[CBFF] Quick Comments KC Chiefs 9/16/07

[Steve Behrens]

Steve, good comments.... replies below;

On 9/16/07, Westmalle van 't vat <westmalle at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> On 9/16/07 6:31 PM, "Tom Shannon" <tshanno at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >    5. Even worse to my eye the Bears didn't look sharp on
> offense.  That's
> > not new but my view of the reason why is.  Watching them, I sensed no
> > urgency in their attitudes.  The Chiefs are not that good and the Bears
> let
> > them hang around too long.  They were a penalty away from a three point
> > game.  Missed blitzes.  Dropped passes.  This is simply poor
> concentration.
> > I thought they were too complacent, again, especially on offense.  And
> based
> > upon their performance, they've really no right to be.
>
> It is sad but this was an opportunity for our offense to get on track but
> we
> blew it.  By the end of the game, I felt like we lost, even though we just
> won by 10 points.  Why?  Well, start with the fact that we only scored 3
> points from mid-way through the second quarter on.  That's unacceptable
> against a team like the Chiefs (who'll be lucky to win 5 games this year).
> We should have scored at least 2 second half TDs, but the offense again
> kept
> sputtering and ending drives prematurely.
>
> Here are a few further observations about the offense to add to yours,
> Tom:
>
> 1.  Why didn't we run Benson more in the second half?  Though there were
> blown plays for a loss, it seemed that we had several formations and
> blocking schemes that were creating holes.  Keep pounding them.  I fully
> expected Ced to break a big one for a TD in the second half, given how
> hard
> he was running.


I see Benson starting to look like the 'Moss' of running backs;  he runs
when he wants to, and (I thought) goes down we too easy sometimes.  Alot of
times the hole wasn't there, but he couldn't creat anything.


2.  The play calling on offense continued to be suspect.  In part, see #1,
> above.  Last week it was the three runs in a row up the gut late in the
> game
> (including the 4th and 1 we failed to convert).  Both weeks it has been a
> failure to stretch the field.  With a QB like Grossman, who's got such a
> nice touch on the deep ball, why aren't we taking a shot downfield at
> least
> twice a half?  There were moments both last week and this one where we
> could
> have and should have, just to keep the opposing defense off balance.  I
> appreciate the 'take what the defense is giving us'-approach about 90% of
> the time, but I get the feeling that Turner is taking all the risky plays
> out of the playbook right now.


I agree 110%.  It sucks. It compromised the SB for us, It compromised last
weeks game, and it will end up handicapping out offense if it continues.


3.  Is Devin Hester really playing on offense or is he merely a decoy?


Send him downfield with Bradley and Barrien and let's see the opponents DB's
try to stay with them....


4.  Adrian Peterson showed some good moves in the open field at least twice.
> The one Chiefs defender is still searching for his jock, hours later.


Very nice running, though he was lucky to retain possession of that fumble.


5.  I liked the pitch-out plays that allowed Cedric to get outside, where he
> could build up a head of steam.  At points, it looked like we could run
> this
> scheme this all day because KC did not seem to have an answer.
>
> 6.  What the hell was that screen to Garrett Wolfe in the middle of the
> forest of players?  He was no more open for that than I am sitting here
> typing.


Felt like hitting my head against a brick wall.  Grossman shouldn't have
throw it, but the play shouldn't have been called.


7.  After his first INT, Rex had 'that look' on his face again as he moped
> around the sidelines.  Call it the 'deer in the headlights' or what have
> you, but he looks as if he can't figure out what went wrong.  Whenever I
> saw
> that look last year, I knew that Bad Rex was not far away.



Worrisome...

-Behr