Kendrick Lewis vs. Lin El - you know.

[Rain Man]

I shall forever be haunted by the vision of Kendrick Lewis running five yards behind that hotel guy on the long touchdown pass. There was no coverage at all. None. Zero. The hotel guy ran down the field and the second-year NFL legend just tossed him the ball. If Kendrick Lewis had been in the locker room watching Clockwork Orange instead of standing on the field, it would have made no difference at all.

So when we consider the two situations, we can make an argument for one of two players being the GOATest (Goatest of all time) against the Colts, if we disregard off-field contributors like Paul Hackett and Herm Edwards.

The argument for The Safety Who Shall Not Be Named to be the GOATest:

The Baltimore Colts or whoever they are are behind by six points. The safety who shall not be named let a wide receiver run more or less straight down the field for a 50+ yard touchdown catch, and at no point was within three yards of said receiver. The receiver, who no one had ever heard of before this game, ended up with the third-highest receiving yardage total in NFL playoff history. All we had to do was protect a 28-point lead for 1.5 quarters of football.

The argument against The Safety Who Shall Not Be Named to be the GOATest:

The modern NFL is designed to make defensive backs look like chumps. If the safety had approached within three yards of the wide receiver, he would have been called for holding or interference. The marketing department has declared that Andrew Luck will be the hero, not some defensive back who wasn't even a first round pick. Also, there were plenty of opportunities to replace Lewis since it was clear that he was struggling for most of the season, and the Chiefs didn't do it. Finally, we know that the NFL marketing department threatened Lewis' life if he didn't take a fall.

The argument for The Kicker Who Shall Not Be Named to be the GOATest:

The Baltimore Colts or whoever they are are ahead by three points. The kicker who shall not be named missed a 42 yard field goal to tie the game up, adding to the two others that he missed earlier in the game that were 35 and 39 yards. His main job was to make field goals, and he went 0 for 3 when it counted most. The team was much stronger and expectations were higher, so his sin is worse.

The argument against The Kicker Who Shall Not Be Named to be the GOATest:

It was one of the coldest games in NFL history, and the ball was a brick. The other kicker missed 2 of 3 attempts, so it's clear that it was a terrible day to be a kicker. Paul Hackett is to blame for the worst game plan in NFL history. There is also some evidence that the NFL marketing department threatened Elliott's life if he didn't take a fall.

Obviously, it's a team game yadda yadda yadda. Feel free to add arguments for or against.

[Three7s]

Originally Posted by mcaj22

Ken Lewis made yahoo today

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-sh...8393--nfl.html

Apparently he so terrible the Colts playbook was based on Luck just looking at him, checking him off and then basing the pass opposite of Lewis's body position. Sad really.

I guess, to summarize the article, they took advantage of Kendrick's bad habits, most notably being slow at turning his hips. The article was being fairly nice to Lewis, but you won't find a national article that just flat-out bashes a guy. It was another way of saying "they were going after Kendrick Lewis all game, and he wasn't good enough to stop them".

[BossChief]

Originally Posted by mcaj22

Ken Lewis made yahoo today

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-sh...8393--nfl.html

Apparently he so terrible the Colts playbook was based on Luck just looking at him, checking him off and then basing the pass opposite of Lewis's body position. Sad really.

Lewis almost single-handedly lost us multiple games this year.

Go back to every one of our losses and watch the tds we allowed...Lewis was involved in a staggering amount f them.

I just don't understand how Lewis was able to stay on the field as much as he has when Abdullah has clearly been the superior player since camp. Same question arrives when I wonder why they let Poe get so winded instead of playing Powe more. Powe has kicked ass every time he got on the field.

[Big Poppa Payne]

Originally Posted by mcaj22

Ken Lewis made yahoo today

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-sh...8393--nfl.html

Apparently he so terrible the Colts playbook was based on Luck just looking at him, checking him off and then basing the pass opposite of Lewis's body position. Sad really.

All you have to do to fool Lewis is wear the opposing teams jersey and he will personally escort you into the end zone.

[Meatloaf]

BossChief, I agree 100%. Want to improve our defense A LOT? Simply get a better (i.e.competent) free safety. Kendrick did nothing all year. Still, it bothers me more that the coaches continued to start him. What am I missing???

[kcpasco]

Since we are pretty much hosed at FS and Byrd is gonna be expensive. What about moving Berry to FS and go after a SS in free agency. Maybe bring Pollard back he seemed to play better once be left KC.

[whoman69]

Originally Posted by cdcox

The goat of '95 was Steve "Pro Bowler" Bono. People don't even remember how shitty he was on account of the kicker.

Steve Bono 11 25 122 1 3 25

TE and WR on that team were a complete disaster: Willie Davis, Lake Dawson, Webster Slaughter, Tamarick Vanover, and Keith Cash. With Steve Bono throwing to them. Holy crap.

Good ole Carl stuck with Bono through '96 even though it was clear you could not win anything meaningful with that guy.

Compared to what we had in other years, that's an all-star line-up. That was Cash's best year with 42 receptions. Dawson had 40 catches. Davis fell off hard that year after years of 900 and 800 yards and yet his 16 y/c was just out of the top 10. Vanouver was a return guy. Kimble Anders was their leading receiver. Really not a lot different than 1994 under Montana.