Overrated, Underrated and Just Right: Chiefs Edition
by Chris Thorman on Dec 30, 2009 7:45 AM CST
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I'm running a bit behind this morning because of Winston, our new puppy. He's already pooped twice (once in the house), broken a Christmas ornament, harassed the cat and now he's continually trying to climb on the computer in my lap.This puppy stuff is exhausting.
So, in order to generate some fun conversation this morning, let's do another edition of Overrated, Underrated and Just right. The concept is simple: Give us a topic, event or thing that is one of those three. I'll start.
Overrated: New Year's Eve
Mrs. Arrowhead Pride and I are already $150 in the hole for a New Year's Eve event in downtown Austin. Sure, it's all you can drink and they'll be appetizers and stuff but I just know it's going to be total amateur night. Drunk people everywhere; people getting sick; people acting like jerks. In other words, it's like the east side of 6th street is every night of the year.
Does it make me a geek if I just want to go to bed early so I can blog and play with the puppy on my day off?
Underrated: QB Damon Huard
Why Damon Huard? Well, I'm working on this interactive timeline of the Kansas City Chiefs' 2009 season (it's going to be cool, trust me) and one of the events I added last night was the Chiefs releasing Damon Huard. He wasn't the flashiest guy but he straight up won games. I stopped for a second last night and realized that I hadn't really given Huard the credit he deserved for guiding the Chiefs' ship in very choppy waters.
Just Right: New Year's Day football games
You're hung over and all you want to do is lay on the couch. What better than zoning out to a handful of college football bowl games?
Cut and paste this into the comments and give us your Overrated, Underrated and Just Right.
Overrated:
Underrated:
Just Right:
And now I have to go because the dog is chewing on the computer cord. Looks like I need as much training as he does.
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Overrrated: White Christmas
Underrated: Teenage kids. They can shovel snow!
Just Right: Evan Williams. Not bad at all, and half the cost of Jack.
John
"Gentlemen! You can't fight in here. This is the War Room!"
by RDOGuy on Dec 30, 2009 8:01 AM CST reply actions 1 recs
Overrated: Paying a cover to watch a ball drop
Underrated: The effect of a Captain Morgan stance
Just right: Shenanigans! (The acts, not the bar)
Virtus In Arduo
Hey Farva what’s the name of that restaurant you like with all the goofy shit on the walls and the mozzarella sticks?
Cry Havoc! And let slip the Chiefs Defense of War!!!
by nateforchiefs on Dec 30, 2009 8:14 AM CST up reply actions
Overrated:
Work
Underrated:
Getting Paid
Just Right:
Vacation
Cry Havoc! And let slip the Chiefs Defense of War!!!
Getting paid is underrated?
Thats news to me.
Don't Fuccop Succop
by chicks_love_chiefs on Dec 30, 2009 11:04 AM CST up reply actions
overrated
your opinion of damn huard. if he straight up won games, he would still be here. he won A FEW games.
by RedCoater58 on Dec 30, 2009 8:15 AM CST reply actions 1 recs
I think he was underrated, too.
Prediction for '09: Chiefs are looking like a .500 team, especially considering Denver's inattention to D-Line, Chokeland's disarray, and a San Diego team that looks like it's on the decline. With a weak schedule, Chiefs steal a few and win between 7 and 9 games, and if .500 or better, will contend for supremacy in a weak division.
Why?
I’ll give you 1 season that he was underrated, but that was the same season that LJ set the record for most carries in a season…so it seems that Huard must not have thrown the ball much..right?
In 06, Huard started 8 games, completed 60% passes, 1800 yards, 11TD’s and 1 pick. Projected that over a whole season and it looks alright..3600 yards..22TD’s 2 picks. But thats hardly the case.
The next season, he threw the ball quite a bit more. He started 2 extra games but had almost 100 more attempts. Good completion % with 62%..but 11TD’s to 13 INT’s. The next season, in his very limited time, he tossed 2 TD’s to 4 INT’s.
He had 1 good half season..he was basically like Kerry Collins was in TEN..he had a good year as a game managing QB while the RB was doing most of the work..the next season they tried to give that QB more reps and watched him falter.
I cant believe I just said the RB was doing most of the work knowing the RB was LJ. I’m going to go puke now.
Overated: Craig James
Underrated: Apologies to Craig James
Just Right: Electrical Closets
by Bono Bootleg on Dec 30, 2009 8:25 AM CST reply actions 2 recs
Hmmm....
Overrated- having no kids
Underated- the joy of having a beautiful baby to share your life with
Just Right- coming home from a stress filled physical demanding job to my wife and sweet little girl…
"Its going to be a challenge, its going to feel like forever, and there will be difficulties. But we will emerge on the other side of it stronger than we were when we entered." ~ Sudden
by Matt_Grbac on Dec 30, 2009 8:28 AM CST via mobile reply actions 1 recs
+1 to you sir
Cry Havoc! And let slip the Chiefs Defense of War!!!
by nateforchiefs on Dec 30, 2009 8:32 AM CST up reply actions
revisit this one when she's a teenager...
"The way this works is you string together some good games, some good practices and you get momentum and you gain confidence," linebacker Mike Vrabel said. "It can be a real positive for your team. It builds on itself."
It won;t even take that long.
Wait til she’s 3.
My sentiments are likely to be summed up with one of these 2 quotes:
"Shut the f--- up."- Matt Cassel
"WHAT THE F---?!?!"- Todd Haley
R.I.P. C.H., #15
by Red N Gold Beast on Dec 30, 2009 2:32 PM CST up reply actions 2 recs
U guys r crazy
Nothing could change my feelings about my girl. Not age not attitude not anything. You guys should be ashamed for saying that stuff…lol
"Its going to be a challenge, its going to feel like forever, and there will be difficulties. But we will emerge on the other side of it stronger than we were when we entered." ~ Sudden
by Matt_Grbac on Dec 30, 2009 3:16 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
We speak from experience my friend
Enjoy it though, they don’t stay little forever.
"The way this works is you string together some good games, some good practices and you get momentum and you gain confidence," linebacker Mike Vrabel said. "It can be a real positive for your team. It builds on itself."
Overrated: Wedding bands
For crying out loud I spent way too much on your engagement ring and now you want something to go with it?
Underrated: Puppy Training (for you Chris)
After going through this, being able to remind my wife of the sheer inconvenience it caused in our life training this innocent little 12 lb dog to poop and pee anywhere other than my carpet is worth it everytime the baby talk comes up; works like magic.
Just Right: Chiefs Game Day no matter the record
Amen
I could have bought a decent used car and taken that fishing trip to the Keys. Instead I bought that gold thingee with the shiny stones (that aren’t even rare). Then had to go back later and get a smaller version of that. The one that was given to me cost $250. I’m thinking we both got screwed dkugler…
NFL QB Version
Overrated:
Philip Rivers – never seen somebody whine and talk smack all at the same time – maybe that means he is underrated.
Underrated:
Matt Schaub – I would not want to face the Texans if they sneak into the playoffs.
Just Right:
Peyton Manning – the guy just wins and he manages to do it while hardly ever getting touched.
If everyone worked as hard as me, I would be out of a job.
-Steve Nash
I think Rivers is good.
I just always had the sense he was a poor sport. The kind you hated playing as a kid, because winning would mean more to him than winning fair ‘n’ square, in sportsmanlike fashion.
Prediction for '09: Chiefs are looking like a .500 team, especially considering Denver's inattention to D-Line, Chokeland's disarray, and a San Diego team that looks like it's on the decline. With a weak schedule, Chiefs steal a few and win between 7 and 9 games, and if .500 or better, will contend for supremacy in a weak division.
Football Ratings
Overrated: Draft boards – anybody’s. With movement of free agents, draft boards are ridiculous and really irrelevant based on a team’s needs.
Underrated: Common sense.
Just Right: National Football League. Don’t screw it up owners and players union…
Overrated: Draft talks, the regular season hasn’t even ended yet.
Underrated: Dustin Colquitt & Ryan Succop, these guys should have made it to the probowl.
Just Right: Brian Waters – Man of the Year
Agreed, agreed, agreed.
Colquitt and Succop = underrated, overused, underpaid. Without them, our points differential would be even more lopsided than what it already is. I want their jerseys.
by WannabeChief_83 on Dec 30, 2009 11:12 AM CST via mobile up reply actions
Overrated: Matt Cassel. He looks solid, but not the franchise QB some people claimed he was coming over from the Pats
Underrated: Matt Cassel. The haters are on the other side of it. It’s the standard ‘blame the QB’ mantra when the offense doesn’t perform well enough. Glenn Dorsey is a close second here.
Just Right:: Ryan Succop. Looks like we have a stud kicker, the fans rejoice.
Merlinnj
Over/Under
Over: Champ Bailey
Under: Brandon Flowers
Just right: Nachos
This is my signature line. It is full of awesome and win.
by KCSatchmo on Dec 30, 2009 10:48 AM CST reply actions
Now Now
Don’t think of it as New Years Eve think of it as my Birthday and I think you for celebrating it with me
overrated: Nickelback, 3 Doors Down, KISS, Big & Rich, Tea Leaf Green, Qdoba
underrated: Speakeasy, Big Smith,
just right: Oklahoma Joe’s , Led Zeppelin
Ok Joes is under rated
This is my signature line. It is full of awesome and win.
by KCSatchmo on Dec 30, 2009 11:19 AM CST up reply actions
Still Under rated ;)
Freaking love that place. I miss the days when it was just a little hole in the wall attached to a gas station down by the Swope Park Disc Golf Course.
This is my signature line. It is full of awesome and win.
by KCSatchmo on Dec 30, 2009 11:25 AM CST up reply actions
Over Under Just Right
Over: Freak Disneyland/Disneyworld; way way way overrated.
Underrated: A perfectly mixed Zing Zang Bloody Mary with a celery stick and Slim Jim stirrer on January 1st. Usually to go along with some kind of hangover brunch.
Just Right: Daniel Day Lewis, best actor of our generation; he single handedly put Gangs of New York into all time classic status. (Otherwise it just would have been one of the best films of the year).
by Your_Moms_Boyfriend on Dec 30, 2009 11:44 AM CST reply actions
Underrated 2.0
Margarita’s Restaurant Salsa, if you still live in KC, get some at the grocery store and use Doritos Cool Rand or Doritos Late Night Jalapeno Popper chips, you will experience a thin slice of heaven.
by Your_Moms_Boyfriend on Dec 30, 2009 11:46 AM CST up reply actions
That is good salsa
the food is kinda meh tho…
This is my signature line. It is full of awesome and win.
by KCSatchmo on Dec 30, 2009 11:47 AM CST up reply actions
Has anyone noticed that Tony G didnt get a Probowl bid?
i’ll bet million bucks if he stayed in KC he would have gone. imagine if Cassel had sure hands Tony. woulda been better an probably would have won few more games…. oh wishful thinking.
Would ya like a free NANAA!
by Jazzy Megalodon on Dec 30, 2009 12:11 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
at least atlanta tanked, relatively
2nd rounder isn’t as bad as it looked when we made the trade.
still not worth it.
My Take
Overrated: A night out and away from my kids
Underrated: Hanging at the house with my wife and two little ones
Just Right: Any time spent with my children
Things to get the Chiefs back on the winning side of football:
1. Haley resign as offensive coordinator or do the following;
a. Feed JC more
b. Take the cuffs off of Cassel and let him air it out
2. Fire Clancy "Calls" Playslikeass
Cool.....sounds likey
"Its going to be a challenge, its going to feel like forever, and there will be difficulties. But we will emerge on the other side of it stronger than we were when we entered." ~ Sudden
by Matt_Grbac on Dec 30, 2009 2:21 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Sorry...iPhone plus big finger tips equals frustration
I have a 7month old little girl. What do you have?
"Its going to be a challenge, its going to feel like forever, and there will be difficulties. But we will emerge on the other side of it stronger than we were when we entered." ~ Sudden
by Matt_Grbac on Dec 30, 2009 2:23 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Girl and Boy
My daughter just turned 4 in December and my son is 2, turning 3 in March…
Things to get the Chiefs back on the winning side of football:
1. Haley resign as offensive coordinator or do the following;
a. Feed JC more
b. Take the cuffs off of Cassel and let him air it out
2. Fire Clancy "Calls" Playslikeass
by kcchiefsfan72 on Jan 4, 2010 5:10 PM CST up reply actions
Anything going on in Austin has got to be better than what I will go through New Year's eve in Colorado
Still glad to be home
Overrated: Bronco Fans
Underrated: Good QB play
Just Right: Not being in the Middle east for 3 and a half weeks and going to 2 Chief games.
Predictions for 2009:
The Chiefs will regret cutting LJ
Bowe's numbers regress due to lack of decent QB play.
The D gets better in the second half but still is plagued by big plays
Cassel looks more like the guy Pioli almost cut in the '08 preseason instead of the franchise QB he hoped he would be when he traded him for
Chiefs 3-13
by bonesjackson on Dec 30, 2009 1:26 PM CST reply actions 2 recs
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