because Carl told them too.

Blah Blah Blah - Carl is great - Blah Blah Blah - its the coaches fault - Blah Blah Blah - Donnie Edwards - Blah Blah Blah - I wish I could have Carl's babies - Blah Blah Blah

He did the same thing with Gunther, I hope this works out better.

I thought he was on vacation?

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansas...s/16922083.htm

Perfect ending for Edwards
Veteran linebacker, again a Chief, says he wants to finish what he started in Kansas City.
By ADAM TEICHER
The Kansas City Star
Linebacker Donnie Edwards had the chance to make some free-agent visits. He possibly could have attracted a bigger financial offer than the one he eventually settled for.

But months ago, from the moment he discovered he would be free to shop his services, Edwards decided there was the perfect spot for him to finish his career.

In the same place it started.

“I wanted to come back to Kansas City,” said Edwards, who last week agreed to terms of a three-year contract worth about $13.5 million. “I wanted everything to work out here. I’m back where I wanted to be.”

Edwards, his Italian vacation finished a day earlier, was at Arrowhead Stadium on Friday to take his physical exam and sign the contract. Unlike the Chiefs’ other new arrivals, Edwards didn’t need to be shown the way to the weight room, locker room or coaches offices.

Edwards spent the first six seasons of his career with the Chiefs and was consistently among their best defenders. But the Chiefs after the 2001 season inexplicably decided Edwards was no longer of value to them.

Greg Robinson, then the defensive coordinator, told Edwards that in his system, it wasn’t worth paying high dollars to linebackers.

Edwards then signed with division rival San Diego and excelled for the Chargers for five seasons. Chiefs president/general manager Carl Peterson has said that releasing Edwards was among his biggest mistakes.

“He’s told me that before, too.” Edwards said.

Still, the snub cut Edwards deep.

Edwards, a native Californian, had come to love Kansas City and wanted to be one of the players, like his good friend Tony Gonzalez, who would spend his entire career with the Chiefs.

So Edwards views his return as a chance to right the initial wrong.

“It’s been five years,” he said. “There are different ways you can look at things. I’ve always looked at it that it happened, it was out of my control and I had a great opportunity to play in my hometown and now I get to come back.”

Edwards will be 34 in April. His addition goes against the desire of Peterson and coach Herm Edwards to invigorate the roster with youth.

But Herm Edwards saw the chance to bring a proven leader to a linebacking group that includes two younger starting players, Derrick Johnson and Napoleon Harris.

“Our linebackers were all young guys,” Herm Edwards said. “There was nobody to lead in that way. Now we’ve got a guy who can not only lead, but he’s also been a very productive player.

“Derrick Johnson needs a mentor to help him become the player he can be. I would hope he would have aspirations of having a career like Donnie Edwards has had so far. Hopefully, he will learn what Donnie has done to play like he has for so many years. He will see him every day, so he should learn that.

“That’s what we did at Tampa to build that defense. If you were a young defensive tackle, you watched how Warren Sapp prepared. If you were a young linebacker, you watched how Derrick Brooks prepared. If you were a young defensive back, you watched how John Lynch or Donnie Abraham or Ronde Barber prepared.”

That part of it is OK with Donnie Edwards, too. Better, he figured, to be a Chiefs’ elder statesman late than never.

“Sometimes you want to get younger, get a lot of draft picks,” he said. “It means a little, but when you have experience and guys who know what they’re doing and have been there before versus someone who hasn’t done it before . . .

“I’m healthy, been very durable. That’s all that matters.”

so who will be leaving...
grigsby, fox, griffin, scanlon, or mitchell?
maybe two of them

Boomer is being converted to FB.

Heres my take on the Edwards signing. Donnie Edwards brings one very valuable skill to this defense, pass coverage ability. He is not good at the point of attack on run plays but does chase plays well. We won't be seeing many wide open tight ends or 60 yard runs on his side, but we will see a lot of running at him for 5 to 10 yards a pop. In the end he is an improvement over Bell, and hopefully a full year removed from his knee injury Fox will begin to ascend again and take his spot next year.

and from fullback to street free agent.

I think the Chiefs draft another LB in the next couple of years.

1st round?

Depends.

Certainly not this year, unless Willis somehow fell.

I think that we have to go offense in the 1st round this year. We can not continue to neglect the offense as we try to repair the defense. An offensive lineman or receiver would be my guess.

It looks like a receiver.
If they take an O-Lineman in the first round, it will be a reach.

But they can't pass on a defensive player if one fell that was clearly the best player on the board.

Take the best available player, regardless.

Yet another reason G - Rob was correctly run out of town.