Arrowheadlines: Chiefs News 10/4

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Happy Game Day! Chiefs -v- Giants. Potential for ugly, but even in the face of that I can't help but be hopeful. Let's hope our guys go out there play smart, mean football.

Again, that’s close to the routine of all 32 NFL teams. The only difference is what happens when the Giants get back on their buses and head to the airport to fly back home to Newark.

Generally, they fly back celebrating another victory.

The Giants have become the best road team in the league. They are certainly the best road team of this decade and maybe decades before the 2000s. While other teams struggle to win away from home, Tom Coughlin and his team have found a formula that allows them be winning guests.

In their last 22 games played away from Giants Stadium in the New Jersey Meadowlands they are 18-4.

Road Warriors Arrive … Game-Day Cup O’Chiefs from Bob Gretz

Flowers calls the old friends now, making himself stay close so he never drifts too far from life’s realities. Some of them work in hospitals or in office buildings. Some don’t work at all. Can’t find a job. Times are tough, Flowers says. He says that when he presses the phone close, his friends’ emptiness comes through clear.

He sits in the Chiefs locker room, his hands clasped between his knees, and talks about the time he came to a crossroads and an unlikely thing happened: Flowers caught a break.

Flowers realizes he’s fortunate to be where he is from KC Star

The Chiefs spent a boatload of money on lifelong backup quarterback Matt Cassel, and Todd Haley — somewhere between his many jobs as head coach, offensive coordinator, player alienator and amusing sideline ranter — seems unsure about Cassel’s talents.

The offensive line is a disaster, the just-off-the-waiver-wire receiving corps scares no one, Larry Johnson looks broken down, the defense’s front seven can’t get to the quarterback, there have been penalties and astonishingly bad game decisions, and nobody seems entirely sure what new GM Scott Pioli is thinking inside the Chieftagon.

I suspect this is how many people (most people?) see the Kansas City Chiefs these days. Hopeless. But is it really as bad as all that? The truth is: When things are this bad, it is hard to get a clear look at what’s really happening. This team has played so bad the last two years that only the truest of the true believers could see through the fog and find something good to say.

There might be positives in Chiefs’ play … but you have to look hard from KC Star

Mike Livingston passed his first test as the Chiefs’ starting quarterback.

Livingston, thrust into the lineup because of injuries to Len Dawson and Jacky Lee, calmly directed the Chiefs to a 26-13 win at Denver in front of 50,564 at Mile High Stadium.

The Chiefs, who opened the season with four road games because of baseball conflicts at Municipal Stadium, improved to 3-1.

Chiefs Super Bowl season flashback from KC Star

0-3 Teams (odds against being winless, listed from least to most likely)

Tennessee Titans: 11% chance (8-1 odds against)

Kansas City Chiefs: 22% chance (3.5-1 against)

Miami Dolphins: 23% chance (3.4-1 against)

Carolina Panthers: 30% chance (2.4-1 against)

Tampa Bay Bucs: 30% chance (2.4-1 against)

Cleveland Browns: 31% chance (2.2-1 against)

St. Louis Rams: 41% chance (1.4-1 against)

The 0-3 blues from National Football Post

WHEN THE GIANTS HAVE THE BALL

Look for them to try to exploit the middle of the Chiefs’ defense, which has been susceptible to passes for the first three weeks of the season. And the prime candidate to do so might be TE Kevin Boss, considering Eagles TE Brent Celek had 104 yards and a TD against Kansas City last week and Ravens TE Todd Heap, who’s not the player he once was, actually looked like his former self in Week 1 with 74 yards and a touchdown against the Chiefs. Boss has only six catches so far this season and has yet to find the end zone after leading the team with six TDs last season. This could be his breakout week.

NY Giants Game Day: The breakdown vs. Kansas City Chiefs from NJ Star-Ledger

“(Thursday) I was really down,” the Giants’ third-year cornerback said before adding with a laugh: “But at least I’ll be healthy for the playoffs.”

An optimistic attitude while dealing with such a frustrating situation is a very good sign for Ross, who will miss his fourth straight game Sunday when the Giants take the field against the Kansas City Chiefs without him. Last year, without a nagging injury to keep him down, the former first-round pick was nonetheless glum about football, and has admitted he “fell out of love” with the game and had little desire to practice or play on some days.

NY Giants' cornerback Aaron Ross working to maintain desire to play football as injuries take toll from NJ Star-Ledger

It is proof the Giants’ front wall is getting better with age. They instinctively know what the other is doing, something that will come in handy today at a loud Arrowhead.

“We’re able to go on the road and play non-verbally,” Diehl said. “Based on the look and the formation, and what we’re running, we don’t even have to communicate and we know what the other people are doing on the line next to us.”

Big Blue line always puts up a united front from NY Post

Taurus Johnson, whose NFL aspirations were on hold since being released by the Kansas City Chiefs at the end of training camp, had made a valuable connection earlier in the year...

...The Lions called Johnson on Tuesday to tell him they wanted to sign him to their practice squad.

Contact pays off for Cape grad Taurus Johnson from Fort Myers News-Press

But Edwards said attrition still took a toll because if an injured player was not put on injured reserve, the team could not fill his roster spot and was essentially practicing and playing short-handed, wearing down healthy players. In one practice during Edwards’s tenure with Kansas City, the Chiefs were so depleted on the offensive line that a defensive lineman had to fill in. He went the wrong way on a play, leaving quarterback Tyler Thigpen (now with the Dolphins) exposed to an onrushing defensive player, who accidentally injured Thigpen’s knee.

Expanding N.F.L. Schedule Would Mean Stretching Players from The New York Times

First, I’ll discuss the obvious.  The Chiefs are a better football team than they displayed last weekend.  Dwayne Bowe, their only play-making wide receiver, (my apologies to Bobby Wade) was a late scratch.  Linebacker and big-play specialist Derrick Johnson was inactive.  They played on the road against one of the best teams in the NFL.  It was an impossible-to-win situation.  A loss was to be expected, and a bad one at that.  But bad losses one week don’t mean anything the next, not in the NFL. Especially when you’re playing at home.

David and Goliath? from KC Monarchy

Player were Tweet-less yesterday

Media and Fans

ArrowheadPride RT @kcchiefsfootbal: Watching the LSU vs GA game, trying to figure out who the Chiefs will take in the 1st round in next years draft

Adam_Schefter Other than Todd Haley, no. RT @AndrewLenaghan: @Adam_Schefter Do you know anyone picking the Cheifs to beat the Giants?

LaneRebel1854: @aharringtonwx I'll be out at Arrowhead tomorrow....Beautiful weather for us! :) GO CHIEFS!!!

TotosPhotos: Had an awesome birthday! Thanks for all the b-day wishes. Looking forward to the game tomorrow! GO CHIEFS!!!

clyde05: watching chiefs play the giants on sunday, lets hope for a miracle!!!!

LovelyJ23: About to go to bed...need some good sleep before the Chiefs game tmrw. I better be ready for a day of drinkin w/my momma!

daneidet: @ace_frehley Are you doing the national anthem at the Kansas City Chiefs game and do you plan an in-store anywhere in KC afterwards?

bigwaltfizzle: @latinatita Tailgating Go Chiefs Kc Baby!!!!

Mike_Danger: Go chiefs Go, pleaseeeeeeeeeee!

nnastyN8: is passin out now so he can watch his Chiefs get the krap kicked out of them against the Giants tomorrow morning... ... http://lnk.ms/2fjjF

MatthewGaylor: Im awake and gettin ready to leave 4 the chiefs game we re tailgating just like the old days

rickeber: Heading to the Giants/Chiefs game. Yes, tailgating is involved.

MicJohnson: Arrowhead Stadium. Chiefs-Giants. Tailgating.Great fall weather. RJ's BBQ. Bloody Marys. Bacardi. "21st' birthday tomorrow. TGI-NFLSunday!

Jeremydpond: There is a God! I get the Chiefs and LJ on TV this morning against the Giants ... Now can I get an upset please?

sergebalcaen: 7am and ready to rock again. chiefs and giants game today. have to get to the tailgate party

Your KC Game Day Weather

Today: Mostly sunny, with a high near 64. East wind between 5 and 8 mph.

Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 45. East southeast wind around 7 mph.

From The National Weather Service