Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 1:54 am
^^^^ Thanks.
Now how many of those top corners had to deal with the three headed monster of Dexter McLeon/Eric Warfield/William Bartee on the other corner?
JHawkBCD wrote: Now how many of those top corners had to deal with the three headed monster of Dexter McLeon/Eric Warfield/William Bartee on the other corner?
Pressure cookin'Surtain takes some heat — but he chooses to play it cool
By ELIZABETH MERRILLThe Kansas City Star
Patrick Surtain says he’s happy. He’s covered in red from neck to toe, snowflakes are slapping his face, the practice temperature is at least 40 degrees lower than Miami. He’s in no huge hurry to get to the tunnel.
He warms his hands inside and tells a story from the parking lot last weekend at Texas Stadium. The Chiefs lost to Dallas in the final seconds, and Surtain was feeling miserable. His family was waiting in the lot. Little Patrick Jr. let out a, “Great game, Daddy!”
“He doesn’t really understand the game,” Surtain says with a smile. “But he knows Daddy plays. That’s all he talks about.”
Little Patrick, it seems, isn’t the only one who doesn’t understand. Surtain had forgotten about Dallas by the end of the week, the flea-flicker touchdown, his interception that wasn’t. Then somebody mentions a quote from the Dallas locker room. Seems receiver Terry Glenn is suggesting Surtain looks discombobulated in his new surroundings.
“Miami uses a different scheme,” Glenn told reporters after the game. “He was generally used up in press coverage all the time, but with Kansas City he’s playing off, and I think it’s got him all out of whack.”
The normally mellow Surtain listens to the quote and then looks a tad annoyed.
“The only play that the guy really made was a flea-flicker,” Surtain says. “It had to be a trick play. The times I did play off he caught an out, and so be it. We do use a lot of different things here, but I don’t think it’s gotten me out of whack.
“I don’t know if he’s watched every other game that I’ve played. He happened to make a play, and I guess the guy wants to talk noise. He’s lucky we don’t play them again this year.”
Today, the Chiefs play the Giants in another giant game with playoff implications. Sunday, Kansas City’s $51 million man will be dissected again on the plays he did and didn’t make.
Surtain says he’ll ignore the latest critique from Glenn. Yes, the old Surtain played press coverage at least 90 percent of the time and was one of the best in the NFL at it. He was physical, he loved to bump and run. From 2000 to 2004, Surtain had the NFL’s third-highest interception total with 25 picks.
In his first 13 games in Kansas City, Surtain is sitting on two interceptions. But he’s willing to be patient on a team that could give him his first trip to the playoffs since the 2001 season.
“It’s the first year, so it’s kind of … even though it’s the 14th game coming up, you feel you’re still trying to get to know your teammates and where they’re going to be in certain situations,” says Surtain, 29. “I don’t think I’m where I want to be. I think it will take a little more time, but as far as the scheme and playing cornerback here, I’m fine with it.
“I’m adjusting. So far, I think, things have gone well. I could’ve played better in a couple of games, but as far as 13 games, I feel like I’ve been pretty consistent and reliable at the cornerback position. I think in 10 of the games, I’ve barely gotten balls thrown my way. So it’s a tough adjustment.”
Surtain had possibly his toughest game last weekend in Dallas. Late in the first half, Glenn burned him on a 71-yard touchdown on the flea flicker. Surtain also watched a pass bobble through his hands with nothing but green in front of him.
At one point this week, coach Dick Vermeil grew tired of the fingers pointed at Surtain.
“I am going to repeat what I said — Patrick Surtain is a very fine football player,” Vermeil said. “There isn’t an All-Pro corner who has played 10 years that doesn’t once in a while give up a big play. Because the other guy is getting paid to make big plays, too.
“I don’t get too high on one big play, and I don’t get very low on one bad play or a play that did not go quite as well. Sometimes, it’s just a mutual exchange of two good football players. One time you win, and one time you don’t. But Patrick Surtain has made a real positive contribution to this team.”
On a team that underwent a major defensive overhaul in the offseason, Surtain knows the new guys have to produce. He feels it when he’s recognized on the street and in the restaurants. If pressure is measured in zeroes, Surtain is carrying the heaviest load. He was the most expensive offseason acquisition.
He laughs at the notion that money would make him play any differently.
And that’s why his teammates were immediately drawn to the New Orleans native with the easy smile and calm demeanor. Outside, Surtain is as laid-back as an afternoon in South Beach. Inside, Vermeil says, Surtain is a “true pro in everything he does.”
Last month at Houston, Surtain left the stadium hobbling around in crutches. It looked as if he’d be out for weeks because of an ankle injury. He was back the next weekend for the Patriots game.
“I don’t feel pressure out there because I put so much pressure on myself to go out and be the kind of player that I know I am,” Surtain says. “Outside pressure can’t get to me. It can’t distract me. I go into each and every game with pressure on my shoulders. You deal with pressure in a game by the way you go out there and play.”
Surtain says the biggest problem from the first 13 weeks was miscommunication and giving up big plays. Today is another opportunity. It’ll be frigid, it may snow, sophomore quarterback Eli Manning may zing a few passes his way. Surtain smiles and says he’ll be ready. He loves Kansas City. Zone or man, he loves to be challenged.
“In order to be a complete corner in this league, you’ve got to play man as well as zone,” Surtain says. “You can’t play man every snap because teams will try and exploit that. “I’m always happy. You can’t let it get you down, man. It’s football.”
Make it 5 games, shithead... remember Dickie didn't even list him as active in his first game back off suspension?KC Scott wrote: Bartee hasn't played corner all year, and Warfield missed the first 4 games.
Damn, you're spending an awful lot of time worrying about making me look bad when you should be talking that guy looking at the 87 Honda into the extended 3 month warranty and five free tanks of gas.KC Scott wrote:Just to finish this off, Jabba, even Surtain knows he hasn't done shit this year.
JHawkBCD wrote:
Surtain has performed.
That doesn't take much time at all.JHawkBCD wrote:
Damn, you're spending an awful lot of time worrying about making me look bad ..........
Job smack?when you should be talking that guy looking at the 87 Honda into the extended 3 month warranty and five free tanks of gas.
You really don't get it, do you, ya phony fuck?KC Scott wrote:Job smack?
From you?
Bwa!
Since I don't sell cars, it really lacked the "Zing" necessary to leave a mark.
Wanna try again?
Hmm....JHawkBCD wrote:
You really don't get it, do you, ya phony fuck?
Hint: I wasn't running job smack.
Just cause I don't post every day in here doesn't mean I don't read. ;)Degenerate wrote:SCS, these two tards both reside in KC and one of them freely admits to listening to the absoulte bottom of the barrel of freaking sports talk radio 24/7.
The freedom to swing purses at one another on a message board has to be a nice respite from that kind of "life."
Look at the bright side Paul, the Broncos won!KC Paul 3.0 wrote:FUCK I'm pissed
And the rest of us aren't pretending to give a shit about your worthless weekly insights, either. In fact, most days, seeing a KC Scott post gives my scroll wheel a workout.KC Scott wrote:Hmm....JHawkBCD wrote:
You really don't get it, do you, ya phony fuck?
I'm not the one pretending to know Football here
MuchoBulls wrote:Nice tackling effort there yesterday.
Giants are on a mission for Wellington.
It was sarcasm. I'm a Giants fan.Shoalzie wrote:MuchoBulls wrote:Nice tackling effort there yesterday.
Giants are on a mission for Wellington.
Don't mean to be a parrot but the Chiefs' tackling was awful. Barber is a great back but you don't go for 200 that often and usually it's as much about the other team just not being able to stop you as it is about a guy being in a zone. CBS played a montage of Barber's runs towards the end of the broadcast, the tackling was hideous. I don't watch enough of the Chiefs to know if that was out of character or not.
DIE!!!MuchoBulls wrote:It was sarcasm. I'm a Giants fan.Shoalzie wrote:MuchoBulls wrote:Nice tackling effort there yesterday.
Giants are on a mission for Wellington.
Don't mean to be a parrot but the Chiefs' tackling was awful. Barber is a great back but you don't go for 200 that often and usually it's as much about the other team just not being able to stop you as it is about a guy being in a zone. CBS played a montage of Barber's runs towards the end of the broadcast, the tackling was hideous. I don't watch enough of the Chiefs to know if that was out of character or not.
And yet you feel the need to respond?JHawkBCD wrote:And the rest of us aren't pretending to give a shit about your worthless weekly insights, either. In fact, most days, seeing a KC Scott post gives my scroll wheel a workout.
Link?Thing is, Scott, you don't know where the line is between message board smack and reality, especially when you don't "get over". You're not to be trusted, and that fact has been posted on this board more than once by more than one person that has met you.
Link?It's back-biting cunts like you that destroy fantasy leagues.
Bwa at this melt too, Michellein Man.You're Roger_the_Shrubber with a smaller cell phone bill, a bigger portfolio, and less back pain... but that doesn't make you any less of a loser.
JHawkBCD wrote:Save one play in this game, you're a fucking idiot.KC Scott wrote:Agreed on Bell. Go ahead and toss Surtain in that same bowl.
Oh wait, I thought that was a Whitey post.
KC Scott wrote:JHawkBCD wrote:Save one play in this game, you're a fucking idiot.KC Scott wrote:Agreed on Bell. Go ahead and toss Surtain in that same bowl.
Oh wait, I thought that was a Whitey post.
Not sure where your going with that Bill.
I haven't seen Bell or Surtain do shit this year.
I have seen both of them miss a shitload of plays
KC Paul 3.0 wrote:WHo gives a fuck.....it's the Colts' world, and we're all livin' in it, and the Mule will just get their ASSES handed to them AGAIN in Indy in January.godzilla2002 wrote:Look at the bright side Paul, the Broncos won!KC Paul 3.0 wrote:FUCK I'm pissed
Who the fuck are you, again?Degenerate wrote:SCS, these two tards both reside in KC and one of them freely admits to listening to the absoulte bottom of the barrel of freaking sports talk radio 24/7.
The freedom to swing purses at one another on a message board has to be a nice respite from that kind of "life."
Word. Perfect.KC Scott wrote: See you live in a fucking bubble where Billy gets to start the shit, then gets pummled, then keeps posting away trying to save his multiple chins.
I say we start back here.Where should we start with your Hypocracy...?
The first sentence in Fat Bills' retort was directed towards me, when he mistakenly thought it was I who had smacked Surtain. He often has that problem of shooting off mouth before engaging brain, but it just keeps getting better.JHawkBCD wrote:Save one play in this game, you're a fucking idiot.KC Scott wrote:Agreed on Bell. Go ahead and toss Surtain in that same bowl.
Oh wait, I thought that was a Whitey post.
Now who's melting down and crying, you fat fucking retard?Feel free to get fucked in the ass by an 18 wheeler.
Bwahahahaha... you actually wrote that, didn't you?JHawkBCD wrote: It's back-biting cunts like you that destroy fantasy leagues...
I beg to differ. Watching Scott wheel and deal his patchwork lineup this week like a futures trader on meth was pure fantasy gold. Watching said lineup fall to the Beagles....JHawkBCD wrote:Thing is, Scott, you don't know where the line is between message board smack and reality, especially when you don't "get over". You're not to be trusted, and that fact has been posted on this board more than once by more than one person that has met you. It's back-biting cunts like you that destroy fantasy leagues.
Say it ain't so, Dave.kcdave wrote:
While the one that did insert his puny phallus into that pasty, gelatinous, psychotic, waste of a cum catchers mit, continues to skate by Scott free.
Props to the aforementioned Beags. who in their inaugural “Jackass” campaign may end up winning the whole enchilada.BSmack wrote:I beg to differ. Watching Scott wheel and deal his patchwork lineup this week like a futures trader on meth was pure fantasy gold. Watching said lineup fall to the Beagles....JHawkBCD wrote:Thing is, Scott, you don't know where the line is between message board smack and reality, especially when you don't "get over". You're not to be trusted, and that fact has been posted on this board more than once by more than one person that has met you. It's back-biting cunts like you that destroy fantasy leagues.
Priceless.
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