The Kansas City Star had a pretty typical NFL story that shows up in June – a piece about the 2010 Chiefs’ draftees and their first exposure to the NFL world. It’s the standard fluff piece, but about what you can expect this time of the year. By “standard”, I mean you can count on [...]
The Chiefs continued their preparation for the Cleveland Browns today without the services of CB Brandon Carr. Per Bob Gretz of BobGretz.com, Carr was not at the early portion of practice that was attended by the media. The reasons for Carr’s absence was not given, possibilities include illness or personal reasons.
Once the weak link of this squad , the defense has been built up by Herm Edwards through the draft and now will be asked to be the side of the ball that keeps the Chiefs in games this year. There were very little surprises except for the release of second year corner Tyron Brackenridge. [...]
In 1995 Gunther Cunningham was hired as defensive coordinator for the Chiefs. In his four seasons as DC the Chiefs gave up 16.4 points per game. They were +30 in turnover margin. Was that more great players like D.T. and Neil Smith, Dale Carter and James Hasty or more Gunther? I would like to believe [...]
Patrick Surtain’s cap number for 2008 is over eight million dollars. That is two million more than the next highest player paid player on the Chiefs roster Brian Waters. Surtain?s stat line for last year 61 tackles and two interceptions. To put that in perspective the Chiefs paid Jarrod Page 400,000 [...]
Since the beginning of the off season Herm Edwards has preached “competition”. He achieved his goal there are several starting positions up for grabs on this team and a slew of contestants for those spots . From the 12 picks in the draft to the barrel of un drafted rookie free agents, add to the [...]
The Chiefs today came to terms with rookie cornerback Brandon Carr on a three-year contract. Carr was a fifth-round pick of Division II Grand Valley State, where he started 41 of 49 games in helping the team to a 50-4 record and a pair of national championships while posting 206 career tackles and 11 interceptions. [...]
