Pats Fan wants to know how the Chiefs Faithful are feeling...

Thanks for your kind and well written post. As an avid reader of this site, I believe I have a decent sense of this community’s sentiments about the Chiefs prospects in 2010. Briefly, there have been significant improvement made on offense, defense and special teams. In some cases — such as our running game, offensive line, return game and secondary, it is likely that the improvements will be fairly dramatic.

My personal feeling, and I believe that this falls within the mainstream of Arrowhead Pride, is that we are at least one year away — possibly two — from being a true contender. Most believe that we are likely to win between 7 and 9 games this season. Although, with a little luck, it is not out the question that we could win the AFC West this year considering the fact that it is a relatively weak (if not the weakest) division in the NFL. Considering the youth movement on our team, with one more draft and another year for the team to gel under the new leadership, we should be a force in the division for years to come.

but it depends on a few factors in the preseason we saw a running game and defense we haven’t seen in a few years they looked awful in the preseason years agoi and it carried over into the regular season. This year we saw a team that was fast on defense and running really good explosiveness you could say . I think the chiefs have a puncher’s chance meaning pound the ball,play good defense and keep cassel from throwing too much but when he does spreading the wealth and mixing it up screens , playaction,reverses ,alittle wildcat keeping the defense off balance is key and it will stop the defense pass rush and help the online out too . if a few things fall our way sure we can be looking at a playoff team . with the offense under weis he finds ways to get the ball into the playmakers hands big difference, he knows how to mix it up you just can’t run run pass every 3 plays and with weis he helps big time . with crennel he will have these guys zone blitzing dropping back, sending safeties ,corners everyone on blitzes at any time. and making quarterbacks really uneasy. i saw at times that our blitzes were picked up and still they didn’t have anyone to throw too meaning our secondary and linebackers can cover,are fast and smart and hell it will come down to if the chiefs stop the run i believe. If we can stop the run which is the key to this defense ohhh boy look out anything can happen this season we could blow or we could really turn heads so yes we can win the afc west but we can also be not very good we will find out on monday ! (when we crush,bury and build a tomb for phillip rivers ! )

our two drafts (prior to 2010) have been very disappointing!!! Sure we got Jamaal Charles and Brandon Flowers in 2008 (under Carl Peterson) but the jury is still out on our two 1st rounders…Glenn Dorsey and Branden Albert. \

Last year was almost a total waste. The only starters we got were Tyson Jackson (so far, UNDERWHELMING) and the last overall pick of the whole dam draft, Mr. Irrelevant himself, our kicker…Ryan Succop. In all fairness, it was a harrible draft class across the board.

This years draftee’s look awesome so far. They are all smart/high character leaders who were captains in college. They seem to be the kind of fella’s you want to build a dynasty upon and they also add alot of “pizazz” to a team that was hard to watch last year. Hopefully they will put some more ass’s in seats at Arrowhead as some of last years games looked like Royals games.

We still have some glaring needs on the D Line…we will need upgrades in the LB core, we have some elder statesmen on our O-Line in Weigman and Waters which will need to be addressed soon along with Branden if he under performs this year (and I think he will…prob better at RG or maybe even RT, doesnt seem to have the agility to be a primier LT…he’s naturally a guard anyway) and it is a make or break year for our soft armed QB…yup, you know him well…Matty C. With better protection, more weapons and Charlie up his ass…I hope he can regain his NE form but I also doubt he will ever be an ELITE QB…hard to be king of the mountain these days without an ELITE QB.

Coaching is great but THEY DON’T SUIT UP! We need more talent and CANNOT afford to miss on critical picks in our draft’s…that sets an organization back by years!!!

We are steadily climbing out of the basement and not paying huge $$$ for blockbuster free agents…rather, building and developing through the draft is what seems to be Pioli’s chosen path leading towards long term improvement…slowly but surely we are getting there.

8-8…maybe 9-7 would be a great year here…I still believe San Diego is the team to beat in the West…but hopefully NOT FOR LONG!!!