How are we feeling about our O-Line?

[BigRedChief]

A big focus this off season was to fix the O-line. How are you feeling going into this season with this line? .

LT - Jaylon Moore
LG - Kingsley Suamataia
C - Creed Humphrey
RG - Trey Smith
RT - Jawaan Taylor

[St. Patty's Fire]

could be better, could be worse. a lot depends on how you think moore will do. chiefs are clearly projecting him to take a step forward. if he does, we’ll be in pretty good shape

[TEX]

Originally Posted by St. Patty's Fire

could be better, could be worse. a lot depends on how you think moore will do. chiefs are clearly projecting him to take a step forward. if he does, we’ll be in pretty good shape

Add to that Kingsley being next to him. That whole left side is still concerning.

Oh, and big concern that Heck is still the OL Coach.

[KC_Lee]

Cautiously optimistic.

[Jewish Rabbi]

Looking for the horney option on the poll

[chiefzilla1501]

The first step is to make it work and we can do that. This is a worst case scenario. I expect we will stay hungry in the draft and free agency. Creed is the only guy we’re committed to long term. Keep in mind that last time we did an overhaul we signed guys like thuney and Blythe only to draft creed/trey then trade for obj much later. Jawaan and to some extent Moore are movable next year. Trey is still on franchise tag and Kingsley is an unknown. So we can pretty much fire away at both guard and OT and see which one sticks the best.

[TEX]

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

The first step is to make it work and we can do that. This is a worst case scenario. I expect we will stay hungry in the draft and free agency. Creed is the only guy we’re committed to long term. Keep in mind that last time we did an overhaul we signed guys like thuney and Blythe only to draft creed/trey then trade for obj much later. Jawaan and to some extent Moore are movable next year. Trey is still on franchise tag and Kingsley is an unknown. So we can pretty much fire away at both guard and OT and see which one sticks the best.

Good points.

[-King-]

All we need is solid play and I don't see any reason we can't get at least that from them.

[smithandrew051]

I’m glad we didn’t throw a huge contract at Dan Moore.

I understand being concerned with Kingsley, but Veach trading Thuney should make you feel more confident in him. What would it say about him if Veach felt the need to pay big money to all three IOL?

[TEX]

Originally Posted by smithandrew051

I’m glad we didn’t throw a huge contract at Dan Moore.

I understand being concerned with Kingsley, but Veach trading Thuney should make you feel more confident in him. What would it say about him if Veach felt the need to pay big money to all three IOL?

That's true. BUT, my biggest concern last year going into the season was our Left Tackle position. And I bought into the line of thinking that Kingsley must have shown Veach and the coaching staff "something" for them to start a raw rookie at LT. So, I have a concerned, wait and see approach, based on recent past experience.

[smithandrew051]

Originally Posted by TEX

That's true. BUT, my biggest concern last year going into the season was our Left Tackle position. And I bought into the line of thinking that Kingsley must have shown Veach and the coaching staff "something" for them to start a raw rookie at LT. So, I have a concerned, wait and see approach, based on recent past experience.

Fair, but the Chiefs also didn’t trade away an All Pro LT for cap space to start Kingsley at LT. They did that for him to start at LG.

[SHOWTIME]

The entire left side is a question mark right now.

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by SHOWTIME

The entire left side is a question mark right now.

It isn’t like last years question mark where we totally rolled the dice. We know what we have in Moore / caliendo at worst with upside if Kingsley is even better. That is most certainly better than Wanya and caliendo. Probably even better than Wanya/thuney because Wanya was that bad.

So at least as a starting point we are competent. The work now goes into making it better to much better.

[FloridaMan88]

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

It isn’t like last years question mark where we totally rolled the dice. We know what we have in Moore / caliendo at worst with upside if Kingsley is even better. That is most certainly better than Wanya and caliendo. Probably even better than Wanya/thuney because Wanya was that bad.

So at least as a starting point we are competent. The work now goes into making it better to much better.

Caliendo is not even a worst case option… he’s a no option (see the Super Bowl).

And all the optimistic projection for Kingsley at LG is similar to the optimism for him at LT during training camp last year.

Signing a veteran LG as a back-up option in case Kingsley is not the answer at LG is imperative.

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by FloridaMan88

Caliendo is not even a worst case option… he’s a no option (see the Super Bowl).

And all the optimistic projection for Kingsley at LG is similar to the optimism for him at LT during training camp last year.

Signing a veteran LG as a back-up option in case Kingsley is not the answer at LG is imperative.

The entire OL was a mess during the Super Bowl for a lot of reasons. As a worst case scenario we could do a lot worse and I suspect he’ll be at least a little better when lined up next to a halfway decent LT.

But i don’t think that will even be an issue because I think between Wanya and Kingsley and the draft we will have plenty to choose from that will end up winning the job