Welcome back.

I get it, I mostly stayed away over the offseason as well.

Don't blame you. Some folks were asking about you, I told them that I'd bet you would be back once the season starts. Glad you're back.

When he beat the double AND blatant hold, the brakes came clean off the hype train... he's a monster in the making

I know its preseason but its hard not to get really excited about Furious George. I don't remember the last defensive player to show so much his rookie year in preseason.

Peters maybe?

RICH MOTHER****ING SCANLON EVER HEARD OF HIM

I know what you mean. This place is a cesspool in the off-season. But, the ignore feature helps.

Passrusher would probably be Justin Houston. Non passrusher, Bolton was pretty exciting from the start last year.

Marcus Peters...if I remember correctly...he intercepted the first ever pass thrown his direction.

I'm usually pretty reserved when predicting rookies...but he has that same initial vibe to him. Out of the gate...the guy is already producing.

Mahomes was like that in his first preseason...it wasn't fully developed but he was making plays immediately.

Furious George is clever...if he pans out...it goes a LONG way at prolonging Chiefs dominance. Five years of cheap labor...maybe they draft a bookend next year.

The problem with Peters is the same problem with Trevon Diggs. People see the interception numbers and go wow what an awesome player let's put him in the top 30 NFL Players List and then ignore that half the time they're trying to bait the QB and percentage wise they get beat a lot when they can't make the interception.

Give me a McDuffie type any day. I don't want them to throw his way ever, that way you can erase their best WR. I mean, someday that is what McDuffie will be hopefully. But Peters will never be that.

You weren't excited about Breeland Speaks?

Let's see Karlaftis try and not fall down at an allpro not falling down level

Jarred Allen, I don't remember , but what did he do rookie year ??

I think he has the franchise rookie sack record, no?

EDIT: No; Allen had 9 as a rookie. Derrick Thomas had 10.

Still not bad company to be keeping....

How great will Brian Burns look across from Karlaftis next year?

I hope someone comes up with a better nickname than furious george

the guy deserves better

I personally like SNR's "My Big Fat Greek DE" :shrug:

sackrates has been the only good nickname so far

Yogurt it is

Karlaftigus is a dawg. And like all dawgs their name comes naturally. Just wait.

Clever but too long, not catchy

Oh I know I just loved it.

Athenian Assassin?


I'll see myself out... :bolt:

Greeced Lightning


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The only nickname I want to be able to call him is... Defensive Rookie of the Year.

Not even Sackrates?

Creamy White Greek Man Yogurt.

Daniel Jeremiah at NFL.com really likes him. In fact, he projects him to get 10 sacks this season, which is more than any of the other first round passrushers. Here is the part of Furios George

Drafted: Round 1, No. 30 overall



Best-case scenario: Karlaftis is going to get a lot of opportunities to rush the quarterback playing in the Chiefs’ high-scoring offense. I think we’re going to see his production far exceed what he posted at Purdue (4.5 sacks last season). His power is real, and he’s one of my top candidates for Defensive Rookie of the Year.



Worst-case scenario: As much as I love his game, his production in college never quite reflected his full ability. Maybe that carries over to the NFL and he provides more disruption than production.



Projected stats: 50 tackles and 10 sacks.

A Chaboni endorsement in the making

I submit to the committee as a senior member of CP we are allowed an offensive and defensive adopt a Chief.

Otter:

Offensive: Patrick Maholmes
Defensive: George Karlaftis

My credentials speak for themself.

If he gets 10 sacks, I will... I don't know what I'll do

boy strong

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Sounds good. Reads like Sack Rates though.

Yea, that really bothers me.

I guess Yogurt it is. We've already had Sausage.

I want to change it to Athens Assassin though, if that's allowed. Athenian Assassin is too many syllables. Would be difficult to say if drinking while watching games.

What's wrong with Furious George? It's a natural.

Anyway, the kid's a stud, and he's going to get 10 sacks this year.

Furious George is fine. Sackrates is better.

Just my opinion, of course.

Greek-on Jones

What was the bet someone has with Blowmo again??

And if you lose the K it reads like a Bursa Sac.

You know it will be Furious George, it's already hit the media.

Also it's way better than whatever Mitch Holthus would come up with which would probably be something like White Zeus

If it catches on, the announcers are going to start saying it, and people won't need to put it in writing. And if they do, everybody will know what they mean.

It's fine.

Everyone wants their own pet project, instead of simply seeing the obvious choice :(

Freaky Tazeaky

Gyro Hero is too damn cheesy. And if you don’t think those words rhyme, you aren’t married to a Greek.

Furious George is really good but I also like Sackrates.

It's a reference to a 25 year old movie. I don't think it works.

Just watched some sports show analysts do the math and figure out that the best pass-rushing DEs of all-time got either a sack or a half-sack about 7% of the time. In other words, actually getting sacks was incredibly difficult and about 93% of the time even the Derrick Thomas' and the Reggie White's of the NFL didn't get home.

If you think about it, that means that DEs probably the vast majority of their money doing other things.

I don't think he's hoping for the Bill and Ted pronunciation he's hoping for the "sack - rah -tees" pronunciation

ah. Yeah, someone referenced So-crates early on in the discussion so I was only seeing it that way.

Yeah. it works.

I still like Furious George better.

Double didget sacks some will be from coverage sacks but he will also blow up a LT now and then and use techniques to get around him. This guy is going be fun to watch.

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Vorch is an idiot for trading up for McDuffie and not making a move for Jermaine Johnson!!!!!!!!111

You know, sometimes on draft night I think dudes just look at the Jeremiah/Kiper rankings on the screen at a certain position and pound the table for the top dude at the position of need. And when the Chiefs pass on that guy, they lose their shit

Just ask CP; coverage sacks don't actually count. Only pussies count coverage sacks.

I have never heard that before but a Goddamn sack is a sack and he gets credit for the sack doesn't matter if it's coverage sack that means his motor is running, he could be double teamed so a coverage sack is a good thing because it's a ****ing sack.

I know we're all excited about him but has anyone identified any areas they think he'll need to improve to hit his ceiling? Think it was DJ who talked of him not yet chaining moves. I was thinking he seems to go wide a bit too often and get washed out.

Not thinking of any of this as a negative, more just considering how much better he can get and where that will show up.

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Just beating the backup slapdick tackles we do face is a huge contribution. Nobody ever ****ing did that last year. As in when the matchup is favorable, you actually take advantage of the situation.

It’s ****ing embarrassing how good the dogshit Cincy OL looked against us both times last year

From the little exposure that I've had, it seems like he kind of has one pass rush move. He pushes up wide, then spins. He needs to add an inside swim move and a straight-up bull rush soon at a minimum.

Just call him The Greek, like the villain in season 2 of the wire

The Greek was a great character. There's no denying that.

But the guy just said himself in that video he prefers Furious George. Why is this still a discussion?

At the end of the season, his official title will be “Super Bowl Champion”

George Lynch approves of this name.

I have some furious George memes ready

The short answer is, 'who knows?'

The chaining his moves thing is definitely something he'll work on over the next three or four years, imo. But there's so much grey area it's pretty hard to tell what his eventually ceiling might be. Heck, next year his body is probably going to change fairly dramatically, just from the standpoint of diet and physical training. And what's that going to look like exactly? Will he come in at 245 or 265?

The point is that because he came from a smaller program he's probably not anywhere near his best physical shape/conditioning. Once he finds his NFL body, then we'll see what he really can become.

I think that as long as he keeps that supercharged core of his, he could be one of the great Chiefs power-rushers, maybe even in the NFL. Like Chiefs Ring of Honor great. Maybe HOF great, if he can stay healthy and keep working on his craft at an elite level. In spite of his shorter-than-normal arms and lack of bendiness.

it's not

our players prefer the worst nicknames

"showtime"

"zeus"

"stone cold"

"furious george"

LMAO

and the only guy who had a GREAT nickname...****ING LEFT

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It's Yogurt

Depends on what you mean by chaining moves. I watched a clip of him last game where he pushed the tackle into the QB and then used a speed move to finish him off and get the sack. Power to Speed as they say.

There's a couple of good videos out there talking about this very thing.

George "My Big Fat Greek pounding" Karlaftis

The Landlord was the worst one.

Sausage was a great nickname

Agreed

I want mahomes to become full time grim reaper

You can just tell this kid is going to be really special.

Super “Yee-Ro”

Yep.

I think you need to watch him more.

He has used a straight bull rush several times and been successful with it.

Nate Taylor said in the KCSN pod that you can go ahead and mark Karlaftis down for 7 sacks. That sounds like his baseline which is really good for a rookie

Hes going to have 10+

IMHO

In the two games against the Raiders or the entire season?