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That's fair and all, but he's been here 2 years, and everybody except Danna hits the bodyshape.
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You think he's doing spot duty. If I shared that belief, I probably wouldn't care a ton. But I think he's playing 35-45% of his snaps there. (Although, again, we're both just guessing.) What would you reaction be if you heard the Chiefs did intend to play a 35-45% of his snaps at the position? |
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It’s about you being one of the biggest morons on this forum, yet questioning the pros that are the best in the business at every single ****ing turn. Everybody here is capable of being critical of the Chiefs, but we find it pretty ****ing hilarious and pathetic that you CONSTANTLY are. You never give them the benefit of the doubt, which makes it pretty obvious that you honestly think you know better than they do. It’s not “appealing to authority” to point out that they absolutely know what they’re doing, and you don’t. |
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They've been wrong since Spags arrived, however, because Sam Madison has been the best position coach on the team. Except for last year, it's been reasonable to worry about the corner position, because the resources invested there have been minimal and the talent all entered the season with huge questions. I don't know how applicable that is to this situation. |
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The argument that "we're just fans so we should trust the staff" is literally an appeal to authority.
Now there is a version of that is indisputable: that they do this for a living, that they are operating on muuuuuch more information than we are, and therefore they deserve the benefit of the doubt, etc. That's indisputable. But the idea they're above questioning is laughable and a waste of my time. |
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It’s fine to trust the staff and still have questions. Our staff is good but our pass rush aside from blitzes wasn’t good. It doesn’t look like it will be much better this season, at least at the present moment.
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I’m going to stop you right there, because it’s obvious to anybody that pays attention that Direckshun doesn’t trust the staff whatsoever. He questions them at every single turn. It’s all he does.
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"Chris Jones playing DE is fine because Spags" is literally an appeal to authority. |
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Anybody with half a brain can see why it’s fine without appealing to authority. |
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But its not really "because Spags" Its because this type thing has been successful "because Spags system". It's not just blind trust, theres literal examples of probowl players like Justin Tuck moving around like this.
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Fans screamed about the CB position, not realizing that it was one of those things that the Chiefs just didn't care as much about. And those fans didn't know what the Chiefs knew about their team. And guess what? Those fans were wrong. Who's to say the exact same situation isn't taking place with DE? Reid and the Chiefs have repeatedly said that QBs are getting too good and getting the ball out of their hands too quickly to just rely on your outside pass rush talent to pressure the QB. If you want that pressure, you're going to have to collapse the interior of the pocket because the shorter distance from DT to QB can make the difference when you only have 2 seconds to make a play or disrupt something. So what if that's exactly what the Chiefs are doing by getting explosive guys like Jones and Reed and allowing their DEs to not be as expensive provided they do the other parts of their jobs well? Remember when the plan was Alex Okafor for that opposite DE spot? And his backup Tanoh Kpassagnon, a dude who in the 3-4 was all but a giant bust (and still isn't that great, but being meh is better than sucking). Or how about Old Man Suggs? We've done just fine with those meh dudes at one of the DE spots all while Frank Clark drinks goat piss on the other side. If the Chiefs valued the DE/Edge rush position the way common NFL pundits say you should (it being the third most important position behind QB and LT) then why would they go three straight offseasons without bothering to spend more than low tier free agent dollars or 5th round picks at one of the positions? It's not just, "Whoops we ran out of money." Football is a game of priorities, and along the way, there were any number of positions that the Chiefs could have opted to not pay/acquire/draft all so they could shore up talent at the DE spot. I don't know about you, but what it says to me is the Chiefs are exploiting a market inefficiency in ways we don't understand because we're not privy to the player information they have. It's possible that they believe the league overvalues DE by a slight bit, and have instead chosen to spend picks and cash on the interior. |
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I’d say a lot of that is because they’re already paying such a premium for frank clark and only have so much allowed there. Plus most legit de pass rushers are drafted high and we aren’t ever drafting high
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I think it’s pretty obvious that they value interior pass rush more at this point. |
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