Chiefs Gab

With the NFL draft becoming more and more popular every year mock drafts start earlier and earlier every year. A mock draft in late January usually is as accurate as a weather forecast three years in advance. Even though the combine has not taken place yet and the Chiefs are without a head coach, I [...]

Sports talk radio, local media outlets and even ESPN all had one thing in common on Friday, they were all buzzing about the termination of Herm Edwards. Speculation ran wild and by Friday evening Chris Mortensen was reporting the Chiefs were nearing a deal with Mike Shanahan , Mortensen
then backed off that story saying the [...]

Despite what has already been written, it looks more and more like the next Chiefs coach won’t be former Broncos coach Mike Shanahan. The following comes from Sports Illustrated about the situation.
Deposed Denver coach Mike Shanahan will “definitely” not coach the Kansas City Chiefs in 2009 — nor will he take a coaching job [...]

Now that Herm Edwards has officially been shown the door in Kansas City, who is going to be the next coach of the franchise? One name already popping up is former Broncos coach Mike Shanahan, who has already spoken to the Chiefs according to ESPN senior NFL analyst Chris Mortensen. He says that [...]

News out of Kansas City is that the Kansas City Chiefs have fired Herm Edwards. Edwards was 15-33 after only 3 seasons in KC.  This should not come as a surprise to anyone after the hiring last week of Scott Pioli as GM of the team.
“Since my arrival last week, Herm and I have had [...]

From: KC Star
As usual, free agency is lean on top pass rushers other than Julius Peppers, assuming he doesn’t re-sign with Carolina. One NFL personnel director said he didn’t think it would be the style of new Chiefs general manager Scott Pioli to splurge on a major free agent, even one of Peppers’ stature.

From: Philadelphia Daily News
League sources told the Daily News that GM Scott Pioli has targeted Cardinals offensive coordinator Todd Haley to replace Herman Edwards, but doesn’t want to kick him out the door until Haley officially accepts the job, which can’t be offered until after the Super Bowl.

It’s that time again to start talking about free agency, and we’ll spend some time breaking down positions, and today we are going to start with maybe the most important position on the field – quarterback. Here are our rankings of Free Agent QB’s, and what we think will be the end result for [...]

Coach of the year: Chan Gailey, When Chan Gailey was fired as the head coach of Georgia Tech Herm Edwards wasted little time making Gailey the offensive coordinator, Gailey did not disappoint. Over the off season Gailey devised a playbook to take advantage of QB Brodie Croyle’s strengths and Larry Johnson power running style. Once [...]

With the much speculated hiring of G.M. Scott Pioli official the next question becomes what will happen with Herm Edwards. More often than not a new G.M. will want to bring in his own guy to coach the team regardless of the sucsess or failures of the previous coach but there have been instances were [...]