A Levelheaded Review week 1 2024

[DenverChief]

Worthy is gonna make this offense exciting again. The jet sweep really showed off his speed and the blown coverage was just beautiful to see.

Kingsley really held up well in his first start gave up a sack but overall was a good performance.

Pacheco has really upped his game - those jump cuts he uses now are just nasty.

J Taylor and his false start penalties again. Really hope he can get his early jumps worked out.

Chris Jones was feasting on a young inexperienced Ravens Oline.

The DB's didn't look as bad in this game as in the pre-season. The LB's (Bolton) were made to look silly a couple of times. I'd like to see some of the big gains cleaned up but I think a lot of that was all the time Lamar had in the pocket trying to contain him. Not super worried about it.

Connor had a couple of big hits and just missed getting an INT. I think his eyes got too big on that dropped INT and dropped an easy one.

Lamar was their whole offense and we still struggle to contain a super mobile QB - BUT I'll take making them into basically a one weapon team.

Hardman was a good choice as a PR/KR.

Juju was out there making some good blocks and almost had a TD.

Rice is gonna feast over the middle this year.

Starting the season 1-0 is great. Next week is going to be even better. I think this team is back to boat racing teams in scoring and turning them into a one dimensional offense trying to keep up.

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by Why Not?

I would agree with your assessment here but I don’t think that means Mahomes doesn’t trust Watson, it’s that Mahomes isn’t gonna need Watson all that much this year.

Yeah maybe mistrust is the wrong word. I think it’s just a little meh. He can get you 1-2 big plays on low target share without the kind of deep help Mvs drew some of. There’s still a lot of cardio routes. And I think what mahomes needs right now is consistency with guys being able to take higher target shares. For example the reason Hollywood helps is he can draw that Mvs deep help without running so many routes as a decoy

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by DenverChief

Yes. We need a KR/PR and we aren’t trotting Worthy/Moore/Rice or Brown out there to do that. Watson maybe but Hardman was primary all pre-season.

I really can’t understand why we keep skyy around. A simple solution is to keep remigio, continue to develop him, and use him for pr/kr duty until he gets there. If skyy is out of the main rotation what is his role here?

[DenverChief]

Also, I don’t know if anyone paid attention in the KO’s with how well disciplined this team is…the Chiefs even on a Touchback most of the guys would sprint to the goal line anyway. None of the Ravens players did that.

[DenverChief]

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

I really can’t understand why we keep skyy around. A simple solution is to keep remigio, continue to develop him, and use him for pr/kr duty until he gets there. If skyy is out of the main rotation what is his role here?

I think it’s the 2nd round pick thing. They don’t want to give up on a high draft pick. I think they are hoping he can still contribute at some point. Toney was easy because we traded a 6th for him if he was our #1 pick he would also still be on this team. If there is no improvement this year and Remigio is still excelling at what he does next TC I could see us parting ways with Moore. This is just his 3rd year so we will see.

[FloridaMan88]

On that 4th and 5 from the 40, Andy should default to trusting his best players… and make more aggressive decisions accordingly.

He has the best QB… consider going for it.

He has the best kicker… consider kicking a 58 yard FG.

[DenverChief]

So I forgot and this really is just icing on the cake that we aren’t even talking about this because of all the other wonderful things going on with the team but PM is now the all time passing yards leader in Chiefs franchise history. Passing the late great Lenny Dawson last night. That is just amazing to say and he has many many more years to go.

[stumppy]

Not much to add to the OP. Very happy not to see MVS or Toney on the field dropping passes.

[DenverChief]

Originally Posted by FloridaMan88

On that 4th and 5 from the 40, Andy should default to trusting his best players… and make more aggressive decisions accordingly.

He has the best QB… consider going for it.

He has the best kicker… consider kicking a 58 yard FG.

Eh. If it was later in the year. Still getting our full game feet under us. Harbaugh gambled a lost on those calls. I think as the season goes on and the team gels more this will
Be an easier call.

[DenverChief]

Originally Posted by stumppy

Not much to add to the OP. Very happy not to see MVS or Toney on the field dropping passes.

Agreed but happier to see our first 4 draft picks contributing significant playing time and the top two performing very well in their first start.

[scho63]

The Positives:
1. Our defense is very fast
2. Our offense looks MUCH better than last year when we won another Super Bowl
3. Rice, Pacheco, Worthy, Jones, Karlaftis, Chenal, Nnadi all played great.
4. Spags game plan was fantastic
5. Defense held Henry to under 50 yards
6. Only 1 defensive holding
7. We have an excellent punter and a great kicker.
8. Steele is real deal.
9. Our center snaps were much better
10. WE WON

The Negatives:
1. Andy got too conservative at end of game and SHOULD have cost us game but it didn't
2. Kelce 1 great play but a drive killing penalty, drive killing drop
3. Jawan Taylor false started 4-5 times and luckily only got called twice but Jesus Christ dude, WTF???
4. Our OLine is wobbly and not great
5. Bolton's WORST game as a pro and he brought back some scary memories of bad LBs of the past. He was lost, out of place, 5 yards behind most plays and may be a bad sign for the future.
6. We got lucky. Baltimore was Raider-like with all the mistakes and misses. Penalties, missed wide open receiver for TD, missed FG, fumble, turnover on downs with a horrible play call, and lastly a WR with a size 14 shoe who needed a size 12.
7. Our defense had nothing left. They spent the second half watching Jackson run all over. Our containment was horrible.
8. Kelce and Mahomes were just OK

Overall we had a lot more positives than negatives. Mahomes did have to scramble a little too much.

It was an exciting first game and we will get better, much better.

[Wallcrawler]

Originally Posted by stumppy

Not much to add to the OP. Very happy not to see MVS or Toney on the field dropping passes.

Does it matter who drops them? Kelce, Juju, Pacheco, and Perine all had drops that would have been great plays.

I'll say that it is nice to see that even without Hollywood, we were still able to put up 27. That's huge for a team that failed to reach 20 points in over half the contests last year.

The most jarring stat was only 4 tds of 20+ last season, and Worthy had 2 in the opener.

Need some depth on the d line, those guys were shambling corpses at the end of that one.

[tmax63]

I thought it was a good performance overall. Some seem to forget that this is the first full game of the season and most of the starters have played maybe 50 snaps together total in preseason. Lots to clean up but now the coaches can make real evaluations of the players against top talent and see what needs to be fixed. Always better to learn these things with a win instead of a loss and that toe on the line might be the difference in playing at Arrowhead or Baltimore in January.

[Easy 6]

I'm digging the fact that Henry looks shot, a 3.5 average with a long of 9 ain't getting it done lol

[Bl00dyBizkitz]

Originally Posted by O.city

Hardman is insurance for Worth/Hollywood going down.

You'd cut Sky if you wanted someone gone.

Sky got zero action, and I have no idea who he's even backing up if someone goes down. We seriously couldn't get someone else for that roster spot?

[BlackHelicopters]

Harbaugh was completely out coached.