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Hunt Forging His Own Path
"My dad's footsteps are too big for me to step into," Hunt said when asked about running the franchise his father built. "It's important for me to forge my own path while upholding his values."
AA: Wiegmann to Retire
"Arrowhead Addict has learned from a reliable source that Chiefs center Casey Weigmann will not return next season. Wiegmann has pondered retirement before, however he will be 39 in July. While there is always the potential of a player coming back for one more season, as of now Wiegmann has no plans to return."
Chiefs Tender Belcher
Adam Caplan @caplannfl
#Chiefs placed a 2nd round tender on starting ILB Jovan Belcher, source confirmed.
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Ex-players sue NFL over concussions
Jamal Lewis, Dorsey Levens and two other former NFL players say in a federal lawsuit that brain injuries have left them struggling with medical problems years after their playing days ended.
God Bless Peyton Manning
If you've ever watched a CBS broadcast where Phil Simms launches into an extended, condescending sermon on football, you probably thought to yourself, "You know, somebody really needs to take that guy down a peg. Who died and made him Football God?"
Mike Pereira on the TD call
THE GAME: Minnesota at Kansas City
THE SITUATION: Minnesota had the ball, third-and-1 from the Kansas City 1-yard line with 5:50 left in the fourth quarter. Kansas City led 22-10.
THE PLAY: Minnesota quarterback Donovan McNabb completed a pass to Michael Jenkins that was ruled a 1-yard touchdown.
MY TAKE: I think the replay official erred in not stopping this play. Not only is it too close to confirm, but I think the pass was incomplete.
Free Agency Winners and Losers
Kansas City Chiefs
The Chiefs walked into free agency with plenty of cap room and a need to push on from last year. After all, they were pummeled by the Ravens in the playoffs. What happened is they turned away from a guy they needed (Aubrayo Franklin) for an elderly defensive tackle with a history of injuries.
Of Pigs and Men - Arrowhead Addict
The minute the commissioner stepped on stage he was showered in a hailstorm of boos. From the back end of the mezzanine to the top of the highest balcony, it seemed every man, woman and child in the building were roaring with discontent.
Halfway to the podium, Goodell, who was walking sort of hunched over, leading with his head, glanced at us over his right shoulder. He flashed us his pearly whites in a big grin. He then reached out his right arm and gave a thumbs up.
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Arrowhead Pride NCAA Tourney Challenge
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@JoshLooney: Dwayne Bowe back at #Chiefs practice
@JoshLooney Josh Looney
Dwayne Bowe back at #Chiefs practice
Nick Wright: A Closer Look at Haley's 4th Down Gambles
There's been a lot of discussion this week about whether Todd Haley is ahead of the curve or just plain crazy when it comes to going for it on 4th downs. I keep hearing that the numbers justify what he's doing, but I wanted to know for sure. So, I contacted friend of the show Bill Barnwell from Football Outsiders (www.footballoutsiders.com) and he crunched the numbers. Here is what he came up with for each scenario.
More Jerseys Equals More Mayhem - Rick Reilly
In covering this league for over 32 years, I've learned one hard and fast formula: more jerseys = more mayhem. Sit at YouTube for two hours and watch all the NFL stadium fights. Every single one will involve morons wearing jerseys. For some reason, fans think that once they put on that stupid $175 jersey, they are now part of some army that must defend its colors at all cost.
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The Chiefs have signed long snapper Thomas Gafford to a contract extension. Will have more on Red Zone soon.
Flowers, Johnson PFF First Quarter All-Pros
Brandon Flowers and Derrick Johnson made the Pro Football Focus First quarter All-Pro list. Even more interesting was another name on that list that hasn't been spoken of:
Guards — Wade Smith, Houston (+10.3) and Josh Sitton, Green Bay (+7.2)
Earlier this year my colleague Ben Stockwell wrote that Smith would make an excellent free-agent pickup for some team. Boy has he. Just one quarterback pressure given up and a superb job with his blocking has him as our top-ranked guard.
Chiefs Page Signs Tender; Still Wants Trade
Page may be traded or, in the worst case scenario, cut from the team. I'm sure the Chiefs' brass saw this move coming. Now it forces them to figure out in the next 24 hours or so what the heck to do with a player who doesn't want to play for the Chiefs.
Some of you might be interested in this story. With the roster cuts coming a trade could be happening quickly.
Robert Ayers Leaves with Arm Injury
Second-year outside linebacker Robert Ayers left the practice field Wednesday with an apparent injury to his left elbow/arm.
Update: Ayers reportedly told reporters after practice that he got checked out and is fine. We'll see what happens.
Top 10 Hottest Training Camps: #9 Kansas City Chiefs
In St. Joseph, 11 days of 90+ heat are the norm each August, compared to just 2 days in River Falls, WI. Central Plains heat waves can send the mercury over the century mark. Working in the heat, to some extent, may help the Chiefs. Four September days in the 90s can be expected, on average, in Kansas City.
The Original "Psycho"
by JComp11 on Jul 23, 2010 3:35 PM EDT
on Arrowhead Pride
It seems that every year we hear new stories from professional sports of an athlete "toughing it out" and playing with an injury that would debilitate many other players from performing at the professional level. Leading up to Super Bowl XXXIX the main story-line was the Terrell Owens injury and whether he would be able to play just weeks after breaking his leg and tearing a ligament in his ankle. Afterward, despite the Eagles' loss, we continued to hear stories of TO's "gutsy" performance and how it took real courage for him to play as much as he did.For the baseball fan, talk of the 2004 postseason will no doubt bring to mind images of Curt Shilling and the infamous bloody sock. Any fan of the Olympics can recall just a few months ago the endless talk of American downhill skier Lindsey Vonn's painful shin bruise which nearly knocked her out of the competitions. Athletes today are praised for playing through the pain, and rightly so. Who am I to criticize another human being for putting their future health on the line purely out of competition? What I CAN say is that, a couple of decades before my time, there was a generation of athletes who went about their business quietly, without drawing attention to themselves as they played through injuries that would cause the Average Joe difficulty in functioning, let alone competing at a high level.
The man they called "Psycho" may have been among the toughest of that generation. Sherrill Headrick was a 6-foot-2, 223 pound linebacker from Texas Christian University who played under Hank Stram during the days of the Dallas Texans. According to Headrick himself, he almost never made it after a year in the Canadian Football League. A 2007 article from the Dallas News discusses his first shot in the AFL:
"The last preseason game of his rookie season, he stood helplessly on the sideline and watched an opposing offense move down the field. Headrick heard someone tell Stram, the Texans' coach, to put the TCU kid in the game. Stram said no, they were going to cut him the next day. If Headrick got hurt, he'd have to be paid off."
As the drive continued, Coach changed his mind and sent Headrick into the game. Headrick later said that he played in any condition because "if I ever sat down I was afraid I wouldn't get back in." Headrick wore number 69 for the Texans and Chiefs every year of his career except one. He was selected to the AFL All-Star game five times (1960, ‘61, ‘62, ‘65, and ‘66) helped the franchise win two AFL championships and one world championship. Along with E.J. Holub and Smokey Stover, Headrick was part of one of the most feared groups of linebackers in the history of the AFL.
There are many legends that go along with Headrick including stories of how he slammed his head against the lockers before every game, but Headrick dismissed that as nothing but a rumor. What is true, however, is that during one game Headrick broke a finger so badly that the bone stuck through the skin. He told the team trainer to tape it up and to "tape one of those popsicle sticks onto it." Stram was later quoted as saying that Sherrill had a pain threshold as high as any person he had ever seen noting that he played without hip pads.
Also not a rumor is the story of how he once broke a vertebra in his neck during warm-ups but continued to play the game, not finding out about the broken bone until several days later. Despite the injury, the 1993 Chiefs Hall of Fame inductee continued to play the next weekend and considered it one the greatest games of his career
The Psycho played his final year in Cincinnati then, his body barely functioning, retired. He went on to live the last years of his life mostly in either a hospital bed or a wheelchair after nearly 20 surgeries. The man who was once so tough on the football field eventually died in 2007 of cancer. Before his death Headrick told a reporter for the Dallas news:
"I've got metal knees, metal hips, metal shoulders," he said. "I've had carpal tunnel in my hands, a broke neck and disks removed in my back. I'm not much of a specimen anymore. Maybe that's why the bug decided to eat me up."
The linebacker known as one of the toughest to have ever played the game turned out to be the beginning of a long tradition of linebackers for which the Kansas City Chiefs are now known. Seen as one of the best in the game for nearly a decade, Headrick helped set the foundation for what the Chiefs Defenses became in future years. Hopefully the players that follow in the footsteps of him and his teammates can compete with a toughness that was a defining characteristic of the original teams of the Chiefs franchise.
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Free Mobile Draft Updates
NFL Draft Alerts allow you to keep up with the NFL draft, in real time, as it happens! Get each first round draft pick sent to your phone automatically, only seconds after it is made.
If anyone won't be around a TV or computer during the draft like me this site may be helpful to keep up with the picks. It offers free updates via texts.
Browns Claim LB Roth
According to agent Drew Rosenhaus, the Cleveland Browns have claimed LB Matt Roth on waivers from the Miami Dolphins. Roth was originally drafted by the Dolphins back in 2005 with the team's second-round draft choice (46th overall).
Your Questions About the Chiefs
by JComp11 on Oct 21, 2009 2:07 PM EDT
on Bolts From The Blue
We've had a pretty good thread over at AP with John answering anything and everything Chargers related. If you have any questions about the Chiefs ask away! I'm not the one that usually does this, but it's Wednesday afternoon and someone better get something going, so I'll do my best.
My question for you all is do you take the Chiefs as a serious threat this week? Do you see Kansas City as a team on the rise or will our struggles continue?
Ask away and feel free to head over to Arrowhead Pride and give your thoughts on your team.
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Vote for Succop!
Each week, we'll select 15 of the best performances for you to rank in the order you want to see them in the show. Watch this week's nominees below, and cast your vote for the best performances from Week 6.
Jeff Garcia rips into Oakland, Russell
"But when it comes down to making things happen in the heat of the battle and rallying the troops around you and making a case for the team, that's where maybe things aren't where they need to be."
With Russell slumping -- he has an NFL-worst 39.8 pass rating -- Garcia could've been an option for the Raiders to re-sign.
Dolphins QB Pennington Out for Season
"Miami Dolphins quarterback Chad Pennington has been initially diagnosed with a torn capsule in his throwing shoulder and the Dolphins expect him to miss the rest of the season, sources familiar with the injury he suffered Sunday told ESPN Senior NFL Analyst Chris Mortensen."
Nnamdi Asomugha Out 2 Weeks
"Missing the time now will not be the issue. Just how debilitating the injury is will be a major concern throughout the season, however".
Tickets go on sale today.
For those interested, the ticket packets for Dallas/Houston, Pittsburgh/Seattle, and all other regular season games go on sale in about a half hour (10:00 AM).
The Five Players You Would Want to be Kansas City Chiefs
by JComp11 on Jul 17, 2009 7:23 AM EDT
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From the FanPosts. Perfect Friday topic. -Chris
A couple of weeks ago I saw an interesting topic posted over on Pats Pulpit and thought it would be interesting to post here. The topic, as the title suggests, is to pick any five players (and preferably provide a reason) currently not a Chief that you would like to see in a Kansas City uniform. I'm sure we'll see similarities with other fans in the league, but it still should be interesting. I'll start with my five, pictures included!
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Why the Chiefs will NOT draft Aaron Curry
"Yes, it's still possible, and Kansas City doesn't need linebackers less after the weekend and Mike Vrabel's absence from the team's voluntary minicamp. But anyway, back on topic: The Chiefs, at least to me, are a lot more likely to take an offensive tackle in that spot than they were five days ago."
Great Explanation of The Salary Cap
"There has been a great deal of discussion as to whether or not the elimination of the salary cap would mean an end to fair competition in the NFL. The answer to this question is a resounding NO, and there are a number of reasons why. "
Kurt Warner, Arizona Cardinals Reach Two Year Deal
As many expected, Kurt Warner wasn't going anywhere. That became official Wednesday, when the veteran quarterback agreed to terms on a two-year contract to return to the Arizona Cardinals.
NFL Network's Adam Schefter reports the contract is worth $23 million, including $19 million guaranteed. The Cardinals did not disclose details.
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