Morning Update (Pregame Edition)

by Joel Thorman on Dec 7, 2008 10:18 AM CST in 2008 Campaign Comment 13 comments

Open thread is being posted at 11:30. Come for the early games. -Chris

Remember. Larry Johnson owns the Broncos.

via media.dailycamera.com

What player are we talking about? "He has collected guns for a long time, and three years ago he took a test in Florida that allows him, while he’s in his home state, to carry his loaded Glock .45 in his glove compartment, his .357 Magnum in his duffel bag, his .380-caliber pistol in his pocket."
Bob Gretz on how the Chiefs can beat the Broncos.
Gretz on Invesco and the old Mile High stadium.
The match-up from the Mothership.
AA has their weekly Arrowhead Advantage.
Arrowhead is known more for hosting college games these days. That's two weeks in a row.
The Funk more embarrassing to Kansas City than the Chiefs?
The Rocky Mountain News asks if the Broncos are ripe for an upset today.
Chris Mortensen of ESPN is reporting that Browns' sources tell him the team has been looking very closely at Marty Schottenheimer as a potential coach in 2009.

Let's GO Chiefs! A win today will just make it even more difficult for Denver to clinch the division title.

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Marty And The Browns

I’m not sure I’d put much stock in that. If Mortensen’s getting his scoop from Browns sources there’s a good chance it’s coming from one of Phil Savage’s management team since the Browns owner tends not to give interviews and while Savage may want to hire Marty, if Savage gets the boot this year along with Crennel (which it has been widely reported that he could) it won’t matter who Savage wants to hire.

The Chiefs should win 5 to 6 games this year and no less than 4 for this season to be considered progress in any way. If he can't win at least 9 games next season, Herm's a joke.

by UCrawford on Dec 7, 2008 11:05 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Who was the GM for the Browns that hired Marty the first time?

Correct me if I am wrong, but he was fired after the Mack fumble wasn’t he? If so, has a head coach ever gone back to be the head coach again from a team that fired him once, in the NFL?

We need a future defensive leader, his name is James Laurinaitis and he can be selected in round 1 of the upcoming Draft.

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

by Lanier63 on Dec 7, 2008 12:48 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Fired, No

Coaches have gone back to their previous teams before.

And this is actually a different team. The Browns team (owned by Art Modell) that fired Schottenheimer before is now the Baltimore Ravens. So there shouldn’t be bad blood…the only thing that’s the same is the team’s name.

The Chiefs should win 5 to 6 games this year and no less than 4 for this season to be considered progress in any way. If he can't win at least 9 games next season, Herm's a joke.

by UCrawford on Dec 7, 2008 2:00 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Good Point, Modell

We need a future defensive leader, his name is James Laurinaitis and he can be selected in round 1 of the upcoming Draft.

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

by Lanier63 on Dec 7, 2008 2:28 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

That's still weird

all of the franchise records by former great Browns players are actually part of the Ravens…

by PVChiefsfan on Dec 7, 2008 2:30 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Nope

That was a condition of Modell’s move to Baltimore…the records for the Browns stay with the Browns franchise in Cleveland. The Ravens records start from scratch and the Browns records simply have a gap in them.

The Chiefs should win 5 to 6 games this year and no less than 4 for this season to be considered progress in any way. If he can't win at least 9 games next season, Herm's a joke.

by UCrawford on Dec 7, 2008 2:39 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Back To Marty

ESPN made the rumor a front-page article and from the way they stated the story it sounds as if Randy Lerner’s the one interested. So maybe Marty does end up back in Cleveland. He’d be a good fit for them.

The Chiefs should win 5 to 6 games this year and no less than 4 for this season to be considered progress in any way. If he can't win at least 9 games next season, Herm's a joke.

by UCrawford on Dec 7, 2008 2:43 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Quinn Grey is like Shaft, only cooler

by Official Arrowhead Pride Parade on Dec 7, 2008 11:33 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Yoouuu

daamn riight…

by KansasCityShuffle on Dec 7, 2008 12:35 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Read My Mind

I read that article about Gray in the paper and immediately saw him wearing a black leather trench coat with his various armaments tucked away…I think we should give him a shot, anybody paranoid enough to have three guns on him probably won’t get sacked from the blind side that often, even with our OL…haha

"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week."

by bigbe on Dec 7, 2008 1:25 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I think the Funk is getting too much of the blame.

Let not forget it was the city council that prioritized some bogus volunteer law.

by HIV 2 Elway on Dec 7, 2008 1:15 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

The Funk Is A Crackpot

Anyone who engages in a lawsuit with the city because he cannot stand to be apart from his wife (who, by the way, is being sued for doing things that would rightfully have gotten any other volunteer fired if they weren’t banging the mayor) has lost all sense of perspective.

I thought Funkhouser got a bad rap with the whole auto dealership thing (when they loaned the city a car). But his behavior over the last few months isn’t remotely responsible…the man’s incapable of working with other people, he’s lost all perspective, and he’s the kind of guy who gives libertarians (his general political affiliation) a bad name. Before he was mayor he worked in a job for the city where he never had to work with others to lead effectively, and now we’re seeing why those guys struggle once you put them in charge of other people.

The Chiefs should win 5 to 6 games this year and no less than 4 for this season to be considered progress in any way. If he can't win at least 9 games next season, Herm's a joke.

by UCrawford on Dec 7, 2008 2:06 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

A Mayor's Job Is To Represent His Constituency

It’s not to bog down his office in petty squabbles with the city council because they told him his wife can’t work for the office. He should be focusing on other things but he’s petulantly refusing to play ball with anyone until they cave to him on an exceedingly minor issue. Plenty of cities have anti-nepotism laws on the books and the council passed the law through appropriate channels, and if he wants to protest this one that’s fine…but it should be one of the lower priorities of the office and he’s turning it into a national story.

The Chiefs should win 5 to 6 games this year and no less than 4 for this season to be considered progress in any way. If he can't win at least 9 games next season, Herm's a joke.

by UCrawford on Dec 7, 2008 2:09 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs