From the FanPosts. Kind of a tradition. - Woodman

Well my friends, after three straight weeks of games that are pretty hard to swallow the Kool Aid is getting a little watered down.  By that I mean it's getting harder to find new things to write about.  There are still things to be positive about but most of them are the same things to be positive about in weeks 13, 14, etc.  I did try to dig up some new stats to lift your spirits.  So here you go, your glass of Kool Aid for week 15.

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Well that was ugly wasn't it?  If you're hoping that this week's glass of Kool Aid is going to make everything seem great after two horrible losses I'm afraid you may need to spike your Kool Aid with something a little stronger. 

The point of these posts are not to live in denial of where we are at, but to try and point out some bright spots in the carnage to help keep our sanity until better days come.  A lot of these points are ones that have been discussed since the game, but I tried to pull some numbers to back up what people have been saying.  I also hope there may be a thing or two you have not heard or thought of before.  So here we go, your week 14 serving of Kool Aid.

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For those of you looking for one of my positive "Kool Aid" posts, stop reading right now.  This is not one of those posts.  When I started doing my weekly posts about things we can feel positive about as Chiefs fans I began looking at different areas of our favorite team and looking for statistical proof of things that are going well or getting better.  Over the last two weeks I have been digging into the pass defense looking for something positive.  You can definitely make a case for Flowers being a great up and coming corner and even a case for Carr being a solid starting NFL corner.  However, these two have not been enough to make our pass defense anything even close to resembling an acceptable unit.  Early in the season most Chief fans were in agreement that the number one thing that needed upgraded on our team was the offensive line.  I now propose to you AP that this is no longer the case.  It is the pass defense that should be our number one concern going into this off season.

After the jump I'll give you the stats to back this up.

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Well, I won't lie to you.  It is a lot harder to come up with a good glass of Kool Aid to serve after taking a beating from a division rival then it was after beating the defending Super Bowl champs.  However, I do have a couple good tidbits for you to feel good about as we move forward.  So without further ado, here is your glass of Kool Aid for week 13.

Once again thanks to 58 was my friend for my signature picture.

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Well what can I say?  I put in last weeks post that I would need lots of Kool Aid to cheer people up this week after the Steelers game.  Boy am I glad that I was wrong.  You probably don't even need a glass of Kool Aid this week to buy into things in the Chiefs universe, but hey we might as well bask in the victory while we can.  Alot of what I am including has already been mentioned by others, but I present it to you here in one nice "feel good" package.

Also, mad props to 58 was my friend for the killer picture!

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As each week goes by we come closer to the end of what is clearly another hard year as a Chiefs fan.  You know its bad when the mock drafts start up only a few weeks into the season.  It's never too early to hear information on top prospects that might look good in a Chief uniform next year.  The reason I can't get into the true mocks yet is because there are so many really bad teams this year that its really hard to guess where KC might pick.  So if for nothing more then my own selfish attempt to find a seat on the mock draft band wagon I'm going to try and look at the numerous teams that are all competing for the top draft spots and try and predict how things might pan out.

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The on going debate today in a couple of excellent posts by Krayfish and RDOGuy about how we Chiefs fans view our team has had me thinking all day.  We fans that tend to be on the "positive" side of things are good at talking about patience and philosophy but are probably not as good at pointing out concrete examples of things we are excited about.  In a season like this you have to look a lot harder for positives then negatives.  Make no mistake, I am not in denial about how bad we are this season.  We're really, really, REALLY bad right now.  As I pointed out in Kray's post, the only way I can survive these bad times is to find some positives that we can build on going forward.  This doesn't mean that I won't recognize the things that need to be improved.  But as your self appointed (and for many unwanted :-P) "Kool Aid Man" I am going to take it upon myself to once a week give AP some of the good things we have going for us.  This won't always be easy and I'm probably crazy for starting this right before the Steelers come to town.  I promise never to use the word "patience" in these posts and will try to give concrete examples instead of just philosophical ramblings that I tend to go in to (the start of this post, for example).  Hopefully these posts will give those like me a glimmer of hope to hold on to during these hard times we Chiefs fans have fallen upon.

So without further ado, I give you your weekly glass of Kool Aid for week 11.

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From the FanPosts. -Chris

It appears that we are destined to read about 2.5 million posts about what FA we should sign and who we should select in next year's draft.  It is my belief that these speculations are pretty pointless right now.  There are several things we do not know that have too big of impact on things to make speculating worth while.  Will there be a cap next year?  If not, that changes what FAs will be available and how expensive the FAs on the market will be.  Even more important is the number of key FAs that will resign with their current team and never hit the open market.  Last, when we don't have any idea what the draft order will be and what underclassmen will declare, mock drafts are irrelevant.  I love hearing scouting reports on players that people think would be good picks, but guessing who we will pick in what round just doesn't do it for me.

So how about we discuss something that still relates to next year's team, but that we can make a little more educated guess about. 

How many key players / starters for next year's team are currently on our roster?

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