Honestly, I don't think his tape was all-world. It was good, but not a guy you pound the table for. He seems to be the Ryan Sims of that LSU offense. Every time you see a really well-performing offensive or defensive unit, you know there's going to be one guy out there that is a byproduct of it rather than the reason for it. I still don't understand the pick.
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Sign Carlos Hyde
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Your eyes are lying to you

Even if it turns out that he lacks vision, wiggle, or whatever its called... he is still a very big dude running a sub 4.4, just get him in space and he'll eclipse CEH like the moon crossing the sun
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In training camp, maybe. But not in the preseason. He never got those first team reps. He was a 3rd/4th quarter guy, and fans were clamoring for him to get more meaningful snaps against higher competition.
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and the fact that when he's effective - Andy just stops using him for God only knows why....! Ugh I'm never going to forget that shit
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Sure, but you could've said the exact same thing about Gore last year as he had more explosion than CEH in limited opportunities.

Clyde has set the bar really low but Pachecho hasn't done a whole lot to leap over it thus far. But I agree at this point it at least seems like he should have more potential given the size and speed.

Just...show something please?
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Not exactly true. He was a second quarter guy - like right at the start of the second quarter - in that preseason. And that was the preseason where they featured Hyde with the 1's and then traded him.

I do think he was a 2nd team guy though and not where Pachecho is at this point, but that probably says more about where the team was with Damien Williams then vs Clyde now than what it says about Darwin vs Pachecho.

I.e., no one - not even the Chiefs - think Clyde is the clear answer. But we got by with West and Ware when Charles went down and this offense can cobble things together with a Clyde/Pachecho/McKinnon backfield.
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Really nothing to learn from the RBs today.

Run blocking wasn't good at all going against a stout front 4.

It's one of the hardest positions to judge in a preseason game either way, because it's impossible for them to get in any sort of rhythm.

I'm going to at least let these guys get more than (not even) a handful of carries.
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I feel like this preseason is more about showing that Mahomes can throw and score without Tyreek, without a running game. Let's face it, it's not like we've had a ton of rushes to look at, and it's not like rushing is they way this offense moves. It would be nice to see CEH do something but we're not running the ball anyway, so...

...that said, I've been waiting to see his pass catching ability out of the backfield since he got drafted...still waiting...
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Yeah its definitely true that the camp hype hasn't been equaled on the field just yet... but I can't deny that the hype is being broadcast by our coaches, not just media stooges

I just get the feeling that things are going to click with him, sooner than later... even if he's just a beefed up Knile Davis, thats still more than we've gotten from CEH

Davis at least had some game altering and game winning plays

A good comparison might be tonights foe, Antonio Gibson... maybe not the most fluid and natural looking RB but is silky smooth on passes, explosive potential
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The first two drives were 24 plays total. 12 plays each. 19 passes vs 5 runs. Kind of surprising with that ratio we didn’t pop a decent run out of the 5. We did hear someone was tipping the plays off from the Bengals players after the AFC Championship game. Wonder if that is still happening? And who if so?
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Thread is obligatory for those that do not know shit about NFL football.

There’s a new cba that limits contact practices and NFL teams try not to get players injured in preseason.

NFL teams are not trying to run the ball in a preseason game.

Those plays were not designed to exploit a defenses tendencies and they were not designed to block all defenders.
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I guess I missed the plays where the line made a hole to run though in the middle of the line.
I think the problems are more run blocking timing (which takes the longest time to come around in the preseason and the first few games of the season), than who's running into a pile of men at the line of scrimmage..
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Didn't the opponents run for 9 yards up the middle on the 3rd play of the game?
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Different teams prioritize different things.

I keep using this as an example but last preseason our DL looked stout and unstoppable and then by week 2 against the Ravens we were the laughingstock of the league.

Really don't think it's worth reading too much into anything we're seeing right now given how vanilla the schemes are and without knowing what we're really trying to emphasize and test out.

The connection between Mahomes and the receivers is about 10,000 times as important to the success of the season than how effective Clyde is. That's just the reality. So be content that our passing game at least looks exactly like how we would've wanted to script it.
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