Not much good to say about our KC Chiefs yesterday…
They were beat wire to wire. Never really in the game with no offense. They were a turnover machine. Hey, it’s lucky they weren’t beat even worse.
The KC defense showed up in the second half to keep it close.
Marcus Peters is nearly our entire defense now. He’s like the only real playmaker on the D. Yes, he gets burned now and then, but I believe he’ll soon be considered the best corner in the NFL.
Peters makes plays; he’s always giving it his all.
This guy might keep KC in the playoff hunt as the season moves forward.
QB Alex Smith looked like the Alex of old – getting sacked, zero good runs – though he had chances to make big ones. Uh, and zero touchdowns in the air or on the ground.
In brief Smith was terrible.
He started the year with a great game and comeback against the Chargers, but in this one he looked liked the return of Alex Smith past; too slow, missed passes and confused.
I think Alex will improve and lead KC to the playoffs but a Super Bowl team this just ain’t ready.
There was precious little pass rush again.
My lord, Tamba Hali is the Chiefs only sacker and he’s nearly crippled.
We just don’t have any playmakers on the D save Peters. And that won’t get you to a championship.
For some reason Smith decided not to throw in the first half much and didn’t throw to anyone but Travis Kelce or Jeremy Maclin who dropped three.
Just an overall bad performance by the Chiefs.
It’s early in the season, maybe they’ll improve, however right now we likely will be looking up to Oakland or Denver at season’s end – maybe both.
We need lots of improvements…too many.
Spencer Ware showed up and made a couple long runs but his fumble cost us any chance to win the game.
Defense was typical Andy Reid, bend don’t break. Peter King named Peters as one of his defensive players of the week. With the horrible O, they did their job keeping Texans to 19.
Offensive line is just god-awful. All those cut are doing great where they landed. Alex looked like he had buck fever all day.
Not that it made any difference but Andy’s two-minute drill continues to be timed on a calendar.
I predict orthopedic surgeons will see a big spike in treating injuries as the fans jump off and on the bandwagon during the season.
7.4 billion people on Earth yet there aren’t 32 QBs in the NFL.
(peters) “Yes, he gets burned now and then, but I believe he’ll soon be considered the best corner in the NFL.”
– how soon, CG… like, tomorrow morning or by next weekend? Interceptions in and of themselves be a poor barometer how good a DB is. As rushing yards RB/passing yards QB same, more so today ever before due rule changes, part n’ parcel the compromised NFL game today.
Baseball, think of how many hrs Ruth (714), Aaron (755) & Bonds (762) hit. Hank and Barry each needed (and got) hundreds to thousands more at bats/opportunities than The Babe. When all 3 had the same # of chances, Ruth had 714 hrs, Bonds 619, Aaron 423… who would you rank the best as such? Or think of it this way: have you honestly seen any WR play for the Chiefs since Otis Taylor left who could even carry his shoes? Many have caught more passes (opportunities) in a season than him, so they must be better, yes? No. Alas, how to differentiate? Targets for WRs, targets vs DB’s.
An DB (Peters, example) who gets thrown at more often gets more opportunities and thus should get more ints. Does not make him better than another guy, just as doesn’t make Bonds or Aaron better than Ruth. Anyone who plays in MLB or NFL is good, but ‘most’ isn’t the same/does not equate ‘best’ DB, hr hitter, whatever. Case Peters, QB’s keep throwing at him for a reason: getting completions aplenty/yards & tds galore this season same as they did 2015 affirms the method their seeming madness, ints price to pay.
Interceptions are largely a product how many times a DB is targeted, as hrs are to at bats, rushing yards are to carries (see Emmitt Smith for another example of an over-hype who has more rushing yards than anybody…he carried more times than anyone else, duh.) Having an all-pro offensive line in front of him most his career did not hurt either, but that’s analysis for another time. Kerouac will go with Gale Sayers (he never had a single all-pro blocker in his career) as best RB ever, based how bright he shone if briefly, damn sheer ‘numbers’ in his case. That’s being subjective my part, but at least some logic is employed.
Back to the pilferers: CB Ken Riley intercepted 65, ranks 5th all-time; he’s not in the Hall of Fame. Dave Brown intercepted 62 passes career, 10th all-time… he too is not an Hall of Fame CB. Chiefs S Johnny Robinson intercepted 57 passes… not in the Hall of Fame. The NFL’s all-time pass interceptor Paul Krause retired with 81, yet he had to wait almost 20 years afore he was enshrined HOF as an old-timer. And yet, Larry Wilson, a S, with fewer ints than Krause or the Chiefs Robinson, was enshrined before either those guys. That the HOF voters do not have to be transparent their methods, quite convenient for them, nod subjective bias/no consistency.
Said bias, lack of team success (which should be a non sequitur) and media overhype among the factors deny one player while gifting another. Think of it in terms of a KC compared NY or LA: cow town’s never get the same prestige as those other two do.
Back on point/more importantly: how many catches, yards & tds will the Jets Brandon Marshall get (if he plays/injury) vs Toast Peters on SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY! ?
BE THERE!
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CG, making predictions about who/what the Chiefs are after 2 games seems a tad premature to me. Against all odds and their own history, they had a comeback win in week one. They lost a defensive battle on the road in week two that had 1 TD, 8 field goals and 5 turnovers. Seems silly to try and evaluate anything at this point in the season.
Oakland lost at HOME to the Falcons. THE FALCONS! If not for a high risk/ballsy call by Del Rio in week 1, the Raiders would be 0-2. I’d pump the brakes on them being better than the Chiefs.
I’m still on the 9-7/10-6 fence for this team, but what they did Sunday doesn’t seem to have changed that much. Not for me, anyways.
Jim good point and I agree two games doesn’t make for a season. But hey I said that and I agree they look more like a 9-7 or 10-6 team, not a championship club. Yes they can improve…somebody needs to step up on both sides of the ball. Remember other than quarter number 4 in game one, they looked bad in both games.
I was on the band wagon for this team after preseaon. I don’t see that team right now. Andy has clear clock management issues and gets confuse on where on whats left of the clock often. He did a nice job in game one at the games end however. So who knows. I am just down about the teams lack of overall big time talent. Again lots of good players, just no super stars to get you to the promised land. My lord Denver looks fantastic. Big D and an strong offense with a new quarterback. The Steelers look to be AFC’s best right now. New England was on track but lost Jimmy, Brady back soon, so they are likely the number 3 team for now. Houston is also in the mix, but I don’t like their offense.
It’s early, but looks like much of what we saw last year with no Cinderella except perhaps the Eagles and their new qb.
Does anyone think the Royals have a shot at the wild card anymore? 12 games left, need to win 10. Is there hope?
glaze….you pretty much put an endto their streak
when you wrote another “jinx”article.
Chiefs looked rusty in both games sofar this season.
Dropped passes by maclin/kelce and others hurt
several key drives.
Again…a slow start is what is hurting them but they’re
tied with Oakland (soon to be vegas).
Smith still looks as if he’s still unsure of what is going
on but the realquestion is why did kelce only get
34 yards. He’s 6’5” and towers over the coverage.
Why aren’tthey using him more?
He should be getting 100 yards a game and getting
single coverage on maclin who too should get 100
yards per game.
Still a long way to go and the people of kcc hope
you write a negative article on the chiefs so they
canget on a long winning streak like they did in
2015.
Your headline should read “Boycott chiefs and arrowhead”!
“I am just down about the teams lack of overall big time talent. Again lots of good players, just no super stars to get you to the promised land.”
– how green was our valley, how great our football forefathers compared present day. What a difference a day- er, 47 years makes: 1969 vs 2016 (*some point or position an all-star/pro bowler, or **HOF’r)
OFFENSE
Tyrer* ~ Fisher
Budde* ~Ehringer
Holub* ~ Morse
Moorman* ~ Duvernay
Hill ~ Schwartz
Arbanas* ~ Kelce*
Dawson** ~ Smith*
Garrett* ~ Charles*
Hayes ~ Sherman
Pitts ~ Conley
Taylor* ~ Maclin
SPECIAL TEAM
Stenerud** ~ Santos
Wilson* ~ Colquitt*
DEFENSE
Brown ~ Bailey
Buchanan** ~ Poe*
Culp**~ March
Mays* ~ Howard
Lynch* ~ Hali*
Lanier** ~ Johnson*
Bell** ~ Houston*
E. Thomas** ~ Gaines
Robinson* ~ Parker
Kearney ~ Berry*
Marsalis* ~ Peters*
Stram** ~ Reid
10 members the 2016 swiss compared 20 members ’69 Chiefs, 8 of them HOF. Not an single one 2016 starts for the ’69 team, Kerouac the Head Coach. considering an nomination today is as much/more so popularity based than merit, unlike years yore. Example S Jim Kearney: never made an all-star team but he is superior to Berry who did, impact plays measure. Fan voting of course renders irrelevant modern day all-star/pro bowl voting too, ballot-box stuffing (hello fraudroyals fandom) considered.
Once upon a time, was easier for the rich get rich(er) nod Chiefs. Once the playing field leveled for all teams 1967’s common draft, followed by the merger 1970, KC no longer had their advantage AFL and the bottom fell out, Hunt’$ wallet neutered; we’ve been waiting for an encore ever since.
One has to wonder how the Chiefs would have done 60’s without their advantages Hunt, two leagues and separate drafts. I think we know… have not sniffed a Championship since the ’69 season concluded, and even then we backed in, needing a one-year only wild card format to gain admission post season.
Most every other NFL team has passed the Chiefs since – 47 years of naught isn’t a matter bad luck: Denver has managed get to 7 Superbowls & win 3, as in 3x as many for the former AFL doormats as the Chiefs have ‘ever’ managed.
But things will change. Sure they will. Odds almost demand it. Only… destiny has already come & gone several decades over, KC; the swiss are your father’s Cubs.
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YES the Chiefs were a great team a long, long time ago, never since no argument.
keerowacky…even though you haven’t got
over 10% of your predictions right you still
make the glaze look like a ham bone hanging
in a meat locker.
Lots of bullshit about glaze but you still are
only 50/50 this season.
I guess we have to respect an old old man still
writing on his keyboard after a long long life.
But I find it funny that you and I agree….
glaze is a jinx!!!!!! And it’s been proven time
and time again.
Now get ready to cry you a river on election
night.
CG, here’s more that ‘incomplete, disingenuous reporting’ (spelled BS) courtesy the local media KC, that so enamors Kerouac that he chooses to enlighten the masses when become aware such.
twitter.com/Chiefs/status/778662092870004736/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
For the record, the above was copied / pasted / run on other local websites too with no mention of the guy whose name follows.
KC (somehow) forgot to list yet another Hall of Famer who is ‘better’ than any the other HOF guys listed & also better than Peters – in fact, ‘the greatest’ of all-time re: the question ‘how few a number of games to get 10 ints’.
Answer: Lem Barney
Barney returned the very first pass ever thrown at him – off the arm some guy named Bart Starr, World Champion HOF QB GB Packers – for a td.
Barney int Starr & returned it for a td, whereas Peters int came on his first pass of 2015 HOU’s Bobby Hoyer (polite golf clap). Peters fell to the ground/no return.
Comparison, Barney had 10 ints rookie year, 3 returned tds, 14 games. Peters had 8 his rookie year, 2 td returns, 16 games, now has 10 ints in 18 games. Lem had 13 ints in his first 16 games, counting the 3 he had his first 2 games of season two, 1968. Peters has had 10 ints first 18 games, whereas Barney had 14 ints his first 18 games.
That is all twitter/KC shill.
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Mama mia, mea culpa and call me an Dick Lane slighter – Kerouac forgot about the ‘Night Train’, who pilfered 14 passes just 12 games, his rookie year 1952.
Lane remains the best ever as such; of note, he as Barney was a DET Lion. Season two Lane’s, he had 3 in 11 games or 17 his first 23, bounced back 10 more ints 12 games season 3, for 27 in his first 35 games career.
Barney had 25 ints his first 41 games & 32 his first 54. Lane had 33 first 47, 40 in his first 59 games; Barney 35 in his first 63.
The ‘best’ (defined most consistent) CB in NFL history far as ints: Emlen Tunnell. With 17 ints his first 22 games, 73 first 118 games, finished his career as he started – strong – averaging 1 int every 2.1 games 14-years. Contrast, Lane 1 int every 2.3, Barney 1 every 2.5 games career. At present, Peters has 1 int every 1.8 games, or 10 in 18. Lane had 1 every .86 (more than 1 per game on average) first 12 games, averaged 1.35 first 17 games his career.
Reiterating, all those who play(ed) NFL were / are good, but more than ints the measure, and passes caught, yardage and tds allowed too are considered (as well targets), no one at present compares Lane, Barney or Tunnell a look at all three’s stats just referenced, attesting (twould take up too much internet paper to post here.)
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