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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
When the Chiefs were ahead 24-17 with 30 seconds left and lost on two fluke plays, 31-24?
Or when the Chiefs beat the Texans 27-20, a game in which the Chiefs had in hand in the entire 4 quarters, despite the offense scoring zero points in the second half?
You guys are seriously overestimating Sean Smith's impact last year. Yes, he's a good player and fits this scheme well but he's not a "big time" playmaker and he's dropped more INT's than he hung onto.
He's going to be overpaid because there's a dearth of free agent corners this year but at age 29, the wheels can fall off at any point.
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You're really going to minimize Smith's absence during the Broncos game?
I have to believe you weren't watching it if that's the case. Or if you were, the television's camera angles weren't cluing you into the atrocity taking place.
Manning would literally scan the line, find Fleming and then chuck it to whoever he was supposed to be covering. It was comically blatant. He did that for the entire last possession after realizing in the second to last possession that he could.
We absolutely, 100% lost that game because we didn't have Shaun Smith. And you can say it's because our replacement was Fleming rather than someone else competent, but let's not act like the NFL is just crammed full of credible backup CBs either. Most teams that lose their #1 CB are likely to have a pretty scuzzy #3 step in.
And if you just let Smith walk and replace him internally, it's entirely blind faith. Gaines injury casts his entire future into doubt, especially when we don't really know if his relatively small frame can hold up to 16 games of press corner. Nelson...well Nelson is bad. Beyond that, what are you counting on?
I believe I was the first person to mention Jeremy Lane and I do like the guy, but you're working without a net even if you do bring him in, IMO.
Getting Berry signed and Smith tagged should've been no-doubt moves for this off-season. So far Dorsey's had one 'executed' decision point and it's been a loss, IMO.