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Ten Things About Today's Game
Ten Things About Today's Game
10. This weekend has been a great time to live in Kansas City. The Royals clinched their second World Series in a row Friday night with a thrilling ninth inning shutdown of Toronto. The weather here is perfect, the trees and turning colors, and as Bill Grigsby used to say "It's a Beau-ti-ful Day for football." When your team is 1-5, you don't expect much. So today was pretty stress free. Nothing really riding on today's game. Pittsburgh is in a fight for the NFC North, so this game meant much more to them. This morning I thought this would be a good time to use the Ten Things to show some of our CPers who don't live in KC, and have never been to Arrowhead, what the tailgate thing looks like. So I took my camera and snapped some pictures as the morning progressed. We'll do a little of that before talking game stuff.
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You're nice, George.
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good stuff...
Liked the images thanks for the write up man |
How's the Firebug? I have an unopened bottle in my 'cue queue.
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Where's warrior Willy? Don't back down now. Show em yer stremph!! |
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One thing I noticed today was the team played with some fire, got into some scraps, so it was looking like they are starting to care more.
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I forgot to mention. I waved at Todd Haley after the game, but he didn't wave back.
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http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/009...g?v=1438121677 You can find it anywhere, and if you can't find the Ghost Pepper, you can request it because I'm sure your market carries plenty of the brand. It's a thinnish tomato and molasses cue, with lots of smoke, a touch of sweet, and tons of heat. NO HFCS!! It's moved up to my 3rd fave behind Gates X-tra Hot and Light of the Living. The Firebug I found at GV's Bargain Factory. $1.25 a bottle [but there was only one]. Will let you know when I try it, but I have NotLS and Sticky Fingers already open and 5 bottles of Renfro's in line with it. |
I almost had my wife book a family trip to jolly old England last year.....
.......whew, dodged that bullet. very good insights, as always gov'nah!!!!! goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo royals!!!! (and nice game, chefs) |
I told him Maclin was out and wouldn't play. He said "Well, I guess I'll just yell at Andy Reid".
Baahahaaa! |
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My pal Mr. Doggity snapped this photo right before kickoff. These are the stairs that run below my seats. It's Mike Swanson, the Royals PR guy, carrying the ALCS trophy, followed by Hosmer, Perez, Yost and Moose.
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As far as Fisher's penalty, it looked like the defender was twisting West's ankle and not letting him get up. You could see West yelling and trying to get up, and Fisher came over and wasn't happy about it. Here's a video I saw on Twitter:
<blockquote class="twitter-video" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Steeler's twisting West's ankle after tackle = a personal foul on the <a href="https://twitter.com/chiefs">@chiefs</a> really? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wowNFLwow?src=hash">#wowNFLwow</a> <a href="https://t.co/VIaENntrWa">pic.twitter.com/VIaENntrWa</a></p>— Eddie Groves (@The_OriginalMrG) <a href="https://twitter.com/The_OriginalMrG/status/658364742910791680">October 25, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> |
Note: Added the "spoilers" to make page navigation a little better. Sorry this post took up so much room.
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It was GOOD to see some anger and attitude. Stop eating everyones shit, KC. |
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Yup. The fire from Fisher is something we badly needed. Teammates backing each other up. I remember in the Denver game when the defense kept teeing off on Charles with late hits. I'm fine with a 15 yard penalty and for Fisher to play nasty for a change. West did the same thing when I thought Shazier went low on Alex Smith on a slide. Also, one correction... I think the missed out route, unless I'm mistaken, was a good pass that Wilson dropped. Other than those 2 things, I agree with most everything else. |
Thanks GB! :rockon:
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Any game we win with Smith is a waste and puts us further away from drafting one with a high pick. Today sucked.
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Amazing how they play their best and most consistent four quarters of the season without their two best players.
Maybe they were relying on them too much, from a mental standpoint? |
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Would you be surprised to know that Jamaal has never gotten MORE than 22 carries playing for Andy? Of course you wouldn't. |
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The last time Charles saw 22 carries was week 7 of 2014. In his time under Reid, he's only had 22+ carries in a game three times. We won all three games. |
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I almost wonder if Reid ran more because the defense gave the run game more rope. It's still stupid for Reid to ignore Jamaal. But maybe it explains what's going on here. |
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Run him and run him often then pass to Kelce/Maclin off the play action. That should be money in the bank. |
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That's an angle that never occurred to me so I can't say with certainty. Maybe you're onto something..
But it's still horseshit. Watching this team when we try and place an emphasis on the pass first is nothing short of disastrous. Such a laborious effort to move the chains. |
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It gets old after XX times |
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Super job George, wins are great. How about that Dee Ford stuff on the fourth down play? It was nice to see, hopefully he can build on it.
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That was some dirty shit. |
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and that is a non-biased opinion, because I was rooting for a Chiefs loss. |
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Good read George. Nice to see a nice win on a nice day.
It bears noting that if Big Ben is playing Pitt fists us. Hard. It's good the Chiefs acknowledged and catered to the Royals. I couldn't be more proud of those guys. Nice to see the Choefs acknowledge their accomplishment. |
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West got a 15 yard penalty I'm guessing because the offense reacted to Shazier hitting Alex on a slide. Fisher reacting to West getting his knee twisted. I get your take but I don't really agree here. For most teams, sure. But for a team like KC that's been getting pushed around, 15 yards is fine with me if they're making a statement that they're not going to put up with getting pushed around. |
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Something else that slid, was the blatant hold against Smith on Bell's long run late in the game. |
Hey, believe me, I understand getting sick of dirty play. We're in the same division with Oakland and Denver, two of the worst offenders in the history of the NFL. But you have to pick your spots. "Taunting" is weak sauce. You keep your lip zipped, and you pound that little cheap shotting d-back the next time you run the ball to his side. If Fisher is going to get an unsportsman like penalty, pick the ankle twisting little creep up off the ground and throw him into the cheap seats. Don't "taunt him" like a Frenchman on a castle wall. And for sure don't do it after a run for a first down, and don't do it a foot in front of a ref with an itchy hankie pocket.
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It's about time someone started standing up for the team. Most of the time they don't act like they give a shit. Fisher did it twice today. I'll take the penalty. |
I was watching NFL films Biography on Seattle Wide Receiver Steve Largent a couple nights ago. There was a game in Denver where Largent is running a slant over the middle, and this head hunting Safety for Denver named Mike Hardin cheap shots Largent right in the face, knocks out two teeth and put Largent out cold. A couple of weeks later, Denver is playing at Seattle in the Kingdome. Hardin picks off an overthrown pass by Krieg, starts his return, and out of nowhere come Largent, who knocks the living shit out of Hardin, separates him from the football, and Largent recovers the fumble.
That's how you get even. |
Love reading these post after a great win.
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But I get what GB is saying, even if I disagree that Fisher was in the wrong. |
I have to agree with George.
This team is the type that has to play sound fundamental football. We can't afford to give up 15 yard chunks at crucial moments in games. Internalize that rage and use it on the next play. |
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Steve Largent and Al Toon were my two big NFL crushes before the Chiefs came onto my radar. |
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It would be one thing if this was an isolated incident. I don't know if you remember the Denver game where Bronco d-bags were diving on Charles shoulder-first well after he was down on the ground. It happened all game. Alex Smith has taken plenty of cheap shots. It's been happening all year. So yeah, I get GB's comment about taking revenge later... but if the point is to send a message to teammates that you have their back, a 15-yard penalty is just as effective. Either way, I don't think you want to be subtle about it. |
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But let's be real. It was also good fortune that the play after, Largent had the chance to unload like that. In most cases, to make a big enough noticeable statement, you usually have to take yourself out of the play. And you have to make a hit hard enough to make a statement which, many times, will get flagged anyway. |
I had a great time in Kansas City with my kids this weekend. It was my kids first time at Arrowhead and I think we all had fun. I haven't been back to a game since we got beat by th I don't don't want talk about that. I would have taken my kids to games but the Chiefs have been disappoint over the years so didn't think it be worth it. Howe ever this weekend was and they just happened to win. Really wish we had a better showing of Chiefs fans than Steelers fans. Though look. Me (KC Tattoo) & Red Vador covered a This is Steelers Country banner. How dare they.
<a href="http://s1260.photobucket.com/user/KCTattoo58/media/IMAG0179_zpsiwfolvod.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1260.photobucket.com/albums/ii574/KCTattoo58/IMAG0179_zpsiwfolvod.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo IMAG0179_zpsiwfolvod.jpg"/></a> Was glad to send the Steelers away with a loss don't come into our house and think you can take over. At one point they scored a touchdown and I thought it was incomplete because the roar of the crowd was so loud. Geeze. I wanted give my kids the experience of Chiefs fans being loud but we had fun and for that it was worth it. |
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Or that he recovered the fumble? What more do you want out of the guy? |
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The Todd was probably unhappy about his team's lack of offensive output - don't take it personally; The Todd still loves us. |
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I'm saying that to get a legal revenge hit, you're not always going to have that perfect situation teed up for you. So I don't mind taking a penalty if the point is to get a message across. |
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And to be fair, your fuller quote was 'badass, but let's be real . . . lucky' |
There was another thing I forgot to mention. Remember how in previous weeks Alex kept wandering down to the Defensive bench, sitting there all by himself sulking? None of that today. I don't know if he took it on himself, or if he had a come to Jesus meeting with Andy, but today in the second half especially, he was talking to his O-line and to his receivers and backs while the defense was on the field. They all seemed much more engaged, and it showed by producing TD drives in the second half. That's progress.
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1. More thing from post-game. If there ever was positive bulletin board material, Tomlin's remark about 'the game got tight, and they made the dynamic plays' should be blown up poster sized.
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What did we gain by having Fisher go over and jaw at the defender? Do we think West ended up with 10 more rushing yards because he knew Fish Daddy "had his back"? He wouldn't have had the reserves to jump over the goal line without that show of camaraderie? In all likelihood it just cost us yardage and painted a target on Fish's back. I like my guys to be mean while the ball is live. Take that aggression out on the receiver crossing the middle. Take it out on the QB when you're a free rusher. I can live with those types of penalties because they have lasting effects on the game. The receiver will hesitate to extend himself for the catch after you lay a big hit on him. The QB will get happy feet and miss his reads/throws anticipating big hits. |
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A revenge pitch puts a batter on base maybe gets your pitcher booted. A hockey player revenge hitting a guy gives up a power play. But they're done for a reason. They can get your team charged up. If teammates have each other's back, that's the best way to get them to start playing hard. It may not have gotten West 10 more yards. But I'm sure he appreciated it. |
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Jackass. |
Since George mentioned it, I'll throw in one of the "buzzkills" of today that I didn't mention in the GDT.
A woman who sits in front of me and Discuss Dad has been taking photos of every home game going back to the 80s. Her camera, while big, hasn't apparently been an issue until today when she was hand delivered by two security officials a "fan code of conduct" citation coupled with a verbal explanation that her camera is "high definition" and therefore not allowed at Arrowhead. Why this was an issue today of all days is what I can't figure out, especially after the Pioli era where the sideline was patrolled by both CSC contracted fan control personnel (which is to be expected) along with men wearing suits, sunglasses and earpieces. If the Chiefs were ever to have an issue with her camera (which, again, is beyond your standard cellphone shooter or pocket digital camera but definitely not a telephoto lens or some shit you'd expect an average AP scrub to have) it would have been then considering the lengths Pioli went to ensure nobody was committing acts of espionage against the team. Fitting that this comes about the same day when of the parking lot attendants decided to actually police where Discuss Dad parked his vehicle. A fatbody neckbeard confronted him about his choice of parking location which wasn't blocking the flow of traffic or taking up more than one slot but certainly wasn't in line with the rest of the lot filling scheme where the spaces closest to Kauffman and Arrowhead are first before populating the ones back out toward the gates was suddenly not acceptable after three years of the same procedure of taking a spot near the edge of colored pass lot. On the one hand, Discuss Dad has absolutely zero patience and assumes people following procedure is a personal affront to him and, as a consequence, he isn't necessarily rational. On the other hand, the first car to the *same* thing he had tried to do in the lot in that another STH chose to ignore same fatbody neckbeard, and no measure to rectify this policy violation was attempted even after his party had spilled out of their vehicle for tailgating festivities. Discuss Dad and I walked to another tailgate after dad had confronted neckbeard by asking whom he worked for (apparently "The Mexicans" as the neckbeard explained) and spent a good hour there at another slot. We returned to his car to get his phone to see that the first car to ignore the neckbeard by tailgating away from how cars are supposed to be arrayed in a lot was now joined by a handful of other cars whom had apparently also ignored the directives to park in the slots as we were told to. Again, Discuss Dad doesn't do himself a lot to earn the benefit of the doubt when it comes to the Hellerian bureaucracy that is being a STH, but if what he did in ignoring the parking attendants to get a spot where he can quickly leave the lot is now impermissible even though several other fans were not policed the same way doesn't make any sense given that the other cars were parked in other rows and definitely not in some sort of assigned pattern. In my view, either neckbeard and his other orange safety vested compatriots make everyone abide by the rules (even my dad) or they don't do anything outside of ensuring cars don't take up more than one slot (which isn't anywhere close to what Discuss Dad had tried to do). Like with the lady's camera, I don't understand why today it was an issue when it wasn't so in the previous twenty games or so when ancillary minutiae became a priority to the Pioli regime. Finally, what was a nice little cherry on top of the least enjoyable KC win since the post-Belcher game against Carolina, was the fact the seats right next to Discuss Dad and I were occupied by three New Yorker Steeler fans -one or two of which decided to crack wise about how funny the name 'Joe Delaney' appeared on a jersey or on the stadium itself. Dad pointed out that he died trying to save kids from drowing and that temporarily shut them up, but I was still left with the impression those three middle aged douches had their heads firmly up their ass to not have enough sense to to withhold commentary about coaches or players that they had no clue about even though they were shelling out a decent amount of cash for seats at a place they'd probably never set foot in. It had been one thing if they were making puns about Nunez-Roches or some shit or even taking shots on Derrick Thomas having multiple children. But making light of Delaney is no different than making airplane jokes at Marshall or clock tower references at a Texas game. It's one thing to talk some smack about current or recent players/coaches/front office personnel, but a completely different thing to talk about long past players that didn't do anything to earn notoriety in that kind of aspect. Maybe I just expected more class out of middle to upper class citizens from the greatest city in America or whatever. I'm probably in the wrong here. |
Excellent write up! Thanks for posting this, I skipped the game this week and spent the day touring beautiful sites in Missouri instead. Fort Osage-did a photo shoot for my daughter, her boyfriend and their new puppy. Marshall-had a nice picnic on the square and took shots of the Jim the Wonder Dog park-very interesting story. We listened on the radio as the Chiefs kicked field goals and played liked the Chiefs most of the game.
We were taking a tour of the Bothwell Lodge State Park in Sedalia when my son checked the score and they ended up winning. This was my favorite game of the year. Being outside and enjoying the amazing Missouri fall weather instead of watching the same ol' Chiefs. |
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GREAT JOB GBLOWFISH AS ALWAYS! The air fills with smoke from all the charcoal grills. It's an amazing scene, and it always smells heavenly. http://i60.tinypic.com/35d992c.gif |
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I'm still pissed they didn't reverse that steeler TD. That ****stick Mike Carey said he thought it was a catch. Since when did only one foot inbounds after securing the ball considered a touchdown. ****ing inexcusable!
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Yeah, it was debatable. It was all a matter of when you considered the receiver had actual "possession" of the football. Not enough evidence to overturn. He never should have been allowed to get that open...and if Sean Smith catches a pick that hit him right in the freaking hands a couple of plays earlier....
Luckily that was the only TD the Steelers could muster. Big Ben probably would have beaten us if fully healthy. Then again, we played without Charles and Maclin, so both teams were crippled. Cripple Fight!! |
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