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Old 08-10-2012, 11:21 PM   Topic Starter
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Daboll gets Chiefs’ offense moving
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Babb | Daboll gets Chiefs’ offense moving
By KENT BABB
The Kansas City Star

There he goes again, perpetual motion, patting Dexter McCluster on the side and then lifting his microphone to say something to Matt Cassel and then starting the second half with some words of encouragement, surely, to a replacement line judge.

Brian Daboll doesn’t sit still for long, and maybe that’s understandable. This is an important season not only for the Chiefs but also for Daboll, their first-year offensive coordinator. Both the man and the team have in recent years been pictures of inconsistency, of perpetual movement; Daboll is the Chiefs’ sixth coordinator in six years, and the Chiefs are Daboll’s third employer since 2010.

Now they’ve found each other, and maybe the motion can stop.

On Friday night the Chiefs played their first preseason game, a 27-17 win against the Arizona Cardinals at Arrowhead Stadium. It was a game that meant almost nothing, but there are hints of optimism and concern even in a game like that. Maybe nobody deserved the hope he earned Friday like Daboll.

His calls weren’t reckless and unexplainable. They weren’t boring and conservative. When the first-team offense participated, the Chiefs made magic — two series of brilliance. By the time you read this, Twitter and message boards and blogs already will be firing posts that ask things like this: Did you see Matt Cassel on Friday night? What about Dexter McCluster and Peyton Hillis?

The Chiefs’ starting offense was two for two against the Cardinals, scoring touchdowns on each of its possessions. Cassel completed five of six passes. McCluster had three catches for 45 yards. Hillis averaged 10.3 yards per carry. The man behind all that, along with a brief but impressive showing of variation and timing, seemed to know how to take advantage of a mediocre defense — something that has, in recent seasons, appeared more complicated than it should’ve been. Remember last year’s preseason opener? The Chiefs scored zero points against a defense that went on to allow the most points in the league.

The tricky part is to withhold excitement or any kind of movement that Daboll and all those players belong in the Hall of Honor after two possessions of the preseason opener. Really, is there an event that offers more fool’s gold in all of professional sports? One-week legends are made in games like this, and expectations are lifted and inflated until they pop, and anyway, is there any other reason why people in Kansas City still know the names of Casey Printers and Bobby Sippio?

But what’s interesting about the early part of Friday’s performance is that the people who will enter the season with the most pressure, answered the bell the first time they heard it. Cassel has been knocked in the mouth, criticized and booed in his home city. McCluster has been mostly given up on, forgotten in advance because he’s a player without a position, a man without a country. Hillis rushed for 1,177 yards in 2010, but otherwise he has mostly played like the seventh-round pick he was in the ’08 draft.

Maybe nobody, though, begins this season facing as much pressure and as many raised eyebrows as Daboll. He wasn’t particularly successful in Cleveland or Miami, and when the Chiefs hired him in February, the overriding sentiment in town was: Really? This is the best Romeo Crennel and the Chiefs can do?

It was difficult then to learn much about Daboll or his offense because he has never sat still long enough to get a fair read. He had a reputation in previous stops as surly and combative; reporters expected dry, thoughtless answers, and players learned two years ago of his short temper when he blasted Browns quarterback Colt McCoy so loudly that teammates could hear Daboll screeching through McCoy’s helmet speaker.

By the time Chiefs’ training camp started in St. Joseph, Daboll had the look of a man who knew something needed to change. The life of a nomad is good for no man, let alone one who coaches football. Success is often attained through consistency, and Daboll simply hasn’t had that luxury the last three seasons — let go when his head coach (Eric Mangini in Cleveland, Tony Sparano in Miami) was fired.

These last two weeks, Daboll ran around the practice field like a teenager on a sugar rush, wearing a bright yellow shirt and a bucket hat with the bill flipped up. He smiled after practices and joked with journalists, behaving like a man who’d like to stay and sit a while.

“I love what I do,” Daboll said after a practice early in camp. Daboll didn’t speak to reporters after the game.

Maybe none of it means anything. Training camp, that meaningless victory Friday night at Arrowhead — who’s to say they’re not mirages? Cassel hasn’t read a defense like that since his Pro Bowl season two years ago. Including practices, McCluster hasn’t seemed this dependable since college. And Hillis hasn’t broken a run like his 28-yarder Friday night since the ninth week of the 2010 season.

“He was getting into a rhythm,” Crennel said of Daboll. “He knew what he wanted to call. He knew what the opponent was giving us, and he knew what he needed to do to take advantage of that.”

Daboll and many of his players have baggage and moments in time they’d like to forget. Friday won’t be remembered in the long term, but for at least this next week, it’ll be discussed and picked apart, before it’s go time again. Nothing will be certain, though, about the Chiefs’ new coordinator, his scheme or the players who’ll make it work until the games start counting.

But Daboll and his offense earned some trust with that abbreviated showing at Arrowhead Stadium. If nothing else, Friday will make the skeptics stop and watch, to pay attention to the man who rarely stops moving, to see what Daboll has in mind next.
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Old 08-10-2012, 11:24 PM   #2
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What do you care? You don't even like football.
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I'm not sure why you hate me now but if I didn't like football I probably wouldn't have a Chiefs logo in my sig. I'm sorry if beating the Arizona Cardinals in the first pre-season game isn't as exciting to me as it is to everyone else.
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I'm not sure why you hate me now but if I didn't like football I probably wouldn't have a Chiefs logo in my sig. I'm sorry if beating the Arizona Cardinals in the first pre-season game isn't as exciting to me as it is to everyone else.
It's not that we beat the Cards in a pre-season game. It's how we looked. When you go back the last 5 years of pre-season ball and compare it to tonight it was a very, very good night for us as fans. No one even really knew what to expect, and I dare say many expected to tonight to be the same as the last pre-season games.
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I'm not sure why you hate me now but if I didn't like football I probably wouldn't have a Chiefs logo in my sig. I'm sorry if beating the Arizona Cardinals in the first pre-season game isn't as exciting to me as it is to everyone else.
Dude.. first... I don't hate you... at all.

But I'm pretty sure you're on record as not being a "football fan".
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Jesus ****. Just another attention whore.

Good luck with that.
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Shouldn't you be making a thread?
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Not drunk... can't do it.
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How many preseason games did this team win last year again?
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I think 0.... but does it matter?

Do you get the concept of pre..... season...?
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To me it's the fact they won because the Cards could have come back in the 4th quarter & I'd still be happy because I saw something that I hadn't seen in awhile...the Chiefs looked like a functioning team in preseason instead of the pile of dogshit we have witnessed for awhile. The first team offense & defense was dominating & that's a positive sign.

The Cards 4th teamers could have won the game in the 4th quarter & I would still be happy today because the Chiefs 1st teamers were awesome!
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I mean, you can't exactly mock my team, and expect it to mean anything if your'e not even a fan of the sport.
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