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Sauntering Vaguely Downwards
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Columbia, Mo
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But it's like saying "Man, Mahomes really needs to get more loft on his deep passes" early in his career. Because Mahomes left some meat on the bones with the deep ball early in his career. It wasn't an indictment - merely a curiosity. And he's gotten better with those throws as he's gotten more experience (though his weapons have fallen off a fair bit in the interim prior to this year). You just wanna figure out the why of it in the hopes you can get that weakness covered off a bit. |
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Has a particular set of skills
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: On the water
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#33 | |
Sauntering Vaguely Downwards
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Columbia, Mo
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It may be one of those things like we used to do at QB. "Well just get a franchise quarterback!!!" as though there's a supermarket where you can just pick them up . Sometimes reality simply doesn't make the option we want available to us. I think we would've all loved to have '23 Sneed back for another 3 years. But the reality is that he almost certainly peaked last year and that version of him is going to be intermittent at best going forward. What we wanted, we just couldn't have. The knee will intervene. Sucks - because that dude is a success story through and through. And a FANTASTIC player and teammate when healthy. I just don't know what you can reasonably expect from him going forward. |
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Join Date: Nov 2020
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The pass rush should help the secondary a lot. This team had high sack totals in 2022 and 2023. Plus, I don't think the secondary is a big concern. It's not like 2018 or 2019 level, where it was mostly substandard players. The main group of CBs has been together several years now. Last year the secondary was as good as you're getting in today's NFL. You can't expect that to last long. So it won't be 2023 level but shouldn't be bad either.
The DT, and OL depth is a bigger worry if anyone gets hurt. |
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#36 | |
Sauntering Vaguely Downwards
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Columbia, Mo
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You're not wrong. Chiefs were 2nd in the league in sacks both years. I would've lost a bar bet on that one. Just didn't feel like they had a real nasty pass rush apart from blitzing guys and then the occasional games where Jones would simply take over. Fair point. Though I do wonder how much the secondary (and coverage sacks) assisted with that. We shall see. |
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#37 | |
Sauntering Vaguely Downwards
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Columbia, Mo
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And by most accounts, Niang was always expected to effectively take the season off anyway due to the hip injury. He's had 3 seasons since to get better and just hasn't. |
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#38 |
SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS
Join Date: Aug 2013
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When Niang skipped the first year and then came back in 2021 fat as ****, it wasn’t looking good.
He just doesn’t got it. I’d say he’s been 10 mins early to team meal more often than he’s been early to the team meetings. |
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#39 | |
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Join Date: Nov 2020
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For Kelce, it was injury that caused him to miss his rookie season. Also, Kelce is an outlier. Missing the rookie season and not playing an actual game for a year doesn't sound like a great way to adapt to the NFL. I'm over Niang. He was a 3rd round pick that hasn't improved. That's not unusual in the NFL. Just got off on the wrong foot. |
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#40 |
Consuming CP souls
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: U.S.A.
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It's fine. No different than ANY NFL team
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Sauntering Vaguely Downwards
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Columbia, Mo
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Had he not done so, he probably opens the season on IR anyway and they consider activating him over the last few weeks. Quote:
When you have a shot and you come in out of shape, I just don't have much use for you. Veterans typically learn how to 'play their way into shape' but these young guys don't. When Niang had a clear path to the RT job and came in having clearly spent the off-seeason eating instead of rehabbing, that was a real bad look. Speaks did the same thing the year we got a new DC and he had a chance to finally play a position that fit his skill-set. Instead he took the spring/summer off and came into camp looking like a dude who didn't treat his job like a job. A guy on a rookie deal showing up to camp out of shape is almost invariably a really bad sign. |
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#42 |
I don’t care for Auburn
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: Sweet Home Alabama
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It’s gonna be like 2018 again — PM15 just letting it ****ing fly.
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#43 | |
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Join Date: Oct 2021
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You guys are hilarious. |
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#44 | |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Jul 2009
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Which with this secondary could be more of an issue |
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#45 |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Jul 2009
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Also why is Steele not a rb2? Seems pretty good to me?
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