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That's a disgusting ratio. The people cherry picking are the homers. I can think of 5 plays he made last year that were worth shit. And one of them was in garbage time in Oakland.
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04-06-2013, 09:33 PM | #3 |
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I'm sure his coaching staff and QB had absolutely nothing to do with this huh?
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04-06-2013, 09:36 PM | #4 |
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Again...good players can overcome.
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04-06-2013, 09:30 PM | #5 |
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I'm gonna call it. McCluster is going to have a solid year and will look impressive like he did in flashes in 2010.
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Reid has big plans for McCluster
By ADAM TEICHER The Kansas City Star Andy Reid wanted to draft Dexter McCluster in 2010, when Reid coached the Philadelphia Eagles and McCluster was coming out of college at Mississippi. The Chiefs got to McCluster instead, taking him with a pick early in the second round. But it’s no coincidence that one of Reid’s favorite topics since joining the Chiefs in January as their new coach is McCluster and what he can do for the Chiefs on offense as a receiver and a runner and on special teams. “He’s not the biggest guy in the world, but he’s got a heart of a lion,” Reid said. “He’s got that … tremendous quickness and can catch. He’s pretty good at running the football, so there is a place for him. You line him up everywhere. You can move him around and kind of do some unique things with him. “I like McCluster. I think he’s a good football player and he has a role on this football team. I’ve got some things in mind for him.” This wouldn’t be the first time that the Chiefs had big plans for McCluster. But he has only infrequently lived up to them. His signature play from his three seasons with the Chiefs came in his first regular-season game when he returned a punt for a touchdown to spark a victory over San Diego. Otherwise, McCluster has 119 catches, 657 rushing yards and four touchdowns, but few big plays of the game-changing variety. Reid and offensive coordinator Doug Pederson may not be able to get anything more from McCluster, though it sounds as if they will try. “I was interested in drafting him,” Reid said. “It just didn’t fall that way. But I did have some interest. I liked him as a football player. He’s a unique talent because he can do a couple, three different things for you whether it’s special teams as a returner or whether it’s offense as a receiver or a running back. “His value … is that you can move him into different spots where you can utilize his talents the best. You saw what Charlie (Weis) did with him the one year when he kind of mixed him in the different positions offensively. He can handle it. He’s a sharp kid. Obviously he’s a talented kid.” For his part, McCluster thought the Eagles might draft him in 2010. He said that at the time he had never met Reid and didn’t visit the Eagles in Philadelphia before the draft but “there were rumors circulating that he had some interest in me.” Reid will be McCluster’s third head coach and Pederson his fourth offensive coordinator. While the others generally kept McCluster at a certain position for an entire season — he lined up mostly as a receiver in 2010 and 2012 and a running back in 2011 — the Chiefs don’t plan a specific role for McCluster. That suits him well. “Keeping the defense on their toes,” McCluster said. “Move me around, make a headache for the defense. He said he wants to use me in multiple places. That’s the type of player I am and that’s the type of player I’ve been. Now I have the opportunity to showcase what I can really do.” McCluster said he’s as frustrated as anyone that he hasn’t delivered more big plays. He played in all 16 games the past two seasons and was the Chiefs’ second-leading rusher in 2011 and their second-leading pass receiver last season. But he said a better test of what he was capable of would come this season. “I would just say opportunity,” McCluster said when asked why he hasn’t been the player the Chiefs, and apparently Reid, envisioned when he was drafted. “Opportunity has been limited. I’m not a guy that’s always complaining how I want the ball and I need the ball. The chips are going to fall into place. I’ve been saying this for a couple of years now: When it’s my time, it’s going to be my time. That’s my mind-set. I’m going to go out there and I’m going to grind. The world will know when Dexter McCluster is out there.”
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04-06-2013, 09:56 PM | #7 |
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I doubt McCluster dresses for 16 games, let alone puts up 2010 level numbers.
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04-06-2013, 10:08 PM | #8 |
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You're making this too complicated.
Does he have a history of making plays? No. Does he have a history of turning the ball over? Yes. Can we do better? By a factor of millions. I'm gonna piss fire in game threads every time this worthless ****stick catches another football and does nothing with it next season. He needs a god damn reckoning. The last remnant of the Pioli shitpile must be flushed.
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04-06-2013, 10:14 PM | #9 |
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I saw Tony Temple ****stomp a good SEC defense to the tune of 300 yards rushing. Never played a down in the NFL.
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04-06-2013, 10:20 PM | #10 |
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Do you think that agility might have something to do with the now-high school DB coaches he was playing against? Just a little?
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04-06-2013, 10:28 PM | #11 |
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No. It's not hard to see a good cut, whether that's in college or the pros. And that's backed by an outstanding 3-cone time at the combine.
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Have we seen this enough in the NFL? No. He seems to tiptoe too much and sometimes doesn't make the cut or hit the lane you'd like to see him hit. IN other cases, he pulls that stupid spin move that doesn't fool anybody. And in other cases, he just isn't given space because of a poorly designed offense. |
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04-06-2013, 10:21 PM | #14 |
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McCluster is not fast in the NFL. He is shifty though. 4.5 speed can be fast in college, not in the NFL.
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04-06-2013, 10:32 PM | #15 |
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McCluster is no Jamaal Charles
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