Will Dwayne Bowe's baggage scare teams away?
 

Will Dwayne Bowe's baggage scare teams away?


By Gregg Rosenthal
Around The League Editor
Published: Feb. 11, 2013 at 09:59 a.m.
Updated: Feb. 11, 2013 at 10:08 a.m.

Conventional wisdom says there should be three top receivers available in free agency this year: Greg Jennings, Mike Wallace, and Dwayne Bowe.

They each have the skills to be a "No. 1" target but they also have some knocks against them. Jennings is coming off an injury-plagued year. Wallace is a speed merchant that hasn't exactly developed into a complete receiver. Bowe's downside is harder to define.

"I am scared to death of Dwayne Bowe," one scout told SI.com's Peter King. "Like him a lot, but not sure what we'd be buying if we signed him. Too much baggage."

Bowe didn't have the best reputation early in his days after getting drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs. His propensity for drops matched his up-and-down effort. (And up-and-down weight.) Bowe has mostly avoided negative headlines the last two seasons, but his reputation for selfish behavior clearly still persists.

I have little doubt Bowe will get paid big bucks regardless. King mentions Jennings, Wallace, and Brian Hartline as this year's biggest receiver targets, but Bowe has the most well rounded skill set of any one of them. He's put up big numbers despite shaky quarterback play, even if Bowe is the master at garbage time production.

The biggest concern here is how Bowe will react to earning big money. He's played his best the last two years while playing for a new contract. He won't get Vincent Jackson money, but Bowe should do very well even if he scares some teams to death.


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WUT

Uh...he was you know, kinda productive 3 years ago. Just like a tiny, little bit so.

I've heard the Chiefs are pretty close with Bowe.

We need to re-sign Bowe

Wanted to call this out, just in case anybody here was under the delusion that NFL scouts have any clue WTF they are talking about. Seriously, I think the average ChiefsPlanet poster could step into a role in an NFL scouting department and rise to the top fairly fast.

Speaking like it's a foregone conclusion that he walks.

About as much as Ray Rays involvement in a murder has stopped the NFL from slobbing his knob and the city of Baltimore's plans to erect a statue in his honor.

Good. I hope he scares 31 teams to death.
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You mean close to a deal?

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So Wallace gets benched for lack of effort last season and Bowe has the baggage? Yeah, whateves.

blackbob touched himself while reading that article

You want to talk about baggage? How about Jared Allen's drinking? Does he still have baggage with that?

It's been 3 ****ing years since the "importing women" comment. JFC. Enough with this garbage. :facepalm:

So we know, Kings's scout is *****..

:clap: Dang it. Just beat me to it. But yeah no mystery here.

Now I'm more sure than ever we should resign him. :P

Bowe celebrated once...

good ****ing god, you'd think he was a gang banger reading the stupid shit that has been written about him over the years

I wanna know what the baggage is/was.

This is sad Bowe puts up numbers with dog shit for QBs. He doesn't get into trouble and for the most part keeps his mouth shut. Sign the guy and get some good offensive players and a QB

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Yeah, I don't get why people would be scared.

The only trouble he's been in was in 09 when he tested positive for diuretics.

Cool. Stay away from him as much as possible so we can re-sign him.
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Peter queen is a dried up wrinkly pussy just like his sword crossing buddy Scott

peter king needs to be ****ing killed...spreading bitch tits pioli's lies

Rumor season has started again. Teams will say anything to knock a chunk off of a players' perceived value.

It would be priceless as **** if Pioli was trying to sabotage Bowe from beyond the grave.

I can't believe people still read his tripe...

I stopped reading at the word "baggage" in the title. WTF?! :shake:

He has dark skin and he's loud...

Played his best the last two years?

Apparently his 2010 year wasn't his best year. :rolleyes:

He's never been arrested to my knowledge, let alone convicted of anything.

He's put up with bad QB play for his entire career and still been productive.

Baggage? That's ridiculous.

Ditch this malcontent and locker room cancer

:D

Actually he's not even loud. He may have had a bit of a tendency, in the beginning, toward future diva-ness, but Haley washed that off of him and made him a solid player. So what if he on occasion points at his jersey number? Tha's not a "baggage." this man is one of the few in this past miserable season who fought hard in every game. People forget how not having a real QB has kept D-Bowe down. A WR with a "baggage" would have complained about that many times. I LOVE that we have him and deeply HOPE the FO is wise enough to keep him.

I think the author is scared of D-Bowe's "package" and just misspelled it.

Id rather more lowkeys guys like Sean LaChappel and Mark Boerichter.


Chiefs fanbase

This this this.

There are only two negatives to his game:

1) Lacking top end speed.

2) Gets nervous and when the game is on the line and drops the "big" catch. Drops happen. No WR is perfect. Bowe has a very bad habit of dropping balls that could change the outcome of the game.

Im not reading this ****ing bullshit.

If he were a white guy he would be a model citizen.

LMAO


1000 posts? 2000 posts?

More uneducated tripe from so-called insiders.

Must be the offseason.

LOL what baggage does Dwayne Bowe have exactly?

I get sick n tired of hearing this to be honest...

I agree with everyone else. Everything about that article is incorrect. Hopefully the article scares off some teams that don't do research.

Bowe didn't have up and down weight.

He played fine at 220, but Todd Haley wanted him lighter. It didn't make any real difference except that he took a shortcut and got suspended. Saying his weight was up and down is a lie.

Also "he played his best the last two years"

:facepalm:

It's hard to take someone seriously when all of his facts are wrong.

LMAO

What a crock of shit

thats a pretty gay way to look at it

1) He wasn't drafted for his speed. But more for his other physical talent like catching in traffic and runs after the catch.

2) Yes he has had a few of those late game drops. But I submit they are less than it looks. It's just magnified because we have been a miserable team finding ourselves in those type of situations too often. I chalk up Bowe's drops more to him wanting to do too much by himself and losing concentration because of it. Much like TrINT before he became Trent.

I have never looked at it, nor wanted to.

you thought of something gay
it's OK
what can I say?
It always happens to Clay

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Good to see King is still getting insider info from Scott *****.

Would anybody be suprised to see King put out an article talking about the untapped potential of Dexter McCluster?

Baggage??? We would be fools to let him walk.

Total shit.

The Chiefs have been the only baggage Bowe has been dragging around.

you guys are hilarious -- Dwayne Bowe is going to be a Chief next year, just a matter of getting the numbers done.

Clearly shown on the outs with the team.

The only baggage Bowe has is when he's dropping his nuts into the defense's mouth.

So can someone explain the importing women thing?

:facepalm:

Good hope he does scare other teams away even though this is a bullshit article.


I don't even know what baggage they are talking about? He comes to play on sunday.

yeah, but did you forget about that time when he pointed at his name on his jersey? FTMFW!

Or at least the 3 times he dropped the ball in the endzone for a go ahead score

:rolleyes:

The tards that complain about Bowe's drops never mention his great catches.

He has FAR more great plays than drops.

Nor will they address that he's really just middle of the road in terms of drops. There are a lot of great WRs out there that drop a lot of passes. Welker, Calvin Johnson, Marshall, Cruz, Dez, Demaryius, Wayne and A.J. Green all had double digit drops this year. Bowe had 6...granted he didn't play the full season.

The more balls you get thrown your way, the more you are gonna drop. It's as simple as that.

I think Bowe's 'focus problems' were more of an early career thing and the stigma has followed him.

What I rarely see people mention is that Bowe is one of the better, if not the best, sideline pass catcher I see in the NFL. I mean catching sideline throws and tip toeing those two feet in. A good QB could do so much damage with a guy who possesses feet like that.

You can gobble on his knob all you wish but count me out. Granted he's overall the best wide receiver Kansas City has had in a long time, however, I seem to remember more drops in clutch moments in the end zone than game winners.

Maybe because the drops he has are more memorable. I don't give a crap if the wide receiver makes a 100 beautiful catches in a season if he drops easy ones that could win games in the end zone.

It's what Russian women do to stay in the country...

10 days ago he votes Chris Carter into the HOF and has the balls to put this out there?

Two completely asinine posts. :facepalm:

NO!1! HE DROPS EVERYTHING!1!

Stop. You are going to confuse them with facts.

Bowe has put up stud numbers with absolute shit at QB and yet the dumbasses still bitch and moan about a few drops that they blow out of proportion.

So you'd rather have a flashy guy who racks up 200 yards in a blowout then a guy who scores a touchdown with the game on the line? Check.

This is good thinking though. Really advanced, actually, because I hear the NFL is going away from traditional scoring and moving to fantasy football scoring.

just resign the poor little ****er already...
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Bowe has caught go ahead scores late against Minnesota and Indy in the last couple years and that was without even putting much thought into it. Also, tied a game against the Faid that almost put us in the postseason the year before last if Succop didn't get blocked a minute later.

Ok, I know I read it here somewhere, Clay where or when did you hear we are close with Bowe?

Like the fact excluding this year he's 4th in dropped passes.