DTs take plenty of time to develop and Dorsey is evidence of that. He did just notch his first sack of the season, though.

Of all our concerns, Dorsey worries us least. He has tremendous upside and we’re looking forward to seeing that come to fruition sometime next season.

1st, Marshawn Lynch is the PARADE’s favorite NFL player currently (undisputedly among non-Chiefs).

2nd, “beast” would be overly complementary at this point, among Chiefs fans and reporters the word ‘bust’ is strictly verboten at this point (part in due to our last d-line first rounder: Ryan Simms, never heard of him? We wish we hadn’t either). However, there is consensus he’s developing, he finally got a sack, and while Whitlock hates his footwork, he may be a ‘beast’ once(if) he acclimates to the NFL by next season, but for now we’ll go with “large water dwelling mammal.”

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are strikingly similar to Warren Sapps in his first season. Is it indicating he’s the next Warren Sapp? No, but Dorsey is holding his own. He’s made more tackles than Sapp has at this stage in his career, but a few sacks less than where Sapp was. He’s not a beast yet, but he is as good or better than his supporting cast on the D-line, which at the start of the season he was the only rookie. The way I see it, he is progressing ahead of schedule from what people would expect.

He won’t be a pro-bowler this year, but look at who he’s playing for and who he has around him.

We now run as familiar to a college spread as you’ll see in the NFL. Thigpen can handle that well. His college stats aren’t much to look at but his only good year came from the spread offense at Coastal Carolina (and when you hear people say he’s a “record setting college QB”, just sit back and crack a smile because the football program is only 5 years old).

Thigpen’s in the shotgun a whole lot and last week we saw the emergence of the “pistol” which is Thigpen in a short shotgun and LJ behind him.

The spread is designed to get rid of the ball quicker which is necessary with our offensive line. I like it for us, so far, as we’ve had a TON of success with it the past month (even though we, you know, lost all 4 of those games).

Is that he went on an Indian peyote vision quest. He went into the desert as an undrafted, underachieving QB out of some school that you’ve never heard of. After three days of fighting his innermost demons under the hot Sonoron sun, Thigpen emerged from the desert, not as an undrafted QB, but as a legend.

LJ still sparkles but rarely shines for a whole game these days. Besides his injury & suspension, his biggest downside has been a lack of (desire to) pass block. He did manage one last game, but with this new spread scheme taking one more blocker out is a really dumb move.

Our Run Defense is one of the worst in the league. I cannot say that we are a great tackling team, but I think the bigger problem stems from an inability to ensure that our players are in the right position. We are a very young and inexperienced team that has been recently devastated by injuries. As a result we seem to have a new starting linebacker core every week. Therefore, we usually have people in the wrong position. However, as our offense has improved in the last month, so has our run defense. But that is mainly the result of other teams needing to run the ball less since we have had the lead in a few games recently.

Or at least that’s our method of finding them.

Seriously, we’re pretty sure because of injuries at least one of our starting linebackers will be working at a piggly wiggly next year.

its pretty neat……..

And Larry Johnson (or whoever) is behind him. Thigpen’s not as deep as a regular shotgun formation though. It’s a good formation for us because Thigpen operates more effectively out of the shotgun.

this is a great question and I’m going to piggyback on it and ask if we can hear a little about Brandon Carr, Tank Tyler and Bernard Pollard (Bills’ fans new favorite player). Those are 3 players that are relatively anonymous for a lot of football fans. What kind of players are they and how good can their futures be in the league?

But, yeah him and Brandon Carr should be a nasty pick-happy backfield in years to come.

Mark Bradley, if you still consider him unknown, is a stud as a #2 receiver.

Bernard Pollard, same deal, is a force of nature doing good works (breaking Brady for the NFL) and generally tackling anything human.

Jamal Charles is a high draft pick from Texas who has incredible speed but has had an ankle sprain of late.

Brad Cottam is the same deal only out of Tenn, and is Tony Gonzales’ heir apparent, in our opinion he is thusfar under utilized, but two TE sets aren’t always conducive to the spread.

So we can actually become a good football team. Those who don’t simply haven’t been watching Chiefs football…..CLOSELY

Ownership is behind Herm, the fans are split. Half want him gone, half want him killed by any horrible means possible. Any suggestions?

is behind Herm 100%; but with the Chiefs organization you have to try and deal with alot of smoke and mirrors. They aren’t open about anything, and always give the “team” answer, or tell the media to ask someone else about it.

As for the fans, I think it’s fair to say that he is not well liked by many people, and not liked at all by many more. There are Herm supporters coming out of the woodworks as of late, but I think it’s more due to the change of pace we’ve seen on offense the last few weeks. Most of the supporters are probably going to be on a week to week basis, depending on how badly we lose, or by the grace of god we win.

The way I see it, he’s a terrible head coach. He makes decisions that are really questionable, and has a severe lack of game management skills. Also, seeing how injuries have plagued his team, I suspect he’s not good at preparing his people to take the punishment of the NFL.

I can’t guarantee LJ won’t be spitting drinks anytime soon.
Bring a raincoat.

It has to do with game preparation, talent scouting, conditioning, game management, and accountability. All of which are big factors as to why those W’s are missing. Can’t forget track record and with Herm’s its hard for me to imagine he’ll ever have a Head Coaching position in the NFL ever again. He’s a key ingredient to the reciepe for a losing franchise

about the half that wants Herm dead…why not?

Not happening Marv. I get the feeling that Trent is in good/bad/ugly. This team is trying to develop into a winner and you do that by getting behind a QB 100%. D.J isn’t going to pull Trent and stunt his growth so to speak.

Both teams would still rather have Levy than their current coach. And Marv wasn’t all that great in KC.

Seriously, how hard is it to build a football team?

Ummmmmm …….. really, really, really hard in my opinion. You hear about how teams “turn it around” all the time, but how many teams rise into the elite every year? Maybe one or two?