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Originally Posted by nunusguy
I went to yesterdays game and the first thing that surprised me was all of the Chiefs jerseys/fans ? In talking with a few of them, many seemed to be native Missourians (like myself) who became Cowboy fans (unlike me) after moving down here but remained loyal to the Chiefs (like me). And I don't think that's because of any "mystic" on the part of the Cowboys, it's just the heard mentality of many football fans who gravitate to the most popular choice. McNair really needs to hire a sharp marketing guy who can do a better job of capturing the local metro/surrounding area NFL fan support.
But in spite of old loyalties to the Chiefs, I was pulling for the Texans and feel like we were very fortunate to win as we were outplayed most of the day but made a tremendous comback very late led by an excellent QB performance and another supreme effort by a truly great WR and some solid OLine play.
With all the talk about blown DB interfearnace calls, it's worth mentioning
that the call on Kareem Jackson was BS from my vantage point ? He made a very good play from what I could see and didn't deserve the flag which kept the Chiefs drive alive early and led to a TD. Fact is I thought he played pretty good today ?
I saw some guy suggest on another website that the Texans should just begin the game with a wide-open offense and start scoring as much as possible instead of beginning the games conservative/vanilla, given the inability of the defense to stop anybody. I think he's got a point, especially
with our best defensive guy now out for the season.
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I agree on the Jackson call, I thought it was bs. With you being at the game you missed the horrible tv analysis, well Tasker was horrible this week. On one penalty, a false start on the Chiefs, Tasker went on and on about Smith being in the neutral zone before the Chiefs jumped, the reshowed the play a half dozen times and in each replay Tasker failed to notice that Smith jumped due to the LT flinching and moving his head.
As a whole the officials where horrible again this week. But on the phantom pass interference, Tasker and the whole TV world are missing the right arm that is thrown into Dre right before the push off, in the NFL when a CB does that move they are called for PI 80% of the time.
Lastly as for opening up the offense from the start, many of the guys old enough to remember the early Jerry Glanville Oilers, will remember the same complaint. The Oilers where forced by Glanville to play smash mouth the 1st half, and then when they where really behind they would go 4 WR and blow away the other team. Sadly they opened up the offense too late to catch up most of the time. Hence Glanville being replaced by Pardee and the Run n Shot full time a few years later.