn't make much sense.

He's our DC, and there's nothing that can be done about it. Might as well get over it, and see how he does. I'm not too happy about it. It's actually the only move this off-season I'm irked with, but we're just gonna have to give the guy a chance, and see what happens.

Generally when it happens several years in a row when they go out of their way to give him more players, I'm gonna look at the DC.

How much of it was the head coach? Who were the position coaches?

Again, the primary reason you're going to look at the DC is because YOU WANT TO.

FYP.:D

I know, I know.

I always tend to wait for people to prove they can't win before I label them as such.

It's a character flaw. :)

You mean you can't see the future?

What the **** are you doing on the internet, troglodyte.

I prefer Neanderthal.

Who am I to judge one's sexual preferences.

Thanks for the new sig.




Bitch.

:)

Proclaim my greatness. I'll lick my balls on this forum if I wanna. I'm the Ball-Licking King of the Jungle around here.

I don't get to see the games, so I don't know.....is DJ's skill set more suited to a read and react type of defense?

No. He's never been a cerebral player.

I know.

Pretty sweet, huh? You can't imagine how much pussy I get because of my avvy.

So he's soft and dumb. Awesome.

I don't think he's soft. But he's not exactly Ray Lewis.

He's never really been coached up enough IMO.

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HEY LET'S BASH GOCHIEFS! HIGH FIVE EVERYONE!

i'm glad someone feels the way i do about this, funny how when you say just about the same thing as me they choose not to call names.

We've tagged poor porker with every name in the book for years. Err, parker. I mean parker. *cough*

Perhaps, but I believe Eric Hicks was the one who used the term first in 2004 when Gunther came back. I know it was said in 2004 when Gunther came back.

I was on Carl Peterson's payroll for almost 6 years, so I can handle it.

Really?

oh i can handle it too, it's just funny how some bash people's opinions yet when someone with more posts says the same thing they dont get NEAR as belligerent

Pioli has three rings. Dv had one. I think that this a stupid comparoson.

I think it's a lot more justifiable to question Haley's hiring judgement than Pioli player evaluation judgement.

That said, I think anyone who doesn't take a wait and see approach to all of it, it's either an emotionally abused fan or getting payed to stir up shit.

It was a long-standing joke here, and on the Star BB before that.

I'm not a guy that will go full-blown negative without a reason (see Herm :cuss:) and I usually can't keep my mouth shut in the face of hyperbole and outright lies.

So anytime I wasn't willing to join the "fire Carl Peterson" circle jerk, I got accused of being an Apologist. That morphed into being "on the payroll" and myself and many others played it up for fun.

This.

Well, if Pioli fails, at least you've got THAT payroll to look forward to. :D

There's no room for patience or diligence on a board like this. Every discussion has to be highly-polarized - you're either violently for or violently against. Don't even try to occupy the middle ground... :D

Oh it can be done, and you tread it well. There's the way you do it, and the way Nosensical Chiefs Fan does it.

You don't draw much ire, so I'm going to call your method the winner.

Oh believe me, it used to draw ALOT of ire. But the way I do it now is different from the way I did it before I left.