offense better than expected. defense worse than expected. but the defense was missing some key personnel

Does throwing the ball away count as an attempt? I'm sure it does, just wondering out loud. I remember him throwing out of bounds to the right. Was that the one where Bowe ran too deep?

Here's how they faired according to Gretz-

The kicking competition remains very close. Rookie Connor Barth hit a 37-yard FG and a pair of extra points. Nick Novak made his PAT kick as well. Novak kicked off four times, booting the ball to the 8, 3, 6 and 10-yard lines. Barth had just one kickoff, that one falling at the 7-yard line.

I'm not ready to write off Tamba as not "a #1 guy" based on one quarter of pre-season play with no serviceable compliment DE. I don't know how you can outright dismiss him at this point.

That's the answer. We have a horrible D and all world O-line, DV wanted to win now, and picked a buttload of horrible D-linemen.

The Chiefs have already begun the path to turning that culture around.

Tamba hasn't done anything really in camp, not even against Herb Taylor. I am VERY worried!

Yep. As a former first-rounder, Tamba should be dominating dudes like Herb Taylor. It's very concerning.

No matter how "rusty" LJ looked, it was still nice to see him running angry. His stats weren't much, but he had some decent runs, and he was hitting people, instead of getting buried. I like the new running scheme.

Without going through the whole thread, I was pretty impressed with that Savage guy at running back.

In preseason, I'll tend to pick a couple of guys and watch them consistently. I watched Adrian Jones on offense and Tank on defense. Jones had one highly visible bad play where he didn't pull fast enough and his guy nailed LJ for a six-yard loss, but on straight-ahead runs he was pushing his guy backwards. Tank was more or less doing the same on defense.

Carr and #39, who I never could identify, were getting burned a bit on defense, it seemed.

I thought Croyle looked good. It seems like he's got a pretty fast release.

That push up the middle will help the outside guys too. I mean, Dorsey's not gonna get a bunch of sacks. The key is taking away the QB's ability to step up in the pocket and/or flushing them to the outside where a DE can gobble them up.

That was awesome... and long overdue.

I think going from Solari to Gailey might be our biggest upgrade of the offseason.

Carr IS #39

I liked Savage too. You're the first one I've seen mention him. He's a good Oklahoma State boy.

If only you had been reading WPI camp reports...

That kid runs like his ass is on fire. I like him.

So many running backs though... maybe he'll win the KR job.