Chiefs Update 11/13
From the Truman Sports Complex
Alert all media outlets. Big news from the Chiefs.
The team did not make a roster move on Thursday. Or at least they had not made a roster move as of 2:30 p.m. The way this season has gone, anything is possible.
The Chiefs worked for just under two hours indoors on Thursday and there wasn’t much of a change in the injury report from Wednesday.
Listed as not practicing were LBs Derrick Johnson and Pat Thomas, G Adrian Jones and DE Tamba Hali. Herm Edwards said Thursday he does not expect any of those players to play.
Listed as limited in their participation were CBs Pat Surtain and Brandon Flowers, S Jarrad Page and RB Jamaal Charles.  Edwards termed the limited players as only having a 40 percent chance of playing.
DE Turk McBride was a full participant in practice and Edwards said he expects him to play Sunday against New Orleans.
It seems that I’m always kissing up but not so fast my friends. Bob has provided the absolute best Chief’s coverage on the net and I think we can all attest to that fact?
On the ‘not so fast’ front, I chided Bob a few weeks back on his extolling the talents of Brodie Croyle vis a vis, Matt Ryan. Old news.
Meantime, thanks for the timely update, Bob.
While we are boosting Bob’s ego, heard him on the radio today. He was frank and forthright, very enjoyable.
No one in the media has an opinion of what is wrong with the defense. While they are not blaming Gunther, they cannot understand why it is not preforming this late in the season, injuries not withstanding. One comment was Dorsey was an east-west player in college and needed to be a north-south in the NFL. Also LBs were not moving at the snap of the ball, reading and reacting which may be why they chase plays.
Our failures on defense start and end with the D-line. We have no pass rush, and until lately were getting gutted for big runs.
Now all the injuries at LB and DB is hurting us too.
I’d say our defensive problems begin and end with the LB corps.
The big runs all happened when the LBs were out of position. Our D-line actually stops an average number of rushes at or behind the line of scrimmage. Our D-line has actually gotten plenty of pressure on Favre, Garcia, and Rivers.
But LBs are supposed to be your playmakers, getting sacks, stripping the ball, crushing hits of WRs going over the middle, INTs on tipped balls, or tipping balls so the DBs can get INTs.
…when was the last time one of our LBs delivered a crushing hit on anyone?!?!
What about S Dajuan Morgan? Is he no longer injured, and will he play more this week?
Maybe with the next draft Kuharick (sp?) canm fix the def. line and LB problems. It seems carl and herm may be a bit lost trying to fix these areas.
We absolutely need a playmaker at LB.
But “plenty” of pressure in the last 3 games? Are you sure you were watching this years games? We barely ever got to them. At least not consistently at all. All too often they had all day to wait for something to develop. The few times we did get pressure we’d get a few turnovers. Just think if we actually got an average amount of pressure (not just sacks, which we’re the worst at, but knockdowns and QB pressures).
@Uncuffed,
Change “plenty” to “sufficient.
But yeah, I’ve watched all the games, and we got sufficient pressure on the QB in the last 3 games. Not for the whole game, but who does outside the Steelers and Giants?
That’s why we were able to get the leads in each of the games. That’s why we forced Favre and Rivers into throwing INTs.
When a QB is forced to hurry a pass, or is hit as he throws, and it happens several times a game, and we end up getting at least one INT per game, then yes: that’s sufficient pressure. That’s about all you can ask from a D-line where no starter has even 3 full years of NFL experience.