ChiefsPlanet - View Single Post - Is the "spread" the new 3-4?

'Hamas' Jenkins · 02-18-2009, 03:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Hootie

Yikes dude!

I don't know about that...

I remember SEVERAL times we'd get the ball 1st and Goal at the 1 and I'd tell my friends (who didn't give a shit) that we wouldn't score because we are TERRIBLE inside the 5...

LJ isn't the best goal to go back in the league...never was, never will be...but he scored 20+ TD's a couple of seasons in a row so he knows how to find the end zone...but our line wasn't capable of opening up ANY holes...

He only averaged what he did because of the spread...how many long runs did LJ have last year?

I thought his best game of the season was against Oakland when he didn't really have any long runs, but he consistently fought for yards and gained 3+ at a time...

I'd rather take 3, 3, 3, 4, 3, 5, 3, 2, 3, 3, 5, 5 then 15, 1, 0, 0, -2, 25, 0, 1, 2, 1, 2, 0, 20...

I thought Thigpen's ability to run really kept the opposing DE's in check and that allowed our offensive line to look representable even though Niswanger/Jones/Smith/Taylor/McIntosh have no business being in the starting lineup.

I would like to see the Chiefs go QB #3...

But I won't call it the end of the world if we see what Thigpen has in 2009...

Worst case scenario?

He flops and we get another top 5 pick and we go QB in 2010...

I don't see another 2 win season in the horizon...we no longer have an inept coach...I think Haley will at least know how to finish games...if we had a coach like that last year we would have won 6 games.

The fact Gailey drew up an offense that allowed the Chiefs to compete last year was amazing to me...our defense had 10 sacks...10 friggin' sacks! We should have been the Lions last year...but somehow we competed week in and week out because of the spread offense.

Hootie, if there were any QBs in the 2010 class I'd agree with you, but there is no way to properly express how shit awful that class is. Every QB is coming from the spread. They aren't going to know how to read a defense. The best Pro-Style prospect is Jevan Snead.

Otherwise, you are left with a bunch of insurance salesmen like McCoy or Tebow, or a guy like Sam Bradford, who is basically Chad Pennington with less accuracy, if Pennington couldn't read a defense.