It's not that it's cool.

It's more that it's not cool to be positive when we have idiots stacked on top of idiots in key leadership positions, dragging down an otherwise talented team.

You always hurt the one you love

You can be realistic without the negativity. It doesnt make you a homer or True Fan.

The D that gave up blowout losses to the Jets, Bills, Lions, Dolphins and Pats?

Very inconsistent.

How was I being negative? I was making an argument based on facts.

Mostly due to a horrible offense.

If you continue to put you D in the position that they were, this shit happens.

You'd know this if you weren't a moron.

Common denominator during those blowouts: terrible QB play, especially on third down.

That's why Kyle Orton is my sweet baboo. At least he can move those chains.

Sweet Baboo? LOL

I thought the Jets and Bills and perhaps even the Lions had the ball first and drove their team to TD's even before a single 3 and out.

Our defense has shown the ability to frustrate good QB's if Romeo dials up the pressure.

Look at the last time we played Manning. Last year with Rodgers. Big Ben. Rivers threw for a lot of yards but 0 TD's and 4 picks.

The idea that we can't compete against real QB's or a tough schedule is wrong.

OMG THATS HORRIBLE

Fix the offense and score some points.

That goes a LONG way in helping a D.

Yes on all 3.

And that's why it's so important to have a QB who can respond.

Compete? Sure.

Win enough games to go to the postseason? No.

Hey. Thats the smartest thing you've said all day. :evil:

We let Tim Tebow and Matt Moore waltz into Arrowhead last year and make Cassel look like a chump.

I have a lot of confidence in him this year!

I think that was the nadir of Cassel.

It will be better this season.

Though not good enough to compete in the post-season.

That said, I'm on Quinn's bandwagon!

WOOT

We have no QB, so no matter how good our team is on paper, we arent going to compete for a championship. Thats why no-name out of market asshats place us at #28 in the league.

Unfortunately - you might be right. Back to the future.

Well, against the top half of the list in the OP, the Chiefs are 4-8 with a combined score of 169-290 over the past 2 seasons (and that includes a 21 point win over a 49ers team that started 0-5 and finished 6-10, or else it's 3-8 / 138-280).... any given Sunday, lots of parity etc; but that's not exactly competitive.

Cassel doesnt need tebow or Moore to make him look like a chump. He is perfectly capable of doing that on his own

Yeah, we're a middle of the pack team, not the 5th worst team in the league.

I really can't disagree with this, heh.

I'm sure a handful of the usual suspects would tell us its a fluke.

I think we'll be competitive going forward if Romeo is aggressive with pressure.

I think that is the main reason for the inconsistency on defense.

Hopefully with the emergence of Houston late last year, Romeo will use him more to help Hali get after the QB.

My email to Michael Silver

Michael, I read your power rankings. KC is 28th? Are you ****ing high? They have one of the most talented rosters outside of QB. Ya Cassel isnt Brady but he isnt Colt McCoy. KC won 7 games without Berry, Charles, Moeaki, and Cassel for half the year. And KC beat the Packers! You are without a doubt the stupidest mother****er on the face of the earth. Try again dumbass. And not to mention they got one of the best RTs in the game in Free Agency to go along with a good backup TE in Boss, a good RB in Hillis who excelled under Daboll, solid CB replacement in Routt for Carr. Routt will be fine because he isn't in Oakland. The ****ing Browns are not better. Man you are a moronic ****ing sports writer! Where did you get your GED from? If all you want is a reaction to your articles well here it is. Jesus youre stupid.

Michael Wilson

Oh snap.

Silver's response above.

you ok bro?

This is an utter abortion of an aritcle and one of mass dumbassery and cluelessness.

Im fine. I just cant believe he's got Cleveland and St. Louis ahead of us. **** him

He's apparently basing it all on Cassel, fair enough i guess... but really, who cares what Hyman Roth thinks, as long as Cassel doesnt completely shit the bed KC will beat up on several teams that no one expects us to.

Theres really no reason that this team shouldnt make the playoffs this year, what Cassel does once there is another question, but theres absolutely no question that this is a playoff worthy team.

Everything Silver says should be taken with a huge grain of salt. He is a massive Raiders fan and said they'd win the AFC West last year and play in the AFCC.

ROFL Holy shit he's Reighters

We were better than the 28th best team last year with Palko starting 3 games or whatever and 3 of our best young players on IR all season.

Give me a ****ing break.

How these guys stay employed is a great mystery.

Yahoo seems to employ a lot of dipshit homer writers.

THIS

Michael Silver is a big Todd Haley fan, seems to hate Pioli with a passion, and those two things tend to bleed into everything he writes about KC.

Unfortunately, a lot of what he's written about KC over the last year has turned out to be pretty accurate. Including the last thing he wrote that outraged everybody, which was that Peyton Manning would be crazy to even consider coming here. And lo and behold, he didn't consider it.

Waaah, we should be ranked 23rd instead of 28, waaah.

Awww. Look at you trying to take on a drafturbator persona :)

In a way, I wish we were that bad.

Maybe then we would have a chance at a real quarterback next April and have hope to win it all in a couple years.

Reality is we have a better shot at being a playoff team next year than drafting in the top 5.

I'm just gonna try to enjoy the ride and trust that Cassel is on a short leash and that Stanzi will get a chance this year.

I wanna let you all know.



As some of you know I'm currently in my second year of dental school, second semester. So close to being in the clinic and seeing patients I can taste it.


Well these last two weeks I have had 16 finals. Has not been a joyous couple weeks. Only 4 left.


Anyway, after having my head in books for a while, I find my self day dreaming at times about this draft and Chiefs football. I've come away extremely optimistic. I am intrigued by what Poe can bring to the table. If he can do what the front office thinks he can do, we should field a good defense.


Still have to worry about the qb spot, but I think Stanzi will have it on lockdown soon enough.


Excited about this season and this years rookie crop. Hopefully it's a fun ride.

Free dental cleaning for all Chiefs fans?

Ohh man, that'll teach him!!

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Ha. Gotta pay the bills bro. School ain't cheap.

will be amazed and confused, and loving every minute of it
and very very surprised

That's pretty subjective. You're saying he was correct in saying that PM would've been crazy to consider the Chiefs? Silver didn't say Peyton Manning won't consider the Chiefs. It was pretty foolish of Peyton not to consider the Chiefs. But his ego probably wouldn't have worked with Pioli's anyway.

Silver is a know nothing POS. Like the majority of national writers.

Really? Outside of the QB position, the Chiefs have one of the most underrated rosters in the league. Now we're building depth for that roster? Look out. Get a QB and let's roll.

OTWP's negativity cup hath runneth over. :)

I think it depends on how our new OC does. I have a feeling we will be close to being the No 1 running offense this year. I bet we run a whole bunch , to the point of almost being boring. But that will be good to keep the good offenses off the field. I don't think they will put much on Cassels shoulders.

The 28th best team in the NFL would be comparable to the Chiefs roster from 2009. That had Matt Cassel as its starting QB, and ****ing rape and shit and cum everywhere else except for CB. It was 5th in draft order, meaning it was the 5th worst, giving it the 28th ranking. Doesn't get much more clear than that.

This current team EVEN WITH question marks everywhere is better than 28. It's better than the 26th ranking, OTWP (Jesus Christ that was ****ing stupid). It's a middle-of the road team. It's 8-8. The exact center. 16-20 ranking.

Note that's WITHOUT ignoring the huge hole at QB. If we had a halfway decent starter at the position, please tell me what the **** needs improvement on this roster.

What I still think our holes are besides QB:

An elite TE
Backup safety
NT (for which a future solution has been implemented- we'll just have to see if it works now)
An elite DE on the other side of Jackson (like Cullen Jenkins for the Super Bowl Packers)

That's it. That's ****ing it. You're telling me if we get an okay-good QB like Schaub that THOSE holes are going to be the things holding us back from being a team that can win playoff games?

Get real.

YOU STUPID TRUE FAN HOMER!

The sound of Peyton Mannings neck this season.

Agree with all this.

Unfortunately when you have a shitty HC and a shitty QB, you get your pussies and your dicks all covered with SHEEEEEEEEEEIIIIIT!

Because Scott Pioli is an asshole.

Last place schedule. First place schedule.

You realize that only determines 2 of our 13 opponents? 2 games, out of the 16 we play are going to be determined by last year's record.

And it hardly guarantees those 2 teams will be easy/hard. Playing the last place team in a tough division could be just as difficult as playing a first place team in a weak division.

This year we play the last place team from the AFC South and AFC East I believe. Playing a team like Buffalo is not the same as playing Cleveland.

The whole X place schedule discussion is largely worthless.

The key is getting to play the NFC West, which unfortunately, only happens every four years.

If we are 6-0 it will not be because of Cassel's positive production, it will be because of his minimal negative production.

8TDs 2INTs

The 28th-ranked team in the NFL last season (AND the year before that)? The Cleveland Browns.
They were 4-12. That's about how bad we'd have to be.
Incidentally...That's one of teams Silver is counting ahead of the Chiefs.
And they...have Colt McCoy at QB.

Can't make this stuff up folks.

I think you missed the point.

I'm not saying either year, 2010 or 2011, was a great accomplishment.

I'm saying that anybody expecting us to go WORSE than 7-9 this year are in for a surprise.

We'll likely win 9 or 10 - just enough for the front office to "justify" allowing Cassel to play out his contract.

And then toss a pick in the red zone.

THIS.

Then suggesting we're worse than a 7-9 team is even MORE ridiculous.

The fact that this defense is on it's way to being a really really good defense; and that we have a good stable of RBs....but a shit QB, reminds me of the line from Raising Arizona:


Eight hundred leaf tables and no
chairs?! You can't sell leaf tables
and no chairs! Chairs, you got a
dinette set! No chairs, you got dick!


Franchise QBs are Chairs.
Championships are sales
Chiefs are 800 chairless leaf tables.

Looking at the Sagarin ratings for the last two years which taken into account strength of schedule, margin of victory (defeat), and all that other stuff, it had us 24th in 2010 and 29th in 2011. It's pretty accurate in predicting the Vegas line, and overall a pretty solid ranking system.

You win in the NFL by having a decent defense, and the ability to move the ball through the air. We have a decent defense, but unless Daboll is able to get a hell of a lot more out of Cassel than Haley was, how are we going to consistently move the ball through the air?

With a good running attack, a good D, and only throwing occasionally, I can see us beating bad to average teams in close games, but we'll get blown out against teams again unless our passing attack improves.

Edit: Pioli essentially doubled down on Cassel, and is implicitly blaming Haley (and evidently our O-line) for our passing woes. If Cassel does not dramatically improve, Pioli shouldn't have a job next year.

Excellent post.

For years Pioli has talked about drafting the right players - team captains, high character players, etc.

Yet last year, there was an obvious difference when the players took the field for Romeo than they did in Haley's last few games. If you've been drafting high character players, shouldn't those guys give the same effort no matter who is coach?

As far as schedule is concerned WHEN you play someone is just as important as WHO you play.

Well lets see Orton was a backup in Denver, going to be a backup in Dallas. In Kansas City though we anointed him as the chosen one.

EXCELLENT point.

We are better then four other teams.

Excellent post.

You have a link to those Sagarin ratings for each year? I'd be really interested in checking it out - for the Chiefs and other teams.

Another excellent post.

"I don't know, they had Yodas and shit on them" -my fave

You can't over look preperation when you go down that route.

The team's offseason approach was absolute garbage last year as well. Most unprepared Chiefs team to start a season I've ever seen.

This.

Plus Romeo only cared about the best players getting on the field.

Palko was demoted and Orton immediately put in.

Preparation might cut it when looking at the first few games. Romeo took over THIRTEEN games in the season. "Preparation" had nothing to do with it.

I don't agree at all. You don't think game planning has any difference at all in the outcome of games? Romeo even came out and said they were going to do things differently.

In the right circumstances, that's a division title right there.

You specifically mentioned preparation and the START of the season. That's not "game planning".

And yes, game planning is important. Of course, the game plan changes dramatically when you don't have TYLER PALKO under center.