Brandon Flowers done
 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Just want to say thanks to the Hunt family for the 6years in Kansas City thanks to the fans and my teammates for some great years.</p>&mdash; Brandon Flowers (@BFlowers24) <a href="https://twitter.com/BFlowers24/statuses/477525590870749185">June 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Sounds like Brandon Flowers has just been traded or released.</p>&mdash; Terez A. Paylor (@TerezPaylor) <a href="https://twitter.com/TerezPaylor/statuses/477525762879127552">June 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Sounds like Brandon Flowers is out. Stay tuned</p>&mdash; Adam Teicher (@adamteicher) <a href="https://twitter.com/adamteicher/statuses/477525839496880128">June 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Detroit - a rumored destination for Brandon Flowers - just released Chris Houston, too.</p>&mdash; Terez A. Paylor (@TerezPaylor) <a href="https://twitter.com/TerezPaylor/statuses/477525987920322561">June 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>The <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Chiefs&amp;src=hash">#Chiefs</a> have announced they’ve released cornerback Brandon Flowers.</p>&mdash; Terez A. Paylor (@TerezPaylor) <a href="https://twitter.com/TerezPaylor/statuses/477526861577072642">June 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
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He's a Charger now.

5-11 imo

Because of 1 player who didn't even fit the system and played bellow average at best last year?

And we have absolutely no one behind him.

:eek:

Can't say we didn't see it coming. Part of a great draft class, and really played some good football for us. I get it, but I'll miss him.

To the Raiders?

Interdasting...

Our CB situation looks dire.

Terez A. Paylor ‏@TerezPaylor 30s

The #Chiefs have announced they’ve released cornerback Brandon Flowers.

Time to pay Justin Houston and Alex Smith.

Yuck. Bad news. Bad, bad news.

6-10

Bingo.

Wow. I thought he was going to be traded if anything.

No one would've traded for him with the contract he has.

Another talent wasted by Pioli.

God Damnit!

He has been released. Had a great run for us considering his size. I think we'll be fine without him. The only reason why they were so bad in the 3rd CB position last year after Flowers went down was because it was Dunta Robinson playing that role. We should be fine with Parker stepping up, 3rd round Gaines, etc.

WTF? It's not so bad that he's being released, as he's injury prone and expensive, but.....


.....who the hell is going to fill his spot?

No one is going to give up anything for a $10 mil slot corner who had a bad year last year.

Two players who haven't proven a damn thing. No, i don't think they'll be fine.

In the slot or on the outside? Our starters are going to be Smith and Cooper with Gaines or Owens in the slot.

We are perfectly set up to get a franchise QB in the next draft.

No compensation. No nothing.

Someone please justify this.

Uhhh...Teicher was on with Petro this afternoon saying that based on OTA's Gaines looks like he's a ways away and would be surprised if he can help the Chiefs on defense this season.

It will be worth it when we use that cap money to extend Houston.

We'll be fine with Parker, Chris Owens (who actually has extensive experience playing the slot and was one of the better slot corners in the league but didn't get too much play in FA because he is too small to be anything else), and Gaines. Van Dyke has a shot to make the team also. We're going faster on this team, that's a good thing.

Who wants to trade with you when they know you have to release him? Nobody was going to take that cap hit/salary.

Opens up cap room to extend Justin Houston/Alex Smith, more importantly Houston.

Parker and Owens are both guys who can slide right into the slot. Owens especially.

Youth and hope excite me

inexperience and doubt scare me

It's like that across the entire team. This staff is living or dying by the youth that they've put together. It will at least be interesting to watch.

Pray, pray, pray, that Smith's agent continues to be a dumbass.

Now, who do ya' like?

I'm down with the Italian lad thus far.

You guys are crying over a player who performed poorly last year being let go. CP.:spock:

Anybody who has paid attention...knew that this was coming sometime after June 1st. If it didn't happen now....it was going to happen next offseason. His contract is the reason that he got cut.

The team wasnt going to win with Flowers anyway

I'm not too surprised by this, and I've kept my mouth mostly shut this off-season. I'm going on record now though. 5 wins tops. This team is regressing and in further rebuild mode. We'll be contenders in 2017. We may win a playoff game before I die. Maybe.

Jason_OTC ‏@Jason_OTC 1m

#Chiefs save $7.5 million in cap space in both 2014 and 2015 which is much needed as they are very tight on cap room

Flowers just paid for Smiffs extension

I like youth when it comes in the form of an accomplished player with a proven skillset.

Remember when the Chiefs trotted out Bartee and Warfield?

Yeah....well...welcome to 10 years ago.

Yeah, I know. Still....

This move does nothing for Smith in terms of what he's asking.

FYP

You guys can jump off a bridge if you want, but losing Flowers really doesn't change much for the upcoming season.

STFU:mad::Lin::(:deevee:

Couldn't even get a 5th or 6th round pick for him??

Its more about the fact that there is nothing behind him. Zilch.

He has one bad year after a great career and all of a sudden your so quick to call him washed up?

If the Chiefs had a capable corner it wouldnt be a big deal. Right now all they have is hope.

Yup, I think that anyone who paid any attention to our cap situation and the actual play of our players expected something like this to happen either this off-season or the next.

Hali will be next if he doesn't get double digit sacks this season or if he has a noticeable decrease in quality of play. I think he still has a couple of effective years left in him because he never depended on elite athleticism anyways, but the team might feel differently with Ford in the fold.

Should rename the Kansas City Ifs that is all this team is a bunch of ifs.

Yep. We were going to suck either way.

Our secondary was horrific last year, and we are worried that it might get worse?

It's all about pass rush and slowing receivers off the line. That's it. I like Flowers, but this is hardly worth giving a **** about.

Yeah, don't look at the whole body of work. :rolleyes:

I've told people for months now that this is the reality of the situation. I still believe that Smith is a stop-gap( and his agent will more than likely make it a reality ). My belief is that the acquisition of Smith coupled with 9 pro bowlers and an easy schedule was the first and last shot for the Herm draftees, and I'm sticking by it. We're moving on.

They'll tag Smith and draft a QB next year.

Not even close.

They save $7.5M by cutting him. Would have only saved $3.5M by trading him, apparently.

uhhmmmm.....no.

He played some good ball for us and I think injuries more than age contributed to his poor showing last year. I'm not happy to see him gone, but I understand the move and wish him well wherever he ends up.

Cooper should be improved with the growth that he showed after his mid-season thrashing.

Parker has been pretty good in limited snaps.

Owens is a vet slot guy.

We play our safeties more than we do our corners anyways. You're more likely to see the combo of:

Cooper, Smith, and Parker along with Abdullah, Berry, and Commings.

than you will the combo of:

Cooper, Smith, Parker, and Owens/Gaines along with Abdullah and Berry.

So if we saved 15 mil over the next two years, why couldn't we have signed Albert?

SMH

Haha now our safeties are going to moonlight as shutdown CBs.

Hilarious homers.

Rebuilding, get over it

Yep.

Ummmmmm. ..why not?


One team with a good secondary beats Manning in the SB (groundbreaking) and that's the new Formula?

Look at the list of champions the last 10 years that had a great secondary and get back to me.

Homers?

We routinely played with 3 safeties on the field last year, more so than we did with 4 corners from what I recall.

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Pete Damilatis ‏@PFF_Pete 4m

Even after a poor 2013, Brandon Flowers' +35.5 @PFF coverage grade in the last 5 seasons is the 5th-highest of any CB.

Terez A. Paylor ‏@TerezPaylor 2m

According to the NFLPA, #Chiefs had $2.6M in cap room before move. $9.8M is lots of room to get something done w/Smith and/or Houston.

Growth? He got benched and barely saw the field after being exposed.

Parker? ****a please. He's a JAG at best.

Owens is a JAG.

There is no talent at the CB position anymore. When you're pinning your hope on a pair of UDFA's...your secondary is in trouble.

:facepalm: :mad:

This is my fav photo of him. I has sad now.

craig in calgary‏@Teeeenwolf·3 mins
Thanks for the 7 great years @BFlowers24 pic.twitter.com/cJyznhTYIQ

Smith or Houston, who will it be?.....

God willing, Houston.

Flowers doesn't fit the system and was being overpaid for what he brought to the team last year. It's that simple. If the FO thought that he was worth it and really thought that they had nothing behind him, there is no way that they would have released him.

Cooper played pretty solid in the playoff game against the Colts. Tons of potential in him following a season in which he had 20 PDFs and 3 INTs and seeing as he only switched to CB in the middle of his college career but was good enough to put up those kinds of numbers in the NFL as a rookie, the sky is the limit for Cooper as a perimeter corner. He'll be fine.

Um.. so who's starting at CB now?

Then the midgets

Herp and Derp by my reckoning....

Tom B. Holly

Oh you know...

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What does releasing him do for us?

Jim Trotter ‏@JimTrotter_NFL 9m

Early potential landing spots for Flowers: Atlanta & Washington. Hearing the Pioli connection is in play with Falcons.

The other team would have had to take over Flowers' remaining contract. So the other team would be paying his $7.5M the next 2 years.

That would give this place some burst.

Kc will be completely useless to use in madden this year now

So people are mad cause we just cut our 3rd best corner back from last season? Flowers was great, but he was terrible last year and doesn't fit in the system. Cutting him and extending Houston soon >>>> Keeping him and hoping to re-sign Houston next year.