There is one thing I worry about, in regards to KC’s season.
2007 Braylon Edwards: 80 catches, 1289 yards, 16 TDs.
Edwards had a HUGE year… and then turned back into a drop machine. Dwayne Bowe is also a drop machine. I’m really hoping this is Bowe turning the corner and not a hot streak the likes of which will never be seen again.
If he remains this good, though, all KC needs is another great wideout and to keep working on their depth, and they are set.
I think it’s KC’s turn to put an offer on Randy Moss, isn’t it?
I haven’t been able to see any KC games really here in New England, but how much of Cassel’s pedestrian accuracy is due to the dropsies? Like, he hits a guy on the numbers and the ball just falls dead to the ground?
His low INT count speaks to his decision making, seems like he’s not throwing into tight coverage or just misreading defenses outright. He’s either throwing it away a lot or his receivers are dropping it, right?
Whooooaaa hyperbole ahoy!
He’s in the conversation, and he’s at the top of the conversation. Per FO, which measures a ton of stuff too complex for me to get into right now, Jamaal Charles is the second-best running back in the league for overall value (which is remarkable since he’s only a part-time back) and first overall by a wide margin for per-play value. Receiving he’s not quite as high – 9th and 12th in those same categories.
For overall value as a runner and a receiver this season, Charles is Top Five easy. Arian Foster is the best running back in the league this season, but Charles is right behind him.
There are some drops, certainly more than you see with top tier teams, but imo, it’s more about accuracy. Cassel’s certainly being careful with the ball but he’s missed some open targets.
As I said, I haven’t seen Cassel play more than a couple of games, but in the games I did see, his WRs were NOT helping him out. Probably 3-8 dropped passes per game.
sluggo
3828
Out of curiosity, where is Chris Johnson?
This season? FO has him 23rd. His success rate is 33rd in the league at 39%, meaning CJ28’s normal boom-and-bust season has been a lot more bust than boom. (By comparison, Arian Foster is 7th at 54%, and Charles is 2nd at a ludicrous 59%).
Is CJ28 the 23rd-best back in the league? Of course not. But this season, he is strictly ordinary.
sluggo
3830
Production wise, CJ has obviously not had a giant year, but I think that’s more because teams have been loading up to stop him and daring the Titans to beat them throwing the ball, which they haven’t. If I was starting a team from scratch and could draft any RB I wanted, I’m pretty sure I’m taking CJ before Charles.
Sarkus
3831
I’ve been a Jeff Fisher fan, but he says some baffling things in this interview with Mariuci, who dropped the ball by not following up on how Fisher thinks his locker room is better when they’ve looked so bad since the Redskins game.
The Finnegan stuff is the wrong thing to say as well.
Sarkus
3832
Patriots rookie LB Brandon Spikes suspended for four games(rest of the regular season) for testing positive for a banned substance.
Rimbo
3833
“I think to a man, most everybody in that locker room would have disagreed with his actions. So from that standpoint, he’s probably better off not being here.”
Yep. Absolutely no support for VY from the players, Jeff.
By “to a man” he means, most of them. Or at least many of them. Or some. That’s obvious.
Clearly, Fisher considers the Vince Young supporters to be women…
olaf
3836
Jeff Fischer is old school and he is going to lose the battle for the locker room against Vince Young. I dont think thats how it should turn out, but thats how its gonna be. I dont think he will be coaching there next year.
Rimbo
3837
I don’t see how people (unrelated to him) can support Fisher at this point. Maybe the guy might have been a good coach, once. Right now he’s somewhere between Wade Philips and Josh McDaniels. How many games, in this season and the last, has he won without Young as his QB? Zero. 0. Nada. You can’t even give him a “lifetime achievement” award; his career record is 55%.
What Fisher is good at is PR. Getting his name sounding good. He’s like the guy who keeps on teasing that one kid in middle school, knowing that the kid will blow up and look bad, and then he can say “Man, the guy needs to grow up, I’ve tried to help him” and everyone thinks he’s so much better… except it’s not middle school any more and everyone still falls for the gag, everyone still thinks he’s a “players’ coach.”
Jeff’s a second-rate coach and a liar. Tennessee can do better.
Shmtur
3838
The first move in getting better? Find a new QB.
robsam
3839
Don’t care much for the Titans (Oilers to me), I respect their style of play normally, and I think Fisher is a good, but not great, coach.
The problem I have with your little diatribe is that it so clearly based upon your eternal devotion to Vince Young. Vince might be a good NFL QB, he has certainly shown flashes of brilliance, but he has also shown flashes of complete idiocy and an utter lack of maturity when dealing with problems with his coach. Throwing your shoulder pads into the stands?? Really?? How fucking unprofessional can you be? I have never seen an NFL QB behave like Vince, he’s an emotional child and has no concept of how a professional should deal with adversity. For fucks sake, Fisher didn’t let him back in the shoulder pad temper tantrum game because he COULDN’T THROW ON THE SIDELINE due to the injury to his thumb! And Vince got childishly crazy over that?
Fisher is probably gone after this season, and good for him. He shouldn’t have to put up with Bud Adams being a mini-Jerry Jones and telling him what to do, he’ll be fine and maybe the next head coach can make Vince become a responsible adult professional instead of the emotionally unstable snowflake that he is right now.
That’s great and all but don’t you have to consider more than just the current season to make declarations of a player’s absolute worth?
Anyway, yikes Tom Brady.
