TEICHER: QB Croyle has the look of a starter
 

Didn't see this posted, and have not had time to read the other Croyle thread, so sorry if repost. I like the last paragraph. Here it is....



QB Croyle has the look of a starter
All signs point to the Chiefs’ second-year player taking the reins from Trent Green.
By ADAM TEICHER
The Kansas City Star

Brodie Croyle In the next five weeks, Brodie Croyle will get married in Mississippi and begin in earnest the process of trying to win the starting quarterback’s job at Chiefs training camp in Wisconsin.

Compared to the wedding, he said, “football is a piece of cake.”

That’s no reflection on his July 14 nuptials but more on Croyle’s offseason, which has gone about as smoothly as the Chiefs could hope. With only today’s practice remaining among their offseason work, Croyle has shown the Chiefs nothing that would shake their view that he’s the top candidate to replace the departed Trent Green.

Croyle may have in fact raised himself in the eyes of the Chiefs and coach Herm Edwards with some sharp throws and intelligent decision-making. If he continues to play well in camp and the preseason, the job is probably his no matter how well the other candidate, veteran Damon Huard, fares.

The Chiefs will withhold final judgment on a starting quarterback until the preseason. But there was the unmistakable feeling at practice Tuesday that as the offseason is winding down, so is the quarterback competition.

Even Huard acknowledged it.

“Everybody would love to find the young quarterback to be the starter for the next 10 years,” Huard said of Croyle, a third-round draft pick last season. “Might everybody be rooting for the young guy to win? Maybe in some ways. But the old guy will go out there and compete, too.”

The feeling was fortified Tuesday when Croyle got all of the first-team snaps. Huard was mostly a bystander at practice. In the absence of Casey Printers, rookie Jeff Terrell took whatever work Croyle didn’t get.

“(Terrell) has been standing out here for 11 practices and all he gets to do is warm-ups and throw to receivers in drills,” Edwards said. “I told him for these two days he was going to get to play football. He was excited about that.”

These final two practices were designed for the younger players anyway. Several key veterans, including Larry Johnson, Tony Gonzalez and Donnie Edwards, were absent Tuesday and the Chiefs don’t expect them today.

Still, these plans fit in nicely with the ones the Chiefs have for Croyle, among the most important of their younger players.

“He’s progressing,” Edwards said. “We’ve put him in a lot of situations in practice — blitz periods, red zone, third downs. Now he’s going to have to do that in competition with Damon.”

Croyle has adequately handled much of what the Chiefs have thrown his way. They fully understand tougher tests are coming soon.

“I’m feeling more and more comfortable and more and more confident and getting used to where my receivers are going to be,” Croyle said. “I’ve gotten a lot better since day one.”

The Chiefs were expecting no revelations about Croyle from a month’s worth of offseason practices. Such workouts are conducted in shorts and T-shirts, contact with the quarterback is strictly off-limits, and they are frequently carried out at something far less than game speed.

“There’s not anything about him I didn’t already know,” wide receiver Eddie Kennison said. “I know how competitive he is. He’s just an old country boy that likes to hunt and play football. He’s not an outrageous guy, he’s not a flamboyant guy.”

From last year’s practices, they knew Croyle was capable of making all of the necessary throws. They knew from watching him in college at Alabama that he had the commanding huddle presence every team looks for in a quarterback.

Still, they discovered some qualities, some subtle and others not, and most to their delight.

“You can tell he was around Trent Green,” safety Bernard Pollard said.

“A lot of the things Trent did and the way he carried himself, you can see that in Brodie. The way he looks off from a receiver. He’ll look at one receiver and then come back to his left and you thought he was going right with the ball and he went the other way.”

HE'S GONNA EAT LIGHTNIN' AND CRAP THUNDER!!!

How long till real football starts? Even the football related threads are getting lame. I hate the off season between OTAs and training camp.

Thanks for posting, Mr. Coogs.

The above is very encouraging, indeed.

FAX

amen. I hear the jeaporady theme music all day in my head until football season starts

The month between the last of OTA's and training camp is dreadful.

They need to start the NBA season a month later than normal... Or we need a baseball team worth watching.

Notice who the quote came from, too.

Pollard is out there in front...I still think he's got the potential to emerge as one of the public faces of this team...

God I miss Burgess Meredith.

HE'S GONNA DRINK GASOLINE AND PISS ON YOUR CAMPFIRE!!!!!!


I like who the qoute came from too, Pollard was in a postion to make the comparision too, Good that Brodie learned from Green while he was here.

I'm also starting to hear many annoying theme songs during this time of year.....

So you're finally admitting that you hear things...

at least it's no longer the tunes from "Friday the 13th" movies....













Kill, Kill, Kill, Kill.... Kill, Kill...... Kill, Kill, Kill, Kill.....

Point. We can only hope he goes for the ball as energetically as he goes for the microphone, Mr. htismaqe. I'm hopeful that, as a defender, Pollard's perspective on Brodie has some merit.

I'm feeling very good about the potential of both Pollard and Page. If they pan out, my opinion of Herm will change dramatically.

FAX

Hell, if Croyle pans out, my opinion of Herm will change dramatically.

Thats good to see the young guys taking over some of the leadership. Also good to see it from Pollard, who at Purdue was considered trouble.

My opinion of Herm is changing dramatically with the ability to change the roster from deaths door step to a younger faster team...

If he can get Brodie a starter on opening day... He will be the best coach to grace Arrowhead since Hank Stram.......