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Jamaal Charles on the Chiefs’ Super Bowl loss: ‘It surprised me’ | NBC Bay Area
Charles believes the next-look unit will surprise people this season, largely because of the coaching staff — which he played for four seasons from 2013 to 2016.
“That’s something they always diagnose in the year before,” he explained, “they’ll go back and see what we did wrong, then try to correct it going into the (next) year.
“With getting (beat) that way from the Super Bowl, a lot of people will think (O-line) is our weakness. It might be surprising this year that we might be on top of that, from the trenches in the line. I think we’ll get that corrected.”
Charles was a standout for the Chiefs from 2008 to 2016, amassing more than 1,000 rushing yards in five different seasons with two First-Team All-Pro selections. He left Kansas City just before Mahomes got to town, but Charles has been present in the area and expects the dynasty to remain on track after the Super Bowl loss.
“I think they’re going to respond back (well),” Charles said. “They have some things they need to fix. Our (offensive) linemen weren’t that good last year, so I think we have a lot of stuff we had to get fixed. ... So, once we fix those things, I think we have a chance to basically get the ball to our playmakers, get the ball to the outside.
The 1 UDFA with Best Chance to Make the Roster in Every NFL Team’s Training Camp | Bleacher Report
Kansas City Chiefs: TE Jake Briningstool
Even with Travis Kelce on the roster, the Kansas City Chiefs can’t resist adding a talented tight end.
Beyond Kelce, they already have Noah Gray, Jared Wiley and Robert Tonyan as part of the tight end room. For some teams, those latter three might be their top options. Even so, Kansas City still signed Jake Briningstool, who was easily one of the top available undrafted free agents.
He is a natural receiver. He even got some run with the Chiefs’ first team during minicamp. He’ll need to improve his play-strength and become a better interior blocker.
At the same time, the Chiefs are at a point where Kelce turns 36 later this year. They can prepare for life without the future Hall of Famer by developing talented players on the cheap and having them ready once he steps away from the game.
Chiefs DC Steve Spagnuolo discusses George Karlaftis’ impact | Chiefs Wire
“Yeah, I mean, probably the first thing that sticks out with George (Karlaftis) is his character. The one thing that (General Manager) Brett (Veach) and (Head Coach) Andy (Reid) do a great job of is we bring in a lot of great character guys.” said Spagnuolo, “That’s huge in my opinion, in today’s...
