Final Judgment

by kcchiefsfan72 on Sep 1, 2009 2:08 AM CDT

It's curtain call people. The final curtain is about to fall on quite a few players. Thursday's game against St. Louis marks the final game of the preseason. Yes, that means we are going to lose five folks as early as tomorrow. We can all speculate, but only the brain trust knows which heads will actually roll.

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Sadly, four days after, another 22 will be severed. The final cut on September 5th will reduce that number to 53, or as Pioli puts it, "the right 53." The problem is, that there is actually some talent on this team that will be forced to pack it up. We all have our personal favs that we would love to see make the team, but there are only so many slots available. And as much as preseason bores me, it is after all, football for piss sakes. Whether we admit it or not, preseason is not about the number of ticks in the win column. The preseason is about evaluation of talent. No, nobody likes to lose, and I'm sure nobody on this team wanted to lose any of our first three games, but lesser players must be evaluated. While I'm on the subject of losing, who the hell was the asshole that coined the phrase, "It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game?" I'm sure that cat never won a game in his damn life. At any rate, the preseason is for the coach, and other evaluators of talent, to see who the men are amongst the boys. We don't like seeing our Kansas City Chiefs be in a game, only to falter when the backups take the stage. In my opinion though, this last game is a critical piece of the puzzle. This game will be the last chance for some of these men. Hell, it may be their last chance to play football in the NFL, period. IMO, they can keep their heads held high. For one, they got to wear the red and gold for a period of time. That, to me, is something I could be proud of and a story to pass on to my children. Even greater than that, Todd Haley's last chance to decide on who will be our first unit, the ones that will lead us in battle. On the flip side though, we've had our own scouts scavenging the NFL looking for potential talent as well. In the end, we may be fortunate enough to pick up some offensive linemen, or other potential talent, in the NFL's wonderful garbage pile of retreads.

Poll

Do you think we'll find talent in the cess pool and if so, at what position?

Hell no, there will be nobody worth picking up

1 votes

No, we'll piss away more draft picks on lesser talent

0 votes

For the love of God, grab offensive linemen

19 votes

Yes, at different positions for depth and competition

13 votes

33 votes | Poll has closed

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The phrase, "It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game"

Was supposedly coined by Grantland Rice in the poem “Alumnus Football”.

http://runalot.blogspot.com/2007/12/alumnus-football-by-grantland-rice.html

But I would make the case that J.B. Downie was first in his poem, “Playing The Game”:

We can’t all play a winning game
Someone is sure to lose.
But we can play so that our name
No one may dare accuse
That when the Master Referee Scores against our name
It won’t be whether we won or lost
But how we played the game.

In any case, anyone who writes poetry about sports is automatically one the the gayest men to ever live. An “auto-gay”, if you will.

Rectal Froth

by The Donger on Sep 1, 2009 2:49 AM CDT reply actions