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Chiefs sign Taco Charlton
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05-03-2020, 07:08 PM | #196 | |
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05-03-2020, 07:22 PM | #197 | |
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Veach has said they make moves thinking a couple years out. In 2018, they'd decided that Mahomes was ready. You really want to change BOTH sides of a play-off caliber football team? Put the pressure on a first year starter to have to score every drive? Nah. They knew they were moving on from Sutton. But it was time to hand the keys of the offense to Mahomes. They opted to hope the defense could hold the line one more year. It worked out to where it couldn't have gone much worse, but I understand the thought process, and I did at the time, and if you wanna go back and look, I was saying so all throughout. And I was good with gutting the damned thing in Mahomes year 2 and starting over. Those cats drafted in '18 were drafted for scheme flexibility. I don't know if they had Spags earmarked (but it's entirely possible they did) or whether they knew for sure they were going 4-3 but either way, they knew Sutton was gone. He was a lame duck. They just didn't want to up-end the entire team in one offseason. It's just common sense. |
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05-04-2020, 01:38 AM | #198 | |
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He is too heavy to be an effective LB, and too slow to be an effective DE, and not big enough to be an effective DT. Sent from my GM1915 using Tapatalk |
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05-04-2020, 06:28 AM | #199 |
Hockey Town
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He's not playing LB ever again.
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05-04-2020, 07:39 AM | #200 | |
I’m a Mahomo!
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Well stated Duncan! |
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05-04-2020, 07:52 AM | #201 | |
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Aaron Donald is 6'1", 280. Just sayin'. |
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05-04-2020, 07:55 AM | #202 | |
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Having a DE who is stout enough to stand up against the run on early downs and slide inside to create interior pressure on passing downs works just fine in this system. |
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05-04-2020, 08:02 AM | #203 |
Hockey Town
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I think it's pretty obvious they view him as DT, they walked on Xavier Williams who played quite a few snaps and didn't bring in another DT.
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05-04-2020, 08:03 AM | #204 | |
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It also helps us to identify and utilize talent that is specific to Spags system but maybe not a great fit for other systems. Kind of like Moneyball, but for football. We can really use guys that do a few things fairly well better than guys that do ONE thing very well. The fact that pre-snap an opposing offense doesn't know what we're going to do because we have so many versatile players helps hide any deficiencies. Other than the outside corners, you don't know who's doing what on any given snap. Creating confusion is like shaving a quarter of a second off everyone's 40 time. And now that we have a LB capable of covering backs, we'll be even better. |
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05-04-2020, 08:07 AM | #205 | |
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On top of that Charlton can give you what Harris does with a lot more pass rush upside. |
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05-04-2020, 09:34 AM | #206 | |
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When he was in the game, he was almost always neutralized by a single blocker. He doesn't have any pass rush moves to speak of, and I don't remember him ever being successful with a bull rush. I don't remember him ever running down a play from behind along the LOS. I can't remember any play from the all-22 where he stood out. Sent from my GM1915 using Tapatalk |
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05-04-2020, 09:36 AM | #207 |
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05-04-2020, 10:27 AM | #208 | |
In Search of a Life
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You haven’t even seen him play DE/DT yet. How the **** can you determine that? The guy has 1 year at this level playing out of position. I swear most of you guys have no ****ing patience whatsoever. |
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05-04-2020, 10:46 AM | #209 | |
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05-04-2020, 10:50 AM | #210 |
In Search of a Life
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The funny thing is Speaks was definitely above KPass on the depth chart before he was injured too...
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