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CB Jackie Bates
TE Tom Crabree
DE Dion Gales
DE Bobby Greenwood
G Darryl Harris
WR Taurus Johnson
WR Ashley Lelie
DT Derek Lokey
S Bernard Pollard
S Ricky Price
LB Zach Thomas
RB Javarris Williams
WR Rodney Wright
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G Colin Brown
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Originally Posted by Vanilla Garilla
And thats better thna Pollard starting and Mike Brown being backup?
Or even vice versa?
lol no. :inwc:
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I said i would have liked to keep Pollard, but management chose him to cut for reasons unbeknown to us, so just accept it.
You guys are acting like we are freaking doomed without Pollard, lmao. How many game changing plays has he made for us?
Either way, he is gonna be a great pickup for some team.
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If they cut Pollard to start Brown, this will be a HORRIBLE decision!!! (As if it wasn't already)
Brown hasn't played a full season since 2003!! Last year was his closest year when he played 15 games and the 31 year old didn't even come CLOSE to matching the 24 year old Pollard's numbers!
Did we REALLY need a new GM to come in and continue to f@#$ things up? At least when CP/Herm traded/released Pro Bowl caliber players, they got something in return. Pioli has now traded or released Gonzalez and Pollard and only has a LATE 2010 2nd round pick to show for the 10 time Pro Bowler and a former 2nd round pick in Pollard.
Just straight up stupid.
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This Pollard worship is funny. You're ready to ditch the team, the GM, the coach, and every other SS for one dude because he led us in tackles last season.
Thigpen led us in passing last season, and everyone's pretty much put a bullet in the back of his head.
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I completely agree.. I just cant understand this decision.. name someone available at SS that is better than Pollard, including every member of the KC chiefs.
Oh, none.
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Seriously, people pretending that Pollard was a great SS haven't been watching much Chiefs football. He has potential but he's terrible in coverage, has poor instincts, and has an attitude problem. He can hit and tackle with the best, but they want a guy who can do more than that.
And the fact that he was a 2nd round pick means nothing. Herm Edwards picked a lot of guys high who turned out to be terrible. Pollard will be a good backup for a 4-3 team this season, no more, no less.
Pioli wants a SS that's great in coverage and has a great attitude. We'll start Mike Brown and pick up a guy off waivers.
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Hi, we didnt HAVE to cut him. We kept many other players that will do MUCH LESS for our team than him.
its senseless.
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Scout.com: The Pollard Problem
It’s ironic that Chiefs’ safety Jarrad Page was recently demoted to the second-team defense. Based on Saturday’s game against Seattle, Page’s secondary teammate, Bernard Pollard, might be worthy of such a demotion.
Pollard didn’t make any particularly outstanding plays against the Seahawks. There were no massive hits or interceptions. But he definitely didn’t disappear from the game. He had five tackles.
The only problem? Pollard should have had 10.
That’s right. In just over two quarters of play, Bernard Pollard missed five tackles. And these weren’t gallant, last-ditch, diving attempts at a player running full speed, zipping just out of mortal reach. No, Pollard had five football players dead to rights, almost directly in front of him. Each time, they slipped past as if he was a fan who had just walked out of the stands and put on a pair of shoulder pads and a helmet.
It started with about 11 minutes left in the first quarter on a kickoff return. Seattle’s Devin Moore encountered Pollard up the right sideline and, as the safety went low, skipped over his tackle attempt, stayed on his feet with some help from a teammate and gained six more yards.
A few minutes later the Seahawks faced 2nd-and-10 from their own 36. After Matt Hasselbeck sliced a pass through Kansas City’s zone to Nate Burleson, Pollard had an opportunity to blast him as he stumbled after making the catch. Instead, he weakly stuck out one arm. Burleson shrugged it off and gained another nine yards as Pollard slid to the ground.
After a quarter had passed, Seattle found itself in a third-down situation. On a busted play, Hasselbeck ad-libbed a pass to TJ Houshmandzadeh, who easily picked up the first down, but he wasn’t done. As Pollard drifted over to bring the receiver down, Houshmandzadeh made the slightest of cuts, but it was more than enough to send Pollard crashing to the ground. He stuck out an arm in a last-ditch effort to make a tackle, and could only watch as Houshmandzadeh gained 10 more yards.
Then, just before halftime, the Seahawks handed the ball to Julius Jones, who burst through a big hole off the right side. Pollard flew up from his safety position and was all squared up, ready to make the tackle. But instead of bringing down the ball carrier, he just fell to his knees and grasped at air as Jones stopped on a dime, sidestepped and continued up the field, picking up five more yards.
Finally, Seattle exploited Pollard one last time. About five minutes into the third quarter, Hasselbeck hit John Carlson over the middle for a big gain. The tight end caught the ball at the 12-yard line, turned up the field and ran right through Pollard like he was made of paper. Pollard grabbed at his jersey, slid off and hit the grass as the Seahawks took the lead on a 28-yard touchdown pass.
That was five missed tackles, about 40 extra yards gained by the Seahawks, and one touchdown. Five missed tackles in seven possessions, and not a single big play to make up for any of it. Five missed tackles that could have been turned into a big hit, a forced fumble or something to prevent Seattle’s offense from marching up and down the field all night, gaining 278 yards in just over two quarters.
After that, Pollard left the game. A young safety the Chiefs drafted in the third round a year ago, DaJuan Morgan, entered. He may have missed a tackle in the fourth quarter – it was difficult to tell from the replay. Morgan, like Pollard, also made five tackles. Unlike Pollard, Morgan did not appear to be a huge liability when he got a chance to bring down the ball carrier.
That’s not to say Morgan should replace Pollard in the starting lineup Thursday against the St. Louis Rams. Heck, maybe Pollard will destroy every ball carrier in his path and make up for his poor game against the Seahawks.
But this is now Pollard’s fourth NFL season. The game against Seattle was not an aberration - he has always had problems being a consistent tackler. A year ago, according to Football Outsiders, he was the Chiefs’ lowest-ranked starter in stop rate against the run. He had just six defeats (defined as a play which prevents the offense from gaining a first down on third or fourth down, stops the offense behind the line of scrimmage, or results in a fumble or interception). Only Jon McGraw, a backup, was inferior in these categories among the members of Kansas City’s secondary.
But you don’t need a bunch of fancy statistics to tell you this stuff. All you have to do is watch the games. Pollard keeps missing tackles. Until someone starts making those tackles, the Chiefs will probably continue to struggle to stop other teams.
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Man, I think we have the names backwards. Pollard was released and Page was the first to get a sticker? Pollard was the best defensive player we had last year.
OK, seriously, I think Haley has his head up his ***. Maybe he is seeing something that I am not, but seriously what is this guy thinking. I knew I was going to have some questions about him. Now I have a lot of questions. I am almost starting to think that Herm was smart compared to this guy.
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Are you man enough? Eric Berry? Apparently Not!
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Completely agree!
I also agree, everyone here is now bashing our new GM, our new Coach, and haven't even given them a full season to see what they can do.
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