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I don’t think fans of either team really liked how their teams played. Just don’t sign Cousins or my head will explode.Sure, I'll drop some thoughts. That game sucked. Congrats, Chiefs fans.
I'm rewatching some highlights from last nights game and is it just me or is Derrick Johnson really looking old out there? He made a couple of plays but he was also washed out or out of place on a lot of plays.
Eventually Chiefs are going to have to stop teams from just rushing the ball up the middle. Maybe its scheme. Maybe its to make up for some of their issues in the secondary but it seems like once the RB gets passed the Chiefs line then the other team just runs wild.
The Dime defense we're running looks pretty shot against the run to me. Sorenson is just an abomination as a run defender and the DL doesn't consist of three incredible hulks to rotate in there; and Jones is only Hulkish some of the time due to playing high. Sorenson is easily the worst run defender [cataclysmically bad] on the team, and that's quickly becoming a non-exclusive club. Johnson looks like he's consistently running in a morass. Ragland often looks like he's still not quite sure what to do, and with his skillset that's a big no-no though I do think he has a chance at improvement. On the 2nd level, KC might have the worst run defense in the league, scheme or not, and it's a group with Houston in it technically. That's not good with how dependent this defense is on that 2nd level.missing Eric Berry seems to be a bigger and bigger issue every game imo...
I just went over to PFF and they had Derrick Johnson with a lower grade than Trevor Simian. Its that bad.The Dime defense we're running looks pretty shot against the run to me. Sorenson is just an abomination as a run defender and the DL doesn't consist of three incredible hulks to rotate in there; and Jones is only Hulkish some of the time due to playing high. Sorenson is easily the worst run defender [cataclysmically bad] on the team, and that's quickly becoming a non-exclusive club. Johnson looks like he's consistently running in a morass. Ragland often looks like he's still not quite sure what to do, and with his skillset that's a big no-no though I do think he has a chance at improvement. On the 2nd level, KC might have the worst run defense in the league, scheme or not, and it's a group with Houston in it technically. That's not good with how dependent this defense is on that 2nd level.
Sorenson is so unplayable as a LB in the run game it may just be preferable to insert Eligwe in there for Sorenson's LB snaps. More athletic than Ragland, but has the ability to be taken at least somewhat seriously as a linebacker. Not sure how far along he is like Kpassagnon (who got his first live snaps it looks like) but I would have to think we're nearing that discussion with the bye coming up.
Hali is practicing it looks like, so that could help a bit even if indirectly, but the ILB's are really something else between Sorenson (sigh) an old Derrick Johnson, and an inexperienced Ragland. Meanwhile Ramik and Eligwe exist in the ether; and I am not sure if anyone sees Pierre-Louis as a potential solution. If the ILB's are bad, I am not sure what we can do to stop the run without compromising the defense's identity.
Yeah, thats the time of play that needs to get blown up for a 1 yd gain or no gain.
Stuff like this makes me think the run D is primarily a LB issue when normalizing for scheme. Ragland SHOULD be able to completely destroy this play and hit very hard while doing so at that. Gets washed. Ragland has time to develop and improve, but I am not so sure Wilson ain't better this very second at the easy stuff.