If we could have an improvement right now with the Chiefs...

[Rain Man]

...where would it be?

Poll to follow. You get to pick one unit. And unit is a funny word when you really think about it. Unit, unit, unit. It sounds like an alien word that we got from Roswell.

But I digress. Poll to follow.

The Rules:

Assume that we could get an incremental improvement of, say 10 to 15 percent. We're not talking about replacing our unit with a Hall of Fame unit. Just a bump in performance.

[warrior]

Wide receiver/play calling on offense

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by mr. tegu

Offensive line because of the trickle effect it would have. Alex would probably improve by a decent margin and Charles would produce a huge improvement with 10-15% larger or more consistent holes to run through.

Charles would improve if Reid decided to give Knile Davis 10 touches a game.

Davis has, IMO, shown that he's ready for action these past two games.

[gold_and_red]

Originally Posted by warrior

Wide receiver/play calling on offense

I still dunno what Pederson does. The O is all about Reid and his philosophy and playcalling. The last I checked Reid is a HC and not a coordinator. Is Reid trying to wear too many hats just like how Romeo and Haley did previously. Is he not trusting his O coaches enough?

[DaFace]

As a unit, improving the OL would have the most impact. That would improve our running game and allow the passing game to improve marginally as Alex runs for his life less.

[ILChief]

You knew CP would pick QB. I voted OL. Smith being marginally better wouldn't make that much difference. OL being a little better would help more with running and passing and TOP

[Jakemall]

Originally Posted by Sorter

QB.

If Alex is 15% better, he'd dominate.

I agree with this. Hell a 5% improvement is huge.

I just don't think it is reasonable to expect a 15% improvement in the QB position.

[ILChief]

Originally Posted by gold_and_red

I still dunno what Pederson does. The O is all about Reid and his philosophy and playcalling. The last I checked Reid is a HC and not a coordinator. Is Reid trying to wear too many hats just like how Romeo and Haley did previously. Is he not trusting his O coaches enough?

Reid has a track record of doing both. Haley and Romeo did not

[Rain Man]

I went with OL, because I think that improvement would really boost our running game, and I think that if Alex has time he makes the right decisions, even if the execution isn't always there.

The think that I like about this is that our oline is quite young. Three of our five starters have basically one year or less of starting experience. It's not unreasonable to assume that they'll get better.

[ThaVirus]

QB, no question.

After that I'd go OL and follow it up very closely with WRs.

[ReynardMuldrake]

The #1 thing that sticks out to me is that Alex and our receivers don't seem to have any chemistry at all. Whoever you blame that on, that would be my first area of improvement.

[KC_Lee]

WR. As limited as Smith is as a QB our WR corps is not doing him any favors.

Too many dropped passes when the receiver was wide open or had a step on the defender.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by gold_and_red

I still dunno what Pederson does. The O is all about Reid and his philosophy and playcalling. The last I checked Reid is a HC and not a coordinator. Is Reid trying to wear too many hats just like how Romeo and Haley did previously. Is he not trusting his O coaches enough?

A friend asked me last night who calls the plays for KC, and the funny thing is that I couldn't even remember Pederson's name. I wasn't sure if Reid was calling the plays or "whoever our OC is". I was embarrassed that I couldn't remember, but Pederson has been virtually invisible this year.

[ThaVirus]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

Charles would improve if Reid decided to give Knile Davis 10 touches a game.

Davis has, IMO, shown that he's ready for action these past two games.

Yep. I thought he did EXTREMELY well with the limited touches he had last night and it seemed the coaching staff agreed as he replaced Demps at KR later in the game (not that it matter much in DEN against Prater).

It was strange that he became a non-factor after that nice stretch of plays leading up to his screen play setting us up at the 2 yard line. Then again, it's not so strange. This coaching staff really makes a ton of questionable calls every game. Not only in the play calling but also in personnel decisions.

Long story short, give the kid more carries and see what he can do. We can have him lined up in the backfield with Jamaal lined up wide if they're reluctant to take Charles off the field.

[bricks]

Originally Posted by Mr. Laz

that's 2 groups ... you have to pick one

Oops. My bad. I didn't even look at the poll.

[TEX]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

I went with OL, because I think that improvement would really boost our running game, and I think that if Alex has time he makes the right decisions, even if the execution isn't always there.

The think that I like about this is that our oline is quite young. Three of our five starters have basically one year or less of starting experience. It's not unreasonable to assume that they'll get better.

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The O-Line is the weak link of the team. Improve it and everything else on offense will also.