What do you want for 2010 Deez? Realistically speaking of course.

They might as well cancel the Playoffs and give us the Lombadi trophy now.

Booya. I wonder if we have the same source.

um no. not for years.
ROFL

8-8.

And not getting there through the back door with a 3-7 start or some bullshit.

We need to be a team who appears "in the playoff picture" but falls short.

This is my minimum. Anything else is a failure.

Oh, and I expect a superb ****ing draft.

CP FTMFW, again.

ROFL

Thats fugged up, dude.

ROFL

Last years Cardinals anyone?

thanks to you and BRC both for keeping us posted!

Did WPI get this scooped? LOL

Nice!

nope. Nothing about Cohwer. Evah. That was from another source. Same one that just told me about the press conference...actually.:doh!:

8-8 is what I expect as well, although for me it's more of a "7-9 to 9-7" thing. They should be closer to league average in talent next year, rather than fighting up from the bottom.

Hell, if they finished 8-8 after 3-7, I'd even be okay with that. 5-1 to end the year isn't anything to sneeze at. Now if they finished 3-7 after starting 5-1, Donkey-style, then that would be another story.

Good for our draft.

Where was WIPE on this one GoChiefs?

Same thing you heard huh?

This isn't from "the source" thats never been wrong. But it seems solid.

He says they have had it for a while.

Even though contract disucssion didn't begin until last week ;)

I HATE this! :deevee:

Awesome news.

Of course, there will be Crennel Haters, too. But, this is a major upgrade to our staff. Clark is, at least, shelling out some moolah for coaches which is good.

Crennel is well-versed in the 3/4 and knows how to game plan for the enemy. I'm very happy with the additions of Weis and Crennel.

FAX

MAYBE Crennel can get some good position coaches in here. Rotsa ruck!

I agree, for the most part, but whats the difference if this team has a some close games that lead to a 3-7 start, then get hot and finish 8-8? Going 5-1 down the stretch would not be a bad thing.

Yeah, I can understand how a strong second half could be viewed as a real positive.

For me, however, I want to see consistency, starting with how the FO performs this off-season and then extending to Sundays in the regular season.

Perfectly acceptable and reasonable.

Except that last years Cardinals had a TON of talent on defense. Say whatever you want about Clancy, and I'm glad he's no longer DC, but the Cardinals added some serious talent on that side of the ball with him as DC.

Dansby, Dockett, Rodgers-Cromartie, Rolle, Calais Campbell.

Not saying all of those guys were his picks, but he is due a fair amount of credit for them.


I'm extremely hopeful that this is a done deal and Romeo will tell Haley that he needs a big old fat boy at the NT position.
I'm pulling for Ryan Pickett in FA to fill that spot.

Fantastic news. Thanks BRC!!!

Hopefully we'll have a good draft with no :facepalm: picks. With the schedule we have anything is possible...

I know thats BS. I know they had talked to Crennel and offered him the job before that. How can you offer a guy a job and not attach a # to the offer?

We've been all over it. Subscribe now. You're missing out.

Reminder...The press conference and "the deal is done" was from two different sources and neither one was "the source". So lets grain of salt this info.

I wouldn't like seeing them start poorly, but I would like to see a strong end to the season. Kind of like the Broncos game, but 6 weeks or 2 months of that, rather than a single inexplicable week. Because I think teams that turn-around tend to have a spring-board like that into their first real contending season. If I don't see that in 2010, then it will be a sign to me that they're still another year away. And I didn't see that in 2009, obviously, so I'm trying to temper my enthusiasm for 2010 (.500 range has been my 2010 expectation since the Pioli hire was made...)

All I hope for early in the year is that one side of the ball is "fixed" and the other is showing signs of life. I don't think this team is going to be a world-beater in 2010 regardless of who they pickup in the offseason, but they should be more competitive and they should (in a perfect world) be a team nobody wants to play late in the year.

Then again, on paper at least it's an advantageous schedule, so who knows what will happen.

LMAO

I'm sorry, but if we go D in rounds one and two (with one of the picks in the latter) and we're not VASTLY improved on that side of the ball, I'm going to start clowning our newest head fat man.

That's the side of the ball I expect to be fixed.

The offense, however, is still going to have to score points for the team to win games, and I'm (once again) not sure what it's going to look like early in the year.

I see you and I are on the exact same page.

Yep - about the Wednesday press conference.

Gibbs is staying. They might hire a DL coach, but what I heard was that Romeo will coach the DL. Clancy and Bradford are the secondary coaches.

If second-half Charles wasn't a fluke, if that's the level of play he can sustain, there's absolutely no excuse for the offense NOT to be competent, at least.

This assumes that we acquire one more weapon, probably a WR.

I'm skeptical as to whether or not Charles can actually perform as an "every down" back. I worry about his shoulder. He's not a very big guy and he's going to take some big hits now that the league is aware of his abilities.

We need somebody else to take some snaps.

FAX

You are a ****ing liar.

CoMo put the peanut butter on the dog's balls

-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INBayZpjeSY

Id rather subscribe to the BigRedChief Magazine

Hard to say it ws a fluke considering he performed pretty much game in and out.

I completely agree, but I'm also not ready to put limits on Charles, based on what we've seen.

That said, if we can acquire someone to get 5-10 touches, that would seem like a very smart move. Thus keeping Charles at around 15-18 TPG.

The run D's he faced weren't exactly elite. Far from it. OTW posted the stats.

Just something to keep in mind.

You have anger issues.

Don't care. He punished weak defenses like a good RB should. We need help on the D and O lines, need our WR's to quit dropping passes and most of all, we need our ****ing QB to get his shit together.

JC is the least of my worries. He is proven though I would like to see him spelled a little more cause of his size. And I thought the Bengals were one of the better run defenses?

Thing with that is that Weis may not do wonders for Charles rushing numbers. If the Chiefs are as pass happy as the Patriots were when he was there, and they're plugging in new linemen, as I expect they may be, even with a weapon upgrade or three I think there's a potential for some early season ugliness.

'course it will inevitably also depend on who they end up playing, schedule-wise.

But it should start better than '09. I think it's a fairly safe assumption that Weis won't be fired right before the season.

To the ship!

Fired? No. Quit? If Haley don't tone it down with his coaches.

They're familiar with each other from way back, I doubt that's going to be an issue.

You, much like your boyfriend, have compulsive liar issues.

I just hate you.

I was just saying....

No, I'm not worried about Charles. I'm just saying...

And I'm someone who thinks the Beagles were VERY overrated, but that could just be me.

Good point. Rushing stats could be down as we pass to set up the run. But JC has shown the type of explosiveness that I'd be surprised for him not to excel, even with less carries.

And, Johnly, this might be an ok thing for a smaller back. We'll see.

Need more peanut better...

He is looking at houses in Leawood...

They can always find other ways to get Charles the ball.

Then again, maybe Weis hasn't run a guy like this because he hasn't had a guy like this to run...

Although I am concerned with Charles durability. It's not so much his size, I don't think every back needs to be 6'2, 240, I think he just needs to carry the load for a year to make me believe that he can. I'll be skeptical until I see it.

They sure looked overrated against the Jets who ran all over them, I will agree there.

Blah blah blah. Give it a rest.
Posted via Mobile Device

Are you ever not a pissy-person? :)

Yeah ... the worst thing we can do is repeat what Herm did with LJ. Charles is going to need his legs come playoff time.

FAX

I'm a positive person. Which is why I get tired of all the premature pissing and moaning about Haley and Pioli.
Posted via Mobile Device

now we're screwed

It's a process.

Fortunately Charles is not the powerback build like LJ was so hopefully the temptation to slam him up the middle every play isn't there.

What I love the most is the NY Post has this article and not shit about it in the KC Star.

I have a question.

Mr. Raised On Rats was my mutually-agreed-to nemesis before he lost his stupid bet, left the Planet in a huff, and was subsequently banned by Mr. Bob Dole.

Now that he's back using the Mr. Sweet Dick Willy alias, are we still nemesises?

FAX

This would KICK ASS! How can anyone agrue that Romey and Chuck would be a bad combo. They have 8 SB titles between them. We should all get down and kiss's Scott's ass for this. I don't believe anything until I see it on ESPN though.

Probably because history shows reassembling things from the past in another place doesn't work...

Not to mention we don't have the 2 most important pieces of that success.

His work was marred? He had 2 rings prior to that. You don't get 5 rings without knowing how to run a defense. He will be a massive upgrade if the deal gets done.

The hell we don't have the pieces. Bill has not won the SB without Romey and Charlie and Scott. He still has one hell of a team but the SB is all that matters espceially for NE since they won 3 in the last 10 years. They were outted at home this year in the first round. He is looking like he is overrated.

Yes, Weis and Crenell clearly weren't important. Belichick has won a lot without them.

I'm tired of this same old song and dance bullshit. Belichick was an awful HC before he struck gold with the Patriots. Weis and Crenell should be given more credit than they are for the successes in NE. Brady talks about Weis like he was pivotal in his career. Go over to Patriot message boards, they loved Romeo.

I can understand the BB is a god, but he didn't become a god on his own.

I don't think Weis and Romeo are good HC's by any stretch, but they are damn good coordinators and this team is lucky to have them.

He was the DC defense for five Super Bowl teams?

Huh?

Mecca also said Pete Carroll would only work for the Niners.

Oh and Hog Farmer, you can **** yourself you ****ing tard neg repping me in a thread where I gave inside info.

Premature?

So they didn't just go 4-12 after bringing in 45 new guys without finding an impact player while overseeing the worst draft in perhaps the entire history of the franchise?

Really?

I don't know how I feel about the defense Romeo runs.

But I feel pretty confident he'll make this D-line a lot better. He's a technician of this 2-gap 3-4 D-line. That means that I also feel pretty confident that he'll be instrumental in being the right NT in too.

Well we also went 2-14 after having the maybe one of the most successful drafts in the history of the franchise (if it all bears out).

I think judging Pioli and Haley right now is premature as well.

Proclaiming them a failure is premature.

Judging (as in evaluating) them from day one is perfectly fair. That's what Clark should be doing, anyway.