Thats the real problem isnt it... will it be just another tool to screw non-glamour boy teams with

It really was outstanding, he is one big powerful kid

Everyone is pretty down on the defense, but holding them to 3.3 ypc bodes well

Did he lead the team in tackle the first preseason game and then have a Pick 6 and more tackles in Game 2?

Niemann has, plus he has not missed any tackles. No way Niemann gets cut over those guys. The kid has it!

Eligwe is a different kind of athlete. I’m not talking production. I’m talking the talent/upside he flashed. It wasn’t meant to be a shot at Niemann at all.

I saw only a few plays last night, but i saw one really good play by Ford where he held his man at arms length and made the tackle on a running back.

He did look good on a few plays but it's all about consistency. Overall he is definitly poor in rush defense.

As for the rush defense in general, I am not worried at all. Williams and Nnadi look like studs and Hitchens and Ragland, regardless of Berri, should make it a strong unit.

Is Speaks the guy Clay was railing on as a bust because he's.. husky?

I can't keep all of that guy's horrendous predictions in line. At this point, if Clay says something, the exact opposite comes true.

JFC I'm not talking about one play. I'm talking about the plays after it.

Full Replay of the game:

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I agree. I had high hopes for Eligwe last year, but I just don't think he gets it. I really like Niemann because he appears to be more NFL ready. One thing that may throw a monkey wrench into the ILB situation is O'Daniel. I know he's behind Hitchens and Smith, but his ability to take on that role Dirty Dan did last year may force us to carry 6 ILBs if you don't want to let go of either Niemann or Eligwe. Davison has shown some flash, but I think he may be destined for the PS.

"JFC," If you're gonna talk, you ought to also be talking about the play that took a TD away...:shrug:

Thanks again for posting. Once again, not as bad as the GDT led me to believe.

Problem with this defense is that too many of these guys are just not ready. We've got very few complete players. McQuay impresses me in run support, but is garbage in space. KPass flashes rushing the passer then literally trips over his own feet in coverage. Speaks is a wall, but rarely gets penetration.

On the bright side, the run defense looks like it'll be vastly improved, especially when all of the starters are in. Fuller is impressive.

Also, Amerson is absolute garbage. He'll be this year's Philip Gaines if he's forced into a starting role.. I still can't believe we traded Peters. This defense with Peters and Fuller could potentially have been a top 5 unit.

Also, the defense is still giving up too many 3rd down conversions.

3rd and 4 play at the 9:54 mark in 1st quarter Patrick should have hit Kelce coming out of his break rather than throwing it short to Hill. The protection was definitely good enough to wait for the read. I think they will talk about this in the film room.

Hopefully they leave it in pre-season.

Initially I hated that play design. You've got too much happening in such a small area of the field with Watkins, Kelce and Hill all sitting or making breaks within yards of each other.

Perhaps against zone it would work great as a flooding concept, but against man it just creates a jumbled mess.

Who are we replacing Amerson with?

Apparently Scandrick.

The Chiefs like Tremon Smith and Arrion Springs too much for them to get ousted. Fuller and Nelson are the starters. That leaves one spot. Only way Amerson stays aboard is if we keep 6 CBs

I just don't get how Veach went from trying real hard to sign Kyle Fuller to supposedly being interested in trading up for Mike Hughes in the draft to just settling for scraps.

I thought Amerson could be decent but he has not been good.

Didn’t get to watch the game live, followed on here a bit

Per usual, it wasn’t as bad as it seemed here

The defense was butt****ing awful, but I'm looking at it again now and I think mostly it's due to guys like Eligwe, Terrance Smith and Murray trying to play vs starters. They are all awful.

They’re just not ready to be starters against that level of offense. As depth or whatever they’re not bad I guess.

Like the one long run, you’d like to think if that’s one of the starters at ILB it’s a 2 yard gain

Eligwe and Smith are not good but that Falcons offense is no joke, even though Jones and Freeman were not playing.

I am not worried for the rush defense. Just worried about that secondary.

I want to see close to our actual starting defense (with Ragland and Hitchens) against the Bears. I know this defense isn't good, but I want to see if we're a bottom feeder or if we're just a mediocre defense that gets outclassed by talented offensive squads. What do we look like when we have linebackers who DON'T constantly **** up like Eligwe and Smith do?

A lot of what we've seen appears to be fixable once the starters come in and we get Amerson off the field.

I agree with everything else, but I haven’t seen Murray make 1 mistake/bad play all preseason.

Savage rush:

https://i.imgur.com/tASxINT.gif

Kendall Fuller > Marcus Peters

https://i.imgur.com/V1qltpc.gif

LMAO

https://i.imgur.com/UUTbOHY.gif

LMAO

Someone link that to his twitter feed, lol.

I can’t tell the coverage on the Hooper play bc it’s not all 22 but it definitely looks like Murray

Great, in that case we better be doing some heavy praying that we don't have any starters go down with injuries or have to come out for a rest!

Holy shit man. This game was GIF gold.

https://i.imgur.com/PVrVIkl.gif

Does Kelce say nice? LMAO

Looks like it, lol

Stop crying, dude. At any point in these games thus far we're looking at up to six or seven backups in the starting line up.

During the regular season, we'll be looking at subbing these scrubs in one or two at a time.

Yeah, if our big defensive signing at ILB can get healthy that would help

Wasn’t he already back practice along with Ragland?

Pretty sure that was precautionary.

They’ve both been practicing not sure why they didn’t play

Because its preseason and they are being cautious.

Probably

But If they’re healthy, why be that cautious!

Because its preseason

We were "cautious" with Berry last preseason, how'd that turn out?

Teams are cautious with players every preseason. That doesn't mean every damn starting running back and star WR does an Achilles. People need to seriously chill.

Julio suited up, but didn't play

This preseason has been wacky

In the end hopefully it won’t matter.
But I’ll always think guys need to play. You can’t replicate game speed and such

I hear ya, but if we come away with no significant TC/preseason injuries it’ll be worth it.

True, those suck. But they’ll happen in the preseason just as they will the regular season.

I have no clue if there is any research or anything to it but I feel like the more you play the better in terms of energy

They didn't want those guys going full tilt on turf

True didn’t think about that

Andy mentioned that both ILB’s could play next week.

https://mobile.twitter.com/FB_FilmAn...57128683044864

This was an awesome play design by Andy. Totally fooled the defense.

That's the best part.

I hope so

Chris jones was damn near unstoppable. Freakish

He's Reggie White.

And we got Brett Favre throwing to Midget Randy Moss and Tony Gonzalez this year, handing the ball to Terrell Davis.

That would be nice

There’s already been 20 ACL tears this season and it’s week 2 of preseason. That’s not even counting Achilles or breaks/MCL issues.

At this rate every team is bound to have at least 1 guy a season with a big leg injury.

Unfortunately, we had to trade Dion; dude was too flashy.

Of course, the majority of those are on the Chargers.

So your saying that every player held out of games because of an injury is likely to tear their ACL, Achillies or MCL? LMAO

There will be 1696 signed players (not counting practice squad) come the regular season. 20 ACLs so far... its an epidemic!

Finally got around to watching the whole thing last night. Niemann is gonna make the squad. He's already their 3rd best ILB.

Interesting note: Armani Watts was the highest rated player from this game per PFF.

Also in regards to Mahomes, I'll get flamed a lot for this I'm sure, but I'm just not that overly excited about the long throw. Yeah, it was cool to see and such, but as I said before I know he can do that.

He needs to be really good at what Alex was really good at now. That's where we need to see him excel and it will set up all the long stuff.

That 3rd down pass to Kelce was more important to me.

Exactly. It’s not about Mahomes being good at what Alex was good at. It’s about being good at what he wasn’t, and that means intermediate throws on third and long. It’s what he has shown in every game he’s played - and that means so much for the success of this team.

Yes and no.

The intermediate throws are ones he does need to own as well, but all those little short crossers and the pinpoint accuracy can be lethal.

It was undefendable.

But he already has that. The way he places he ball on screens is superb.

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Hunt missed a walk in TD there.