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Who: Kansas City Chiefs and St. Louis Rams (Turf Show Times)

What: The Governor's Cup

Where: Some corporate stadium 

When: 7:00 PM CST

Not playing for the Chiefs: QB Matt Cassel, S Jarrad Page, TE Jake O’Connell, S Bernard Pollard and LB Zach Thomas.

Brandon Flowers will dress but isn't expected to play.

Not playing for the Rams: QB Marc Bulger, FB Mike Karney, G Richie Incognito and DE Leonard Little

The Chiefs take on the St. Louis Rams at the Edward Jones Dome this evening.  It marks the final preseason game before real action starts at Baltimore on September 13th.

Chris and I both have a handful of friends from St. Louis so there's definitely a rivalry feel to this.  Honestly, I think they just found out St. Louis has a football team.

The game is blacked out in St. Louis but will be shown locally on KCTV5 (Ch. 3 for most of us). 

As usual, leave your pre-game predictions in this thread.  The winner gets a free one-year subscription to Arrowhead Pride.

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7 months ago: Chicago Bears general manager Jerry Angelo, left, a new player Jay Cutler, center, and head coach Lovie Smith listen to a question during a news conference, Friday, April 3, 2009, in Lake Forest, Ill.(AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

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Not too much going on in the NFL world today. Jay Cutler has been traded. The draft is just under a month away.

Use this as an open thread for the day, discussing whatever Chiefs and NFL related topics you'd like.

Here are a couple of articles to get you going today.

From Bob Gretz:

Although there are two sides playing out on this story, Bears offensive coordinator Ron Turner and Cutler have met before, and it didn’t go well. Coming out of Heritage Hills High School in Indiana, Cutler wanted to play at the University of Illinois. The Illini supposedly recruited him. The head coach there at the time was Turner. But when Cutler visited the school in December of his senior year, his family says he was told the scholarship offer had been rescinded because Illinois wanted to sign a hotshot quarterback out of Illinois.

I'm still surprised that WR Torry Holt hasn't caught on anywhere yet. Must be his asking price?

McGuire brokered the deal to get another ex-Ram, Orlando Pace, to the Bears on Thursday but Holt is focusing on the Titans and Jacksonville, where he has also visited. There is no rush. The situation could take its time to play out and that is what Titans coach Jeff Fisher said he expected to happen.

Once a Raider, always a Raider.

Former Los Angeles Raiders quarterback Todd Marinovich is back in jail.

Authorities say the 39-year-old Marinovich was arrested Friday after missing a drug rehabilitation progress review in a Newport Beach court earlier this week. He was being held at the Orange County Jail without bail.

We have hit a serious lull in general NFL news over this weekend. Which makes sense, because for the most part the NFL deals in the 9 to 5, Monday through Friday world for business.

I'm still fighting a terrible cold right now so I'll do my best to get something posted later but I can't make any guarantees. When I'm sick is about the only time you'll see as few updates as there have been over the last few days.

Here's an open thread question for you.

Predict Matt Cassel's stats next year and your reaction to those stats. I believe I took this idea from Chiefs Planet but I can't remember right now. Cut and paste this list into your comment and add in your own numbers. For reference, here are Cassel's '08 stats.

Completions: >290

Attempts: <475

Yards: ~3,000

TD/INT: 25/10

Have at it. Enjoy your Sunday too.

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Not a whole lot going on with the Kansas City Chiefs today. Use this as an open thread to discuss whatever topics you'd like. I'm going to be in and out throughout the day, although I don't suspect we'll see any breaking news today.

Here are a few links to check out today:

Arrowhead Addict

Enter Todd Haley. A few veterans must have been expecting Kindergarten Coach given the team’s recent head coaching hires. What they got was something totally different. In fact, a "tum-ah" might have been more fun given that they had grown accustomed to Pee Wee Herm’s playhouse.

Bob Gretz

In essence, there’s nothing in writing that the city must contribute this money. With $85 million to cut from the budget, there are some tough decisions that must be made. Rather than cut basic city services like police and fire, Funkhouser wants to among other things stop subsidizing the buildings used by the Royals and Chiefs.

LB Mike Vrabel on leaving New England:

"I wouldn’t say that is necessarily true, but the situation is what it is," he said. "To be anything but excited wouldn’t be giving the Chiefs players and the fans the respect they deserve. I am playing for the Chiefs. Whoever I was going to be playing for this year, I would give the same effort."

SBN Affiliates: Crimson and Cream Machine and Alligator Army (Who has my favorite SB Nation logo)

After at least a week of unending anxiety over the Chiefs' GM search, I'm finally ready to settle down for a few hours and watch what should be an excellent football game this evening.

Game time is at 7 PM central time. Oklahoma QB Sam Bradford is the guy to watch tonight for Kansas City Chiefs' fans. If the Lions and Rams are somehow dense enough to pass over Sam Bradford in this year's draft, then I think Bradford has to become a Chief.

Oh, and there's this Tebow guy playing too. Should be fun to watch.

What's your prediction? I've got Oklahoma by at least 10.

Ah yes. The NFL playoffs. My favorite sports time of the year, tied with the NCAA basketball tournament.

The games begin today with the Atlanta Falcons traveling to Arizona to play the Cardinals at 3:30 PM central and the Indianapolis Colts taking on the San Diego Chargers at 7 PM central time. Peyton Manning, this year's NFL MVP, takes on the quarterback who won the passing title, Philip Rivers.

A couple of notes from our SBN NFL team blogs.

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When: Noon, central time

Where: Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, Missouri

SBN Affiliate: Cincy Jungle

Chiefs Blogs: Home of the Chiefs, Arrowhead Addict, BobGretz.com, KC Chiefs Football, Red Zone, The Mothership and KC Chiefs Fanatic.

Coverage of the game leading up to now is here.

Injury reports are here.

Listen online here. Follow the stats and plays on NFL.com.

Find out what NFL games you get on television by clicking here.

Good morning everyone!

I'm about to fly out of the promised land (KC) and head back home, so I don't have much time to put a lot here. Hope everyone had a great holiday. Last game of the season...we'll miss it the second it's over.

GOOOOO CHIEFS!!!

Here are the game stats.

The story today is Thigpen.  226 yards and 2 TDs in the first half.

Chiefs 28 Dolphins 24