Originally Posted by Chiefspants:
The worst part of it, and why I think the Chiefs are so (rightly) hesitant to make that move with Thuney, is that it also replaced our elite left guard with mediocre guard play on that side of the line. It diminished the play of that entire side of the line for the benefit of upping our left tackle play from a catastrophe to merely “average.”
I'll take average left side over catastrophic LT play every day! I don't like the switch but we have no choice, do we? [Reply]
Originally Posted by tyreekthefreak:
I'll take average left side over catastrophic LT play every day! I don't like the switch but we have no choice, do we?
If the Thuney at OT line holds up against the Steelers count me in as a believer. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Chiefspants:
If the Thuney at OT line holds up against the Steelers count me in as a believer.
I think he'll be fine against Pitt.
Steelers have Watt obviously, but I'm not too worried about their other rushers.
Hewyard is essentially a DT playing DE in that 3-4; that's the kind of guy Thuney has gone against his entire career.
Alex Highsmith is good, but he's more like Karlaftis in that I think he's a guy who makes a little chaos but isn't out there destroying guys. He's not someone that I think has the physical tools to dominate Thuney.
I worry more about the RT situation with Watt than I do LT. And we need Caliendo to be the guy he was against Cleveland and not the guy he was against Houston because Heyward COULD beat Caliendo up pretty good if he's at LG as seems most likely.
Originally Posted by Easy 6:
I'm not ready to say he sucks at all, in fact I don't really blame him for how things played out... he was nowhere near being in football shape
Throwing him into live game action so quickly was a desperate, and ill conceived move... it was almost guaranteed to get him injured
Yeah, good point. Makes you wonder why they didn't move Thuney to LT earlier and ease Humphries in? Maybe in physicals he showed them he was ready to play a full game but that was overoptimistic in hindsight based on how long he was away from football. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Gary Cooper:
Yeah, good point. Makes you wonder why they didn't move Thuney to LT earlier and ease Humphries in? Maybe in physicals he showed them he was ready to play a full game but that was overoptimistic in hindsight based on how long he was away from football.
Yeah man I was all about rushing him in there too
WE NEED HELP NOW!!1
But in hindsight it was almost always going to end badly in the short term, I mean OF COURSE he caught a bad hammy after having done jack shit for a year while rehabbing a serious injury... no camp, no preseason, and just a small handful of practices?
You're right they should've went to Thuney earlier, DJ didn't really have a chance... but I damn sure wanna see him out there in week 17 [Reply]
Originally Posted by Gary Cooper:
Is Watt playing Wednesday? I know he plays on the other side, but he can wreck games like no pass rusher I've seen since the 90s.
No need to rush DJ now. He can rest up until the Denver game, and get a ton of reps between now and then in practice. Then hopefully he'll get that game to get some game time. Thuney is a great option to fall back on at least which is comforting to know going into the playoffs [Reply]
Rather than go to thuney earlier they should have given Kingsley and Morris the help and game plan they’ve given thuney. We were still trying to develop deep non stop until thuney moved to lt. Now we’ve been an insanely effective quick pass offense. Thuneys getting all the help Morris and Kingsley never dreamed of. We could be in a very different situation had they helped Kingsley instead of letting him get raped over and over on an island. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Dunerdr:
Rather than go to thuney earlier they should have given Kingsley and Morris the help and game plan they’ve given thuney. We were still trying to develop deep non stop until thuney moved to lt. Now we’ve been an insanely effective quick pass offense. Thuneys getting all the help Morris and Kingsley never dreamed of. We could be in a very different situation had they helped Kingsley instead of letting him get raped over and over on an island.
Dude you can't be serious.
Please show the highlights of Thuney getting all this help. [Reply]
TEX 12-24-2024, 02:38 AM
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Originally Posted by TheGuardian:
Dude you can't be serious.
Please show the highlights of Thuney getting all this help.
Seriously? Look them up for yourself. Its easy. Most every pass play someone is helping out. They're giving Thuney a lot of help, like they should. [Reply]
Originally Posted by UChieffyBugger:
No need to rush DJ now. He can rest up until the Denver game, and get a ton of reps between now and then in practice. Then hopefully he'll get that game to get some game time. Thuney is a great option to fall back on at least which is comforting to know going into the playoffs
Now there is a plan and a fall back option should we need one.
Humphries confirmed out tomorrow. I knew there was no way he would play especially if he didn't participate in the one walk through the had. Last time I listen to Staylor. He knows nothing about football. [Reply]