Honestly, I’d rather keep him along the interior where he is elite. But Stout mentioned that the base DL is Jones and Clark on the edges with Reed and Nnadi along the interior.
That’s a big risk the team is taking, and the early returns in spot duty last year were not encouraging.
But Stout mentions that Jones has slimmed down a ton as well, clearly prepared to take a stronger role at RDE.
Maybe the most important thing to watch for our defense.
He also mentions Humphrey is your starting center. [Reply]
I rewatched the Ravens 4th down conversion with a minute left. Chris Jones was playing inside with Okafor on the outside & he got basically pancaked by Villanueva.
Originally Posted by KChiefs1:
I rewatched the Ravens 4th down conversion with a minute left. Chris Jones was playing inside with Okafor on the outside & he got basically pancaked by Villanueva.
Embarrassing
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In fairness, the Chiefs did not react to the Ravens unbalanced line. The Chiefs were totally out schemed. Jones faced a double team and tried to split it but failed miserably. May have been different story if he did not have to beat the double team. Schwartz does a nice job breaking it down.
Ravens finish off the Chiefs with a beautiful extra lineman unbalanced tackle over QB power. Chiefs don’t align right and the Ravens cave down the left side. Double team to the linebacker, puller inside out. Love it. pic.twitter.com/m9DYZ1Nnp5
Originally Posted by Shields68:
In fairness, the Chiefs did not react to the Ravens unbalanced line. The Chiefs were totally out schemed. Jones faced a double team and tried to split it but failed miserably. May have been different story if he did not have to beat the double team. Schwartz does a nice job breaking it down.
Ravens finish off the Chiefs with a beautiful extra lineman unbalanced tackle over QB power. Chiefs don’t align right and the Ravens cave down the left side. Double team to the linebacker, puller inside out. Love it. pic.twitter.com/m9DYZ1Nnp5
Originally Posted by ThaVirus:
That's fair. The Browns and Titans are pretty traditional anyway.
The Ravens are just so unorthodox with all of the misdirection, read options, and insanely mobile QB. People can hate on Lamar all they want, but he is a great football player. There's a reason his win percentage is second only to Mahomes.
KC seemed to handle it before well enough. [Reply]
Tbh, Chris looked slow last night. I really thought he'd come off the snap a little more explosively, but for the most part I just didn't see it. Motoring right past the RB when the hand-off happened right in front of him a couple times didn't help. Kind of wondering if Jones has some kind of visual issue?
I love Chris Jones, and honestly for the most part he seems more disciplined than he did before Spags came to town, so I'm trying hard not to criticize, but he has to do more than just rush the passer.
And last night I'm pretty sure we were mostly mush-rushing to try and keep Lamar in the pocket, but Jones still has to at least look for the hand-off. Or recognize the screen. Hoping he cleans up his game some before next weekend. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Direckshun:
It's entirely possible that Jones agreed to the contract he agreed to in exchange for the promise he could play DE more.
Wild speculation. It would be rare to have any sort of stipulation in his contract. % snaps at the position he wants? LOL. Spags will tell you where to line up. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Superturtle:
It's unfathomable to me why this wasn't the plan all along. Why the fuck are you moving an elite DT to be an average DE. If the answer is necessity then Veach needs a punch in the fucking mouth.
We cut Clark after this season and I'll bet Veach addresses both DE positions. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Megatron96:
Tbh, Chris looked slow last night. I really thought he'd come off the snap a little more explosively, but for the most part I just didn't see it. Motoring right past the RB when the hand-off happened right in front of him a couple times didn't help. Kind of wondering if Jones has some kind of visual issue?
I love Chris Jones, and honestly for the most part he seems more disciplined than he did before Spags came to town, so I'm trying hard not to criticize, but he has to do more than just rush the passer.
And last night I'm pretty sure we were mostly mush-rushing to try and keep Lamar in the pocket, but Jones still has to at least look for the hand-off. Or recognize the screen. Hoping he cleans up his game some before next weekend.
Probably had a lot to do with him not being experienced at playing that scheme at DE. Looked to me like he was doing a lot of thinking and that, understandably, slowed him down a ton.
In hindsight, it probably would have been better to slide Jones back inside for this game and roll with Clark and Okafor on the edges. [Reply]