Gas on the Fire: Shutdown Corner Gives Chiefs "F" in FA.

[milkman]

Originally Posted by dannybcaitlyn

I put all the blame of the 2nd half of the season on sutton. He did everthing wrong, from not rotating players on the line to not benching lewis. Flowers must be playing with injury most of the season because it was a down year for him. If anyone should be able to play off a receiver it should have been him, with the tampa 2 scheme he was brought into by Herm. Now th FO doesn't address the need for FS, but elect to resign abbdulah who they thought wasnt good enough to take lewis spot after lewis is exposed. Sutton just sat idle with him week after week. **** him! At least we would have thrown abbdulah in there we would know if the guy is actually capable of playing FS.

There are mistakes here.

Brandon Flowers has always excelled playing a physical style at the snap, whether he was lining up in man, or dropping in zone.
On the flip side, he has never been nearly as effective playing off in either.

As for Abdullah, I think the assumption that he was re-signed to compete for that FS spot is wrong.

He was re-signed to man SS in the sub packages so that Berry can continue to drop down into the box in the safety/ILB hybrid spot.

If you want to argue that is poor usage of Berry, I would entertain that argument and agree.

As bad as Lewis was, the reality is that there wasn't any other safety on. This roster, other than Berry, that has the skillset to play that spot.

Sadly, he was the best of bad choices.

I can certainly agree with the critisism of Sutton's failure to use the bench, since I was about the first to level that critisism early in the season.