KC Confidential

Twenty-two years of waiting for a playoff win is over…

The Chiefs got a monster victory over Houston, a 30-0 shutout. Now it’s on to New England for the divisional game that will set up the AFC Championship in two weeks.

The big win came at a high price. Jeremy Maclin, the Chiefs biggest offensive weapon, got hurt. He has had issues like this before when he was an Eagle. Maclin got hurt late in the game and was clearly in great pain shedding tears and leaving on a cart. Not good.

However rookie wide out Chris Conley came in and Alex Smith hit him for a touchdown. So he will replace Maclin if needed against New England.

The Houston win identifies and proves the Chiefs have the NFL’s best defense.

With five more sacks and four more INT’s the Chiefs dominated the Texans the entire game. In fact, the game opened with a KC 106 yard kickoff return for a TD. Game over. It was the first playoff shutout in 10 years and the second longest kickoff return for a TD in history. Nice. Continue reading →

How good are our Kansas City Chiefs?

For starters they’re the winners of 10 in a row. Amazing. They started 1-5 and ended up in the playoffs. Amazing.

Yet they are 25-1 to win the Super Bowl. Not so amazing.

The Chiefs have one of the NFL’s worst post season records. They only won playoff games after their Super Bowl win in 1970 twice. That’s over a 45-year period. Wow. So naturally everyone is a bit skeptical. Even Chiefs fans.

Is this team really better than just decent? Are they very good?

My answer is yes, they are a good team. They’re balanced on both sides of the ball. We have a few issues of course.

This team needs Alex Smith to be a top notch quarterback in the playoffs to make it to the AFC Championship game. Can he do it? I think he has it in him.

However, his best day going deep was that loss to the Colts two seasons ago when our defense was at the high school level. We have not really seen that Alex Smith since. B]So bombs away, Alex. He is great at short throws and short runs for first downs.

The fear is if we get behind he can’t put this team on his back and score.

He has shown flashes but not enough.

The Chiefs have relied on getting leads and sitting on them while their defense fights off the other teams trying to come back. So far so good. However there have been nail bitters nearly every week the last month. KC not only has won their last four road games they have covered the spread playing better on the road than at home.

Now Houston. Continue reading →

On February 22, 2015 Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu stood before Hollywood’s beautiful people at the Dolby Theater to proudly accept the ‘Best Director’ Oscar for his quirky movie BIRDMAN—which would eventually be crowned ‘Best Picture’ of the year…

Now, just one year later, there’s a good chance history might repeat itself.

Inarritu’s latest cinematic offering is the biographical American western revenge film, THE REVENANT.

Set in 1823 and inspired by true events, THE REVENANT is a powerful and epic tale of fur traders and hunters on an expedition through uncharted wilderness always under deadly attack by hostile Indian tribes.

A powerful adventure of betrayal, revenge and the confirmation of the human spirit.

But most of all it is Leonardo DiCaprio as Hugh Glass giving the performance of his career in this most intense tale of survival that you have probably ever seen in a motion picture.

One scene will blow your mind! Continue reading →

I’ve talked Chiefs, I’ve talked Royals, now I need to talk Kansas Jayhawks basketball…

In a classic basketball game at Allen Fieldhouse, Kansas won in triple overtime by a score of 109-106. There were more than 20 lead changes. Even Dick Vitale called it a classic many times before the triple overtime.

Until recently, Kansas basketball really was the area’s only elite sports franchise for decades. Then Bill Self coached this college to two national title games and one championship over the last 10 years. Self has won 11 straight Big 12 titles. That may never happen again.

Self is ‘The Man” when it comes to area coaches.

The last few seasons it seemed as if Self was coaching just to win the Big 12 rather than looking to get to the Final Four. KU has the name so of late they are often ranked as a top seed or a 2 seed with teams that were not as good as his past groups. During this time Self has had several one and dones that didn’t really help his cause towards a final four.

This year is different. Continue reading →