Kansas City Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cWe as a staff, and me as a coordinator, I have to allow him to touch the football as often as we can,\u201d Pederson said. \u201cYou look at the stat sheet and look at the targets and the number of touches that guys get, and then you go back and say, \u2018Oh, I wish I would have done this or I wish I would have done that, or more of this or less of that,\u2019 after the game, win or lose.”<\/p>\n
Charles was held to just 35 yards against the Broncos last week, his lowest output since injuring his ankle in a contest against the Broncos in Week 2.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou say, \u2018You know what, we should have given Dwayne (Bowe) two more targets, or given Jamaal two more or three more touches in a certain situation.\u2019 But again, as the game unfolds, it sort of dictates how you spread the ball around, and it\u2019s unfortunate that sometimes guys\u2019 touches are sometimes going to go down or up based on game situations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Running back Jamaal Charles was held to just 14 touches a week ago in a loss to the Broncos. Chiefs offensive coordinator Doug Pederson says that is something that much change as the season nears its end. \u201cThese last couple of games we\u2019ve gotten into situations where we\u2019ve been behind, and we had to play […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[426,164,104,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-13062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-jamaal-charles","10":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","11":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13064,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13062\/revisions\/13064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13062"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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