Morning Huddle: 2021 Opponents
80 repliesChiefs opponents are set, Hitch returns from Covid/IR, Mike Danna is placed on Covid/IR. Grab yourself a cup o’ joe and get in the Huddle!
Chiefs news for 7 January 2020
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Here’s a Look at the Chiefs’ 2021 Opponents | Chiefs.com
The Kansas City Chiefs still have some unfinished business this season, but with the 2020 campaign officially in the books, we now know all of the Chiefs’ opponents for next year.
In addition to AFC West divisional opponents, the Chiefs will take on the AFC North, NFC East and the first-place finishers from the AFC South (Tennessee Titans) and AFC East (Buffalo Bills). The latter two games were determined because of Kansas City’s first place standing in the AFC West.
Chiefs rookie DE Mike Danna placed on reserve/COVID-19 list | ChiefsWire
According to the NFL’s official transaction report, the Chiefs placed rookie DE Mike Danna on the reserve/COVID-19 list. If you’ll recall, players that are placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list do not have to test positive for the virus, they can simply be deemed high-risk close contacts to someone who tested positive. If Danna is a high-risk close contact, he has to spend five days on the list without a positive test before he’s able to be removed from the list.
Chiefs OC Eric Bieniemy has completed HC interviews with 5 teams | ChiefsWire
We’d already learned that Bieniemy completed interviews with both the Atlanta Falcons and the Detroit Lions on Monday. According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Bieniemy also completed an interview with the Los Angeles Chargers on Tuesday and wrapped up interviews with the New York Jets and Jacksonville Jaguars today.
Bieniemy has now interviewed with five of the six teams that have head-coaching vacancies this offseason. The only team that has surprisingly did not request a head-coaching interview with Bieniemy is the Houston Texans. They appeared to be a prime landing spot for Bieniemy, but they seem to have different plans, at least for now.
Anthony Hitchens is back with Chiefs after stint on COVID reserve list | AA
Anthony Hitchens sounds like he’s back. The exhale you’re likely also hearing is that of the Kansas City Chiefs coaches who are glad to see him back at work at Arrowhead to help bolster a defense that’s missing key places in the heart of it all.
Hitchens landed on the COVID-19/reserve list two weeks ago which kept him out of Sunday’s game against the Los Angeles Chargers in Week 17 as well as the previous win over the Atlanta Falcons in Week 16. The team’s linebacking corps has stepped up in the wake of missing players, but it’s the sort of defensive tension that likely would not hold for another week or two.
On New Year’s Day, bookmaker William Hill U.S. took a six-figure bet on the Kansas City Chiefs to win the Super Bowl, but the defending champions are not the sportsbook’s biggest concern heading into the playoffs.
The Chiefs are the consensus Super Bowl favorite, listed at +190 at Caesars Sportsbook by William Hill. The Green Bay Packers are next at +450, followed by the Buffalo Bills (+700) and New Orleans Saints (+750). The Buccaneers are +1,000.
The Chiefs have attracted the most bets and most money in William Hill’s Super Bowl futures market. The Packers have the second-most Super Bowl bets, followed by the Buccaneers, Seahawks and Pittsburgh Steelers.
As the weather turns cold, these teams are heating up at just the right time | NFL.com
It’s easy to identify the dominant teams in this year’s playoffs, studs like the Chiefs, Packers, Saints and Bills. It’s harder to pick out who’s going to be the next version of the 2007 and 2011 Giants, the 2010 Packers, the 2012 Ravens or the 2015 Broncos — surprising champions of the last 15 years that found a way to weather adversity and ultimately turn hard times into helpful motivation.
If there’s anybody in the NFL who knows a thing or two about such postseason magic, it’s Brady. He won his first championship, in 2001, after an official used the “Tuck Rule” to overturn a game-wrecking fumble in a Divisional playoff win over the Raiders. Brady’s last championship, in 2018, had plenty to do with Chiefs outside linebacker Dee Ford lining up offsides when Brady tossed what would’ve been a game-ending interception late in the Patriots’ AFC Championship win. As brilliant as Brady has been throughout his career, he knows a break or two doesn’t hurt along the way.
NFL Power Rankings: B/R’s Expert Consensus Rank for Every Team Entering Playoffs | B/R
[Chiefs – 1] The Kansas City Chiefs entered Week 17 in the most enviable of positions. At 14-1, what happened Sunday against the Los Angeles Chargers didn’t matter. Regardless of the outcome, the defending Super Bowl champions were the AFC’s No. 1 seed and would be watching the Wild Card Round from home.
“Maybe the extra rest will come back and bite them in the butt,” he said. “Maybe all the close calls as of late are a harbinger of doom. Or maybe the Chiefs will play up to their potential in two weeks and cruise into the AFC Championship Game. I’m not betting against a team led by Patrick Mahomes.”
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Patrick Mahomes is 23-5 (.821) when the Chiefs score first and 21-4 (.840) when they DON'T.
NFL averages since 2018 are .608 and .392 respectively.
How is this dude even real?
Don't sleep on the Chiefs' pass defense...
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Not only does Feliciano make sure a ref isn’t looking before he sucker punched Jones, his teammate is holding him to make sure he can do it. THEN he flops and asks for a ref. But SURE Jones is dirty https://twitter.com/danfetes/status/1353500084130951169
Chris Jones threw a punch at Jon Feliciano.
No call.
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Let's see how the media reacted to the Chiefs blowing the doors off of the Bills.
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Good points made here.
There are still a lot of people who believe that game gives some sort of blueprint.
The Colts beating the Chiefs 19-13 on a day where Tyreek Hill and Sammy Watkins played a combined two snaps, and Mahomes was on one leg, is probably one of the better things that has happened to the Kansas City franchise
Patrick Mahomes will play in 2 Superbowl’s before ever losing an #NFL game by more than 1 possession.
The last time @PatrickMahomes lost by more than a possession. November 19, 2016 vs. Iowa State. 🤯
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Seattle is planning to hire Rams’ passing game coordinator Shane Waldron for its offensive coordinator job, per source. Waldron will take over for Brian Schottenheimer.
Rams losing Waldron, Brad Holmes, Ray Agnew, Joe Barry and Aubrey Pleasant.
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Thank you for your brotherly friendship, humor, honesty and compassion. Glad we had a chance to tell each other we loved each other three weeks ago. You were a gift to this Earth as a friend, father and a man Sekou Smith. Rest In Peace to my brother. Prayers to your wife & family
I sure hope we see the REAL Chiefs offense in the playoffs. The knock-off version hasn’t been as enjoyable.
A healthy OL goes a long way.
I’m still struck by the irony of a “no politics” rule for a blog that was started by some guys who didn’t like being told what they could or couldn’t post … and it really is sad that we (using the “editorial we”) can’t be grown up and civil enough to have an intelligent conversation about political and/or social differences
Colin Kaepernick? oh yeah, HUGE fan … he was a GREAT player! (in one game, at least, I’m pretty sure)
Fuck trump
This is why.
But he’s right
It doesn’t matter.
Fuck Biden
It got BAD over the summer, ups. I wouldn’t call this a lesson learned because we don’t learn. It certainly is sad, but see the Caning of Charles Sumner for how political conversations turn violent even in Congress. The best of us, the most skilled in maneuvering political environments, still resort to violence and aggression. We’re all human despite the attempts by social scientists to make anger verboten.
anger, in and of itself, isn’t necessarily a “bad” thing … how it’s released, OTOH, can have disastrous results
anger is one of the three primal emotions across the animal kingdom. Trying to deny it or suppress it is disastrous as you said. Modern social science has been pushing us to remove outlets for aggression for decades. I suspect that’s one cause in the rise of school shootings and domestic terrorism.
So we’re just mindless animals?
via GIPHY
I’m confused. What are you talking about?
You are comparing human beings to animals. We aren’t part of the animal kingdom.
?
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Hominidae
Subfamily: Homininae
Tribe: Hominini
Genus: Homo
winner of the iNterWeBz for the day
Kings Play Chess On Fine Grass Sometimes (you forgot SPECIES, Dude)
? Really? Come on man, you know what I believe.
I honestly did not know you believed that. I assumed you belived man was a special creation above all other animals by virtue of having a soul but still animal.
*I went to parochrial school for 8 yrs and that was the dogma.
It’s cool man. See, I think you are more special and unique than you do. 😊
i do not disagree 🙂
Doesn’t matter what you believe. We are part of the animal kingdom, whether or not you like it.
Actually, what you believe is everything
That’s fundamentally wrong. Every animal has the minimum capacity for fear, anger, and happiness. They are the three basic emotions across the entire evolutionary chain. Higher evolved animals in the chain have a more complex range of emotions. Pack animals, especially primates, express almost the same range of emotions that humans do. Those emotions feed into our behaviors and personality. My point is that denying outlets for primal emotions is an incredibly dangerous thing.
I am fundamentally wrong if evolution us true. I don’t believe it is.
=ahem=
I’m sorry, but it’s true … it doesn’t make you a “bad person” … nor does it make you less of a Chiefs fan
Gee Ups, I feel so much better now. 😉
We do have absolute proof of that, both genetically and in the fossil record. Not only that, but we are able to use evolution as a tool to develop better food and better or different animals.
It’s just the way it is.
We actually ARE a part of the animal kingdom.
troof
right … we’re VEGETABLES! (and I don’t carrot all what you say about it)
I thought I have bean a legume my whole life.
You’re a human bean!
Vive Le France!
visualize whirled peas!
(yes, you ARE nuts)
This is absolutely not true.
What’s not true?
https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/fighting-lawmakers-politicians-acting-badly/
https://abcnews.go.com/2020/video/us-senator-punches-fellow-senator-head-24724731
If you want to be the best in anything, you have to be aggressive in your efforts to achieve the goal.
Aggressive is not a bad thing.
Sure, it’s one of the Big Five personality traits. Football players are aggressive but also cooperative. Team sports demand it. The aggressive, uncooperative players get kicked off the team as uncoachable locker room cancers.
Freedom of Speech has been cut off at AG?
via GIPHY
It’s interesting that once a sufficient quantity is achieved, freedom of speech becomes irrelevant because no single voice can be understood among the cacophony of voices.
It’s like being in a room overstuffed with parrots arguing over the best way to get out of the room.
Not to mention it only delayed the conversation to another night. Unless we are now going the way of a Sweeney led site, where we are told what subjects we can speak of on an open thread.
What happened last night was suppression of free speech. The very thing this site was founded on.
I stand by my basic premise …
Even though I would have stayed away from AG last night if it was open for politics, it might be a good idea to put up a colosseum zone where everyone can fight with <names removed because I don’t want to engage them> in addition to a politics-free safe zone for others.
I remember the days (over there, years ago) when we had Fanposts with 500 comments, most of them socio-economically-politically based threads and “debates” … it was glorious
I remember too, just not fondly.
That is what we did during the election, and I didn’t see any complaints. Politics stayed out of the non political open thread. I bounced between both.
I am fine with suspending accounts or outright banning users that act in a harmful and disrespectful manner, but basically turning an open thread into a censored forum feels wrong on this site.
I agree with you. There should have been 2 threads.
I also agree.
Is there an issue of staffing on AG, it sounds like things have been run here by a smaller group, kinda like a volunteer organization where the same core does most of the work and yearns for an influx of help, don’t know whether putting up two OTs simultaneously is manageable in that light. But maybe that’s irrelevant. Certainly the issue of open topics is serious, that’s why I’m weighing in rather than clicking an up or down vote. Is AG a community forged from Chiefs fandom but extending to our broader interests or are we a community dedicated exclusively to Chiefs football content? I choose the former of those two.
This site is run by volunteers. That is why I never complain about content. I also applaud all of their efforts regularly.
That is why the decision to limit the user generated content is perplexing.
here! here! or there! there! or hear! hear! or what EVER …
well, that’s just it … OT’s should NEVER be “serious” or “taken seriously” … for that matter, the whole phuquing blog shouldn’t be taken seriously: football only football only only football =perk= ohhhhhh pretty barely-legal asian girls!!!
fify
pretty bare, legal asian girls
Yes, that I get, it is the question of open content and the direction of this site that has import for all AGers.
I know, right?
Incidentally, New Years burned me out. I haven’t had a drink since then. Not even a desire. I’ve got some good beer sitting in the fridge too.
especially when the ones who usually bring up politics most nights are the ones saying no politics tonight. I would have stayed away from AG last night if politics was discussed but that doesnt mean that it should be banned when its normally a discussable topic. Make 2 threads and move on
That makes more work for me
*chef’s kiss* beautiful response
lol
Primetime games: Bills, Steelers, Ravens, Raiders (for old times sake, because they will be worse next season than they were this one).
Truckin into the playoffs.
I can see clearly now the Chiefs will win.
I upvoted this knowing full well the games will be played and anything can happen. Not looking for a fight. Or…
Hey rip58: have you tried that honey garlic marinade yet?
If there’s interest, the booklet that recipe came from is called Barbecue on a Budget by Sifto Salt, written and compiled by Anne Borella, Food Consultant, published by Domtar Chemicals Group, Sifto Salt Division, Copyright 1979 Domtar Inc.. There’s a bunch of good, basic recipes in there.
Yes sir, used it on chicken quarters last weekend, turned out good. Can’t wait to use it on pork butts..
And thank you
Glad to read that, and you’re welcome.
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Thanks chef! Love the huddle