Some fun here. Edwards-Helaire rushed for 1,415 yards and 16 touchdowns as a junior .. all-purpose yards -- receiving (55 receptions, 453 yards) and kick returner (KEY) 10 returns, 214 yards pic.twitter.com/3Duq1jjy6J
Holy offense Bat Man. I love Clyde Edwards-Helaire. He is best Rb in the draft. Watkins and Hill deep. Kelce in the middle. And Edwards-Helaire underneath. Good Luck defenses.
Brett Veach told Andy Reid to watch some Clyde Edwards-Helaire film and told Reid you’ll see Brian Westbrook. Reid watched. Then got back to Veach and said he’s better than Westbrook.
Somehow I think he's gonna get that figured out, and let's be clear: it's not as if this team has been a world beater in the red zone with any RB post-Hunt. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
What jumps out watching the kid is that he is ALWAYS setting up his cut. He pushes the gap for so long that he forces a LB to commit and then reacts to it.
Originally Posted by TwistedChief:
Kid looks like a total bust.... :-)
Somehow I think he's gonna get that figured out, and let's be clear: it's not as if this team has been a world beater in the red zone with any RB post-Hunt.
More found it odd they pinned the blame on him. I thought the blocking was total shit. [Reply]
Originally Posted by TwistedChief:
Kid looks like a total bust.... :-)
Somehow I think he's gonna get that figured out, and let's be clear: it's not as if this team has been a world beater in the red zone with any RB post-Hunt.
Well, yes and no. Compared to the Hunt era where the Chiefs were 2nd overall in RZ TD efficiency, in 2019 they were still 11th overall (73%), and over the last 3 games in 2019 they were actually 6th overall, scoring TDs in the RZ about 80% of the time. So the Chiefs even without Hunt have been a top-tier team inside the RZ. And I fully expect that by week 5-7 the Chiefs will be somewhere in the top 5 in that category. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Megatron96:
Well, yes and no. Compared to the Hunt era where the Chiefs were 2nd overall in RZ TD efficiency, in 2019 they were still 11th overall (73%), and over the last 3 games in 2019 they were actually 6th overall, scoring TDs in the RZ about 80% of the time. So the Chiefs even without Hunt have been a top-tier team inside the RZ. And I fully expect that by week 5-7 the Chiefs will be somewhere in the top 5 in that category.
I probably should've said short yardage. Regarding red zone efficiency, I'm going to quote some different stats, but this is what I was referencing:
Originally Posted by :
In 2018, the Chiefs led the league in points per red zone trip (5.69) and ranked second in touchdowns per red zone trip (0.718), per Football Outsiders. In 2019, that dropped to 4.84 points per red zone trip, which ranked 16th, and 0.54 touchdowns per red zone trip, which ranked 20th.
Originally Posted by TwistedChief:
I probably should've said short yardage. Regarding red zone efficiency, I'm going to quote some different stats, but this is what I was referencing:
Okay sure, those goal-line rush attempts have never been a WCO strength, I'll grant you.
Even Thursday night Andy would obviously rather throw the ball as he did with Watkins on that 1-yard flick and dive.
But with KO in there at guard I think we'll see some improvement in that area. Down inside the 5, beef is often the deciding factor and KO has more than his fair share of that.
But I doubt that the Chiefs under Andy are ever going to be truly great at stuffing it in from the 5 or 4 or whatever. It's just not how he builds OLs. Hell, even our FB is a bit undersized for that sort of thing.
But I also think that Andy will figure out how to make the offense pretty darn efficient down there, regardless of how it's actually done. [Reply]
He's a rook, and he's trying to be the RB1 on a team with the most complex scheme in the league. He did okay, and he's going to just get better. By week 8 everyone will be jerking off about how great he is. [Reply]
