Chiefs Sign Former Cardinals Receiver

Good call PA

sounds familiar….

Oh yeah…

Joe Horn – we should have never let that one get away…

not too shabby

Urban is mature although largely unproven having been behind Boldin, Fitz, Breaston, etc., and Bowe is developing, but needs to continue to show improvement.

We don’t know how Urban will do on the team. I expect Bowe will become an outstanding receiver in the NFL. Chambers is mature and a great receiver, but has done a poor job of blocking (not sure how his blocking stats were late in the season…he may have improved drastically from early reports).

I’m not trying to “bring them down”. In fact, the majority of my posts are positive regarding our players. That said, you should note that I said “IF”:

I would not be surprised if Urban beats out Bowe for the #2 spot if Bowe doesn’t learn how to catch between now and the beginning of the season

Maybe I should qualify that statement by saying, he drops a lot of easy passes while he often catches balls that others couldn’t, but that’s not anything new to us fans.

I tried to make my comments emphasize not how poor our receivers are, but how valuable quality receivers added in FA will improve competition and increase overall quality of play across the board…it’s great for the entire receiving corps and the team.

My comments covered both of our top two receivers’ most noticeable weaknesses. I wasn’t trying to slam Bowe. I appreciated the fan post yesterday comparing Bowe to Pro Bowl receivers in their first two years in the NFL. It proves Bowe is on track with them.

My expectations for Bowe are that he exceeds the quality of Chambers and anyone else we pick up in the future and becomes a perennial Pro Bowler. I think Haley’s coaching helped him drastically this year with his down field blocking game. He’s becoming a well rounded football player under Haley.

From what I’ve seen of Urban on film and evaluations of him, and knowing that Haley likes him as a football player, I tend to believe that he’ll surprise us all. He’s tough in the middle, finds the open spot, retains his focus on the ball, and is likely an excellent ST player and down-field blocker having been under Haley before. Will he be a great receiver for KC? We’ll see.

As per Bill Simmons’ wikipedia page

Simmons also created the “Reggie Cleveland All-Stars,” a list of sports figures whose names would seem to indicate that they are of a different race or ethnicity than they actually are. Simmons first mentioned the phenomenon with Marcus Giles and Sidney Ponson. One of his readers suggested Reggie Cleveland (a white former pitcher with a black-sounding name) as the best possible example of this phenomenon which led Simmons to name the list after Cleveland.24

He also noted in his 2006 NBA Draft diary that Patrick O’Bryant, a first round pick of the Golden State Warriors, was a “mortal lock” to be named to the All-Star team. In a 2007 column, Simmons named former Denver Broncos linebacker Rulon Jones as a “first-ballot Reggie Cleveland All-Stars Hall of Famer.”

In a recent column Bill mentioned that he wanted to name his second child “Nate” so he could create his own Reggie Cleveland All-Star from scratch named Nate Simmons.

The long and short of it, White guy with a black name.