Say it ain’t so Bowe…
Wide receiver Dwayne Bowe was easily the most interesting Chiefs player of the last eight seasons and now he’s gone.
The 30 year old Bowe had a $56 million, five-year deal ending in 2017 and this season he was to receive $14 million. However the Chiefs needed cap space and Bowe was clearly fading in the team’s future plans.
Last season, for example, Bowe had zero touchdown catches.
Bowe leaves the Chiefs with the second most receptions behind Tony Gonzalez and third most receiving yards behind the Chiefs only true super star receiver ever Otis Taylor (and yes, that includes Gonzalez).
Taylor led the Chiefs to playoff wins and two Super Bowls, Tony didn’t, sorry.
Although, yes, Gonzalez will be a first round Hall of Famer, just as Otis Taylor should have been.
Bowe always seemed to always be just one big play away from being The Man.
Otis Taylor
Take his one foot out of bounds catch in the Indy playoff game two years back that likely would have set up the winning field goal.
Almost was too much negativity was associated with Bowe. His big catches were overshadowed by his big drops. However he was the Chiefs only real downfield threat for most of those eight years because he had zero help.
The Chiefs picked up Jeremy Maclin from the Eagles and if he’s healthy, he’ll be the best wide out the team has had since Taylor. Maclin should make a difference if quarterback Alex Smith can find him often enough. Clearly the Chiefs need more help in their passing game and likely will look to the draft for that.
Jeremy Maclin
Bowe had only great things to say about the team, the Hunt family and Chiefs fans as he was released. He was all class.
Unfortunately, Bowe was the only Hollywood type star the Chiefs had on their roaster.
Bowe had the walk, the talk, the clothes even the weed bust (and more) to make him the centerpiece of talk on the team.
Yes, there was Jamaal Charles, Houston and Tamba, but Bowe was the shiny one.
I wrote some hard criticism about Bowe’s play.
And I noticed that he followed me on Twitter to see what I’d say about him.
Dwayne, I kinda liked you man!
You’re a cool dude for sure. You got your money and I think you’ll keep it. Good luck in the future.
CG = CI
Would that be a Kenny Rogers “roaster?!”
Absolutely.
if you were given tens upon tens of MILLIONS of dollars, you’d be grateful to your benefactors as well when being shown the door. but he was NEVER worth that much, and until he ‘woke up’ (or was talked to), he was a big talker with shoes too big for that ‘walk the walk’ you say he had. maybe for one year. when he had to finally prove that he was a #1 receiver, worth a big contract, in a year the Chiefs had few options. yeah, and then? nothing.
so, good riddance. let’s see how long it takes for him to sign with another team.
Never said he lived up to the hype. Just an interesting guy, that’s all. No he was not a big time receiver. Maybe he will do better elsewhere.
Bowe will never be an elite receiver but he was a good one early in his career and showed promise. The list of QBs throwing him the ball was atrocious (Huard, Croyle, Cassel, Thigpen, Palko, etc, etc) and he still racked up three 1,000 yard seasons and scored 45 TDs. No telling what he could have done with a real live NFL QB.
He won’t tear up the league next year but if he ends up on a team with a decent QB he’ll have a nice bounceback year.
Don’t you dare trash my Brodie!!!
D-Bowe had his ups and downs. The two drug suspensions didn’t help, he could have been a lot better.
d BOWE never had another receiver on the other side. So he was
destined to block for Charles downfield or do short slant routes.
Bowe needed another receiver to take the double teaming off him
every game.
but the chiefs never got that #2 receiver…
WITH MACLIN…you have the same problem. Chiefs need another
speed burner catcher and maclin goes crazy. But if they do the
same to maclin as they did to bowe…maclin crahes and burns in kc.
But at 11 million a year…maclin is sitting pretty.
Glaze…do a story about maclins past…incredible story about a kid
brought up by his coach. Its an inspirational story!