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How is your running game without charles, or are you mostly relying on cassel?

Meh. We are 8th or something, but when you go from #1 to #8 it seems to be a drop off. Thank God Jackie Battle came from off the scrap heap/Special teams ace to show he can be a good closer. He’ll never be a bell cow, but he’s better than a washed up Thomas Jones

I know you guys drafted a number 2 reciever early to complement Bowe, I don’t remember his name off the top of my head, but how is he playing?

Jonathan Baldwin. He has played 2 games, because he punched Thomas Jones and broke his thumb. First game he had some nice 1st down catches and on Monday he had 5-81-1 TD. Pretty good start as far as I’m concerned. He had some character issues in PITT, but has elite talent. We also signed Breaston who’s been a nice fit

How is your TE situation, is it something we should worry about?

Nothing to see here, carry on. Moeaki (Stud rookie TE) went out in preseason with an ACL

How is your D-line, our O-line is playing poorly, is it going to be a problem

Lines have been playing pretty well as of late. Oline is solid, if not spectacular and Dline have done a pretty good job hugging the olinemen to let Tamba Hali be a freak. Y’all better block him, dat dude is sick.

Is cassel playing better?

Sigh. Fine, I’ll take the corporate line: He’s our QB and the best we have, so I’ll support him

Which O-lineman will be on earthwake and do you think he would be able to stop him.

Brandon Albert. He struggled last week for some reason, but he’s had a pretty solid year. I anticipate Wake to get his, depending on who is on the other side, maybe we’ll keep a blocking TE in to chip him. Love watching ex-CFL’ers light up fools.

The running game has improved the last couple games with the emergence of Jackie Battle. God help us if we have to rely totally on Cassel.

 Baldwin is the rookie WR and just returned from injury (his thumb picked a fight with Thomas Jones’ jaw and lost). He had a pretty good game this week, including a very nice TD grab.

TE is a concern with Moeaki out for the year, and the Chiefs will use a lot of 3 WR sets, especially with Baldwin healthy.

The D-line is playing good, especially against the run. Pass rush form the front 3 is not a big problem, but Hali is giving defenses nightmares. The Chiefs will mover him around to get the best match up, so I expect they will rush him away from Long quite a bit.

Cassel can makes some plays, especially if he has time and the running game is making the defense respect the ground game.

I hope that Wake is coming of the right side against Albert and not off the left side of the defense against Barry Richardson.

They have been good at bringing some pressure at times, but mainly they clog up the line to allow the linebackers to make an impact. It’s going to take a concerted effort to stop Hali, and from what you are saying, your QB may spend quite a few plays on his back.

Just to get this straight though, your WR injured himself punching someone else in the face? What a fail.

I honestly don’t.

In the history of the bloggesphere, no single topic has been so hotly debated as Matt Cassel on Arrowhead Pride. I see him for just that – A stop gap player who needs everything to go right to win consistantly. Especially with starting 0-3, AP was in full “Suck for Luck” mode and while I’m glad we turned it around, I can’t help but think how good we could be with our recieving corps, a healthy Jamaal Charles, Eric Berry and Tony Moeaki, and the QB from Stanford.

RE: Fantasy football.

I dunno, you tell me. They are all good players, how has your defense looked? I thought it was going to be a top-10 defense preseason, what the hell happened?

Is a Dolphins fan and I’ve always had a soft spot for this team since back when Dan Marino was tearing it up. Man I loved watching that guy play. I told him you guys deserve a good QB and coach after what you’ve been through.

As for Cassel taking this team to the Super Bowl, hmmm…after last year I would have said yes but after another season of up and down play I am not so confident. He has shown flashes and he has a very talented group around him. I am hoping Zorn can help him out with some of his mistakes. He’s got the tools around him and he’s getting better about using them, but I am not sure he has what it takes to get us a championship.

Our biggest strength I would say is our defense. Romeo has this young group of guys really starting to pull it together. After a very, very tough start to the season and losing our best player, we have started to overcome, having gone 7 straight quarters not allowing a score and 8 quarters not allowing a TD. Our weakness on defense is safety, with Berry out there just isn’t a guy who can fill his shoes. Also on defense other than Hail we have virtually no pass rush. He was shut down against the Raiders who double & triple teamed him the whole game.

I’m a homer so I would say always start the killer Bs in fantasy football but I don’t play so that would be better answered by someone else. I would imagine it comes down to match up, how is your secondary? I read somewhere that Cassel and Baldwin are both considered starters this week vs Miami, but I don’t know how much expert analysis is worth as these are the same guys that convinced people that Chris Johnson was the best fantasy pick this year.

If we make the playoffs this year, Cassel may play a role, but it will be the defense that leads us there. I can’t imagine us getting to the Super Bowl this year, but it sure would be nice :).

As for the next few years, I still don’t see Cassel being the one to do it. He may be the QB when it happens, but I just don’t see him being able to take the entire team on his back. It will be much more due to the return of Charles, Berry and Moeaki than anything Cassel does.

For our biggest strength, I’d have to say the Defense in general. Other than McGraw, our defenders are all at least well above average. The best part is that most of our D is young and locked up for quite a while, so they should be good for years to come. Our biggest weakness would probably be our backfield (QB, RB). Cassel has been wildly inconsistent, stellar only occasionally, but not completely dreadful very often (except the first two games of this season). Without Charles, we have found a decent power runner in Battle, but there are still questions about the RB corps in general.

As for fantasy players: No way I would play them all at once. Bowe is probably the only one I would start every week, but Baldwin may soon work his way up, and Breaston could be good in a pinch at the flex or as a sub for a bye/injury.

If he can get this team to the playoffs with the injuries we’ve had, plus it taking 4 weeks to gel on offense, plus not having our first round WR who looks like a stud, plus with our schedule then we might have to review that opinion.

If you add to our “Rainy Day/We Don’t Get The First Pick And Need To Trade Up For Luck” fund.

Seriously though, he’s been ok. Just ok. He’s making franchise tag money and sometimes he just disappears. But the run defense has been decent, so theres that.

Do you want him though? Cuz I’ll trade him right now, damn the deadline.

(by losing to them), and we can coast to April.

Which corner do you see being able to hold BM to his usual self as of late. Do you giys have an answer for him?

Flowers has been outstanding this season after a slow start and Carr has been playing well. If neither of those guys take on BM then you can plan on Romeo Crennel eliminating him from the play completely with a mean, physical double-team.

Last week, we saw Reggie Bush run for only his second career 100 yard game, do you think that your defense has the speed to keep up with him if we choose to run him to the outside?

Yes. Stopping the run will be our guys number one priority. Number two, get after the QB.

Last, what is your unbiased spread going into this game. Who wins, and by how much?

I believe the Chiefs offense without JC is starting to believe in themselves more and more. Breaston and Baldwin, along with Bowe, is our strength on offense—and we are starting to see our coaches and QB comfortable with throwing the deep ball. Our rushing attack is also top 10 in the league. If you allow us to run the ball effectively early, expect us to score points. I know our guys are a little beat up after the last couple of weeks, so I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and say Chiefs win 34-10.

If I owned an NFL team, I would sign him just so that I could turn around and cut him. Guy is a complete douche, and I’m glad he is gone from KC.

We tolerated him while he was running well, but once he lost that and kept his attitude, he was doomed here.

But as you know, we have signed, then cut, then signed, then cut LJ. Is his pressence missed at all in Arrowhead?

No. Not even a little.

As for the QB situation, you guys have an awesome tandem of recievers, any thoughts of bringing in a speedster and duplicating the Patriots offense?

I think we are barely opening up our pass game still, once Charles is back I see us becoming a run first team again. Haley has said he prefers to be a run team, but with our rookie Baldwin, Bowe & Breaston we look to have a heck of a passing threat.

Which corner do you see being able to hold BM to his usual self as of late. Do you giys have an answer for him?

Brandon Flowers, you may have heard of him, he’s in a band called the killers.

Last week, we saw Reggie Bush run for only his second career 100 yard game, do you think that your defense has the speed to keep up with him if we choose to run him to the outside?

I can see us using Derrick Johnson to keep Bush in check, he’s playing exceptionally well right now. I also think that the Dolphins are not using Bush well (similar to what the Chiefs are doing with McCluster), I think these guys need to get the ball tossed on the outside to them instead of handoffs up the middle.

Last, what is your unbiased spread going into this game. Who wins, and by how much?

I hate making predictions on score because you never know. I don’t think this is an easy win and hope this doesn’t turn into a trap game for us, if I had to pick a score, I’d say 24-17 Chiefs.

It’s easy to say injuries, because it’s easier to gameplan KNOWING we are missing Jamaal and Berry for an entire week than on the fly when they go down in game….toss in a little luck and some better playcalling and poof: better results.

Cassel might have more grass in his helmet than…..ummm…..it’s too late for me to come up with a clever analogy but stay tuned, tomorrow I’m gonna come up with something briliant.

I think this may be simply put… the best 10 seconds of entertainment pound for pound in the world.

And it still looks like a turd coming out her mouth… lol

It might require your 1st round draft pick this year, your first-born, and a big bucket of cheese balls, but that wouldn’t be a problem, right?

Oh, and there’s nothing wrong with tanking the game after the switch, right?

a month of an entire city not shaving… Then shaving on the same day, I don’t even want to think of the butterfly effect on that one. Maybe the 2012 prophecy is real

personally I do NOT wanna know, but the guy really IS superstitious, so who knows for sure … he does look like a walking ad for a homeless shelter (then too, Haley’s always looked like that)