DJ making 6 million and a Superbowl ring to play 7 quarters of football (4 of which were basically preseason) is hilarious

I think it all came down to conditioning. D.J. Humphries likely isn't in good enough shape yet to go 100% for an entire game.

He's solid insurance at this point.

I never said DJ was going to be the guy. I never said the run game suffered.

So I'm still laughing.

Yup.

Would've preferred Humphries prove to the coaching staff that he's up to the task but he evidently wasn't able to do so.

So be it.

I think that lowers our ceiling a little bit but I don't think we need our ceiling to advance, at least not this week.

Yep.

The fact that the chiefs were willing to bench Wanya for a guy who had no offseason reps proves that humphries was absolutely being considered.

I don’t think he looks that bad. He looks like a guy who hasn’t had reps so he’s missing a few things that come with repetition and communication. and understandably isn’t well conditioned jumping into peak conditioning. Feel like we can’t rule him out for next year when we can get a full offseason out of him. But yeah, for now, you have a safer option who has lower upside but isn’t going to have some issues. Easy decision.

Would have liked to see this work moreso because thuney in a natural position is a substantial upgrade over caliendo. But we can definitely make this work with thuney for the final stretch.

Hopefully we can get to a commanding lead and get more reps out of Humphreys

Eh - I don't see it happening.

If 3 weeks of practice didn't convince Reid that he's ready to start, 2 more halves in garbage time won't.

Moreover, there's really no such thing as garbage time in the playoffs. I mean if we go into the 2nd half with a 17 point lead that's a 'commanding lead' by any definition and we'd still be fools to bench starters.

Looks like the ship has sailed on Humphries meaningfully contributing this season. Worthwhile gamble but the hamstring injury pretty much smothered it in the crib. He's a backup now -- shouldn't see the field apart from injury.

Onward and upward...

He's going to have to sign Cam Robinson or Terron Armstead, that's really all there is to it. We simply cannot keep doing this shit.

Armstead is older and has an injury history, and might be willing to come in for cheap to try and ring chase, but Robinson gives you more long term stability. Either way, I'd be shocked if one of these guys is not a Chief next year. I just can't see them trading up with all the pending free agents we have, we're going to need those picks.

It would be amazing if something else comes up, but right now I don't know what the hell else you can do.

Mildly disappointing that DJ isn't up to it, but definitely no second guessing. These guys know.

Is it at all surprising that Wanya couldn't have stepped in at LG over Caliendo given he projects to be able to play there?

I mean, he's less ass than anything we've trotted out there in 2+ years and less ass than anything else that's going to be available.

At this point, I'll take the lowest level of ass we can possibly find, as long as it's not as ass-ey as what we've been seeing.

I had been in the Robinson camp under the belief that Humphries would be able to establish himself and eventually command a 2-3 year deal worth fairly close to what Robinson gets. I like Robinson more than Humphries as a pure pass protector so was leaning Robinson.

Humphries didn't do that. He's probably looking at a 'make-good' deal that's closer to what Donovan Smith got than what Robinson is going to get.

As such, I'd probably pivot to DJ from Robinson at this point. I think Cam's a pretty known quantity (and no, I don't think that quantity is 'ass'), but as frustrating as this annual musical chairs has become at LT, I think another year of it is likely in order. This is the first time it's really been a shit-show and Wanya's knee injury may well have contributed to that a great deal.

Humphries/Robinson competing for the LT job next year wouldn't bother me a ton. And of course Kingsley has an off-season to get himself back into the mix.

Not really surprised by this news, peak Humphries and Thuney on the field at the same time theoretically is the best OL the Chiefs can present, but Humphries must have lost a step due to conditioning, injury, or just time away from the game. Humphries is still solid depth at LT and NO WAY would I want to see Morris or Kingsley enter the game to protect #15's blind side, so having Humphries on the roster puts one player in between Morris or Kingsley potentially on the field at LT in case of some kind of disaster.

Honestly though, I was hoping Humphries would be at Pro Bowl caliber coming in and would finally solve the LT situation for the semi-long term.

They are not tinkering with shit in the playoffs.. Caliendo has played there and isn’t as bad as you think..

No I mean that initially Wanya wasn't the choice. Wanya could've been there for awhile. Not at all suggesting he should have been just asking whether that seems disappointing he wasn't considered good enough to slot in over the UDFA.

If they have seen enough from DJ to think he can actually hold down the position next year, and they can keep him on a reasonable 1-year deal, I'd say go for it as well. I'll be fine with that if they decide to go that route, obviously they know better than us.

Still just bummed he couldn't bring it together quickly enough to be the guy for the playoffs. However, if it ends up giving us a starter for next year, it was worth the $6 mil to bring him in and learn the playbook, culture, ect.