Arrowhead Pride: An SB Nation Community

Navigation: Jump to content areas:


Sports blogs for fans, by fans.
New Blog: Sounder At Heart for Seattle Sounders Fans!

Realistic Expectations?

When is it too much to ask?

Continue reading this post »

3 comments  |  0 recs

Game Time For Herm Guy



Put Up Are Shut Up

Continue reading this post »

3 comments  |  0 recs

List of 2010 FAs. As of now anyways.


I stumbled across a list of the premiere 2010 free agents, all by position. There are more than a few players on this list that will be resigned before we even get a chance to talk to them, which makes this list kinda pointless, but it's interesting to speculate anyways. KC has a lot of cap space as of now, but also has a fair number of players in their contract years. Let's take a look at the list after the jump.

Continue reading this post »

21 comments  |  0 recs

Nostradamus of Arrowhead Pride Pt. 8.9 (DOUBLE A EDITION)

89_3214_70f0d_pxdxa


Leafdamus has return to you to deliver the wisdom that he holds. Week 9 is upon us and you seek to understand that which eludes you. Will the Chiefs bounce back after a humiliating home lose to the product of Zeus's left hand just before the Bye Week? Fear not Leafdamus has this answer and the answers to all your NFL week 9 questions. If Leafdamus' brand of truth is not to your liking, feel free to the lies of others. It's you money, what does Leafdamus care.

Continue reading this post »

25 comments  |  1 recs

AP Power Rankings Week 9: Better Late Than Never Edition

Screen_shot_2009-10-18_at_4

Welcome to Week 9 of your AP Power Rankings. We are a little late in the posting this week due to the fact that my boss demanded I actually do a little work. Sorry for the delay but what better to spice up your Friday afternoon than a subjective, collective opinion of 10 guys you’ve never met about the NFL? We have a lot to talk about this week but first we would like you to read the following;

AP Power Rankings

Winners have girlfriends.

***Arrowhead Pride***

Losers get together in little groups

with folks they met on the internet

and make arbitrary rankings of

professional football teams.

Poll
Who do you think should be #1?

  902 votes | Results

Continue reading this post »

55 comments  |  0 recs |

Patriots Release Kendall Simmons OL



Former First round pick of the Steelers was relased by the Patriots today.

He suffered a Achilles tendon injury last year in week 4.

Poll
Should we go after him?

  168 votes | Results

Continue reading this post »

23 comments  |  0 recs

Jamaal Charles, Lose Yourself!




Look, if you had one shot or one opportunity
To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment
Would you capture it or just let it slip?


You better lose yourself in the music
The moment you own it you better never let it go, oh
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
Cuz opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo

Lose Yourself - EMINEM

I just wanted to start this off by sharing some of the lyrics to my all time favorite motivational song. These are dedicated to Jamaal Charles

Continue reading this post »

60 comments  |  13 recs

Looking Down From The Mountaintop

 

This is my first fanpost, so correct me if I do anything wrong (but cut me a little slack). First of all, my apologies if the title is a bit ambiguous. I was originally going to title it "A Different Perspective", but I think I have seen posts in the past with that title, and I wanted something "catchy". Anyway…

I think there are a couple of things that fans are overlooking when getting down on the current state of the Chiefs:

1) This is pretty obvious, but people tend to forget sometimes. Todd Haley was brought in LATE and resultantly did not have much to pick from in terms of assembling his coaching staff. I put the primary amount of blame for this on Clark Hunt and his "slow and methodical approach" that he preached about. It would not surprise me to see two new coordinators next off-season. Which sucks, as this will cause a need for more transition time. In any case, regardless of the situation, he was, in fact, brought in very late.

2) I am not sure a lot of people realize this second point, and it is really the main reason for my writing this. If you were to speak of the Chiefs team that this regime inherited and the ONLY thing you were to say was, "they only won six games in the last the two years", you would actually be painting a picture of the Chiefs that was OVERLY FLATTERING!

Why, you ask? I will be happy to elucidate.

This team not only won a paltry six games in two years, they managed to be ON THE DECLINE FOR THE ENTIRETY OF THOSE TWO YEARS WHILE DOING IT! Four games were won in the first seven games of the first season, followed by losing the last nine in a row, ending at 4 – 12. The following season was 2 – 14. This team was GETTING WORSE!

In summary, I guess my point is that the first step in getting things on the right track is NOT to improve this team, but to STOP IT FROM GETTING WORSE. We first have to put the skids on the previous path of declination. If we manage one more win this year that has been accomplished. When you also consider that, while attempting this task, Haley has a coaching staff that is not likely made up of members that were high on his list of preference, it is not surprising where the Chiefs are at currently.

Just my perspective. Go Chiefs!

25 comments  |  5 recs

Make Your Predictions

(from the fanposts -stagdsp)

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS (1-6) WEEK 8 JACKSONVILLE JAGS (3-3)

Arrowhead_logo_medium

Pic Source

Pic Souce

Jacksonvillejaguarshelmet_medium
24
27

 

How are the Chiefs going to do this weekend?  Will they win?  Lose?  Make your predictions in the poll attached to this post and we will find out the general mindset of the KC Chiefs Fan.

My prediction is 27-24, Jacksonville.  I think the Kansas City Chiefs offense will do a little bit better in this game.  However, it will not be enough.

Poll
Which score do you predict will be the closest to the actual score on Sunday?

  1204 votes | Results

40 comments  |  1 recs

Sh%! Or Get Off The Pot

 textclr3

My grandfather was a cranky old man, at least when I knew him.  You may or may not remember a previous post where I told you that he used to tell me I didn't know sh!# from shinola...most of the time he was right.  He had a funny way of being right.  He always had a one liner or saying that would cut through the crap to make his point and would stop me in my tracks to wonder what the hell he was talking about.  He used to tell me, among other things, that I need to sh%! or get off the pot.

The other day I was wondering what my grandfather would tell the Chiefs.  You know...I think he would say something like, "the Chiefs need to sh%! or get off the pot."

When I was a kid I remember thinking there is some truth in that statement.  Either that or I just like using the word sh%! at the age of nine.  Anyway, if you're going to take the time to show up, have your pants down, with your a$$ exposed...then you better sh%! or get off the pot.

The Chiefs have been sitting at the pot for seven games now.  They have shown up and had their pants down with their backside exposed to all.  We are around the midway point in the season and it is about time the Kansas City Chiefs Sh%! or get off the pot, put up or shut up...fish or cut bait...put their money where their mouth is or whatever saying you want to attribute to your grandfather.

By the midway point in the year the Chiefs should be doing their business by:

  1. Protecting Cassel better...I want to see better protection. 
  2. Cassel needs to be standing in the pocket without happy feet.  I know it is hard to do with the protection he has received thus far...but just get it done.
  3. The running backs need to be finding where the hole is and not running where it should have been.  Let's be versatile.
  4. The receivers need to catch the ball every time it touches their hands.  Ok...more realistic...no more than one drop total for the game.  Their is no reason the Chiefs should have 3 players who are at the top in the league in dropped balls.

 Chiefs...you need to SH%! OR GET OFF THE POT.

Poll
Which area do you demand the Chiefs definitely sh%! or get off the pot?

  72 votes | Results

10 comments  |  0 recs


Managers

Arrowhead_pride_small Chris Thorman

Tg_small Joel Thorman

Editors

N505381175_257425_5488_small Matt Conner

Contributors

Ajax_small ChiefDJ

Small Jon Yoon