With our area teams down and the Royals out it, everybody’s all over the Kansas City Chiefs…
With dreams of Super Bowls in our heads!
Welp, first we need to find a defense to make that possible, right? It’s no secret that we have no clue who will rush the passer, if anyone. Dee Ford our No. 1 draft pick a couple years back, has not shown much yet. He did have a key sack last week against the Chargers and Philip Rivers.
The Chiefs’ offense is there.
QB Alex Smith is now a top 5 or 6 quarterback in the NFL now that Payton Manning and Tony Romo are gone.
The Chiefs are a 2 point favorite on the road against a good Houston team. The team they dumped in their first playoff win in nearly a quarter century. Lets roll these guys again.
Chiefs 27 Houston 17.
Missouri has an outside shot at home against an average Georgia team who is just a 6 point favorite (still I’d pick Georgia.)
Kansas got its one win already so don’t get greedy.
K-State is likely the only bowl area school and they have zero shot at a MAJOR BOWL.
This week will tell us a lot about the Chiefs defense.
Let’s see if Spencer Ware is the real deal.
Has he made you forget about Jamaal Charles yet?
COLLEGE
MARYLAND -10 OVER CENT. FLORIDA
ARMY -3 OVER UTEP
MICH ST 13.5 OVER NOTRE DAME IN A TEASE WITH MARYLAND -4 OVER CENT. FLORIDA
PROS
CLEVELAND + 6 1/2 over BALTIMORE
WASHINGTON -2 1/2 OVER DALLAS
INDY +13 1/2 over DENVER IN A TEASE WITH JAX +9 OVER SAND DIEGO
THERE YOU GO I WENT 2 AND 2 LAST WEEK TO START.
“With dreams of Super Bowls in our heads!”
– dream on as Shaw, JFK & RFK too – “Some see things as they are and (deny); (swiss fandom) dreams of things that never (will be) and say why not?” (then they nod off.)
“QB Alex Smith is now a top 5 or 6 quarterback in the NFL now that Payton Manning and Tony Romo are gone.”
– Kerouac must dissent –
Q: Which of the following QB’s would you prefer Smith to? Aaron Rodgers Drew Brees Andrew Luck Ben Roethlisberger Marcus Mariota Derek Carr Joe Flacco Philip Rivers
A: none… all are better QB’s than the swiss chief, as well 8 others not listed, according unbiased NFL rankings. Wouldn’t want the following my team, but even showboatin’ sham newton, and suspended cheater extraordinaire shady brady would be preferred over KCindy’s guy. Outside the homer-istic strains KC, ‘nobody can deny, nobody can deny – oh – they ain’t jolly good fellows’… but are better QB’s/football players.
“Chiefs 27 Houston 17.”
– @TEXANS 1,500 swiss 4
“This week will tell us a lot about the Chiefs defense.”
– Kerouac thought the Chargers already did that last week…
“Let’s see if Spencer Ware is the real deal.”
– let’s see if Fisher can slow down Watt who doesn’t have a broken hand & groin injury as he did the last time HOU faced KC (although, Watt is recovering from back surgery now; still like JJ’s chances. Too, Clowney (who has been almost as big a bust as Fisher for the swiss) is finally injury free and coming on for HOU.)
“Has he made you forget about Jamaal Charles yet?”
– the great pretender #25? The guy overhyped as having Jim Brown-esque yards per carry average despite having carried the ball 1,000 < times than Brown? Twiggy the chief would need another 6+ seasons accumulate as many carries as Jim did (262 per season), based on the swiss chief's sparse career carries load (165 per season) to date. Brown was still totin' the rock almost 300 times for a 5.3 average at age 29 (same as Charles now) in Brown's final NFL season… Charles can't even get on the field (is still convalescing), stay on the field or stay healthy despite limited career carry totals; he will be long gone by 2022/aft, and his ypc would be Larry Johnson-esque the 2.7 ypc range did Charles manage hang around that long.
(PS) Where did you find pictures of the not so magnificent 'h' wearing a turban?
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glaze jinxes the chiefs again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The ratings are down. It would seem, that Mr. Kapernick is pizzing off the customers.
Posted by Mike Florio on September 13, 2016, 8:01 PM EDT
PRO FOOTBALL TALK
The drop in TV ratings for the NFL wasn’t confined to Monday night.
With the dust settled on Week One, the NFL saw a reduction in most key apples-to-apples comparisons from 2015 to 2016.
Via Forbes, the Thursday night opener between the Panthers and Broncos drew 25.2 million, down eight percent from 2015 (Steelers-Patriots) and six percent from 2014 (Packers-Seahawks). Also, Sunday night’s game between the Patriots and Cardinals generated an audience of 23.1 million. Despite the game being decided at the last second, the audience fell by 14 percent, in comparison to last year’s Giants-Cowboys Sunday night opener.
Welp, almost got all three college bets Maryland won but didn’t cover in game one but Army won and covered and so did the tease with Mich St over Noter Dame so we are 2-1 to start. Lets see about pros today…
nice start….
tv ratings are down because nfl has effectively got viewers using tablets/
computers/smart phones etc to watch the games which don’t show up in
ratings. also…it seems like everyone is getting free tv nowadays after they
cut off the cable and they probably are not getting entered into the pool
of viewers.
There’s so many pro games on now…so many college games on…more than
ever on tv….maybe college an pro leagues are hitting maximum saturation
point as far as viewers. And people in restaurants/bars/etc. aren’t being
counted as viewers and if you’ve been to sports bars they are usually pretty
packed with viewers from buffalo wild wings to tanners and other
sporting bars in the area.
Kerouac nails another! Now 2-0 the young season: correct on the fraudroyals, correct on Trump & correct on the swiss cheese chiefs who get DOMINATED yet again; man, I hate being right all the time.
The * star award winner today’s embarrassment: a usual suspect, ‘Toast’ Peters, who allowed 10 points all by himself. While busying himself taunting and liver-lipping, got owned by the Texans. “Yeah but he intercepted!” plead the nascent; and why do you suppose said is the case? Because the opposition keeps throwing at him – he’s an easy mark, not only for his berry-esque-poor man to man coverage, but because his game is not near big as his head tells him it is. An thug imagines himself Deion Sanders, but who in fact is nothing more than latter day Johnny Sample/Fred Williamson. GRADE – F, and the winner today’s – ‘hey – look at me get beat up & down the field everybody!’ trophy.
Meanwhile, other local over-hypes put 0 scores on the board,not ‘watch me showboat’ kelce, not ‘butterfingers’ maclin nor ‘heyt ref, they breathed on me – how about a flag! smith. Only ‘I keeck a td’ Santos his choreographed self-congratulatory machinations managed anything. Schwartz & Fisher as Peters & the rest the swiss cheese offensive line was DOMINATED all day long by Clowney & Watt – JJ was D-Y-N-O-M-I-T-E! ***** STARS to the Texan deux.
Kerouac predicted an 7 win season for the swiss, 9 if the were lucky again this season. They got lucky last week, but today a trend was affirmed: the swiss aren’t very good at all. May have to lower that total to 4 based their effort the first two weeks; they’re looking down the barrel 3-7 by the time the ‘World Champion’ Broncos whomp them in Denver, November 12.
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another 500 week 2 wins in college and only one in pros, so 3 and 3 .500…its tough out there…Chiefs sucked.
You read it here first, that Mizzou team is going to be good. Yes, a bunch of turnovers cost them the game, but there is no question that the team is MUCH improved from last year. There is definitely some work that needs to be done on defensive pass coverage, and limiting turnovers, but those are correctable. One huge blunder by the coaching staff was having Drew Lock throw a pass when Mizzou was in FG range, and a FG would’ve made it a 9 point Mizzou lead. Ram it up the middle, kick the FG, win the damn game. GRRRRRR.
All that being said, it’s quite obvious that Josh Henson and Maty Mauk were a huge part of the problem with Mizzou last year. Heupel has done a good job turning that disaster of an offense around.
Yes nice turnaround for MU, on their way to be a decent football team again. Might take this year to get rolling, but things look much better.
Let’s hope MU does better in their next game. They could have beat Georgia but with a new coach they made some stupid mistakes on both offense
and defense.
Maty Mauk could have been special….personal problems ate him up.
Now they need to clean house of the chancellors/adminstrators who have
ruined a great school. Forget about sports. MU has more money than
they can spend. They need to correct their problems on campus and
in the school of medicine.
What the hell is going on up there? Alumni are getting pissed at the state
of the university. Clean house now!
I tend to disagree on the whole “MU has more money than it can spend” statement. If that was the case, the south endzone project would’ve been well underway. But hey, it could be worse. They could be like KU…playing in an empty WW2 era stadium with no end to the misery in sight…
600 million in the athletic dept. bank account…sitting
there…plus another 80 million yet to be dispersed by
kc law firm.
south endzone (if my directions are right) is already
completed…the only part is “the hill” which will probably never be renovated.
The stadium is pretty much at capacity for the
crowd size. If they were to play at the level when they
first entered sec they would need more seating but
right now still some empty seats.
The administration and chancellors got cocky and
we saw what happened last year. A total disaster
in how it was handled that cost them about 2000
freshmen enrollments.
But they’re sitting as a university on more money than
they can spend. No new facilities needed right now
and the med school facing it’s own problems.
Need to replace Anderson after this season and go
take 3 million and spend for the best coach available
and take over the sec bball,
So many missed opportunities over the last 3 years
it’s been a tough ride. Why they hired Anderson
is beyond pale.
But they shot themselves in the foot so many times
its become a real tragedy.
clean house!
by the way…I read where the Ivy league schools
are sitting on 120 BILLION IN CASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now that a day has gone by I look at the Chiefs first two games and see we had just one quarter of good play from Alex and his offense. That being the come from behind fourth quarter against San Diego last week. The rest of our games offense did little. Yesterday nothing, not one touchdown.
I was high on this squad before the season started, but now it looks like another slip and slide year. Up and down with maybe a hope for a wild card again. If that. The offense has no real super star to lead them, we know the names of the good players, Maclin, Kelce, Smith and perhaps Ware but none of them scare anyone much. Good not great. Our D has more than bent but again no star save Marcus Peters. My fear was a lack of quarterback pressure which leads to endless receptions by the bad guys. That’s what we are seeing already. In fact the Chiefs got lucky yesterday it wasn’t worse. You just never felt they could win that game, even though it was fairly close.
I think all this will get better but not ever be great. It’s a long season, but if somebody doesn’t show up to be better than what we have seen, not much to hope for in the end. Most important Alex Smith looked just terrible yesterday, almost all day. Seemed to have lost his confidence in throwing til it was desperation time at the end.
yep yep yep… not lookin’ good and no excuses. houston didn’t look all that great either and we did hold them to just 19 points. but to do that, and not score a measly 20 is pathetic. i’m not ready to throw in with k-rac yet, but it’s easy to see a 8 – 8, 7 – 9 season from here.
SD and Den both 1 up on Chiefs. lucky that Oak didn’t win too.
Hello, Kerouac here with yet another dose of reality for an authenticity bereft sporting locale KC, having buried the fraudroyals aft another underwhelming year theirs.
CG, other than inferring the undisciplined Toast Peters might be a star, a legit take yours. Concur. If #22 were a pitcher who stole 10 at bats from batters via strikeouts but gave up 3 home runs the process a losing effort, is he a star? As another local overhype Justin ‘I never made a sack in my Chiefs career was a gamechanger’ Houston, media creation as to impact does not replace the ‘real deal’ genuine article, as twere.
Being a gumbeater, fingerwagger & prima dona does not make for legitimacy. But too often, local media/fandom don’t care about objectivity, reality. As an example, today’s KC Star mentions the Chiefs defense held Lamar Miller to a 3.3 ypc average. No matter that he was not far from 100 yards, performance his as a former Chief called a ‘star’, despite a pedestrian sub -4.0 ypc average career: Christian Okoye. So a steady opposition player’s impact is denigrated, yet when a Chief does the same, is labeled a star; just sayin.
Houston for example isn’t even on par an earlier overhype, one-trick pony Derrick Thomas, who could rush the passer but was mediocre vs the run & played the pass like Stevie Wonder trying to solve Rubik’s Cube. Thomas was no Bobby Bell, HOF, who preached being consistent, not showy one play and beaten like a drum the next. Peters isn’t there, may never be. He isn’t a Jim Marsalis, who remains a hair ahead of Albert Lewis as the Chiefs best cover corner franchise history, nor Emmitt Thomas; tho Em intercepted passes his career too, said happens because they kept throwing the ball his way HOF or no. Much as they threw more Em’s way than Marsalis, former Chiefs OT Jim Tyrer & OG Ed Budde received many all-star awards but both said OT Dave Hill, who was denigrated by media comparison, was actually the more/most consistent lineman on the line.
If we dismiss all of that, then yes: Toast Peters didn’t get beat all day long and wasn’t taunting either. Visit Narrowheadpride for affirmation, the website that put the ‘ism’ in homerism. One pleads the refs took the game from us, Texans cheated, swiss are still clearly better HOU or SD or anyone else in the NFL for that matter. And no one held on Tyweak Hill’s return – he’s the greatest ever too. No, we wuz wobbed by the wascally wefs, and they made ‘I keecked a td’ Santos shank one out of bounds, we wuz held all day on defense & Texans got lucky, Captain Checkdown didn’t fumble any more than Ware did – an optical illusion, both – and and and…it’s a conspiracy I tells ya, a conspiracy. We wuz robbed, plain and simple. Like always when we lose. Which is often. 46 years now and counting.
Kerouac is delighted to serve as a counterbalance to local over-hype and swiss fandom delusions of grandeur for an 47th consecutive season. It is a thankless job, but someone has to do it. You’re welcome.
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