Comments on: Collective Exhale http://arrowheadaddict.com/2008/08/04/collective-exhale/ A Kansas City Chiefs Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and more Fri, 25 May 2012 00:18:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: xxxlp http://arrowheadaddict.com/2008/08/04/collective-exhale/#comment-16768 xxxlp Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:28:01 +0000 http://arrowheadaddict.com/?p=2069#comment-16768 Good points; remember though Curt, that he started out as a guard ( a la Albert ) so he should have quick enough feet that sticking with those DE's shouldn't be as hard as the 340 lb. LT's have. I'd still like him to gain 10-15 lbs of muscle or so, and then just have Hali rush him relentlessly over and over and over. Hopefully he understands this is his chance to shine, and he gets the fire burning, if he can do that, he'll blaze for quite some time, somewhere along the line. Good points; remember though Curt, that he started out as a guard ( a la Albert ) so he should have quick enough feet that sticking with those DE’s shouldn’t be as hard as the 340 lb. LT’s have. I’d still like him to gain 10-15 lbs of muscle or so, and then just have Hali rush him relentlessly over and over and over. Hopefully he understands this is his chance to shine, and he gets the fire burning, if he can do that, he’ll blaze for quite some time, somewhere along the line.

]]> By: lobo48 http://arrowheadaddict.com/2008/08/04/collective-exhale/#comment-16767 lobo48 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:12:44 +0000 http://arrowheadaddict.com/?p=2069#comment-16767 great stuff.....xxxlp and cmf.......i couldn't agree more with both of your posts. i also have noticed that taylor has been doing a good job as a blocker and looked good when he played last year...(of course it wouldn't take much to stand out on last years o-line) but i still think he will be a good if not great player for us for a long time great stuff…..xxxlp and cmf…….i couldn’t agree more with both of your posts. i also have noticed that taylor has been doing a good job as a blocker and looked good when he played last year…(of course it wouldn’t take much to stand out on last years o-line) but i still think he will be a good if not great player for us for a long time

]]> By: CurtMerzFan http://arrowheadaddict.com/2008/08/04/collective-exhale/#comment-16766 CurtMerzFan Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:39:21 +0000 http://arrowheadaddict.com/?p=2069#comment-16766 LOL xxxlp... subtle like a rhino in heat... :P I love Herb's talent and I agree with you about him having the right stuff.. and I made a post two or three days ago suggesting the same things you do here about leaving Herb at LT if he's doing well because it will be tough for Albert to get up to speed there if he misses the whole preseason. So it kind of makes sense to leave Taylor there and play Albert at RG. Albert's talent would also make it easier to go ahead and start Richardson at RT if Damion continues to struggle. I do agree we've probably found our utility lineman of the future - although I would not count Herb out as the long term solution at RT either. The thing is this: Herb is a vicious run blocker and well suited to that job, but he's only 295 and that puts him at a real disadvantage against the elite DE's on the left side in the passing game... so KC would almost always have to give him some help on passing plays. Fortunately, we have a couple of TE's who actually know how to block and a O Co-ordinator designing a lot of plays for the 2TE set. The reason things are so much better on the line this year is Herm took the time to give Herb and Niswanger and the other youngsters on the Oline in last years draft the attention and playing time they needed to develop. As a result, not only did we get a great talent in this year's draft... we had enough young depth the team felt OK about letting Weigman, and others go during the off season. Folks are saying we're too young and experienced and the Oline has holes - crapola. It's one of the deepest and most talented areas on the team, and we're about to see that first hand. The best thing about ALL of this? D-Mac and Svitek and the other vets BETTER get their shit in one sock PDQ, or they'll be collecting pine splinters. LOL xxxlp… subtle like a rhino in heat… :P

I love Herb’s talent and I agree with you about him having the right stuff.. and I made a post two or three days ago suggesting the same things you do here about leaving Herb at LT if he’s doing well because it will be tough for Albert to get up to speed there if he misses the whole preseason. So it kind of makes sense to leave Taylor there and play Albert at RG. Albert’s talent would also make it easier to go ahead and start Richardson at RT if Damion continues to struggle. I do agree we’ve probably found our utility lineman of the future – although I would not count Herb out as the long term solution at RT either.

The thing is this: Herb is a vicious run blocker and well suited to that job, but he’s only 295 and that puts him at a real disadvantage against the elite DE’s on the left side in the passing game… so KC would almost always have to give him some help on passing plays. Fortunately, we have a couple of TE’s who actually know how to block and a O Co-ordinator designing a lot of plays for the 2TE set.

The reason things are so much better on the line this year is Herm took the time to give Herb and Niswanger and the other youngsters on the Oline in last years draft the attention and playing time they needed to develop. As a result, not only did we get a great talent in this year’s draft… we had enough young depth the team felt OK about letting Weigman, and others go during the off season. Folks are saying we’re too young and experienced and the Oline has holes – crapola. It’s one of the deepest and most talented areas on the team, and we’re about to see that first hand.

The best thing about ALL of this? D-Mac and Svitek and the other vets BETTER get their shit in one sock PDQ, or they’ll be collecting pine splinters.

]]> By: MAnders86 http://arrowheadaddict.com/2008/08/04/collective-exhale/#comment-16765 MAnders86 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:47:12 +0000 http://arrowheadaddict.com/?p=2069#comment-16765 Secondly, yes Herm had an OUTSTANDING draft this year..We hands down kicked everyones ass..However just because a lot of herm's players are playing from previous years draft doesn't mean he is drafting good players..This year will really tell a lot about paige, pollard, hali, webb, tyler, taylor, croyle, Kolby Smith.. I got faith though and I can't wait to watch these guys play Secondly, yes Herm had an OUTSTANDING draft this year..We hands down kicked everyones ass..However just because a lot of herm’s players are playing from previous years draft doesn’t mean he is drafting good players..This year will really tell a lot about paige, pollard, hali, webb, tyler, taylor, croyle, Kolby Smith..

I got faith though and I can’t wait to watch these guys play

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