Man!!!! I love Andy Reid. The @Chiefs and Andy Reid are offensive line savants. Kingsley Suamataia has big time potential. I think he he can be awesome guard or tackle. Just needs a little technique work. He is an aggressive killer who is great athlete.
Kingsley Suamataia is a versatile offensive tackle who split his 1,300 career snaps at BYU almost exactly down the middle between left and right tackle.
My favorite line from Dane Brugler's draft guide: "He delivers more pancakes than Denny's" ��
Traitsy OT w/ great size+athleticism+strengt. Easy range in the run game to pull or climb to landmarks or hit set points in slide. Patient hand usage to stay square and trust his lateral agility. Pad level & overall technique should develop in NFL. pic.twitter.com/p9zOJEuMkr
I'm really struggling to see what got Reid so enamored with this kid. Sure, the athletic traits are there for an elite OT but he's shown absolutely nothing to make anyone believe that he'll ever be able to translate them to on the field results. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
I just wanna say he was bad, but not as bad as I think is being suggested.
Bonitto wrecked him. Just absolutely destroyed him every time.
But he held his own against the other two guys.
Don't get me wrong - when your weakness is THAT bad, you're a problem. But it really was just the one weakness - he was really exposed protecting his outside shoulder against speed.
This wasn't Cam Erving where whatever you did you'd beat him. This was a situation where a guy who had the outside burst to attack him wide just ate his lunch.
Originally Posted by RealSNR:
It's probably not worth trying him in an actual game because he was also really raw, but I wonder if Ethan Driskell has made much progress.
Originally Posted by Wisconsin_Chief:
It’s like, have they even been working with him at all since the benching? Has he even practiced? He looks like he’s never played football in his life.
He wasn't ready for the speed.
Who have we had for him to even practice against that can prepare him for that? [Reply]
I just don't see how you're going to be able to fix the footwork to make it feasible at the NFL level. He legit looks like he's playing with concrete for shoes. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
The one play was Kelce drilling the guy and knocking him inside of Kingsley outside set.
The two real hard hits on Mahomes were just pure outside speed.
Posted in the other thread. One of those speed rushers was an impossible ask from Kingsley. Steele ****ed up badly.
Originally Posted by RunKC:
Here’s the play Mahomes screamed at Steele. Mahomes sees their speed rusher lined up extremely far outside. He know Kingsley as well as no LT can get that angle so he motions to have Steele come to the left to block the DE.
Steele instead runs to the flat to the other side of the field in the flat and gets Mahomes killed.
Originally Posted by Sassy Squatch:
I just don't see how you're going to be able to fix the footwork to make it feasible at the NFL level. He legit looks like he's playing with concrete for shoes.
Confidence in his hand placement, IMO.
It's not his feet. They're plenty quick. He's just really reluctant to commit to his punch and so he just...doesn't make one.
He has the feet for the job. He just doesn't trust that his initial punch is going to land so he lets the DL dictate the rep. And when it's a guy as fast and aggressive as Bonitto, he's just gonna get his ass kicked. [Reply]