Ask A Chiefs Fan - Real Wisconsin Cheese Edition

hit his hand on someone’s helmet and that was it … dislocated was one report, last week he was unable to throw the ball … how that’s radically different from when he’s healthy is a mystery to me

find out gametime Sunday who starts

Teams often play inspired after a move like this, so I now think there may be a 1% chance the Chiefs could win this game.

3/4 of our linebackers, both corners, Tyson Jackson at DE is finally looking like a first-rounder, Allen Bailey is coming on as a nickel DE…..

cats, however, are very tasty when properly cooked (favorite bumper sticker: I love small animals, especially with a good gravy)

and you can order online …

http://www.arthurbryantsbbq.com/ab/

seriously, wealthy people from all over have been known to fly in, grab a few thousand dollars worth of BBQ “to go” and fly back out (it really is just that good)

I’ll make the “Ask APC” thread next week at Windy City Gridiron.

seriously … if McHoodie is the next Head Coach you’ll see the term “former” linked to many names of “Chiefs fans” … to say that he isn’t highly regarded by most is a huge understatement

I actually am less opposed to the idea than a lot of people. He is definitely not my first choice, but I also thought he was a decent coach, just a horrible personnel man, and Pioli will have that control here.

Of course if having McHoodie means they are going to try and move forward with Cassel long term, I absolutely do not want him.

Then somehow acquiring Tebow and Brandon Lloyd to replace them?

gag gag gag…

How is Joe Philbin? Is he ready to run a team? Maybe he’ll be a darkhorse…maybe….I hope.

/anybodybutMcD

last year the Chiefs did indeed head into the right direction, though it was a bit of a mirage as we had the weakest schedule ever (literally) … OTOH, we did beat the teams we were supposed to beat, so there’s that, and we had no major injuries or run of “bad luck” all year long … quite the opposite: the Chargers imploded early on, the Raiders swept the division while mysteriously losing games to other teams they rightfully should have defeated, and the Broncos were just a mess, so we did our best Cinderella impression and, for awhile, the slippers seemed to fit: Cassel looked to be improved, Jamaal Charles was racking up yardage at an historic pace, and Dwayne Bowe looked like a genuine #1 WR …

… then reality set in this year: our injuries hit bigtime with Charles, Eric Berry (our main guy on defense, at least in the Secondary) and Tony Moeaki (terrific TE rookie a year ago) … suddenly Cassel had no running game to lean on, the defense looked dazed and confused and both the Bills and the Lions started out very strong and fast this year … as did the Chargers, another early loss (though it was close) and that, as they say, was that … sitting at 0-4 and with the late stretch of games MOST of us knew it was over, but still hoping for a shot at being decent

and we were decent, with a run of a few games and back to 4-4 and then … the last straw, and it hit hard: our very ordinary, average (and often below average) QB got hurt and the rest, as they say, is history we’d prefer to rewrite … no depth at all at QB, very little at RB and TE … I don’t think the players packed it in, but we just don’t have the talent that man teams do on a GOOD day, much less when we have major injuries

no question Cassel is NOT an elite QB, and often he’s not even an average QB … we need much more on OLine (and DLine) and better depth across the board

as for Haley and Pioli, I agree … a lot of conflict there, and many of us (myself included) feel that Haley took the fall for a weak team that never really had too much of a chance to begin with (talent-wise just missing too many pieces) and in fact, my thinking is that Hunt (the owner) fired the wrong person (I’m not at all impressed with Pioli or his methodology)

no clue what the future holds at this point, but I’m afraid Pioli’s going to get himself a puppet who won’t be nearly the right kind of HC the players need, and that Pioli will be making decisions that he really shouldn’t be making

stay tuned, sports fans!

Caretaker QB, with sputtering moments of brilliance and sustained moments of fail.

I’d be surprised if there’s much if any change for these last 3 games … be interesting to see what if anything DOES change, though, as it MIGHT give us an indication of just what Pioli is thinking/planning

We set the world on fire w/ MNF versus San Diego and the team rolled over and died ever since (except for the Hail Palko against CHI).

Great stadium, excellent fans, angry fans.

It’ll be 50% Pack I bet.

myself, QB and OLine, RB depth …

others will disagree

I’ve always liked Orton, even when he was on the Bears. Weird that he plays us twice this season, both times as a member of an AFC West team.

Right now he is a stop gap. I will say that I think he has a better arm than Cassel and like you said probably a better grasp of team leadership. Hopefully some of that shows up this Sunday. If he can move them down the field and help put a few points up on the board it will only enforce a “quarterback controversy” here in KC.

The last two games he’s had 4 sacks. 3 against the Bears. He’s still learning and it looks like he will become a force to be dealt with in the future opposite Hali.

Anything is better than what we have.