Morning Update (Santos L. Halper Edition)

by Chris Thorman on May 8, 2008 8:05 AM CDT in KC Chiefs News

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The Kansas City Chiefs will have the highest rookie pool this year, meaning they'll have the most money with which to pay their draft picks in the 2008 salary cap year. (H/T The Football Wire)

Cuts: WR Sean Bailey, CB Chad Johnson, OT Joe Lobdell, LB Mickey Pimentel and QB Ricky Santos. We had previously reported only Bailey and Santos were gone.
When you hear the name Santos, does anyone else think of that Simpson's episode where Bart got a credit card in his dog's name? Santos L. Halper was the name on the card.

Herm Edwards had some interesting thoughts on the radio yesterday.

Remember when free agent WR DJ Hackett got a ton of hype around here? I always contended the guy wasn't that good and the Panthers seem to agree.

Morgan St. TE Rohnie Sykes signed a free agent deal with the Chiefs yesterday. He's a former junior college transfer, developmental type of player.

Michael Ash of WPI -- KC's defense getting an attitude adjustment.

The rookie pool is nice in theory but unsurprisingly agents and teams get around it pretty easily. Here is a good read on that from the NFL Player's Association.

A $2 million signing bonus on a five-year contract, for example, while paid in the first year, would only count $400,000 against the Rookie Pool as the full amount is spread out over the term of the contract for cap purposes. Another method to guarantee money to players is through option bonuses which allow for a club to extend the length of a player’s contract upon payment of a bonus. Clubs typically exercise this right to extend in the second year of a player’s contract and therefore the bonus paid has no effect on the first-year Rookie Pool. In 2007, 28 of the 32 first-rounders received an option bonus.

The rookie pool is yet another obstacle that draft picks have to negotiate around, no doubt contributing to longer negotiations.

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Santos L. Halper

I can’t hear the name Joe Flacco without thinking of Shane Falco aka Keanu Reeves QB on the movie The Replacements. Everytime they said Flacco’s name during the draft I would immediately yell Shane Falco to the delite of my fellow draft party patrons. Speaking of Flacco, get that kid some tweezers or some wax or something, you should have 2 eyebrows not one buddy.

Rohnie Sykes—-We’re gonna make darn sure we have a blocking tight end this year. How many guys are competing for that job??? 3 or 4 at least. Plus if you want to carry Michael Allen as a back-up receiving tight end…..

by letral on May 8, 2008 8:37 AM CDT reply actions

Shane Falco...or Brodie Croyle???

by Chris Thorman on May 8, 2008 8:39 AM CDT reply actions

HAHAHAHAHA

Hilarious!

by letral on May 8, 2008 8:40 AM CDT up reply actions

Whoa!

Blame my wife!

by sir eccles on May 8, 2008 9:28 AM CDT up reply actions

It's 3rd and short

and the Chiefs are in their 4 tight end set again….Cottam,Merritt,Sykes, and Gonzalez all lined up on the right side…...Croyle with the snap…turns and pitches to Charles on the sweep…..Charles runs by his wall of blocking tight ends and breaks free for a 67 yard touchdown!!!! Touchdown…...Kaaaaaansas City…......Touchdown!!!!!!!!!

by letral on May 8, 2008 8:48 AM CDT reply actions

4 tight ends are better...

I’d rather have the 4 tight ends than the 9 million DE’s that Arizona has. They picked up like 8 in the draft (and they only had 7 picks), plus the ones on their roster. On a side note, isn’t it weird that Arizona was the only team to not trade away or trade for any other picks? They had 1 each round, and they were all their own picks…. strange…

by EyePod on May 8, 2008 8:54 AM CDT up reply actions

There were something like 220 selections in the draft

and exactly half were from trades.

by Joel Thorman on May 8, 2008 9:17 AM CDT up reply actions

D.J. Hackett

The article wasn’t bagging on D.J. Hackett for not being good, they were saying that he’s not an attention-seeker and he’s fine with being the number 2 WR on the team…and considering that the number 1 WR is Steve Smith, that’s not really a slight on Hackett’s ability or his desire. The article actually said that they thought Hackett would be popular with Panther fans by the end of the year.

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

by UCrawford on May 8, 2008 3:55 PM CDT reply actions

Good point

I re-read it and you are correct.

Is this off-season killing anyone else? There is nothing going on.

by Chris Thorman on May 8, 2008 4:11 PM CDT up reply actions

Simpsons

I had to give you props for Santos L. Halper. That has put a grin on my face all day.

by Ochophosphate on May 8, 2008 5:33 PM CDT reply actions

Defensive Swagger (Ash article)

Like the perspective that Dorsey, Flowers and Morgan will all bring an energy (swagger) to the defense. I’m a fan of sportsmanship and don’t like seeing me-first attention. Yet, doesn’t a defense (especially) need to be fired up? To be on their toes and feel like whatever the opponents do on the next play, it will be obliterated? Allen had a little of that calf-ropin’ fire. And I don’t mean this as a knock on the quiet -get-it-done approach of Hali and DJ, but they are not the in-your-face types that celebrate a great stop, with the idea it’s going to happen on the next play, too. But by a teammate. I thought the defense actually had quite a few reasons to celebrate last year. They did a pretty good job considering the number of times they were put in tough spots.

So here’s to a little more team-oriented swagger/confidence/fire by the D next year! Hopefully Donnie Edwards will “allow” and funnel it in the right direction. Then I can easily see Page, Pollard, Tank and Turk all joining in.

by sunny D on May 8, 2008 5:49 PM CDT reply actions