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Chiefs notebook: McBride removed from injury list

McBride removed from injury list

If their latest injury report can be believed, the Chiefs will have one of their starting defensive ends available for Sunday’s game against New Orleans at Arrowhead Stadium. The Chiefs removed Turk McBride, who has a sore shoulder and didn’t play last week in San Diego, from their injury list.

Of course, the information might not be airtight. Last Thursday, the Chiefs removed cornerback Brandon Flowers from their injury report only to list him again on Friday. He didn’t play against the Chargers.

The other starting defensive end, Tamba Hali, has an injured ankle. He didn’t practice Thursday and is unlikely to play against the Saints.

Linebackers Pat Thomas (hamstring), Derrick Johnson (hamstring) and guard Adrian Jones (ankle) also were unable to practice. They are also unlikely to be available against the Saints.

Flowers (hamstring), running back Jamaal Charles (ankle), safety Jarrad Page (groin) and cornerback Patrick Surtain (quad) were limited in practice but have a better chance to play.

Classic mismatch?

The Saints have the league’s top team in total offense and are eighth in the league in scoring. The Chiefs are 32nd and last in yards allowed and 27th in points allowed.

Chiefs coach Herm Edwards wasn’t buying into the notion that those statistics prove Sunday’s game to be one between an irresistible force and a movable object.

“I don’t worry about that,” Edwards said. “I look at the last three games. We’ve improved, and that’s what you’ve got to go on. We’ve played like that, taken the ball away, stopped the run. We’ve got a chance to be in all of the football games. We’ve been in every football game doing that.”

The Chiefs allowed 400 or more yards and 20 or more points in each of the last three games.

Blackout streak lives another week

The Chiefs announced they had sold enough tickets to allow Sunday’s game to be locally televised. It will be shown this week on WDAF, Channel 4.

The Chiefs haven’t had a blacked-out home game since 1990.

I'm convinced the Saints will put up a big number...

I don't have a clue which KC offense will show up and if LJ will make a difference.

Either way the KC line cant run block for shit.

The thing that worries me the most is if Thigpen will relapse/regress if he makes a mistake and gets picked off.

We're runn'n the SPREEEEEEAAD NOW BABY.....no need to worry about Da'Pigpen. He's on like a pot a NECK BONES. :D

He's bound to have a bad game eventually. All QBs do, even Payton Manning. When that happens, will the fans turn on Thiggy?

even if thigpen struggles it will never be as bad as the raiders and falcons game. I have never seen a qb underthrow or over throw his recievers by 15 frickin yards every throw

Hmm, who starts at RG I wonder.

Depends on how many games in he is.

If he plays poorly against the Saints, of course there will be people calling his bluff, but if he plays poorly against say...Miami but has played well in every other matchup, then I think people will give him the benefit of the doubt.

People still remember Atlanta with Thigpen, and that has to be his career bottom for a long time coming if he is to remain in the graces of the fans.

Some of his passes are still sailing, but less than in Atlanta.

He missed, Bowe I think??, on a cross route and it sailed out of bounds.

I would like to see Thigpen make a few errors, even throw an interception or two. We gotta find out if this kid's psyche is fragile.

I disagree. Why think this?

Wouldn't you rather have the opposite? That he keeps doing what he's doing that way he can build more confidence.

Confidence=everything for young QB

I see both sides of this. Though I tend to agree with you on this, but I would also like to see how he responds after throwing an INT. If he comes back with fire under his ass or starts to sink in the quicksand.

I know it sounds counterproductive and you are right that confidence is everything for a young QB, but if he is going to be our QBoTF, I would like to see how he responds when something doesn't go his way.

1 int not several or even 2...just 1! :)

See how he responds, if he can avoid the trap.

It needs to happen, so those with their heads in the sand will wake up and realize we are still 1-18 in our last 19 games. Thigpen is a pleasant surprise(even though some stuck by him, when many gave up on him after only one game), he's still only ONE player, who HAD to have the offense changed to utilize his skills better. Once teams catch on to the spread and Herm goes back to being conservative, many will be wondering, WTF were they thinking?

IMO the way he was able to come back after being so shitty in
Atl and play the way he has says he's mentally tough.