Chiefs: The Madden Routine and the “Peak Chiefs” – Here’s where I’m like, “Okay, We either have a championship football team… or we have Murgatroyd.” – Madden: Great Football is about great football. You have a bunch of great guys playing great football and it really is great football. If you have a bunch of regular guys playing great football, that’s just regular/great football not Great/Great Football… and that’s what it’s all about.
He must have had a bet one Sunday which was that he couldn’t work Brett Favre into the color commentary and Madden wanted to prove him wrong so he is doing color talking about the football field, and he must have taken a bet and got Favre into the discussion about grass. “The FIeld is half hybrid and half crab grass. That’s not real. Brett Favre is the real deal…” Frank Caliendo, Comic. That’s what we are waiting for: The Real Deal Chiefs.
So I don’t know how to do the comedy routine because I am always serious: “You’re Too Serious David. Besides and you don’t hear good (both ex-wives said to me).”
Then the third significant other after, says to me (adding to the same words about hearing ) “…. and you don’t listen good neither.”
Uh… yup.
Time’s yours.
So here’s my KC Chiefs routine, Andy in the post game mea culpa presser: “Ya, I didn’t have a good fourth quarter but we got the upside of the best stat there is by putting a W in the book despite my play calling down the stretch — Uh… yup. Time’s yours.“
Reporter: “Mr. Reid, why is it that such a powerful group of offensive weapons acts like the Vikings when Cousin on his 3 bad days per four games? Or is it you took your foot off the pedal and were focused on not making mistakes and were suddenly being cautious about playcalling?”
Reid: “We have a bunch of great guys and they can play great football. We slipped up a bit there in a couple of ways somebody missed a sure tackle and a Blue Player botched an INT but we got the win. My coach-speak tells me that this is my fault,” He has a hiccup, looks over the moustache and the top of his glasses and says. Mea Culpa–again.”
Okay Bye Week Heal Up Ongoing
In my previous piece I focused only on the injury status aside from players who were knocked out for the season which is a significant list of players. However, of the 63-man roster, almost everyone should be back to Full Practice status next week. The only real concern I have is, “Will Alex Okafor’s high sprain ankle be fully rehabbed or is he going to miss more games?” Or, that OL Eric Fisher and LDT have the rust knocked by “Raiders Hate Week.” Yeah, I know, you young folk think our arch-rival is the Broncos. Not true. Go back to the beginning. Watch film. That “Vegas” team is full of some awfully awful people. Now… and always has been.
That’s the best state of players being ready to go since Week One!
Game Week: I really want see the power and majesty of the offensive team back, as it was so very powerful in 2018! That means the offense gets the ball in the 4th quarter, moves the chains and scores. Dustin Colquitt should sit his tail end on the bench and look bored. If he has to do something, he can kick the ball in the net on the backside of the bench. I want the offense to do what these capable players are capable of: give the defense a long blow with 7 or 9 play drives in the process adding 6 points to the board.
Then I want Specialists to do their job by adding the extra point, every time, getting their blocks down. Without penalties! For heaven’s sake!
I cannot say I want the defense to look like the 2018 or 2017 defense. Heavens to murgatroyd!
What I want to see though, is a mirror of the power and majesty that they can muster. I don’t want to see average players playing average football. I want to see them elevate and the great players playing great.
In other words, I want to see the team at “Peak Chiefs” advantage… not what we have been seeing week after week. We have a good roster!
The Four C’s
What’s missing is the full concentration, for each play in all three phases of the game. Not just the 2nd and 3rd quarters. Or the first and third. It’s a full game of football being play, just like it was in pee wee football!
I will add the 3 C’s: Consistency, Cohesiveness and Continuity” which is my way of talking about attitude, toughness, discipline and it covers players and coaches. I often see lack of focus as a problem. However, let’s make it the fourth C: “Concentration.” We don’t want to see Pro Players suddenly loose focus. It seems to be contagious as well and it apparently starts at the top. What we see is a myriad of “being invaded by lapses in judgement.” Off sides, illegal procedure, a Slot receiver covered by the outside receiver, or illegal use of hands.
The Chiefs to often give away, 10-15 penalties and along with it, the other team “re-do’s” galore.
Starting next Sunday versus Oakland
The Chiefs have a roster of blue chip players. We need to use them. We need these “Blue” rated players on the field, playing “blue” rated football. This motivates the “Red” rated players to play great football because the Great Players are playing great football and they all are playing with consistency, cohesiveness, continuity, and… concentration… leading the way! That’s the other facet?
Oh, “F” for Focus… Oopsy!
That’s 3 C’s and a F. I don’t want to use the F word or even intimate that “FAIL” is part of the process (Insert smiley here). The F for focus is actually fourth C: Concentration. Oh. The fifth? Coaching.
Andy? It’s Yours
Andy, no more mea culpas. Get out there and Coach the whole team from the sideline, All three phases of the game. Andy, run the team business on the field, not talking to Pat Mahomes on the bench.
Focus on what the team needs for each snap of the game. Keep your focus er — Concentration. Use the clock and time outs as if you were a Great Coach with a team of Great Players even if we all know a team is made up with mostly average guys you are trying to get to play great football. Andy. I said last week that if we stopped the run and curtailed the passes to the running backs, the Chiefs would win. We did, even on a bad offensive performance day, even on a Patrick Mahomes off day.
For Andy to do his own impression and holler something like Hank Stram, who said, “Let’s matriculate the ball down the field Boys!:” C’mon Man!
You can say: Just get out there.. and … what was it my 7th grade coach (Winters) said? “I don’t care what “in heavens” ** you do. Just get out there and play football.
Let’s see a team playing Great Football With a “GREAT” Head coach. We want to see the “Peak Chiefs” for sure!!!! Besides Red Friday it’s also Hate Raiders Week! That’s what Great Football is all about.
David Bell — ArrowheadOne
* Scouts and coaches quite often use the designation Blue or Red to identify top and regular type Players in the draft for example. Or when talking about players on a roster. I also listed the Blue Players on the Chiefs roster a couple of articles ago. Our offense is loaded and the defense has a few also. It is said in some circles that it takes 11 or 12 “Blue” Players to be a championship team. (Are we there yet?).
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