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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.”

Hammock Parties · 01-04-2014, 07:34 PM

Bowe had a great game.

Proud of him.

Iconic · 01-04-2014, 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by RobBlake

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

The ball was thrown inside...
Josh Gordy is 5.11. He's not making any plays on a ball thrown high for Bowe. Bowe needed to catch that with his hands, not his chest. He can't do that with the ball Alex threw to him. It's just impossible.

jspchief · 01-04-2014, 07:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Pam Oliver's Forehead

Bowe had a great game.

Proud of him.

Bowe played a great game. Any hate aimed at him today is misplaced.

**SAUTO** · 01-04-2014, 07:40 PM

**** anyone crying about bowe

Chiefshrink · 01-04-2014, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by htismaqe

Laugh all you want "No Focus Bowe" let an undersized DB force him out of bounds on the last play of the season that very easily could have been at minimum result a game leading FG if not a TD on that last series.

htismaqe · 01-04-2014, 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Chiefshrink

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??

How about we focus on getting someone to play free safety that just plays, don't care if he plays big. Just show up and he'd be better than Kendrick Lewis.

Between people blaming Smith and people blaming Bowe, I wonder if half this board knows anything about football. Wait, no I don't.

htismaqe · 01-04-2014, 07:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Chiefshrink

Laugh all you want "No Focus Bowe" let an undersized DB force him out of bounds on the last play of the season that very easily could have been at minimum result a game leading FG if not a TD on that last series.

Keep posting and I'll keep laughing. You're on fire!

RobBlake · 01-04-2014, 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Case in point.

Case in point you cannot refute it. Bowe is not a number one WR. He would highly excel with a dynamic WR to take off the pressure from him. If kc drafts a stud in the draft you will see what i am talking about. Bowe is by no means a horrible WR. He just isn't what some make him out to be.

Chiefshrink · 01-04-2014, 07:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Iconic

The ball was thrown inside...
Josh Gordy is 5.11. He's not making any plays on a ball thrown high for Bowe. Bowe needed to catch that with his hands, not his chest. He can't do that with the ball Alex threw to him. It's just impossible.

Quote:

Originally Posted by jspchief

Bowe played a great game. Any hate aimed at him today is misplaced.

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Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO

**** anyone crying about bowe

Bullsh**!!! Bowe is a HUGE UNDERACHIEVER when NEEDED THE MOST and has proven this time and time again, and again this afternoon when all he had to do was run a forceful straight line muscling out his undersized opponent. If the opponent forces back it's a DB penalty at least because the DB did not turn around to play the ball. Bowe just showed no brains,focus or heart to keep himself in bounds and you could tell by the way he casually came down with that 2nd foot.

Chiefshrink · 01-04-2014, 07:53 PM

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Originally Posted by htismaqe

Keep posting and I'll keep laughing. You're on fire!

No rebuttal, uh ??

**SAUTO** · 01-04-2014, 07:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Chiefshrink

Bullsh**!!! Bowe is a HUGE UNDERACHIEVER when NEEDED THE MOST and has proven this time and time again, and again this afternoon when all he had to do was run a forceful straight line muscling out his undersized opponent. If the opponent forces back it's a DB penalty at least because the DB did not turn around to play the ball. Bowe just showed no brains,focus or heart to keep himself in bounds and you could tell by the way he casually came down with that 2nd foot.

go stick a fire hydrant up your pussy bitch.

lcarus · 01-04-2014, 07:54 PM

Bowe did play a great game. He showed up. Surprised me. But a great WR would have made that catch in that situation.

laughsatyou907 · 01-04-2014, 07:54 PM

He didn't, Bowe is a bum. He made easy plays, and pussed out on any play that required a little effort.

ChiefRocka · 01-04-2014, 07:55 PM

Very rare to see that out of a #1 WR on the last play of the game. The throw was there against man coverage.

Chiefshrink · 01-04-2014, 07:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by htismaqe

How about we focus on getting someone to play free safety that just plays, don't care if he plays big. Just show up and he'd be better than Kendrick Lewis.

Between people blaming Smith and people blaming Bowe, I wonder if half this board knows anything about football. Wait, no I don't.

I have no disagreement about Lewis because he is horrid. Which Smith ? If you are talking Sean then he and Dunta both need to go as well. Sean plays lazy giving up too many big plays and why Robinson was even offered a contract is beyond me.

I now see why Miami let Sean go

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