The Kansas City Chiefs dropped their second straight preseason game Friday night when they were destroyed by the Seattle Seahawks, 44-14. With the third preseason game used to prepare a team for the start of the regular season, there has to be a lot of concern about just how ready the Chiefs are to take [...]
As the Kansas City Chiefs prepare to make their selection in April’s NFL Draft with the 21st pick, Bob Gretz wanted to have a vote for the best and worst decisions the franchise has made since the first AFL-NFL combined draft in 1967. There should be no surprise about the best, though the worst is [...]
Unless Scott Pioli pulls off a major draft day trade, the Kansas City Chiefs will not have a chance to select Texas A&M LB Von Miller. The nation’s best linebacker ran a 4.49 40 at his pro day and will be one of the first players shaking hands with Roger Goodell. If he continues emulating [...]
PFT missed the boat when they left Tamba Hali off their ballot for the Derrick Thomas Award, honoring the best linebacker in the league. Even after the clear oversight with Hali, it’s hard to argue with the eventual winner of the award. This year, the no-brainer recipient is Packers linebacker Clay Matthews. Nearly voted the [...]
Ten years ago today, the Kansas City Chiefs lost one of their greatest players of all-time. Derrick Thomas passed away at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami following a car accident that left him paralyzed from the chest down. Josh Looney at KCChiefs.com has posted a letter from Thomas written two days before his death. This [...]
There is a lot about the Chiefs blowout loss to the Broncos not to like. But for Bob Gretz the worst part of the day was that Kansas City could be so bad on a day they honored one of their greatest players. Behind his contagious smile and the need to create havoc on the [...]
Chiefs coach Todd Haley talks plenty about how he wants a tough football team. That’s one of the reasons why he held practice outside yesterday in 30 degree weather with 20 mph winds. To prove to his team that he’s with them, there was Haley wearing shorts for the duration of the chilly practice. “Coach [...]
During Friday’s game, Jamaal Charles fumbled without anyone touching him. He simply tripped, fell and lost the football. He calls it a freak accident but as Kent Babb reports, there’s much more to the story for Charles. The problem for Charles, a Chiefs’ second-year running back, is that fumbles haven’t been a freak occurrence during [...]
For all the talk of competition in camp, the most unsettle position could be that of kickoff and put return specialists. Adam Teicher breaks down the various candidates jockeying for the job. The Chiefs have a large field of candidates with no clear favorite. The list includes sixth-round draft pick Quinten Lawrence, former Arena League [...]
“I said at that time that a light had gone out in Kansas City. But for all Derrick Thomas fans, the light has gone back on tonight. It will burn brightly in Kansas City, and now will burn forever in this shrine to professional football. Today culminates the life of a great player who did [...]
