I'd certainly be more positive.

4 playoff seasons in a row...that's the stuff of legend in KC

I'm not sure how Marvin Lewis still has a job...

It's a typo. They meant #42 not #24. Chiefs.

Nope. Non of them count.

I have a terrible feeling about the upcoming season. If we thought Reid was pass happy before with absolutely ZERO points production from the wide receivers, just imagine what he is going to be like this year with Maclin and Conley.

5-8 carries per game for Jamaal, 35+attempts for Smith.

That D better be for real.

:facepalm:

Why do people insist on posting stupid shit like this?

You must have missed the entirety of last season. Hell, you must have missed the entirety of Andy Reids entire coaching career.

JC averaged 16 touches per game last season. He was also banged up in a few games.

JC will be 29 this year, I'm good with limiting his touches.

Andy Reid is a crappy gameday coach, but he's pretty good at game-planning before the game. His worst coaching jobs of the year, as far as game-planning goes, was Tennessee and at Oakland. His best was against Seattle. How did the Chiefs beat Seattle? We ran the ball down their throats.

Simply put, if there's a weakness that a team is showing, Reid will try to exploit it.

Exactly, the more weapons we have the less th load for JC. If we're gonna have a playoff run with this team we need to have JC fresh at seasons end.

We ran the ball a lot last year. Alex/Chase had 492 combined passing attempts and JC/Davis/DAT had 354 rush attempts.

With those numbers, we ran the ball 42% of the time. A lot for a Reid offense.

Also, the Chiefs should run Davis more than Charles on 3rd downs. I'd like to see JC used in the slot more this year as well. Keep him from getting hit in the middle of the field.

I do, but I sure as hell ain't bettin on it :)

edit: ok i'll clarify, i do think we have a solid chance for playoff berth AND a solid chance to win. guess i don't expect a win, but think we've got a better than dumb and dumber chance.

LMAO No way. I bet KC makes a serious challenge for the AFC West Title.

Some minor Jamaal Charles trivia for you on a Friday.


Jamaal has 6,856 rushing yards in his career on 1,249 rushes. This ranks 61st in NFL history.

If he maintains the yardage he's had the past three years, he'll move up past Larry Csonka to the #46 ranking.

To find a person on the top rushing list with fewer carries, you have to go to the 85th rank and Michael Vick, though of course Vick is a quarterback so it's a different thing. The nearest running back with fewer than 1,249 carries appears to be Greg Pruitt of the 1970s Browns. Pruitt is ranked 95th in the list with 1,196 carries for 5,672 yards (a stellar 4.7 ypc average). He's almost 1,200 yards behind Jamaal with only 53 fewer carries.

The active running backs closest to Jamaal in career rushing yards are:

Deangelo Williams - currently 10 yards behind Jamaal and has 143 more carries.
Lesean McCoy - currently 64 yards behind Jamaal and has 172 more carries.
Arian Foster - currently 545 yards behind Jamaal and has 142 more carries.
Ray Rice - currently 676 yards behind Jamaal and has 141 more carries, excluding carrying his wife out of the elevator.
Matt Forte - currently 848 yards ahead of Jamaal and has 528 more carries.

Hall of Famers by career yardage

Top ten all-time - 9 eligible, 9 in the Hall (Tomlinson isn't eligible yet.)
Rank 11-20 - 7 eligible, 5 in the Hall (Marcus Allen, Franco Harris, Thurman Thomas (gah - what a miscarriage), John Riggins, O.J. Simpson)
Ranks 21-30 - 7 eligible, 0 in the Hall
Ranks 31-40 - 7 eligible, 3 in the Hall (Joe Perry, Earl Campbell, Jim Taylor)
Ranks 41-50 - 9 eligible, 1 in the Hall (Csonka)
Ranks 51-60 - 8 eligible, 1 in the Hall (Leroy Kelly - think he made it as an old-timer)

It looks like you need to be top 20 to have a fighting chance, which is a little more than 11,000 yards. You need to be top 10 to have a strong chance, which is a little more than 12,000 yards.

So Jamaal needs four more seasons to hit 11,000 and five seasons to hit 12,000. Is he going to do it?