Negative Plays Kill Offense … Again
From Arrowhead Stadium
The emphasis all week for the Chiefs offense had been about eliminating negative plays. Whether in the run game, the passing game or offensive penalties, it was stressed, dissected, discussed and worked on.
And then the Chiefs went out against the Cowboys and added 15 more negatives plays to the 51 they’ve already had this year. That 51 led the league; now with 66, it’s unlikely they will be any place but on top of that statistical category again.
“Again, that’s the area to me offensively, that has to change,” said Todd Haley. “We have to improve that.”
In the case of Sunday’s game, all that emphasis on negative plays just produced more negative plays. Credit for some of that must go to the Dallas defense, especially the Cowboys’ front seven that is one of the best in the NFL. They shut down the Chiefs running game and harassed QB Matt Cassel all afternoon.
Here’s the laundry list of Sunday’s 15 negative plays on offense:
- WR Mark Bradley minus-two yards on a double-reverse.
- Cassel sacked, but lost inches rather than yards.
- RB Larry Johnson six-yard run.
- Cassel sacked for minus-7 yards.
- RB Jamaal Charles minus-1 yard run.
- LG Brian Waters called for holding, minus-10 yards.
- Cassel sacked for minus-10 yards.
- Johnson run stopped for minus-seven yards.
- RT Ryan O’Callaghan false start, minus-five yards.
- Delay of game on offense, minus-five yards.
- Johnson runs for minus-one yard.
- Waters called for a false start, minus-five yards.
- WR Dwayne Bowe called for offensive pass interference, minus-10 yards.
- Cassel sacked for minus-four yards.
- LT Wade Smith called for holding, minus-10 yards.
Did Larry Johnson set some kind of RECORD ?
Speaking for Leggitt , for sure he is consistent, no better for sure , just worst !
Doe’s ANYONE think that if the team is ever going to Quit using these kind of player’s that they are going to win a game ?
Or is this part of a plan to keep on the same road they are on , a place for them to hang and hope they don’t get hurt so they can collect .
DRAFT PICK’S >19 TO 22
About half of the fan’s can only hope that the assisted care they end up at , has TV’s and maybe by then , there will be some winners .
Maybe by then we won’t care so much —
The left side of the line is not much better than the right. What is sad is our line will be almost completely different next year and that is bothe good and bad. Waters, may have looked so good in past years because of the talent surrounding him. Albert is not playing well. Rudy is God awful, I see him standing around more than blocking. Goff may have been good is SD but not here and RT is still a work in progress. WR are sorry. Bowe is a big body but in my opinion, probably not a 1st rounder. Compare him to the intangible skills of Maclin, Harvin, Jacskson, or even what Crabtree may do, and there is no comparison. Our drafting since the 90’s has been suspect and that needs to improve before our team ever will.
where is Derrick Johnson?
I had hoped we would have moved Albert inside to replace Waters and drafted a left tackle. Then traded Brian Waters to get another draft choice. I said it last year and it still holds true, it all starts with the offensive and defensive lines. It’s too bad we couldn’t get anyone (free agents) with talent left in the tank to come play for the Chiefs. Lets hope for a better result next week. GO Chiefs!
Interesting stats
Brady this year:
G:5
Att:207
Comp:127
%: 61.4
Yd: 1,344
Yd/Comp: 6.5
Yd/Gm: 268.8
TD:6
INT: 2
Sack: 5
Rtg: 85.9
Cassel this year (without the ‘SYSTEM’)
G:4
Att:130
Comp:76
%: 58.5
Yd: 711
Yd/Comp: 5.5
Yd/Gm: 177.8
TD:7
INT: 2
Sack: 14
Rtg: 85.1
For those who hate Cassel and call him a system QB.
Good thing Brady is not in KC. He’d be sitting behind Croyle! LOL!
Chiefs fan, Really and where are all the wins? about 100 yards less a game, almost less than half the total yards and 1 more TD, and a hell of alot more sacks.
Actually if Brady was here he would probably have won a couple games, for one he gets rid of the ball before taking the sacks. And Brady’s O-line is no better this year then it was last year for Cassell.
Are you for real, Bowe isn’t a number 1? The eagles have more then 1 receiver to help distribute the defense, Maclin or Jackson wouldn’t look that great on the chiefs by themselves. Harvin has looked good at times this year but they have a proven QB there also, along with the Eagles. But really where did Jackson and Harvin dissappear to yesterday? Maclin blew it up but thats the first time he has seen any action.
Arrowhead 1978 speed kills. The Chiefs do not have a WR other than Bowe who can make yards after the catch. The play that killed the Chiefs in the Eagles game was the Jackson TD right after the Chiefs had scored to make it 14-7. If you look at the Giants game Nicks breaks some tackles (what else is new) but after he got past the first 5 yards the only defender who had a chance to catch him was Leggitt and then Nicks put a move on him. Austin gets to the outside after two missed tackles and scores two TDs. You need gamebreakers to compete otherwise you will have to have 12-13 play drives to score TDs and the odds of mistakes start to happen when you always have to have long drives to score. But you do make a point then Maclin, Jackson, and Harvin by themselves for KC wouldn’t be successful. In fact if one of those three was paired with Bowe then both could feed off each other.
exactly Bakjon, the thing is you want your offense to be able to pound the ball and maintain long drives so that you eat the clock up. It would be nice to have a guy who could score quick, but at the same time I would like to see the chiefs like they did yesterday have a drive that eats 8 minutes off the clock and the defense steps up and stops the other team. The vermiel led chiefs had that quick strike scoring ability but in the long run the defense was out on the field practically the entire day and always gave out at the end. But the scoring was nice!!