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FloridaMan88 · 01-01-2014, 08:31 PM

Dwayne Bowe wants to make big-time plays in big-time game

http://www.kansascity.com/2014/01/01...-make-big.html

BY RANDY COVITZ
The Kansas City Star

Chiefs wide receiver Dwayne Bowe knows there’s a difference between making catches and making plays.

Bowe has caught 57 passes this season but has produced few of the signature or game-altering plays that have distinguished his seven seasons as the second-leading receiver in franchise history.

He knows it. His coaches know it. And they all realize Bowe is going to have to make an impact Saturday for the Chiefs to defeat Indianapolis in an opening-round AFC playoff game.

“Your game-changer type players have to show up and make those plays,” offensive coordinator Doug Pederson said.

Bowe, who signed a five-year-contract extension worth up to $56 million last spring and predicted he’d lead the league in receiving, failed to lead the Chiefs in receiving for the first time in five years.

That honor went to running back Jamaal Charles, who caught 70 passes for a team-leading 693 yards and seven touchdowns.

But Charles, called “Public Enemy No. 1” by Colts coach Chuck Pagano, will be a marked man in Indianapolis. So someone else may need to make the big plays on offense.

“I’m ready to go,” Bowe said Wednesday. “Games like this … big-time players make big-time plays, and these are games I mostly show up in … everything on the line, and great preparation all week. It’s win or go home …”

Actually, Bowe was held without a catch in his only postseason appearance, the Chiefs’ 30-7 loss to Baltimore in 2010. The Chiefs had the ball for only 18 minutes, 16 seconds and attempted just 18 passes.

Bowe figures to be targeted early and often against the Colts, as he was two weeks ago when he was targeted 10 times in the Chiefs’ 23-7 loss at Arrowhead Stadium. Bowe caught a pass for nine yards on the first play and drew a pass interference call on the second.

In all, Bowe caught five passes for 46 yards against the Colts and suffered what turned out to be a mild concussion in the fourth quarter when he was struck in the head/neck area by Indianapolis safety LaRon Landry.

Landry, a former college teammate of Bowe’s at LSU, where they were both first-round draft picks in 2007, was called for a personal foul. Bowe left the game, returned for another play, and even practiced last Tuesday before complaining of concussion-like symptoms.

He was held out of last Sunday’s game at San Diego, like most of the other starters, and returned to practice this week.

“I’m fine,” Bowe said. “I had a little minor headache. It was nothing big. Coach was going to rest me anyway. I had time to rest and recover and be fresh for this game.”

The injury didn’t frighten Bowe, even in this day of concussion awareness.

“I didn’t look at like that because I didn’t feel as bad as others felt who had concussions,” Bowe said. “I felt a little tired. There wasn’t any dizziness or problems with vomit … or none of that stuff. It was mainly just fatigue.”

Nor did Bowe harbor any resentment to Landry.

“He was just playing football,” Bowe said. “I talked to him after the game. It wasn’t a dirty hit or anything like that. I was going down, and he was going down. … it’s football. Things like that happen. It wasn’t a vicious or bad hit.”

Bowe, 6 feet 2 and 221 pounds, should enjoy matchup advantages over the Colts’ smaller corners, Vontae Davis, who is 5-11, 204; Greg Toler, 6-0, 190; and Josh Gordy, 5-11, 196.

“The one thing Dwayne is really doing really well right now is utilizing his size and strength, and it’s creating some space for him,” Pederson said. “We want to, get him going, get his hands on the ball as early as we can, because you know somewhere in the second half, he is going to make that clutch play and you have confidence going back to him.”

Bowe, a Pro Bowler in 2010, has accepted his role of doing a lot of the dirty work of running routes that clear space for Charles and blocking downfield on the screens that have worked so well for the Chiefs.

“Everybody has their year … and I’m just proud to be part of a team,” Bowe said. “We have a lot of guys playing the role I had previously in my career. Being an all-around receiver both blocking and receiving … to see those guys prosper … I feel good and happy to be their teammate.”

Some might interpret that as Bowe, 29, admitting he has lost a step and his ability to create separation from defensive backs. Don’t believe it.

“I still got it,” Bowe said. “I’m showing it each and every day in practice. The coaches know I got it. I’m setting up a lot of great things for the offense you see we’re doing right now.”

RobBlake · 01-04-2014, 07:23 PM

Iconic · 01-04-2014, 07:25 PM

Bowe caught that ball one handed using his chest across a DB's helmet. I have no idea how you can blame him for that. It was a poorly thrown ball and anyone with even half a brain can see if it's thrown higher it's a catch.

KC_Connection · 01-04-2014, 07:25 PM

Bowe haters are the absolute worst. Dumbest too.

Chiefshrink · 01-04-2014, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Xanathol

That whole situation was dumb coaching. Dumb to let the clock hit the 2 minute warning of you thought you were out of field goal range. Dumb to call your last time out after the two minute warning. Dumb to call a deep sideline pattern on 4th down when a defender can just force a guy into the sideline. Dumb dumb dumb. But yeah, that was Bowe's fault...

If not for Bowe, the game was over much earlier.

Reid wanted to see what D was being thrown at him(so he could pick from a pool of plays for that type of D) since that was the last possible play of the season is my guess why he called timeout. It backs my theory up from the last Chargers game at home and why he called timeout when he should have let the clock run. He didn't have a play or set of plays ready ONCE AGAIN. No matter what D was being thrown at Alex, Reid could have had him audible to a different play if needed IF Reid was ready.

Bowe is NOT a GAMER, plain and simple. He needed to line up 1 yard closer inside to ensure he gets a good opportunity to get both feet in because he does make the catch. I have absolutely NO PROBLEM with the play. I have a problem with Bowe's brains and heart

RobBlake · 01-04-2014, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Iconic

Bowe caught that ball one handed using his chest across a DB's helmet. I have no idea how you can blame him for that. It was a poorly thrown ball and anyone with even half a brain can see if it's thrown higher it's a catch.

well people with a full brain know that if the ball was more inside the db could have made a play on it. Bowe needed to get his feet in

RobBlake · 01-04-2014, 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Bowe haters are the absolute worst. Dumbest too.

You mean the guy that plays half assed most of the time and can barely garner separation? Or busy getting caught with weed during season?

baitism · 01-04-2014, 07:28 PM

If Bowe had any speed it would have been a catch. DB made up two steps while the ball was in mid-air.

Simplicity · 01-04-2014, 07:30 PM

Nice big play Bowe... It was up to you and you ****ing blew it... Congrats... Now please move over, Marqise Lee needs room for his bags.

Chiefshrink · 01-04-2014, 07:30 PM

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Originally Posted by htismaqe

I guess Mayock was "putting on kneepads" too?

Anybody with an IQ above 4 could see that the DB forced him to the sideline.

A great gamer WR doesn't let an undersized DB force him to the sideline ESPECIALLY when it's time to be GREAT and possibly the last play of the season !!!

Keep those knee pads on !!

FloridaMan88 · 01-04-2014, 07:31 PM

Bowe played a very good game no doubt, but as usual with him it is never a complete game.

1) Bowe not being able to finish on the big catch early in the game and get a TD (the Chiefs had to settle for a FG).

2) Bowe dropping a third down pass during the middle of the Colts comeback.

3) Bowe be taken down by a shoestring tackle on the first play of the final drive.

4) Bowe not being aware of his proximity to the sideline and getting both feet in bounds on the final play. Would that have been a tough catch? Yes. Do NFL WR's make that type of catch on a regular basis? Yes.

With Bowe in this game, it is good but not good enough. The story of his career.

htismaqe · 01-04-2014, 07:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Chiefshrink

He needed to line up 1 yard closer inside to ensure he gets a good opportunity to get both feet in because he does make the catch.

KC_Connection · 01-04-2014, 07:33 PM

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Originally Posted by RobBlake

You mean the guy that plays half assed most of the time and can barely garner separation? Or busy getting caught with weed during season?

Case in point.

htismaqe · 01-04-2014, 07:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Chiefshrink

A great gamer WR doesn't let an undersized DB force him to the sideline ESPECIALLY when it's time to be GREAT and possibly the last play of the season !!!

Keep those knee pads on !!

You sure are obsessed with knee pads. Wipe the drool off the corner of your mouth, moron.

Bewbies · 01-04-2014, 07:34 PM

Bowe was all we had left on the last drive. He's a stud, hate for him that his toes landed 6 inches too far to his right.

Chiefshrink · 01-04-2014, 07:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Simplicity

Nice big play Bowe... It was up to you and you ****ing blew it... Congrats... Now please move over, Marqise Lee needs room for his bags.

Precisely !! Let's get somebody in here that can not only play BIG when NEEDED but ACTUALLY WANTS TO PLAY BIG ALL THE TIME !!

Is that too much to ask??

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