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I'm getting antsy, so here's 2011.
With a tougher schedule and a team still very young and in rebuild mode, the best we can hope for is that the Chiefs maintain a record of 8-8 or better, and progressed to the point where future runs are much more likely.
We resign Tamba Hali to a 4-year during the season (due to the lockout cap on contract years), $36m deal with 10m guaranteed. Carr is resigned to a 4-year deal for $16m deal with $4m guaranteed. We sign Shaun Smith for a 3-year deal, $10 million, $1m guaranteed. We also resign Pope and Ron Edwards to insignificant deals designed to keep them around for a couple more years. Vrabel retires to coach at OSU. Brian Waters gets cut, Asamoah steps in at LG. We sign Wiegmann to a one year deal to keep Hudson as a backup to all three interior line positions. We let go Croyle, Cox, Castille, O'Callaghan, Niswanger, Mays, Daniels, and in a surprising twist, Jon McGraw. Of the rookies, we have a couple holdouts, but everybody's signed and on the team that we drafted in April. We sign the following free agents: * RT Jeremy Trueblood, Bucs -- 3 years, $9 million * QB Nate Davis -- 2 years, $2 million * WR Steve Breaston, Cardinals -- 2 years, $5 million * WR Sam Hurd, Cowboys -- 2 years, $3 million * FS Corey Lynch, Bucaneers, -- 2 years, $3 million And the following UDFAs: * FS Anthony Walters, Delaware * CB Ryan Jones, Northern Missouri State * WR Jeff Maehl, Oregon * SS Joe Lefeged, Rutgers * C Tim Barnes, Missouri After four preseason games, here's the roster: QB: Cassel, Davis, Stanzi RB: Charles, Jones, McCluster, Battle FB: Bannon WR: Bowe, Baldwin, Breaston, Hurd, Copper, Maehl TE: Moeaki, Pope, O'Connell LT: Albert, Richardson LG: Asamoah, Hudson C: Wiegmann, Hudson, Barnes RG: Lilja, Hudson RT: Trueblood, Richardson DE: Dorsey, Bailey NT: Smith, Edwards, Powe DE: Jackson, Gilberry OLB: Hali, Miller ILB: Belcher, Johnson ILB: Johnson, Williams OLB: Studebaker, Houston CB: Flowers, Carr, Arenas, Brown, Jones S: Berry, Carr, Lynch, Lefeged, Walters K: Succop P: Colquitt LS: Gafford KR: McCluster, Arenas PR: Arenas, McCluster Week 1: vs. Bills W Week 2: @Lions L Week 3: @Chargers L Week 4: vs. Vikings W Week 5: @Colts W Week 6: BYE Week 7: @ Raiders L Week 8: vs. Chargers (MNF) L Week 9: vs. Dolphins W Week 10: vs. Broncos W Week 11: @Patriots (MNF) L Week 12: vs. Steelers (SNF) L Week 13: @Bears W Week 14: @Jets L Week 15: vs. Packers L Week 16: vs. Raiders (Christmas Eve) W Week 17: @Broncos W We finish the season 8-8 (5-3 at home) against a tough schedule of veteran teams, but we get much better in the following ways:
All Pro: Berry Cassel throws for 3,500 yards, 30 TDs, 17 INTs. Up and down, alllllll year. He racks up a bunch of those statistics in the last five games of the year as Baldwin catches fire, and as the run game wears out. Charles racks up 1,100 on the ground, McCluster racks up 800. Both look sterling, but TJ goes down with injury for most of the season and both backs get worn out by Week 13. TJ finishes with 250 yards rushing, Battle with 62 yards. Top receivers: Bowe is healthy all year, and brings in 82 receptions for 1,300 yards and 9 TDs, and misses an All Pro mention by a hair. Baldwin brings in 65 receptions and 6 TDs. Moeaki, 67 with 8 TDs. Breaston, 51 and 2 TDs. All other receivers get the scraps. Defense racks up a ton of sacks and a lot of pressure, especially as Edwards and Jackson go down with injury, creating opportunities for Shaun Smith (who is reborn as a true NT) and Bailey (who only records 1 sack, in Week 16, but gets after it with such tenacity, he creates sacks for everyone else). Hali gets twelve, and a combined twelve more come from Studebaker (7) and Houston (5, all in the last three games). The DL does better... Edwards gets one sack before going down with injury. Dorsey brings in four, but the star is Wallace Gilberry who does his thing in limited snaps and racks up 9. The secondary is responsible for 7 sacks all year, with Berry getting 4, Arenas 2 and Carr sniffs out a naked bootleg. Jackson gets 0. Leading tacklers: DJ gets 130, Berry has an outstanding year with 95. Belcher also gets 90+, Flowers 70-some and Dorsey adds 50 to lead the DL. Berry leads the team with 6 INT, including a masterful 3 INT performance against the Jets in a losing effort. Flowers gets four of his own, but teams largely throw at Carr (2 INTs) and whatever nickel and dime corners we put on the field. Notes about the upcoming offseason: Wiegmann retires, and the Chiefs plug in Hudson as their incumbent 2012 starter at center. The Chiefs will be in the hunt for two new starting caliber offensive tackles. If Matt Light is free, he may be brought in for a patch at LT, but the Chiefs will be on the hunt to trade up for a tackle they love in the 2012 draft. The Chiefs also have an Achilles heel all season: they can't score in the Red Zone. Thomas Jones will go out with an injury for almost the entire year, and while McCluster and Charles look brilliant all year, there is no goalline back. They will need some linebacker depth, and interior offensive line depth. Baldwin and Houston will have come on very strong towards the end of the year. Baldwin will look brilliant in the last five games, Houston will look like he's "getting it" by Week 15. It's clear after one season that Miller and Bannon are busts. Jalil Brown and Arenas look good as secondary depth, but only in bits and pieces. Brown's actually looked good, but QBs keep picking on Arenas. Nate Davis had to play a quarter of football against the Patriots while Cassel was recovering from a hit. He played so horribly he was inactivated for the rest of the season. The Chargers reach the Super Bowl against the Packers and lose, 35-28. The Chiefs are heavily rumored to like OT Riley Rieff of Iowa for their 1st round pick, which will be in the teens, and RB Trent Richardson out of Alabama. Any questions? |
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Direckshun's posts are 90 percent awesome stuff and 10 percent utter lunacy.
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Yeah, well, when I see someone say a 170-pound midget is going to gain 800 yards I gotta call that shit out. That's just not realistic.
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Wow that was alot. I like it. but I think 9-7 with the only difference being a win at Detroit.
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