Welcome to week 15 of our AP Power Rankings. This will be my last week handling the bulk of this project as I will be passing it off to one of our other panelists to see it through to the end. It's been a pleasure to bring you these each week.I want to thank all the Rankers for all their help throughout the year!

The Saints were able to keep their strangle hold on the top spot with the Colts right behind them. I don't know how you really decide between these two teams. Both are playing fantastic football and are a mere 3 victories away from making NFL history. If that happens they will forever be linked. Yes, the odds are still long but can you imagine a Super Bowl with the 18-0 Colts and the 18-0 Saints? Two prolific offenses and two of the games best QB's? Talk about drama...but we get ahead of ourselves.

There are a couple of other teams that may have a thing or two to say about a Saints vs. Colts Super Bowl and they would be the Minnesota Vikings and the San Diego Chargers. They are numbers 3 and 4 in our rankings and are both playing great football. Rounding out the top 5 is a scrappy Bengals squad who will be playing with a heavy heart this Sunday following the death of wide receiver Chris Henry who passed away this morning. The Bengals will face a red hot Charger team in a game with big time seeding implications.

The Chiefs sit at a lowly 28 in the rankings and hope to jump up a slot or two with a convincing win over the Browns this Sunday at Arrowhead.

Go Chiefs and on to the Ranks.

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Hey Arrowhead Priders,

I just wanted to write to everyone at AP to say thank you. I stumbled upon Arrowhead Pride last December and I officially joined on February 27th. 136 Fan Posts and 4721 comments later I have been offered the Lead Blogger position over at Arrowhead Addict and I have accepted.

I just wanted to throw up a quick post thanking you all for reading my stuff and encouraging me to keep writing. Many of the posters here have said a lot of nice things about my writing and it was those comments that encouraged me to keep at it. It was because of AP that I had a number of different articles to choose from when selecting samples to apply with over at AA.

 I have also been influenced by the incredible work of all the bloggers here and I have certainly learned a lot from you all. It is a little bittersweet for me, as my new responsibility to Arrowhead Addict will most certainly limit my activity on Arrowhead Pride. AP is one of the best Chiefs sites on the planet, along with Arrowhead Addict (hey, I’m a company man now). I hope you all will stop over to AA to check out the changes that will be happening in the coming months and to check out my work.

I’d also like to extend a special thank you to Chris and Joel who have really been great friends and who have set a great example of how an excellent, professional blog should be managed.

Cheers and Go Chiefs!

Paddy

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Well here we are. Another Monday morning. Another Chiefs loss. Mondays are usually pretty slow for news. This is the time to reflect on what we saw and what, if anything the Chiefs can hang their hard hat on. Cue the Cassel and Haley doubters. The Pendergast lynch mob. The Koolaid salesman will start setting up shop. The Silver Miners start looking for lining. And at least a couple of Scouts are preparing mock drafts. Yes, the inhabitants of the Chiefs Kingdom are getting restless in the spin cycle that is yet another losing season. The jesters are running out of balls to juggle.

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Here are your rankings. I had an intro all written out but the file somehow got corrupted and I am grumpy and don't feel like doing it over.

Sorry about that!

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  As many of you know I fancy myself something of a football scout. Given the many problems the Chiefs have had on offense and defense this year I have been scouring the country trying to find upgrades at certain positions. It hasn't been easy but I have found a few candidates. Below I will list the players name and some info about him/her and the current Chiefs player they will be replacing. Most of these players should come pretty cheap for Pioli and as the Chiefs have a ton of cap space I see no reason why the team can't at least bring in half of these players.

 These moves should greatly improve next years roster.

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We were excited. I don't lame us. Things had been going south for a while and change, any change, was welcomed like as big bucket of money. The Chiefs were bringing in Super Bowl pedigree in Scott Pioli. They brought in more with Todd Haley. The Chiefs were going to turn into Patriots West, Matt Cassel was going to be a combination of Tom Brady, Kurt Warner and Trent Green. Dwayne Bowe would morph into a combination of Boldin and Fitgerald. The Broncos were sinking fast, the Chargers were getting old and the Raiders were still owned by Al Davis. The Chiefs were on the rise. Life was good and we were blind.

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I usually do a lengthy write up to introduce the Power Rankings. My being busier at work as really cut into the hours and hours of free time I used to be able to devote to AP so I am going to keep it short and sweet this week.

I despise the Donkey’s more than any of our rivals. I grew up in the  late 80’s and 90’s and had to suffer the indignities of the Hellway Era. The day after the Chiefs lost to the Donkey’s 14-10 in the playoffs I didn’t go to school the next day.

God as my witness I will do everything I can to use my brain waves to single handily ensure a Chiefs victory this Sunday. There are some scientists who believe that the power of group thought, some might call it prayer, can actually have a physical impact on the world we live in. I don’t know if I buy this type of talk but for this weekend I am going to try. Thus I am going to ask you all a favor this week. From this moment forward I want you to start believing the Chiefs are going to win this weekend. I went into the Pittsburgh game with absolutely no hope and I am ashamed of it but I am not asking you to hope the Chiefs win. I am asking you to believe the Chiefs will win. Start right now. "Just two days till the Chiefs stomp the Broncos." "The Chiefs WILL win this weekend." Keep all the negatives out of your mind. Don’t think about the past two seasons. Don’t even think about last week’s loss. Think only about how Charles is going to blow into the secondary, how Cassel and Chambers are going to burn Denver’s DB’s. Think about Succupp blasting 50 yard FG’s and Haley calling brilliant, timely plays. Let’s all focus all our energy and all out positive thoughts on OUR Kansas City Chiefs and on Arrowhead Stadium.  

This is it. Teams aren’t going to walk on the Chiefs anymore. I’ve had enough, I am willing to bet you’ve had enough and I know damn well the boys in the locker room have had enough.

Scream louder, cheer harder, drink one more beer and for the love of God, BEAT THE DONKEY’S!

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Hello all. Posting a lot on AP I am constantly shifting through the internet looking for funny or clever pictures to help make my point. Thank God for Google image search right? I'm not the only one who has posted funny content for a laugh. Recently I decided to do a search for images related to Arrowhead Pride. We have posted a lot of ridiculous crap on here over the years so I thought I would share with you some of AP's greatest hits.

Remember, all of these can be found by doing an AP image search on google!

Enjoy!

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I was inspired by the comparison posted this morning about how the Chiefs and the Broncos match up statistically. I believe, despite the blowout loss in Cali that the Chiefs are playing better football with the addition of Chris Chambers and Jamaal Charles and the subtraction of  "He Who Must Not Be Named" aka, 2.7.. I decided to look into the Chiefs numbers before and after the BYE and then compare those numbers to the Donkeys over their last 4 games. The results were pretty encouraging.

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You may remember my "Damn Haley" post from earlier in the season. I had much fun with it and decided to do a post about things I'd like to blame Haley for. Hopefully whether you are a full fledged "Haley Homer" or a "Haley Hater" you will be able to enjoy this post.

Thus I present to you....

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