Morning Update (Buc Week Edition)

by Chris Thorman on Oct 29, 2008 8:04 AM CDT in Article Updates Comment 13 comments

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First, head on over to the FanPost by JScott from Buc Em asking for your questions. Gotta admit it feels a bit weird to play the Bucs.

Where's Michael Bennett?

WR Mark Bradley is easily the #2 WR on the depth chart IMO.

Should be another entertaining game this weekend- Chiefs will again employ the spread offense against Tampa Bay.

I've got to admit Herm's press conferences are getting on my nerves. From yesterday's- "When you look at the Tampa offense, Coach Gruden has done a good job."

I can't blame KC Chiefs Fanatic for putting the Kansas City Chiefs at #30 in their power rankings this week.

The Chiefs problems summed up in a nice, short article.

Larry better get used to his cars being the only reason he's mentioned in the media- "We just finished Larry Johnson's '66 Lincoln Continental from the Kansas City Chiefs."

Possibly the ugliest hat I've ever seen.

Here is a pretty good breakdown at AA of what the Chiefs' QB options may be this off-season.

Does Daunte Culpepper even know what he wants?

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Excellant article on what has happened since

Johnson came back from his holdout.

"But what do I know, I’m like an empty room with a large ECHO"

by Lanier63 on Oct 29, 2008 8:25 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Culpepper has hurt himself

Since he is acting as his own agent(he got burned by his former agent in Minnesota) he goes into meetings telling the teams how good he is, and the team says you aren’t that good, he gets mad and leaves. That is why you need an agent, they will never tell you what the team said and the relationship won’t be soured.

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by JasonM on Oct 29, 2008 8:33 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Excellent points

There are many, many problems with him acting as his own agent and I think you nailed the biggest one.

by Joel Thorman on Oct 29, 2008 8:52 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Also

The teams are more likely to view you as a malcontent because you’re asking about your contract constantly…which is what an agent would do.

Unless you’ve got a situation where the player has no intention of leaving the team and the player and the team are already in agreement about the player’s worth, there’s no upside to a player being his own agent. There’s a reason these guys get a cut of what the player earns…because it’s much tougher to get value in a contract without one. Heck, if Culpepper wanted to save a few bucks, he’d be better off hiring a lawyer to do the negotiations on an hourly rate instead of trying to do this himself.

Supporting the lesser of two evils is still supporting something evil.

by UCrawford on Oct 29, 2008 10:35 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I agree with the Bradley assessment

I think our WR depth chart should be Bowe, Bradley, Franklin, Darling, Webb.

by PVChiefsfan on Oct 29, 2008 10:03 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I Think Our WR Depth Chart Should Be

Bowe, Bradley, whoever…none of the guys after Bowe and Bradley has done anything to put themselves above anybody else on that depth chart. Darling at least had one semi-impressive catch and seems to be able to do something when he gets the ball (which isn’t all that often, of course). Webb’s worse than Samie Parker and Will Franklin’s had one catch. The only upside to Franklin is that he’s the youngest, but he hasn’t shown anything to demonstrate that he belongs anywhere but the bench at this point in his career…he’s probably a year or two off from being worth playing frequently.

Supporting the lesser of two evils is still supporting something evil.

by UCrawford on Oct 29, 2008 10:41 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

+1

And most WRs take a couple of years unless they are a top end talent. I think next year Franklin will start to be a player for us, and he might progress faster now with the KC spread attack.

by tevans96 on Oct 29, 2008 10:59 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Let's bring in MIZZOU Offensive Coordinator

Dave Christensen to run the Chiefs spread next year! Then we draft Maclin in the 1st round and Chase Daniel in the 4th.

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by JasonM on Oct 29, 2008 11:03 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Go Washington Sentinels

Clifford Franklin rocks!

Just keep matriculating the ball down the field boys.

by THE_TRUTH on Oct 29, 2008 11:06 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

LOL

"But what do I know, I’m like an empty room with a large ECHO"

by Lanier63 on Oct 29, 2008 12:12 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

AA's post

makes me wonder how much thought an underclassman will put into his decision to come out early, thinking he may get drafted by the Chiefs. (meaning he doesn’t want to play for us)

"But what do I know, I’m like an empty room with a large ECHO"

by Lanier63 on Oct 29, 2008 8:46 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs