Ben had some great moments this season and some really bad ones. However, the one thing you could count on is he still had that clutch factor in the fourth quarter and led some fantastic come from behind wins. That's something not every QB in the league can do.
Cowher was 5-1 in the playoffs with Ben as his QB. That record was in Ben's first and second season.
That play looked like they drew it up in the dirt and then tried it for the first time ever.
He threw some bad balls this year but he was almost never the reason we were down by so many points heading into the 2nd halves of games. He wasn't calling the same plays in the 1st half for 18 weeks in a row. That was all Canada. Ben brought us back to win most of our games. Rudolph would not have. I keep bringing up the comebacks. Just look at the throws he was making on our final 3 drives or so. Canada wasn't calling those plays. Those plays weren't at the line or behind the line. Ben was throwing downfield, his receivers were getting open, the balls were on target and catches were being made. The only difference is Canada, period. He needs to be fired.
I dunno I have no problem front lining Canada. But won't pretend Ben didn't lose some mobility and accuracy. That and being handcuffed by bad roster decision making. Really was a trifecta of issues that Canada takes on a lot of the blame mixed in with Tombert's fails. Ben was the lesser of the three evils but to be fair it still has to be mentioned...
Closest dominant defense I saw was UGA this past season. It would be nice to see defenses take over the nfl again
Agree and I've been mentioning it all year. But, Canada made no changes or adjustments in 18 damn weeks. That says a whole hell of a lot about a coach. Why didn't we have a game plan yesterday (or any week for that matter) to exploit KC's weaknesses on D? We should have at least tried. And, again, there were no sweeps to Claypool that we finally saw last week after being non-existent for 6 weeks. The first play of the game should have been Ben dropping back one or two steps and lobbing a ball down the sideline to Claypool who would have been one on one. They should have done that multiple times in the 1st half. The best we got was them eventually (end of the first half or in the 2nd half) finally trying something like that but in the middle of the field where the safety could easily come over and help on the play. You do it on the sideline where it is one on one and you take your chances even with Claypool (or even Muuth but not DJ and definitely not RayRay). That's just one example. ****, we were down 28-7 and I believe also 35-7 and Canada was still calling a run up the middle on 1st downs to start a series. After that is when Ben took over.
I hear Tomlin blocked a move cause Canada wanted Green benched. It was in one of these threads. If true, I do wonder just how much control the coordinators actually have. Coordinators change but the offensive consistency or lack thereof has always been present under Tomlin.
It wasn't only crazy plays by the Chiefs. It was fundamental core calls as well, like that perfectly executed screen pass. They let it develop nicely, and had 3 lineman out in front of the back, picking off defenders as the ball went downfield with ease.
I had high hopes for DJ this year. He worked hard to correct the drops, started out great, then it seemed to really fall apart the last few games. Not sure what happened there.
Lol. Yep
This is why it will be very telling if either coordinator leave (fired or retired) and they hire from within. At this point, a hire from within is just Tomlin putting another puppet in place to be his scapegoat since he will continue to call the shots. Rooney, who has no balls, needs to tell Tomlin to bring someone in from outside the organization and let him do his thing. But, we all know that won't happen and we all know Tomlin won't get rid of anyone.
