Week 2 postgame @Jokeland

What was nice was seeing the Defense not fold & continually get gashed, as we saw continually last year (thanks to Sutton and his inability to adjust or motivate guys to step up). Obviously, they did adjust & they stepped up and held the Raiders scoreless in the last 3 QTR’s.

@matthewschiefs 349940 wrote:

I normally start with the offense this week I am going to start with the defense.

They got off to a poor start but after that they were pretty solid. Came up with the turnovers when they did give up drives and kept them off the scoreboard for the rest of the game. The offense didn’t do much in the 2nd half but they were not pressured at all. And that is a credit to the DEFENSE. This was a step in the right direction for them. Now it’s up to them to build on it. But I am pretty happy with how they looked overall today.

Man that 2nd quarter was fun to watch. That’s without the number 1 WR. And the starting LT. They got off to a slow start like the defense but man they showed they can take over a game quickly. I spent years on here SCREAMING that the Chiefs didn’t just need a QB but needed to build an OFFENSE. Today shows what that looks like. You never know whos going to have the big game. That’s what I wanted and I love to see it.

There are some things that need to be addressed the running game wasn’t very good today. I think both the D line and the O line need to play better then they did today IMO.

It feels damn good to leave the last game in Oakland with the W. I said this in the game thread but I remember during the Smith years some being upset that the Chiefs passed on Derek Carr. I never understood why we have beaten him time and time again. The red zone pick stands out as why he is not a top level QB. He’s a vet now and never looked anywhere else and threw a ball that was just handing them a pick. He’s good but again today the turnovers showed why he will not win at the top level. You just can’t do things like that

The Chargers lost so the Chiefs now sit alone in 1st place just to top this day off.

Next week it’s the Ravens. And the home opener Arrowhead is going to be rocking and the Chiefs are going to have to be better then what they were today if they want to get the W. The slow start that we saw today can not happen next week. Lets get it done.

The D still has a ways to go, but proved one thing today – that they CAN make adjustments and do a better job at the LOS. Like Brd stated they don’t have to be spectacular, just be more solid. Did good today but Baltimore will not falter in Arrowhead, we need to play a four quarter ballgame defensively if we want to go 3-0.

IMHO the game ball needs to go to Demarcus Robinson. After last weeks’ game, everyone and his brother’s cousin in Oakland was targeting Sammy Watkins. Can’t tell me that John Gruden wasn’t aware of this when he game-planned the past week. Demarcus had decent coverage on him, and still made plays. The guy has come a long ways since we’ve gotten him and today it paid off in a major way. If we get into a situation where guys like Kelce, Hill and Watkins are completely covered, we don’t have to force the ball to them. Way to go, #11.

Derek Carr is a good QB that went to the wrong team. Will never understand the Raiders. They get some of the best talent and then collectively figure out a way to screw it up. How many head coaches has Carr gone through since he got there? How many different WR’s or OL?

Thank goodness for that second quarter. Glad to hear that the defense woke up and did their job. Unfortunately I had to leave after the first quarter so that’s really all I saw.

@matthewschiefs 349940 wrote:

……………. I said this in the game thread but I remember during the Smith years some being upset that the Chiefs passed on Derek Carr. I never understood why we have beaten him time and time again.

What those people failed to understand is that Derek Carr was a good QB prospect for the Raiders …. not for KC. I had spoken time and again of the Chiefs abysmal record when it came to drafting QB’s, with the only one having any sort of success being Mike Livingston. Livingston and Mahomes have one thing in common…..they both played their college ball in the state of Texas (Livingston was a product of SMU). These are only two QB’s the Chiefs ever drafted from that state & brought in to KC (Don Meredith was drafted by the AFL’s Dallas Texans in 1960, but he opted to play with NFL’s Dallas Cowboys and signed with them).

So with that said, if the Chiefs want to draft a QB in the future, then look to the state of Texas & no further. I believe Andy Dalton would have been a good choice in 2011, but Pioli was too fixated on Matt Cassell & like Matt said, didn’t seem to really want to build an Offense around whoever the QB was.

4.47 in the afternoon in Australia, lets not over think things, 2 road games and 2 wins. would love to be at Arrowhead next week, one day I will make it, but as for now I have to contact my brother and console him. he follows the Dolphins, bad choice after a good holiday.

@Eydugstr 349961 wrote:

Not sure I get the science behind it, but it is weird that a lot of our better prospects came from Texas (The team itself came from Texas!).

Think Dalton would’ve suffered the same fate as Cassell; the O-line was pretty much ignored during the Herm Edwards/Pioli years. The idea of Dalton running Reid’s offense does make for a good “what if..” scenario, though.

I don’t get the ‘science’ behind it either, but it’s like former Miami Dolphin QB, Bob Griese once said “when you find a good fruit tree, you keep going back for the fruit”. Something like 17 or 18 QB prospects that the Chiefs drafted between Livingston and Mahomes (none of them from a Texas college) all washed out completely. Go figure.