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“Young team, fairly young team with, really, a quarterback that’s only started 18 games. They’re living through his progress of trying to play quarterback in this league. The thing that’s really scary is their special teams. They’re really good on special teams, their return game. They’re really, really good. Their punter and kicker are very good. Their special teams are really what sets them apart from other teams.
“And the scary part now — the real scary part — is kicking the ball to these guys. I mean it’s scary. It’s really scary. You almost rather just kick it out of bounds and have it on the 40 and get it over with, rather than try to kick it deep.”
On the Chiefs’ problems on special teams:
“Our problem is, we’ve got a lot of guys in and out, and we’ve got a lot of young guys playing special teams. Every week, it seems like there’s some guys changing in and out; there’ll probably be some more changes this week. You never get the same group of guys, and that’s always difficult, especially on the coverage teams — punt coverage and kickoff coverage. That seems to raise its head. When you make an error, it’s big, real big.”
On the Chiefs’ offense:
“It’s developing as we go. Every week we try to put a new wrinkle in it and try to see what else we can do out of it. So it’s new. It’s two or three weeks old for us. Last week we were able to run the ball out of the shotgun more than we had in the past. So I just think every week we try to do different things with it and try to develop it because we’ve been successful moving the ball and scoring some points. We’ve got to score more. But I think Tyler (Thigpen) feels very comfortable. And I think the players are starting to feel comfortable with it, too.”
On the team’s red-zone philosophy:
“You can’t go down there and throw passes all the time. It sounds good. It looks good. But it really works against you in the fact you don’t have any depth to throw the ball. You have to be able to run the ball, too. This week we tried a run a couple of times. They got underneath us. We couldn’t get any surge. We’ve got to work on that.”
| Kent Babb, kbabb@kcstar.com
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