Layoff!!!!

I am sick and tired of hearing everyone bash Trent Green. People need to quit blaming him for the offensive woes and start blaming those responsible. If you are confused as to who is responsible I urge you to read my previous post. There are others, however, who beg mentioning... I'll get to them in due time.

First off, the obvious: Green was hurt (major) for a good chunk of the season. He is obviously going to come back a little bit shaky/rusty, whatever you want to call it. And, at least for awhile, he's going to be a little sheepish... you know, waiting for that big hit. Put it this way - in little league baseball when you got beaned weren't you a little tentative the next few times in the batter's box? Now make that ball a 250lb. linebacker - you get the idea.

This is not the main reason, in fact it's a minor one. Here are the bigger reasons:

No protection - Huard saw great protection as the interim QB for KC. The reason: three-step drops. Our offensive line was in shambles this season - mainly at the tackles, but that meant that our QBs needed better protection. Rather than using our best reciever as a blocker (Tony G.) we needed quick drop backs. Huard got this; Green did not. With the return of Green came the return of the full playbook. This sounds great except for the fact that Green was suddenly forced to drop back 5 or even 7 steps before throwing. When your Tackles are struggling this is like putting a target on your quarterback and inviting huge Linemen to crush him.

Wide Recievers - Calling our guys wide recievers is really being too optimistic or generous. The one thing a reciever gets paid to do is catch (if you're lucky they'll block too). Even if the NFL passed a rule saying Chiefs recievers could no longer be covered by a defensive player, allowed their hands to be covered in glue, coated the ball with adhesive, and let the QB hand them the ball as opposed to throw it to them, our recievers would still not catch the ball with any regularity. I mean, really, I've seen dogs that catch better than this WR corps. It's sad really. But, when your WR drops passes that sets up defense friendly situations which create more interceptions and force the QB to force some passes.

Coaching/Game-calling/Game-planning - I'm gonna make this quick and easy. Run, run, pass. That's our offense... you try to throw the ball when even the blind, deaf, mute who's never even been exposed to football knows you're throwing... C'MON!!!!!!!!!!

So the next piece of work that claims Trent Green is the problem should seriously consider never watching football again, or at least keeping their mouth shut because they are only proving to everyone around them that they know absolutely dick about football and that they suck at life. To steal a quote - 'It is best to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.'

brandx (proud campaigner for: Green for Starting QB Until He Decides to Retire)