The Kansas City Chiefs and Week 1 Power Rankings

by Chris Thorman on Sep 12, 2007 6:55 AM CDT in 2007 Kansas City Chiefs Campaign

Although I consider Week 1 to be practically an extension of the preseason (Dear lord I hope it is in the Chiefs case) in terms of power rankings, here are where the Kansas City Chiefs rank in various power rankings from around the 'Net.

Newsday.com:

28. Chiefs: Don't care if Larry Johnson carries the ball 50 times. There is a problem at quarterback, and the defense still underachieves.

ESPN

30. Just call it the Curse of Lawrence Tynes. The Chiefs traded away their veteran kicker during the offseason, and now they're struggling to find a suitable replacement. Serves 'em right.

CBS

30. When I put the Chiefs down near the bottom last week, plenty of Chiefs fans groaned. Now what do you think?

Fox Sports

27. Anyone who watched HBO's "Hard Knocks" series knew the Chiefs' offense was in some serious trouble this season. But no one expected them to be this bad. Sunday's performance was atrocious. The Chiefs offense went 3-for-11 on third downs, totaled only 219 yards, and coughed up four turnovers. Larry Johnson only rushed for 43 yards, as the Houston defense kept him bottled up throughout Sunday's 20-3 loss. Kansas City could quite possibly have the worst offense in the entire league.

Covers.com

20. Voted most likely to tumble down these rankings. The free-fall starts this week in the Windy City.

FootballLocks.com

22. Sound the alarm. The Chiefs were held to 219 yards of offense and were unable to find the end zone in a 20-3 loss in Houston. Yikes!

NFLReport.com

27. Winless in the preseason, K.C. went down to Houston and got man-handled by the Texans. The Chiefs mustered only three points in the loss.

Most power rankings have the Chiefs falling in the lower third of the NFL, which is about right in my opinion. I was surprised at the couple of sites that had the Chiefs higher than 25 after the offensive breakdown in Houston. The talk of the "worst offense in the NFL" has already begun. I, for one, am going to use these low rankings as a rallying point for our Chiefs. Cinderella story? I think so.

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Hmm.

"Larry Johnson only rushed for 43 yards, as the Houston defense kept him bottled up throughout Sunday's 20-3 loss. Kansas City could quite possibly have the worst offense in the entire league."

Could this do anything with the fact that LJ only rushed 10 times? Hmm I'm not sure. I'll take 4.3 YPC.

by Joel Thorman on Sep 12, 2007 7:32 AM CDT reply actions

Fox Sports

Got it wrong...I think. Unless I am going crazy, the Texans went 3 of 11 on third downs. That was one of the only good things Herm had to say after the game.

by PVChiefsfan on Sep 12, 2007 7:46 AM CDT reply actions

That's what I thought

But then looked at the stats on kcchiefs.com and had us going 3/11 and the Texans 9/14.

by Joel Thorman on Sep 12, 2007 7:54 AM CDT up reply actions

NFL.com

Says the Texans went 3 for 11. Check it out here. Primetime, what kcchiefs.com link are you using?

by Chris Thorman on Sep 12, 2007 8:16 AM CDT up reply actions

Here

http://www.nfl.com/teams/kansascitychiefs/statistics?team=KC

by Joel Thorman on Sep 12, 2007 8:26 AM CDT reply actions

Yep you're right

Two different stats.

by Chris Thorman on Sep 12, 2007 8:28 AM CDT up reply actions

Ouch.

This must be what it was like to be a Detroit Lions fan all those years.

Things will get better on defense when Jared "The Monster" Allen gets back on the field.

Go Chiefs!

by geekfather on Sep 12, 2007 8:31 AM CDT reply actions

Defense

isn't the problem...

by Joel Thorman on Sep 12, 2007 8:32 AM CDT up reply actions

Agreed.

And it's just gonna be better!

A great defense wins games, it's just that a bad offense loses MORE games.

by geekfather on Sep 12, 2007 8:53 AM CDT up reply actions

This very well could be

the worst offense in the league. They're super predictable and can not get the ball down the field. I'm just shocked that they did not sign Byron Leftwich. Dude has a cannon arm. What makes matters worse is that we will be facing what is probably the league's best defense. But, the good news? The Bears offense isn't much better than ours. I'm holding out small hope for this game. I know that sounds crazy, but if we can hold them to a couple of field goals and score just one touchdown, we can beat them.

by royaldaddy on Sep 12, 2007 9:31 AM CDT reply actions

Agreed on all counts

As poor as the Chiefs offense seems to be, we can pull off a win in Chicago.

Huard>Grossman. Never been a Grossman fan.

by Chris Thorman on Sep 12, 2007 9:42 AM CDT up reply actions

Turnovers

That's the only way we will score a TD on this team. Colquitt should come in handy...

by Joel Thorman on Sep 12, 2007 10:25 AM CDT up reply actions

i have a weirdly good feeling about sunday

after last weeks performance (by both our offense and their defense) we are literally EXPECTED to score 0 points, so anything above that will be good news. plus, our defense should get a couple of turnovers, and i think we can win this game.

todays prediction will be 10-7.

by rockchalk on Sep 12, 2007 6:27 PM CDT reply actions