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Old 01-04-2010, 11:49 PM  
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Teicher: Waters thinks Chiefs don’t need offensive-line upgrade
Waters thinks Chiefs don’t need offensive-line upgrade
By ADAM TEICHER
The Kansas City Star

To Brian Waters, the numbers speak with clarity. During the season’s final few games, the Chiefs became one of the league’s most explosive running teams while significantly reducing the number of times quarterback Matt Cassel was sacked.

There can be no better endorsement of the Chiefs’ much-maligned offensive line.

“They say stuff rolls downhill, and we’re at the bottom,” Waters said Monday as the Chiefs, who finished their 4-12 season with a 44-24 win over the Broncos on Sunday in Denver, cleared out their lockers and scattered for winter. “We take that burden because we’re big boys.

“But the last two years, I don’t think that some of my offensive linemates have been judged properly. I feel a lot of eyes that have been judging some of my teammates are unqualified eyes. There are a lot of people basing their opinions off what they know, and a lot of people don’t know football.

“In our position, everything is all about what other guys do. Everything is about how many times the quarterback got hit or it’s all about how many rushing yards we had. We’re pretty much (tied) to the numbers.”

His comments suggest that given Kansas City’s recent offensive improvements, Waters, a four-time Pro Bowl guard, believes the Chiefs don’t need to make upgrading their offensive line an offseason priority.

During the season’s final eight games, running back Jamaal Charles trailed only Tennessee’s Chris Johnson in rushing yards with 968. Charles averaged 6 yards per carry in that time.

Chiefs quarterbacks were sacked 37 times in the first 10 games, but Cassel went down only eight times in the final six. In Denver, he wasn’t sacked for the first time all season.

Some of the improvement has to do with changes on the line. On the right side, Ryan O’Callaghan replaced Ikechuku Ndukwe at tackle and Wade Smith replaced Mike Goff at guard.

The line also had time to adjust after the Chiefs abruptly changed their offense during the preseason when they fired coordinator Chan Gailey.

“That affected us greatly,” Waters said. “We’d be lying to ourselves to not think that the change in offense two weeks before the regular season started didn’t harm what we had already kind of got going. But that’s the head coach’s prerogative to make that type of change.”

The biggest reason for the line’s improved play was Charles, who is smaller and quicker than Johnson and doesn’t need as much space to be an effective runner.

“What we were trying to do offensively wasn’t to the strength of Larry,” Waters said. “We were trying to be a little more open-space, a little bit more no-huddle, a little bit more fast-hitting type of offense. We know Larry, and when he was in his greatest time, he was more of a pounder.

“We finally got comfortable in what we were trying to do. The idea of what we were trying to do from game to game has changed through the course of the year and we finally settled on who we are and we weren’t going to change that.

“Talentwise, I don’t think I’ve ever played with anybody as talented as (Charles) is, with the explosive ability he has. He has the ability to make a 5-yard run a 50-yard run just like that.

“He has the ability to make us look better.”

Monday’s interview ended Waters’ seasonlong silence. Waters asked to be traded last winter shortly after Todd Haley was hired as the Chiefs’ head coach.

Waters said his silence shouldn’t be interpreted that he was unhappy playing for the Chiefs.

“With the stuff I came back here with during the offseason, I just wanted to kind of stand out of the way and just do my job and allow this whole situation to show itself,” Waters said. “I didn’t want to get in the way. I know people are always trying to make it seem like you feel this way or you feel that way. I just wanted people to see this whole program for themselves. I didn’t want to be a distraction.

“It was just a good year for me to focus on my own job.”

Waters started 15 games this season, missing last month’s Cleveland game because of a sore hamstring. That ended a streak of 51 consecutive starts.

He also missed out on the Pro Bowl after playing in Hawaii the previous year,

“I think I had a solid year,” Waters said. “I don’t think I performed any worse than I’ve performed over the last few years.

“I feel I have plenty left in the tank.”
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Old 01-06-2010, 04:29 PM   #136
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I'll bet they draft an O-linemen
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Old 01-06-2010, 04:30 PM   #137
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I tend to agree, but the guy is pretty unpredictable.

Who saw him trading up to take Cutler?

Nothing would really surprise me.
It would surprise me if he didn't go offense considering Campbell is done in DC and Portis is on his last legs, not to mention the terrible offensive line.

I wouldn't be shocked to see them trade back and acquire more picks because they have a lot of holes to fill on the offensive side of the ball and I just can't see Shanahan being patient with their current offensive personnel.
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Old 01-06-2010, 04:30 PM   #138
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I tend to agree, but the guy is pretty unpredictable.

Who saw him trading up to take Cutler?

Nothing would really surprise me.
Well would you really want to try to win something with Jake Plummer?
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Old 01-06-2010, 04:32 PM   #139
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I'll bet they draft an O-linemen
I think that'll depend on whether or not Clausen or Spiller is available, in addition to the trade back calls they receive.

It's hardly set in stone for any of the top five teams at this point.
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Well would you really want to try to win something with Jake Plummer?


True, but no one expected the move, is what I'm saying.

And I mean NO ONE. They didn't even interview Cutler, FFS.

Covert, black-ops shit.
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I think that'll depend on whether or not Clausen or Spiller is available, in addition to the trade back calls they receive.

It's hardly set in stone for any of the top five teams at this point.
Yea I'd like to see Washington draft Clausen, I hate both of them.
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It would surprise me if he didn't go offense considering Campbell is done in DC and Portis is on his last legs, not to mention the terrible offensive line.

I wouldn't be shocked to see them trade back and acquire more picks because they have a lot of holes to fill on the offensive side of the ball and I just can't see Shanahan being patient with their current offensive personnel.
Depends on who's there, but I think he may stick with Campbell, and take someone like Spiller.

I think that's better for the team long term than getting a QB that isn't going to be much better (I'm assuming Claussen is gone at this point) and still having a gaping hole at RB.

Nothing would surprise me, but I can see a o-lineman, Spiller or Claussen, if he's there.
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I don't see them going RB, remember Shanahan makes scrub RB's good.

I think it's either QB or maybe reaching for Dez Bryant.
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I don't see them going RB, remember Shanahan makes scrub RB's good.

I think it's either QB or maybe reaching for Dez Bryant.
Amazing how a team that needs a RB would pass up CJ Spiller. I'd rather draft Cj Spiller over Dez Bryant even if I needed a WR.
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I don't see them going RB, remember Shanahan makes scrub RB's good.

I think it's either QB or maybe reaching for Dez Bryant.
Does Shanahan make scrub RB's look good, or does the OL and that ZBS?

Not disagreeing, just playing DA.
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Could be either but I don't think he'll go RB that high.
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It would surprise me if he didn't go offense considering Campbell is done in DC and Portis is on his last legs, not to mention the terrible offensive line.

I wouldn't be shocked to see them trade back and acquire more picks because they have a lot of holes to fill on the offensive side of the ball and I just can't see Shanahan being patient with their current offensive personnel.
That is a thought that bothers me, someone might move ahead of the Chiefs to get the best player.
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