Ten Things About Today's Game
 

Ten Things About Today's Game:

10. The weather was just about perfect today. Cool, but not too cool, sunny, not too windy. Just a wonderful KC October Sunday. Too bad there were other more enjoyable things to do today in KC like a NASCAR race, or the Renfest, or the American Royal BBQ, or about a million other outdoor activities less depressing than this crapfest. I'd estimate the actual crowd at maybe mid-50's. Lots of empty seats in the gold and top red section again today. When the weather turns in December, it will get more bare up there. Lots of Giants fans, but we're going to see lots of visitors in Arrowhead from now on. Arrowhead is no longer a place to fear if you're the visitor.

9. We knew during pre-season that the first half of the season would be rough. And after the piss poor showing last week at Philly, there wasn't much hope things would be much better this week against the Giants. I can't remember the last time I thought a game was over after the very first play. When Charles gave up the ball inside the 20 literally on the first play, I thought, "Game Over." And I was right.

8. The defense really didn't wilt until that terrible call on the helmet to helmet on Page. They gave up an easy TD on the very next play, and never built the same momentum after that. During the fourth quarter the Giants were just trying to run the ball with Jacobs and get the hell outta KC with a win, so the garbage time stops on D and garbage time stats on offense really didn't matter at the end. At one point Cassel was 1 for 6 passing for 4 yards.

7. I had the feeling the whole game that this was like a school yard fight between a fourth grader and a seventh grader. The Giants pretty much smacked the Chiefs around at will. Whenever the Chiefs got a stop or a turnover, the Giants would calmly march the ball down the field. I believe they scored on four of their first eight possessions. For the most part Manning had all day to throw (although he left the game after basically kicking himself). Cassel rarely had time for more than a three step drop. Our O-Line has to be the worst in NFL history. Last year, or D-Line was the worst with ten sacks for the season. Now it seems like our O-Line gives up five or six sacks a game. Today we were just woeful on offense. During the broadcast I heard Dawson say in the first half the Chiefs had four total yards of offense on second down. Four yards....on second down in the first half. At one point the Chiefs were 1 out of their last 17 third down conversion opportunities. We are clearly the easiest team in the NFL to stop on third down. That speaks volumes.

6. Cassel reminds me of my all time least favorite Chiefs QB, Ms. Bill Kenney. This chick was the queen of the five yard pass on third and nine. How many times today did he complete a pass short of the sticks on third down? At least four or five times. That crap makes me insane. On third down, EVERYBODY runs past the sticks. If you get sacked, so what? You have to punt whether you come up ten yards short or two yards short. Just unacceptable, and a clear sign of a cowardly approach on offense.

5. What happened to Mark Bradley? He was walking around on the sideline the whole second half without his helmet. He must have hurt something, but it wasn't clear how he was injured. Did I miss something? Our tight ends suck. We really miss Tony G. That tall guy Pope: On the incomplete pass to him in the end zone, why not just throw him a jump ball over the D-Back? Hell, the guy is like 6'8". He should be able to pull down an alley-oop over a 6'-1" corner no sweat. Or use him to block field goal attempts.

4. Haley was taking a lot of heat on the sideline from the crowd today. Clearly, the natives are restless. I thought the onside kick to start the second half was a bonehead play, trying to make up for the lost fumble to start the game. It just resulted in giving the Giants excellent field position to start both halves. Haley just doesn't have any weapons. He keeps trying to run Phoenix's offense without the horses to pull it off. I think he's in way over his head. I can't think of much positive to say about the offense. It certainly has not shown any improvement in any phase.

3. Speaking of horses, it was cool to see Warpaint the horse back at Arrowhead. I don't know who the chick is that rides him, but she is totally stacked. Bouncy Bouncy Horsey Horsey!! Too bad Warpaint didn't lay a big road apple on the 50 after this mess today.

2. Speaking of road apples, whoever the back judge was today must have bet his condo on the Giants in Vegas. He made two horrific calls today. The big one was the helmet to helmet hit on Page (which was total crap) and he called offensive pass interference on another call in the third quarter that was another mystery call. After the call on Page the fans were on him big, and he was over on the sidelines talking to the TV timer guys (the guys who figure out when they come back from commercial) and he was laughing it up. Pissed me off to see a ref make a game changing BS call like that, then laugh about it. Can't help but make me think the NFL wants to make sure a big market team like NY gets every break. Haley also had to challenge a spot play on fourth down where the ball was clearly marked a yard short. If we don't challenge, the refs give the ball back to the Giants. Seemed like we couldn't buy a break today, and we didn't get any calls until the game was out of hand.

1. During the third quarter, stadium security forcibly escorted out four or five Giant fans who were mixing it up with some Chiefs fans behind the goalposts in the west end zone. Geez, image what dicks they'd be if they were LOSING. If you think New Yorkers are obnoxious, wait till next week when half the stadium is Cowboy fans. Shudder the thought...

I'm down, but this is not unexpected. It's going to be another rough year. My wife pointed out to me on the way in today that she thought we were in for a long day. Check out the back of today's ticket stub. It says it all:

Would you mind expounding upon #4, please? Examples, when, etc?

More about #3.

He tries to run slip screens to Larry Johnson that don't develop correctly. We never give a screen enough time to develop. Same with the delayed draws, both were run in Arizona with James. Doesn't work with LJ. We don't have Fitzgerald or Boldin, but we keep running these deep pass routes that don't click because 1) Cassel is crap at throwing the deep ball and 2) our receivers don't have the separation skills that the two Pro Bowl receivers had in Arizona. Haley whacked Chan Gailey, who at least tried to make chicken salad out of chicken sh*t last year. This year, it seems like Haley can't come up with anything that works, or can be sustained. The whole offense just seems lost.

Wow, the Chiefs must REALLY suck.

Wiki on Warpaint. Sorry I don't have a pic of the chick. I'm sure one will surface soon. She's fine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warpaint_(horse)

Always enjoy your info gblowfish.

I went to the game as well and I have to say this is the most pathetic offense I have ever seen a Chiefs team field. I thought Herm's offenses was bad but this shit is horrid.

I agree with you on that bad call. It just wasn't a bad call it was a game changing call. But it is not surprising the refs were in total suck mode. On the first 3rd down play the Giants had Vrabel was going to sack Manning and the LT just tackled him, Vrabel throws up his arms while laying on the ground and the ref just stood there with his head up his ass. 2 plays later they scored the 1st TD.

I also noticed Vrabel was giving the business to the refs all game long I thought he was going to punch a couple of them.

It was arrestfest at Arrowhead today. The section over from mine had 3 arrests today. With the tickets not so much in demand, trashier type people are getting in. Just a theory of mine.

****ing Todd Haley. I was really pissed. I was at section 108, row 4, and I was hollering about his playcalling, especially on the draw plays.

****ing bastard is lucky that I'm not near the 50 yard line, because his playcalling is junior varsity shit.

I would a meth stand go over?
Could I guy make a killing?
some left still

Does nut have a brother on here or something and no one told me?

When I was in 4th grade, we would pick up the biggest rocks we could find and use those to even the odds. :D
Go find us some bouncy bouncy pictures. ;)

This is the only one I could find on the web currently, but it's not bad:

BBQ grills converted to meth labs in Arrowhead's parking lot FTW!

No, no. Sorry. I posed the question poorly.

What were people yelling at Haley? Any reaction from the coach?

That fight was horrible. As a Giants fan was being arrested, he straight sucker punched a Chiefs Fan watching the game. The dude who got punched was out cold. That was better entertainment than what was on the field.

I saw at least 4 blatant holds on Hali and Vrabel that weren't called not including the "squish" call. You put that on top of the other reeruned BS calls that went against it it was ridiculous.

Not saying we would have won but its hard to play against a better team and the refs at the same time. Ridiculous.

Atta boy. :D

Real inventive stuff like:
"Haley YOU SUCK."
"Go back to Arizona, YOU SUCK."
"Throw the GD ball PAST THE FIRST DOWN MARKER...YOU SUCK."
"Hire an offensive coordinator, because YOU SUCK."
Y'know, stuff like that.
He had two Arrowhead security guys with him that whisked him off the field real quick after the game.

Where the hell were you the last 3 years when we had super tecmo bowl play calling?

Good thing we are classy fans huh?

I loved Frehley doing the National anthem. That was the best part of the game. I'm hoping that shows up on youtube soon.

LMAO

I forgot to mention that. Yeah, Kiss guitarist did the National Anthem in a kind of toned-down Jimi Hendrix style. When he came off the field, they were bringing 2 Marshall Stacks down the stairs off the field. I asked Ace "If they went up to 11." He said "You know it!"

We had an A-10 Warthog flyover too. They were about 30 seconds late. Yesterday at the KSU-ISU game, they had Apache Helicopters fly over. Very cool and very bad-ass.

Funny thing is...Frehley did the anthem because he is a Giants fan.

He deserves it though. For some reason, he just calls shitty draw plays when it's clearly evident that it just was not appropriate to call it on a 4th quarter with what, 5 mins left to go?

Wayyyyy late. My wife asked me if I knew they were coming. I said, "No, but they're damned late."

GREAT read as always.

the NFL needs more if this

and McFarlane should do a figure

:LOL:

For all the out of towners, the KC Star has their pics from today up on the web now:
http://www.kansascity.com/934/gallery/1489377.html

BTW: Here's a pic of the Page hit they called "Helmet to Helmet." Its shoulder pad to upper body, not even close to spearing. This piss poor call changed the tone of the game:

ROFL

That is EXACTLY what I was thinking when they showed her on TV!

Thanks George. I haven't been on all day, and I think this will be the only thread I read tonight.

who's "we" you dam Okie

Where is Mecca to call this a bad play?

I would agree with this. Whats ironic is, we are most effective out of the shotgun, just like last year! Imagine that?

Those bad draws were out of the shotgun.

Yes,..i should have stated the passing game has been more effective out of the shotgun.

Those delayed handoffs to LJ are crap. Hes a slow starter. He needs to get up a full head of steam to be an effective runner. Hes not a scatback. Haley is trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.

Dont worry, the refs will apologize for the bad calls later in the week and nothing will ever change. ROFL

Something that really bothered me was the lack of feel that Haley seemed to display for calling plays.

1. you need to pass the ball down the field before a draw is gonna be effective

2. after you run the ball successfully then you switch it up with the play action pass

3. a screen pass isn't gonna work if entire defense is already up tight


Offense 101 ... but Haley didn't pay any attention to them.

I was getting pissed about the goal line shotgun running plays. They showed no confidence in the ability to just shove it in.

I really hate the Giants......because they are the type of team the Chiefs should be.

Pound the rock first, decent but not spectacular passing game, and play punishing defense.........

Thats how KC football should be played.

Say what you want but Eli is turning into a hell of a QB. He was making plays with pressure in his face and was really accurate for the most part. He is turning into the franchise QB they paid him for.

Hes decent. Id take him in a heartbeat, but i wouldnt say hes spectacular. he made some really great throws today, but he was playing the Chiefs defense.

Always enjoy your gameday reports George. You do a great job of summarizing the day and giving all of us at home a little more insight into the game.

I found a video of Ace doing the anthem if ya'll want to check it out. Not great video quality, but, judge for yourself.......
http://www.bravewords.com/news/123360

Pretty close on all .... think Croyle has the better arm ...

BRODIE! BRODIE! BRODIE!

Best part of the Chiefs game was the blond on the horse.
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The team was behind the 8 ball from the very first play of the game

Receivers can't get open

When the receivers do get open, they're dropping the ball

The 'strong' side of the offensive line was getting beat

Cassel was being forced to adjust on almost every pass

Cassel was throwing about a half-step behind his receivers instead of hitting them in stride

Johnson averaged under 3 yards per carry


I'm not sure what 'feel' you expect in a situation like that.

He also did it against the Cowboys D in thier place. He is legit.

gblowfish, I always enjoy your posts from the game.

I'm puzzled why Giant fan was fighting. What more did they want?

I don't know what started it, but there was about a half dozen of the green shirted security wanks that were literally dragging these bozos up the stairs to get them out of there. A couple of them fought back bigtime, and it took a pretty good amount of time to get them secured and dragged up to the top of the section. I kept thinking, "Man, even their fans are good at breaking tackles..."

way to to go gman..spot on as usual..most lathargic crowd in years, absolutley no energy before the game...

started in the seats and continued up the aisle..security did pretty well considering...

I agree...hes legit....he has won a ring, so thats pretty much a given.

Oh it was dead, unfortunately. I think what really took the energy out of the fans (when they were somewhat getting warmed up) was the Charles fumble on the opening kickoff.

When that happened, I knew right off the bat, it wasn't going to be our day.

there wasn't any energy outside the stadium before the game..i was telling giants fans thanks for rubbing it in by wearing their team colors...

the only reason it even resembled a crowd, was because of the weather.

That's what I thought as well. I figured it's going to get ugly when the weather gets colder.

Could KC see blackouts in Nov/Dec ??

The last home game of the year is the Browns, do you really see anyone going to see that?

Would not suprise me at all.

Me!

There should be some real drama. Number #1 draft pick at stake.

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:thumb: One of the tv guys noticed how upset Vrable was with the refs. He said that Vrable was upset because he was used to getting the calls his way when he was with the Pats.

I personally started the barrages when he started to tear into Bobby Engram for the pass in the endzone that was chucked into the back of the defender's head... Because it was obviously his fault the ball was underthrown. It was at that point that I realized Haley is a schoolyard bully who can only communicate with verbal assaults to get what he wants. This was reiterated when he berated Colquitt after a punt (that if I recall, wasn't one of his dead-legged ducks). Colquitt shot back at him, though I couldn't discern what exactly was said.

(Though I was a bit more creative with my heckling than the fans described earlier, btw).

I also wondered aloud whether or not Haley was aware of man named "Paul Wiggin".

Paul Wiggin...
The head coach of Stanford against Cal on the return. How can any college coach have John Elway at QB and not make a bowl game?

And it's going to be a shame to see a half empty stadium on December 6th when they retire DT's jersey. :banghead: Embarrassing for this franchise.

So let me get this straight

You'd rather be watching Nascar and you wanted to **** the horse?

shes got a nice jelly roll going in there.

I still can't ****ing believe we were 1st n goal on inside the 5 TWICE and we only gave the ball to LJ on some shitty ass drawn up bullshit shotgun-draw play that was easily pointed out and read immediately by Stevie Wonder and the Giants defense.

Not that anyone cares, but Haley literally cost me both of my fantasy matchups this week. LJ should have had 2 TD's yesterday given those 2 situations I just explained.


Anyone who gets Kurt Warner pissed off and makes he yell in a tirade on the sidelines is a ****ing douche. Haley may create some funny antics watching his scream yell and cuss, but the man can be a dumb ****ing play caller....that's for damn sure.

Getting Kurt Warner pissed off is like being able to get under Mother Theresa's skin and making her snap.

I bet Brenda Warner could kick Haley's ass!

A Chiefs fan punched out cold?

Thats terrible, those mouthy New York guys should have had the sh*t kicked outta them by the crowd.