Granted he was missed especially in the Buffalo game. Somewhat in the Denver game. Hell both the Denver and the collasph with Philly can be pinned squarely on the defense. :banghead:

Sure, if you want to ignore the '00 Pats season that netted them Richard Seymour and Matt Light and the '03 Steelers season that got them Ben Roethlisberger.

Yeah, we had that chance... and we got Ryan Sims.

It's always a blow to lose a HOFer from your team. If there's any good news to this- they did at least go out and get Turley. But, more importantly- our OC knows the OL and will make the necessary adjustments to make the offense gell. For instance, we may now employ a zone blocking scheme and utilize the strenghts of each member on the line.

But, I can see a couple of things happening: 1. We will most likely be double-teaming on the outside rush. and 2. Green won't be dropping back as much. Instead, his drop-backs will be shorter and the passing plays will be quicker.

I don't think he was the sole reason we lost the Philly game, the defense did a nice little number there, but that was the game where Tony G. complained because we kept him in to block the whole game and he only had like 5 yards receiving.

I'm certainly not trying to claim that a high draft pick is necessary to win a SB, or a guarantee of future success.

I was just responding to what I perceived as a claim NE and PIT had success in spite of never getting high picks.

I agree with Mecca's comment about the middle of the road W/L record (7-9 t 9-7). It sucks. Not good enough to get into the play-offs, and never bad enough to draft "elite" prospects. I'm not saying I want the team to do poorly, just agreeing that there's less to get excited about in that position.

3-3

We lost to Denver, Philly, and Buffalo.

And our two worst offensive performances came with Roaf on the sideline.

Last year in a radio interview, Mitch Holthus gave the winning percentage of Roaf's teams with him on the field versus when he was injured. It was ugly. I'll try and get it from him again on Monday when our local station interviews him.

Our defense sucked against Philly and Denver last year...I don't think they'll be anywhere near that bad this year.

We're going to be prepared this year without Roaf. Last year we weren't.

The Buffalo game was soooo frustrating because it could have easily been a win. We out played the Bills. It came down to needing to run the ball more and those two long bombs that the great J.P. Losman threw for tds.

The Defense and coaching cost us that game. The offense did it's job in the first half, but Al had to get cute in the second half and the Defense was just horrible.

What a bullshit article, we will still kick ass this year. Hey Fatlock have you even seen our schedule? Everybody needs to quit the fucking crying.

We're doomed now.......you jinxed it.

Would you consider Larry Johnson who rushed for over 2000 yards his senior year not an "elite" prospect at #27? Everything about #27 looks pretty elite. I understand what your saying. Not disagreeing just making a point.

Some additional stats for this:

Sacks/yd lost

1-8 Oakland
2-10 Denver
3-12 Philly
3-28 Oakland
6-54 Buffalo
0-0 Houston

15-112 Total without Roaf

32 total sacks minus those W/O Roaf = 17 sacks in 10 games

1.7 Sacks per game with Roaf
2.5 Sacks per game without Roaf

Ouch

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showt...3&page=5&pp=15


Kind of the same sentiment I had in Post #75 on this thread...

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