Teicher: No sign yet that Bowe will bounce back
 

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. -- The Kansas City Chiefs made their decision on Dwayne Bowe for better or for worse last year when they signed him to a lucrative, long-term contract.

They didn’t get their money’s worth from their No. 1 wide receiver last year, when he had the worst statistical full season of his career. Bowe failed to lead the Chiefs in receiving for the first time since they traded Tony Gonzalez after the 2008 season.

But in part because of Bowe’s big contract, the Chiefs were limited in their ability to pursue a receiver in free agency. The only wide receiver likely to make the regular-season roster who wasn’t with the Chiefs last season is rookie Albert Wilson, an undrafted free agent.

So their best chance to see dramatic improvement at the position may rest with Bowe. He had a tough day at practice on Wednesday, dropping a pair of passes and deflected another for an interception.

That’s hardly an indication that Bowe won’t rebound this season. But he hasn’t had a great camp and the Chiefs may be guilty of wishful thinking when it comes to their top wide receiver.

Bowe in September will turn 30, the age when the skills of many receivers start their decline. Could it be that process has already started with Bowe?

We’ll find out soon. Chiefs wide receivers coach David Culley said Bowe is in much better shape than he was last summer. Bowe said he’s in the best shape of his career.

“I know from last year, it’s completely different,’’ said Culley, who in his second season with the Chiefs. “Thirty is a mindset. There’s old 30s and there’s young 30s. Which 30 do you want to be? When he came back, he came back as a young 30 and that’s what you have to do to play in this league for a long time.’’

The Chiefs need Culley to be right. If he’s not, it would be obvious the Chiefs made the wrong decision last year on Bowe.

http://espn.go.com/blog/kansas-city-...ll-bounce-back

This wont end well... CP will not disappoint...

:popcorn:

OMGWTFBBQ!

BOWE DROPPED TWO PASSES AND TIPPED ONE IN PRACTICE!

THE CHUEFS GOT RIPPED OFF BY BOWE!

I have heard Bowe speak before... I seriously doubt his Louisiana State education will allow him to form complete sentences to rebuttal Teichers article.

Its like an ice pick in the ear when they put a mic in front of most NFL players.

"Bowe is a dirt bag" - Andy Reid

I'm so ****ing tired of Adam Teicher saying "it's a bit of wishful thinking on the part of the Chiefs" about every ****ing thing.

Teicher might be literally the least imaginative person I have ever witnessed. He has a profound lack of vision, imagination, or abstract thought. He would stand at the base of the statue of liberty and think it was merely a big metal foot.

Tombstone engravers offer more insightful information.

Just like Teicher's articles. Only thing worse are his video blogs.

Adam Teicher wears women's clothing when his wife is at work. Prove me otherwise.

ROFL Yes I agree, his articles are terrible.

Well, it's hard to dispute an eyewitness account.

Have you ever heard Teicher speak?
He is literally a stuttering idiot. It’s impossible to listen to as he begins each sentence with a series of stutters etc.
Compound that with the fact that he’s pulling all of his information out of his A.

Most of whom are college graduates.

I wonder at what grade level most NFL players actually read.

In Teicher's defense, he's been covering the Chiefs since like '93. That's not a job, that's a sentence.

According to the atheists in DC, eyewitness accounts are literally the worst form of evidence. But yeah, I've seen Teicher in lingerie.

Why does Bowe need to rebound? He's already as good as Calvin Johnson/CP

This sure is Something Awful.

Sometimes I wonder what in the hell the editors are reading when they give these columns titles.

They are the worst form of evidence. And duh, I already stated that.

Dwayne Bowe had a bad year in 2013. Why Bowe is above criticism from many on here is strange, especially considering how overly critical many are on most players. Teicher is just being Captain Obvious, as usual.

Bowes success not guaranteed.

-Teicher

It's hard to be productive when you're a decoy for 2/3rds of the season...

I don't want to know why or how, OK.

I'll take, "You're ****ing kidding me, right," for $1000, Alex.

Answer:
1989 and counting.

Response:
What are the number of years Adam Teicher has been collecting a healthy paycheck for doing jackshit in a futile attempt to "cover" the Chiefs.

I think we have found Teicher's barber.

We have wasted Bowe's career on shit QBs. End of story. He'd bounce back if we didn't have Captain Checkdown back there constantly slinging shit.

Says the guy that pimped Huard.... Your QB evaluations are shit at best...

ROFL

complete BS

Neither Reid nor Alex Smith is the kind of coach/player that would not use whatever talent they had. Bowe didn't get separation with any consistency. He also didn't win the battle for the ball against the CBs. Bowe got open against the Colts and he got the ball. If Bowe gets open this year then he will get plenty of targets.

If you want to say that Bowe is a bad match for Reid/Smith then fine. But the rest is bullshit.

LMAO

I think after this season we will look back at the Bowe signing and see it as Dorsey's biggest mistake. He's going to have a terrible year. He's lost a step for sure but he will be facing some serious corners in Talibx2, Flowersx2, Revis, Peterson, Sherman and Grimes. He will be lucky to match last year's pathetic stats. He will be covered much of the year and Alex ain't going to throw it to his slow ass.

And he is ballsack when it comes to route running....

Kind of reminds me of the Larry Johnson signing... Lots of pressure from the true fans to sign Bowe long term...

Oh please-

He's not Chris Carter. He never was and he never will be.

Goddamn I forget how stupid you are sometimes.

The true fans wanted to cut Bowe due to pointing at his name on his jersey and a perceived problem with drops.

Alex has been neutering wide receivers his whole career. Logic dictates that Bowe is fine and Alex is the only cause of this "decline." Use your ****ing brains.

I know it's easier to just pile upon the hump of Dwayne "Moby Dick" Bowe, you ****ing Captain Ahab homer mother****ers, but for once use your ****ing brains.

Yep and it was a mistake. You are right. The homers love them some Bowe.

LMAO

True fans don't cut home grown players.... Dumbass...

The guy was an 1100 yard receiver with Cassel, Quinn and ****ing Palko throwing him shitballs left and right.

Alex is just doing what he's always done...**** the wide receivers, they aren't open by five yards so imma check this shit down baby!

After the Colts game Reid was asked why Bowe had such a big game and Reid said that he was a huge part of the game plan and they were going to get him the ball.

Bowe also started showing up about the same time Reid had his talk with Alex about him HAVING to throw the ball down the field.

Reid wasn't the one that didn't want to or know how to use Bowe...

He's never done shit against decent corners. He's never been reliable on 3rd and 5 and he's had a gazillion chances. The criticism is definately warranted.

http://static.nfl.com/static/content...d802aac0f.jpeg

He's going to be the best WR, statistically, in franchise history this year.

**** the haters. And **** Alex Smith.

Yeah, and Josh Gordon put up a 1,000 yards more than Bowe last year with crap QBs throwing him the ball.

But he didn't show up. He failed to use his big ass body against the Colts CB to stay in bounds when we needed him most at the end of the game. That game is the story of Bowe in a lot of ways imo. I did not expect him to make that play before the ball was snapped. Everyone knew the ball was going to him and it was thrown perfectly. He is part of the reason we haven't been successful imo. We need a better pass catcher than Bowe. I don't care if he is the all time leading Chiefs receiver. He's overrated as hell imo.

I don't care about other teams, other players.

We know what Bowe can do, even with shit QBs.

Once Alex stopped playing fraidy-cat ball, lo and behold, Bowe actually produced.

Stop pillorying Dwayne Bowe because a known checkdown criminal took 10 weeks to work up his courage. It's not ****ing logical.

We know what Bowe used to be able to do sometimes. We don't know what he "can" do anymore.

Bullshit. Did you see the playoff game? Stop being intellectually dishonest.

Did you know that Bowe had 521 yards his last eight games last season?

Gee, that had NOTHING to do with Alex finding his nuts I bet.

Every player is going to have one or two bad plays a game.

The only reason we're here arguing this is the secondary had about 400 that day...

Right. We're all hoping Bowe bounces back, but unfortunately, he may be done. That's all Teicher's column was suggesting, and only emotional Bowe marks find it controversial.

Well, Alex had fewer attempts the 2nd half the year but more yards...

:hmmm:

Total bullshit. WRs in the best shape of their life, who have never had a major injury, are not "done" at 30.

Bowe has a good five years left.

Teicher looks like Finebaum, Finebaum looks like a penis.

Geezus it's annoying when people can't keep to their threads.

Yes, however. Eyewitnesses are unreliable. Thousands of people have seen Elvis. They're all probably wrong.

That sir is the straight dope. Total truth.

Which is why I've always accepted the notion that Alexander the Great was actually a talking Great Dane.

Everyone knows Elvis died protecting black JFK and an entire old folks home...

That's why there is hope he bounces back. Let's just hope he was slow last year because of his weight and difficulty learning the system.

ROFL

The dude was not slow. He was the same guy he always was.

Alex Smith is just a little fraidy cat afraid to throw guys open.

Look how fat Bowe was!

http://m2.nflrush.com/gal/sv/i/cowbo...arr_pg_600.jpg

I love how you are complaining about how conservative Alex Smith was during the first NINE GAMES of last year.

He was. We won games based on our overrated defense feasting on shitty QBs.

Thanks for NOTHING Alex.

FAT AS HELL

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...wayne-bowe.jpg

And then we started playing not shitty quarterbacks and we needed more points and less conservative play.

the longest pass(in the air) to Bowe was like 12 yards, the big yards came after the catch

And we won all of 2 games, one on the strength of the defense destroying RG3.

Thanks, Alex.

But that's a completely different argument. You weren't saying that Smith is incapable of scoring points by throwing aggressively. You were complaining that he wasn't aggressive enough.

Basically, I think you're a bit myopic when it comes to Smith. The guy isn't all-world elite, and that pains me. But he quite obviously is a good quarterback that chooses to err on the conservative, mistake free football, for better or worse.

You obviously disagree with that approach fundamentally, which is totally valid. But when you start getting into trolltastic posting it makes it more difficult to sift through the nonsense and find out exactly what the **** you're complaining about.

Alex had 2 games after week 9 where he threw for more than 7 ypa, compared to 3 through week 9. He was streaky as shit. He took more shots down field but there was still a bunch of conservatism going on.

That's what you get with him. Frankly, I disagree with the approach, because I don't think interceptions - especially downfield interceptions - are NEARLY as detrimental to winning as coaches like to make them out to be.

They're like chasing a straight. Sure, it will bite you in the ass sometimes. You have to accept that as an occupational hazard of playing loose. But when it pass off it tends to pay off huge. And that is often times more than enough to keep you in the game.

"I thought Dwayne Bowe looked about as bad as I've ever seen him. He looks like a slow TE." -@gregcosell

This thread is about Alex undermining Bowe. That's all. That's the truth.

Until we play an actual game, wouldn't it be hard to tell how effective Bowe will be in games this year?

We talkin bout practice? - AI

Yep.

He will never be more than what he is: a disease that kills wide receivers.

FYP

That's ridiculous.

I know. You'd think he could at least get the ball to Bowe like Cassel did.

:LOL:

Bowe is the kind of receiver that plays when he wants to. Big contract = no motivation.