Chiefs Inactives: WR Bobby Wade, FS Jon McGraw
by Joel Thorman on Nov 8, 2009 10:43 AM CST
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As expected, Chiefs free safety Jon McGraw is not active. He's been suffering from an injury and is expected to be replaced by SS DaJuan Morgan.
The surprise here is the deactivation of WR Bobby Wade. I considered him possibly the second best receiver on the team. Well, that's before Chris Chambers came on board.
It's possible Wade is the victim of Chambers addition. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.
WR Lance Long is active and probably beats out Wade because he plays special teams. He's definitely a "Haley guy."
Here are the rest of the inactives, courtesy of Josh Looney at KCChiefs.com.
QB Matt Gutierrez (3rd)
CB Donald Washington
S Jon McGraw
G/T Ikechuku Ndukwe
WR Bobby Wade
TE Jake O’Connell
TE Brad Cottam
LB Pierre Walters
Notable inactive from the Jaguars: Former Chiefs T Jordan Black.
Dang.
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Chiefs RB Jamaal Charles is Getting Some Fantasy Football Attention
by Joel Thorman on Nov 8, 2009 10:32 AM CST
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Although he's currently owned in 43% of Yahoo! fantasy leagues, Kansas City Chiefs RB Jamaal Charles is getting some attention. When Larry Johnson's suspension was announced, I was excited because, as you can probably guess, I have Charles on my fantasy team.
Michael Berry and Merrill Hoge appeared on ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown this morning and offered up Charles as a starter for fantasy folks.
Berry begins, "In limited time this year, he's averaged 5 yards a carry. Now he faces the Jacksonville Jags giving up over 120 rushing yards per game. Remember the last time he got double digit carries? Last year he got it once. Over 100 yards."
Charles rushed the ball 18 times for 106 yards against the Raiders.
A good and, let's face it, optimistic report on Charles.
Hoge continued, "What I like about him is that he's got excellent feet, he gets in an out of the hole and he breaks tackles. And, he is a decisive runner. You get him sealed on a corner, a seal here and a seal there, and hits the alley right there.
"Fantasy fans love when you get yards and touchdowns, that means points."
Are you any of you one of the 43% of Charles fantasy football owners?
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Chiefs QB Cassel Has Shot at a Big Day Against Sackless Jaguars
by Joel Thorman on Nov 8, 2009 8:55 AM CST
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(Editor's Note: I am just now realizing the irony in the title to this post)
If you were ever wondering what a game between the 2009 Chiefs and the 2008 Chiefs would be like this is probably the closest we're going to get. The Chiefs historically low 10 total sacks last season was a large part of the reason it seemed every quarterback that came into town walked away with a career day.
Today, Matt Cassel could be that quarterback. The Jaguars currently have a NFL low 5 sacks through 7 games.
They are on pace to barely surpass the 2008 Chiefs. Here are a few of the bigger days opposing quarterbacks have had in 7 games.
- Peyton Manning - 28/38, 301 yards, 1 TD
- Kurt Warner: 24/26, 243 yards, 2 TDs
- Matt Schaub: 26/35, 300 yards, 3 TDs
- Matt Hasselbeck: 18/30, 241 yards, 4 TDs
- Vince Young: 15/18, 125 yards, 1 TD
I'm not saying Matt Cassel is Peyton Manning, Matt Schaub (yet) or Kurt Warner. He's not at that level. But I do believe the Hasselbeck(4 TDs) and Vince Young (15/18) numbers are worth mentioning.
If Matt Cassel has the time today, we can begin to get a good read on what he'll be like when/if there is a more talented offensive line.
If he has more time today, does Matt Cassel put up bigger numbers?
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Former Chief Pollard Didn't Like Haley's Cursing
by Joel Thorman on Nov 8, 2009 7:41 AM CST
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NJ Chiefs Fan linked a story in Arrowheadlines this morning that I was going to mention (even though I should have known he was going to beat me to it).
We've been hearing about Bernard Pollard playing well with the Texans as of late. Their run stopping has improved, the players like his attitude and he is by many accounts very happy with the way the situation turned out.
Of course, the Chiefs are currently reeling at free safety and it's not like Pollard's replacements at strong safety have gone without criticism.
Pollard talked to the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette about his time under Todd Haley with the Chiefs. Quotes after the jump and I can't mention Fort Wayne without linking this Pollard video.
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Arrowheadlines: Chiefs News 11/8
by NJ Chiefs Fan on Nov 8, 2009 7:18 AM CST
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Good Morning AP! Game Day! As last night's booze is slowly replaced by this morning's coffee, I wanted to remind everyone of Dantrell Savage. His name has not been mentioned enough going into today's game. With the increased load on Charles, I'm wondering who will be taking the kick offs. Remember, Savage had a 53 yard return last year.
Holy crap! Just linked to an article about Pollard and he has not nice things to say about Haley. Be sure to look at the last article before the Tweets start.
For a football team with as many holes in its 53-man roster as the Chiefs, Sunday is a very important day.
When the Chiefs take the field against the Jaguars at Jacksonville Municipal Stadium they will have two new starters, one on offense, one on defense. What RB Jamaal Charles and FS DaJuan Morgan produce with the opportunity given them will go a long way to helping Pioli/Haley as they make plans for the 2010 off-season.
Running back and safety are two areas where the Chiefs need help looking to the future. Of course, they also need help on the offensive line, defensive line, linebacker, wide receiver and tight end. Possibly only cornerback, quarterback, kicker and punter would go to the bottom of the list.
If Charles and Morgan can be productive players, and show the Chiefs they can step into their roles on offense and defense and not be – as Todd Haley calls it – yo-yo players, then running back and safety can drop down on the list of needs, allowing the Chiefs to prioritize at other positions.
Sunday of Opportunity … Game-Day Cup O’Chiefs from Bob Gretz
Bottom line
The Chiefs could be poised for one of their better offensive games of the season because the Jaguars have some weaknesses defensively. Cassel should have more time to throw, running lanes for Charles and Smith could be more prevalent, and it will be a disappointment if the Chiefs don’t score more than they have in the past couple of games. If they can slow Jones-Drew and eliminate turnovers, it’s a winnable game. Prediction: Chiefs 23, Jaguars 20.
Chiefs-Jaguars scouting report from KC Star
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Random Observations about the Jacksonville Jaguars
by Chris Thorman on Nov 7, 2009 7:00 PM CST
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In order to get you more prepared for the Kansas City Chiefs game tomorrow, I've gone through a bunch of the Jacksonville Jaguars statistics and pulled out some of the more interesting ones. At least interesting from our perspective.
I did the Big Cat Country podcast on Wednesday and the overwhelming feeling I was left with after talking to those guys was: The Jaguars' defense sucks. Apparently, they have no pass rush and after playing pretty well on run defense, gave up 305 yards last week to the Titans.
A once proud defense is now in the bottom seven of the league.
After the jump, some random observations about the Jaguars...
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Chiefs Release WR Bobby Engram; RB Kolby Smith to Active Roster
by Chris Thorman on Nov 7, 2009 4:48 PM CST
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As we've been speculating all day, the Kansas City Chiefs released a player in order to make room for RB Kolby Smith on the 53-man roster. That player is WR Bobby Engram.
Via the mothership:
Engram served as a veteran leader amongst Kansas City’s wide receivers core, but had been a healthy inactive in two of the past three games. Engram’s departure opens the door for Lance Long to receive more playing time as Kansas City’s slot receiver. The arrival of Chris Chambers earlier this week gave the Chiefs eight rostered receivers, the most they had carried under head coach Todd Haley.
Although it may not seem that long ago, Engram was signed by the Chiefs way back on March 17th.
Bobby Engram played in five games for the Chiefs, catching five passes for 61 yards. He's in his 13th year in the NFL, which means his future as an NFL WR is definitely in question.
Here's how the Chiefs' WR stack up now:
- Dwayne Bowe
- Bobby Wade
- Chris Chambers
- Mark Bradley
- Terrance Copper
- Lance Long
- Quinten Lawrence (Practice squad)
H/T to NJ Chiefs Fan.
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Chiefs RB Kolby Smith Travels with the Team to Jacksonville
by Chris Thorman on Nov 7, 2009 3:31 PM CST
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Kansas City Chiefs running back Kolby Smith has been inactive for the first six weeks of the season, coming off an knee injury from '08.
Today is the deadline for the Chiefs to move Smith from the PUP list to the active roster or else they'll lose him to Injured Reserve for the rest of the season.
Well according to Smith's Twitter account, he made the trip with the team and will presumably be active for tomorrow's contest.
That would mean Chiefs running backs would be:
- #1 Jamaal Charles
- #2 Dantrell Savage
- #3 Kolby Smith
As Joel noted this morning, if Smith is indeed put on the active roster, the Chiefs will have to release a player to get to 53.
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Former Chief Believes Players Will Begin to Question Haley
by Joel Thorman on Nov 7, 2009 2:52 PM CST
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Former Kansas City Chiefs lineman Bill Maas appeared on 610 Sports yesterday afternoon talking with Chris and Cowboy about, what else, the sign. Maas brings a unique viewpoint, as a former player, when he talks about the dynamics of a lockerroom, which is interesting as well.
He, like more and more folks, thinks this sign was a "JV move" by the coaching staff. In fact, Maas takes it a step further and argues that this is turning point in the new regime's future.
"Mark the date down that this occurred," he says, "this will be a monumental point in time in this Haley/Pioli era and it's either going to be one way or the other."
More from Maas after the jump where he tells us that he knows the players notice this stuff and will begin to second guess him "because that's what players do."
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Chiefs SS DaJuan Morgan Likely to Get His First NFL Start at FS
by Joel Thorman on Nov 7, 2009 10:30 AM CST
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Kansas City Chiefs safety DaJuan Morgan was a Herm Edwards draft pick in 2008 and, after an injury-plagued rookie season, drew the ire of many fans who quickly labeled him a bust. And who could blame us? Edwards picks weren't being shown any preferential treatment (in fact, maybe the opposite) so he was a candidate to be cut in many of our minds.
Well, he's trying to change that.
The way the stars are aligning, it appears Morgan will get his first NFL start this weekend with a 'doubtful' Jon McGraw likely to see very little playing time, even more likely not to play at all.
Back in the preseason, pre-Bernard Pollard cut, a big topic of conversation around here was who will be cut: Morgan, Pollard or Mike Brown. They play the same position and it was becoming clear that the Chiefs wouldn't keep three strong safeties.
I was near certain that Morgan would be the odd man out - until he had a heck of a performance against the St. Louis Rams in the final preseason game.
"I don’t have fear with him playing," Chiefs coach Todd Haley said yesterday. "I think when DaJuan was in there in the preseason he’s done a pretty good job. He had an interception in the St. Louis game. He has a nose for the football.
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