Morning Update (Hump Day Edition)

by Chris Thorman on Sep 5, 2007 6:44 AM CDT in 2007 Kansas City Chiefs Campaign

The Broncos signed former Buc DE Simeon Rice on Monday. Wait, he's not from Cleveland. Whats going on here?
The Church Bells All Were Broken. A fitting title for the first post on our Michigan blog after last week's game.
Get used to this Chiefs fans- People calling out our offense.
Yep. Whoopi Goldberg is stupid.
I don't know why I found this sad but I did- Shaq is asking for a divorce.
Herm Edwards used "bootleg" and "Denver" in the same press conference yesterday. Newsflash to the Texans: We can lose the game on the bootleg if you wanted to run it enough. Visions of Jake Plummer running in my head now...
If you haven't seen it yet, Fake Teams is a great place to get fantasy info of all varieties.
Man, I just have to add this link in. Arrowhead Addict has a comparison of Kelli Croyle and October Russell, Tony Gonzalez's wife. There's a Wednesday story to get you going in the morning.

Ah the dreaded Wednesday of football season. Truly a hump day during the NFL regular season. The game from last week has been hashed out. Next week's game is just a bit far away to blow all of the good commentary so early in the week. Where does that leave us? At the moment, I'm working on NFL power rankings for the week. The SB Nation football guys are getting together to do a site-wide conglomeration of power rankings. Think BlogPoll for the NFL. I'll drop my power rankings in the comment section when I get done with them. Feel free to do the same (or top 10, top 15 or however many you feel like ranking).

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Here they are

I did this very quickly. They could stand to be checked over again.

Team	Rank
Patriots	1
Colts	2
Chargers	3
Ravens	4
Saints	5
Bears	6
Eagles	7
Cowboys	8
49ers	9
Broncos	10
Bengals	11
Steelers	12
Jaguars	13
Rams	14
Seahawks	15
Bills	16
Jets	17
Dolphins	18
Redskins	19
Giants	20
Lions	21
Panthers	22
Cardinals	23
Titans	24
Chiefs	25
Packers	26
Vikings	27
Falcons	28
Buccaneers	29
Texans	30
Raiders	31
Browns	32

The Chiefs just have too many unknowns at this point with their offense to put them much higher. We'll see where they stand throughout the season.

by Chris Thorman on Sep 5, 2007 8:10 AM CDT reply actions

Huh?

Seahawks 15? They have just as good a chance to win the NFC as anyone. Def not 49ers over broncos/bengals/steelers.

by Joel Thorman on Sep 5, 2007 8:27 AM CDT up reply actions

Ha

I told I did it quickly. Next week will be more thought out...

by Chris Thorman on Sep 5, 2007 8:32 AM CDT up reply actions

Don Banks

Don Banks is the same wanker that picked the Chiefs last in the AFC West. Who cares what he thinks?

It's Chiefs season baby!!

I am psyched!!

You play to win the game!

by tailgateandwin on Sep 5, 2007 9:25 AM CDT reply actions

Rice goes to the Donkeys

Does Rice have any fuel left in the tank? If so, this could be bad for us. What does everybody think?

by PVChiefsfan on Sep 5, 2007 10:21 AM CDT reply actions

I don't think Rice

will dominate by any means. It looks like from the depth chart that he will start. I'm more worried about their first round pick Jarvis Moss in the coming years. MHR said he is a "talented stop-gap".

by Chris Thorman on Sep 5, 2007 10:27 AM CDT up reply actions

Rice

is the talented stop-gap.

by Chris Thorman on Sep 5, 2007 10:28 AM CDT reply actions

Jarvis Moss

i don't know much about him...can we expect him to perform similarly to what we have seen from OUR most recent 1st round defensive lineman, Hali? If so, we need to draft some good O linemen, quickly :)

by PVChiefsfan on Sep 5, 2007 2:34 PM CDT reply actions

Speaking of...

Offensive linemen...when ARE we going to use a first day draft pick on a O lineman. Wiegmann isn't ancient but he's not going to be around forever and Macintosh is just a band-aid like Roaf was. I'd like to see us spend a high draft pick on another o-lineman and keep him for the majority (if not all) of his career like we did with Shields.

by PVChiefsfan on Sep 5, 2007 2:38 PM CDT reply actions

That would be ideal

We'll see where the draft picks fall after this year. That will be the determining factor.

by Chris Thorman on Sep 5, 2007 2:54 PM CDT up reply actions

Band-aid?

I would take a band-aid like Roaf for another 4 years. Arguably the best tackle ever. But I know what you're saying. The truly elite left tackles are usually taken in the top 10 of the draft, which we have (luckily?) only been in once in over the last decade.

by Joel Thorman on Sep 5, 2007 3:06 PM CDT up reply actions

Roaf in the Band-aid HOF?

Ok, so it is a good thing that we haven't had the opportunity to draft a top ten O-lineman in a while. THough isn't it usually left tackles that go that high...I am sure that you could get a good guard at 23...or you could pick Niswanger in the 6th round and then cut him :) Couldn't Houston have built a whole o-line of top 10 draft picks by now?...the oldest one would just be starting his 5th season.

by PVChiefsfan on Sep 5, 2007 9:08 PM CDT up reply actions

Left Tackles

A franchise left tackle only comes along every couple of years. They are very important because they protect your biggest investment.

by Joel Thorman on Sep 6, 2007 8:12 AM CDT up reply actions

I have a clever plan

Why don't the Chiefs fool everybody by drafting a franchise right tackle in the first round and then...here is the surprise...a left-handed quarterback. Aha! Why aren't there very many left-handed QB's?

by PVChiefsfan on Sep 6, 2007 2:39 PM CDT reply actions

One more Rice comment

When Strahan was considering retirement I read an interview with NYG other DE (the guy with the impossible-to-pronounce last name) in which he was asked if he would welcome Rice. He totally dogged on Rice because he was weak against the run. This would force the Giants to move him into Strahan's vacant left end spot so that Rice could play right end and most running plays would go away from him. I am sure that Evil Genius Herm Edwards :) will take that into account and shove LJ down Rice's throat until the Donkeys start run blitzing a LB in there.

by PVChiefsfan on Sep 6, 2007 2:44 PM CDT reply actions