Morning Update (In Charge Edition)

by Chris Thorman on Apr 30, 2008 7:53 AM CDT in KC Chiefs News

Morgan St. Tight End Rohnie Sykes has signed with the Kansas City Chiefs after going undrafted this past weekend.

TCU Horned Frogs guard Matty Lindner signed a free agent contract with the Chiefs.

Just came across this interesting article on undrafted free agents and the stress involved post-draft.

Get this. The Rams' owner may have tweaked their draft board to put Chris Long ahead of Glenn Dorsey.

There is more pressure on Tamba Hali than ever before, now that he'll be taking over Jared Allen's left end spot.

Clark Hunt - "But there will be times when one way or another, we’ll let a quality young player go. I don’t like doing it, but if you look at the examples of Pittsburgh and New England, they’ve been willing to let quality players who are still in their prime go, through trade or just outright through free agency, because they don’t believe the compensation that would be required to keep that player is in the best interests of the team."

I linked this story from WPI before but I wanted to reiterate that line from Hunt especially. His thoughts on building through the draft are encouraging as well.

The Bucs received several trade offers during draft weekend for QB Chris Simms. One team reportedly offered a 6th round pick and another a 7th rounder. Was one of those teams the Chiefs?

Random thought: After this past weekend, what is the Chiefs' strongest position? Gotta say running back.

Bob Gretz wasn't completely relieved of his duties -- "Though Bob Gretz has been replaced by Kendall Gammon as the sideline reporter on KCFX and the Chiefs Radio Network, the Chiefs confirm that he won’t be bumped off as a columnist on the Chiefs’ Web site."

I'm sure you guys saw this and I'm also pretty sure that newspaper writers don't write their own headlines but damn this is a bad one -- Chiefs choose Charles to put a charge in running game.
Charles in Charge
Of our days and our nights
Charles in Charge
Of our wrongs and our rights

And I sing, I want,
I want Charles in Charge of me!

Ha! Try to get that out of your head this morning.

You know you're on an obsessive Kansas City Chiefs web site when you've nailed pretty much all of the UDFA's the team is looking at before any formal announcement is made. I have to give major props to the Chiefs internet community as a whole for compiling the list. And you also know you're obsessed when you think about these guys like they were drafted in the first round.

Man it feels great to have Chiefs news!

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Hali

his injury last year hampered him, and I was predicting a double-digit sack season before we traded Allen…not only will this be Hali’s third year, a time many defensive players start playing up to their draft position, but towards the end of last year, as he recovered more and more from the injury, he improved a lot…especially against the run (and he was being leaned on by the RT and TE many times)...now that Hali will be at Right End, I think a double-digit sack season is very achievable, and Hali is already at least as good against the run as Allen was last year (which is the part of his game he had to improve to make the Pro Bowl and get paid 74 million). I think Hali will be fine

by PVChiefsfan on Apr 30, 2008 8:50 AM CDT reply actions

I've created my own misfortune

That damn theme song is stuck in my head.

by Chris Thorman on Apr 30, 2008 9:09 AM CDT reply actions

Serves you right

:) Luckily, I am young enough that I didn’t watch that show much when it was on, so there is a chance I can get it out of my head.

by PVChiefsfan on Apr 30, 2008 9:28 AM CDT up reply actions

The article on Charles

Babb is a fool – “Coach Herm Edwards has said for weeks the Chiefs would draft for need. He said Sunday that Charles was too good to pass up, despite the fact that running back is one of Kansas City’s deepest positions.”

When in the hell has Herm, or Kuharich, or Carl, said that this year we would draft “for need”

by PVChiefsfan on Apr 30, 2008 9:32 AM CDT reply actions

I have to admit

I love Kent’s writing there. I’m curious where he got that impression – Herm may have said that in a press conference I missed.

by Chris Thorman on Apr 30, 2008 9:35 AM CDT up reply actions

I doubt it

I bet Herm said “We’re lucky, because this draft is deep in positions we need…like CB and OL” and Kent Babb interpreted that (as many others did) to mean “we will draft based on need”. The reason that analysts have given us an A+ is because we did not at all draft based on need (with the exception perhaps, of moving up to get Albert, but he was a steal at #15, so I don’t fault them one bit for that)

by PVChiefsfan on Apr 30, 2008 10:19 AM CDT up reply actions