Based on what he's seen of Haley's complicated offense so far, Roethlisberger estimated it's 90 percent different than the one run by former Steelers coordinator Bruce Arians.

This is Ben's 8th or 9th season in the league, and all of them have been spent under Arians. I recall players not liking the coaching change.

Offensive success in Pittsburgh might be tough this season with Haley's new ways, without Mendenhall, and without the general, Hines Ward.

But, they did draft DeCastro, so they must be Super Bowl bound once again.

Without question, Charles is ready to take the next step as a major leader on this team. He wants nothing more than to punish defenses and win a lot of football games.

Houston is wondering who will replace the vocality in the locker-room of Eric Winston. Brandon Albert seems to be taking on a new veteran leadership role, and Lilja's obvious voice to his teammates is already being heard by the new guys.

Cassel. He is the kind of player that sets himself up to get better every season, and that is one thing everyone should appreciate and count on more around here. Not only will he be a leader on the team, but he will be a better one. That's the kind of player/teammate he is. Add up the guys around him playing their leadership roles and we are looking at an unrecognizable offense.

Well, at least that's what I keep telling myself ...

... I wish I could tell myself that Bowe would come out and be vocal to his teammates. A more vocal Bowe would better the show if you asked me.

Be sure and catch what Faulk has to say in the link. He's the man.

... we have a top 5 inside linebacker in the league

... we have a top 5 pass rusher in the league

... we have a top 5 safety in the league

... we have a top 5 corner duo in the league

... we nearly have three top 10 draft picks spent on our defensive front

... we have one of the best pass rushers from last year's draft class

... we have the most likable, experienced, and ring-wearing defensive coach

Yeah. I'd say it's time to get truly excited Chiefs fans.

The video link is old, but it always flutters and excites my innards.

How many of these do we have? I count only two.

QB - I don't see how anyone could be upset if we went Tannehill. A capable QB running our offense would be really exciting. Question is, can he be asked to play effectively as a rookie? That's really a line I prefer not to cross, but the only way Pioli pulls the trigger on him is if he is completely sold. If that's the case, I am too.

NT - In my mind Poe will be the pick. Nose tackles should be one of the best athletes on the field, and he fits this mold. I don't see Romeo allowing Poe to fail in this defense. And can you imagine the competition battles between Poe and Powe? It will be epic.

Forget BPA. Let's stop effing around and get the damn positions on our team that can really make all the difference!

Throughout his ups and downs of the past year Cassel has always commanded in-house respect, but the appreciation of his teammates seems to have grown with the way he’s conducted himself over the winter.

His teammates appreciate how he has conducted himself over the winter? What does that even mean?

I have taken every single game won (including most exhibition games, all playoff games, and Super Bowls) since 2008 and have found the middle ground. Over the span of four seasons over one-thousand three-hundred teams have become victorious.

The average winning score over the last four seasons has been 27.29, nearly four touchdowns.

Yikes!

Since 2001, around twelve percent of first round picks have been wide-receivers (roughly 43/350). The Chiefs have taken two in the last five drafts. Below you will find all thirty-one first round wide-receivers chosen since 2004. An astonishing seventy-five percent (or 23) of which are good, great, or unstoppable.

1st Round Wide-Receivers Since 2004

AJ Green - Great
Julio Jones - Great
Jon Baldwin - Good
Demaryius Thomas - Good
Dez Bryant - Great
Darrius Heyward-Bey - Good
Michael Crabtree - Good
Jeremy Maclin - Good
Percy Harcin - Great
Hakeem Nicks - Great
Kenny Britt - Good
Calvin Johnson - Unstoppable
Tedd Ginn - Meh
Dwayne Bowe - Great
Robert Meachum - Good
Craig Davis - Who?
Anthony Gonzalez - Meh
Santonio Holmes - Great
Braylon Edwards - Good
Troy Williamson - Who?
Mike Wiliams - Good
Matt Jones - Good
Mark Clayton - Good
Roddy White - Great
Larry Fitzgerald - Unstoppable
Roy Williams - Good
Reggie Williams - Who?
Lee Evans - Good
Michael Clayton - Meh
Michael Jenkins - Good
Reshaun Woods - Who?

Can you find or think of other teams that currently have two 1st round wide-outs? Immediately the Falcons come to mind with Julio and Roddy. And don't dare forget the scariest duo since clown and mime in Crabtree and Ginn.

Pairing first round wide-receiver talent seems to be rarer than an occurrence finding a triumphant franchise quarterback. I challenge you with this: Has there really been more perennial pro-bowl quarterbacks over the last decade than 1st round picked wide-receiver doublings?

This is only one positive rarity that the Chiefs own. Whoever our QBOTF ends up being, he will surely have elite talent to count on.

Come and join a friendly tiff over at Arrowhead Pride.

I'm not gonna lie. Tim Tebow and Peyton Manning on the same team would be very scary.

Feb. 20 - Teams can begin applying franchise and transition tags to players

Feb. 22-28 - NFL Combine (live coverage on NFL Network and NFL.com)

March 5 - Deadline for teams to apply franchise and transition tags

March 13 - Free agency begins at 4 p.m.

March 25-28 - NFL owners meetings (in Palm Beach, FL)

March 30-31 - Super Regional Combine (at Ford Field)

Late April - 2012 NFL schedule is announced

April 26 - First round of 2012 NFL Draft

April 27 - Second and third rounds of 2012 NFL Draft

April 28 - Rounds 4-7 of 2012 NFL Draft

Late July - Training camps across the league begin

Early August - 2012 preseason begins

Sept. 6 - 2012 NFL regular season begins at stadium of Super Bowl champion

From Pride Of Detroit

Umm, you might say, before telling me we already happened to be the worst at points per this season. That is no lie.

Points per - dead last
Total Yards per - 27th. Ahead of Browns, Rams, Jags, Colts.
Pass Yards per - 25th.

With a healthy Bowe, this season, we happened to be one of the worst in the league on offense. I never thought I'd say this, but it's time to get rid of the Bowe-show, and split up the no-so-serial-killer bees. Why? Well, there happens to be a team still alive in the playoffs that threw for less yardage (avg'd per) than our Chiefs in this regular season.

I'm dreaming up our team next season, with a favorable schedule, that will allow no points PER for 16 games! We'd win at the most 14 or 15 of them. :)

Dwayne Bowe for ?[insert defender here]?

I realize player for player trades are rare, but also realize all of your mocks actually happening are bloody. :P

All around good advice for those FF questions, but also some funny stuff hidden in there.

Redskins Running Backs:
Mike Shanahan is a douche. Spare yourself the aggravation.

Obvious Starts:
KC: None.

Sit Em:
All Chiefs Players
I don't even think I'd play Dwayne Bowe with this Tyler Palko person playing quarterback.

Sparano has coached 28 regular season games on the road with the Miami Dolphins. He has won 15 of those road games.

Also, he has won 45% of his regular season games. So, they obviously have no chance to win in Arrowhead.

Or do they?

Last season, the Dolphins went on the road and beat the Raiders 33-17, and they defeated Green Bay's champs in overtime....yep, you got it, IN Lambeau. Sparano definitely knows how to win in hostile environments.

***Haley has lost 11/20 on the road with the Chiefs.***

Matt Moore has played in 26 games in four and half seasons in the NFL. After looking through his game logs I was able to find out he has won a total of three games out of eleven in his career on the road. The last time Matt Moore won on the road was on 12/27/2009 against the New York Giants.

Matt Moore's passer rating for those eleven career games on the road is 53.2%.

Also, 8 Career TDs to 10 interceptions on the road.

Welcome to Arrowhead Matt Moore!

OPENING REMARKS: "[Good] afternoon. Things [are] moving quickly here this week. When you play a game late like that, definitely you are on the short week and this will be a very big challenge for us as a group to get back physically, mentally to where we need to be to play a team that I believe is clearly a lot better than their record. I think this team is well-coached. I know a bunch of those guys. It shows up from a discipline standpoint – penalties and some of those statistics that I think sometimes show some of that. This team is well-coached. They have weapons across the board. The majority of their schedule has been versus teams that still have winning records, and they’ve been in all those games, really, for almost the entirety and just have not been able to get it to go their way. Offensively, they have a number of weapons. I think this [Davone] Bess is a really good slot receiver that really does it all and is pretty impressive to watch and they get him the ball a bunch. Brandon Marshall is obviously in the elite group of receivers in the league, a guy that I liked a lot coming out and have paid attention to, but a big-time receiver. Reggie Bush, Daniel Thomas, I believe they do a good job running the ball. There’s not a lot of difference between the teams that way. Really, there are some similarities in them offensively, a little more of a run, play-action mentality with the weapons to hurt you and a quarterback in [Matt] Moore that is continually getting better it looks like, making progress, getting more and more comfortable being.....

"Simply put: If we lose Sunday our season is ruined."

...QB Matt Cassel averaged 8.2 yards per attempt against them, which boosted his overall ranking this season to 27th overall at 6.51. Aaron Rodgers is far and away the leader in the NFL with 9.93 yards per attempt (Eli Manning is a distant 2nd at 8.83). If Cassel was burning them deep, then what will Rodgers do?

Sample comment
"San Diego looked pretty bad for much of last night.
But what worries me is that the Chiefs defense is better than ours. Sure, Aaron Rodgers will destroy the Chargers, but I’m not sure we can slow them down the way the Chiefs did."

So here the bolts sit 4-3 thanks in part to the refs. All the " football experts" and analysts are crowning the Chiefs the Afc West Champs, and calling the Chargers chokers again!

However , the Chargers are the only team with a legitimate quarterback, and dont just downright embarrass the AFC West in the playoffs. Their (4-4) playoff record under Turner is respectable.

The Chiefs are viewed by other playoff contenders as a bye week, and get steamrolled at home. The Raiders and Broncos don't even know who their coach , quarterback or general manager will be three weeks down the road.

So guess what Bolts fans , the division is the Chargers again. Don't let a 4-3 record by the Chiefs fool you. After next week, their schedule gets considerably tougher.

The Steelers, Giants and Packers have won the Superbowl after 9-7 regular seasons, and to be quite honest, I think 9-7 will get the Chargers into the playoffs this year, so dont give up yet.

Dead last in total yards allowed. And, dead last in passing yards allowed.

Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Sports Authority, etc, are places you can find Cornhole for sale.

(note: link takes you to APs homepage)

Every direction you look the Chiefs are supposed to win--and as we all know, week 8 has already handed out shockers (that's multiple in the goo and the poo).

Hell, I even googled "Chiefs Win", and nearly seven-hundred thousand results came up. Only a joke, but search something similar and you'll quickly find how many people are high on the Chiefs and/or drunk on the Koolaid.

At this point, it would be a shocker to me if the Chiefs lost tonight. Please feel free to remind me, kindly, why the Chiefs will win this game? Maybe some new (advantage to Chiefs) variables would be nice to add to our huge pile of good (we should win) logic.