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Chiefs news for Jan 19, 2023
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Good morning, AG!
Today in Chiefs history, all we have at the moment is a Steve DeBerg birthday. Born in 1946. Edit: how quickly we forget. 2019, Titans @ Arrowhead. Come from behind, and we punch our ticket to the Super Bowl for the first time in 50 years.
Elsewhere, we start with a couple of deaths. 2013, Stan “The Man” Musial dies at 92. 2000, Austrian-born actress Hedy Lamarr, who was often typecast as a provocative femme fatale and later achieved recognition as a noted inventor of a radio communications device, dies in Florida.
1977: U.S. President Gerald Ford pardoned Iva Toguri D’Aquino (Tokyo Rose), a Japanese-American broadcaster from Japan to U.S. troops during World War II, who, after the war, was convicted of treason and served six years in a U.S. prison; mitigating information later raised questions about her guilt.
1955: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower held the first-ever televised presidential press conference.
And let’s end with a couple of birthdays. Dolly Parton in 1946, and Janice Joplin in 1943. That’s right. Janice was older than Dolly. See what dying young will do for you?
On to the news…
Chiefs Kingdom still has more to prove, according to Jaguars QB Trevor Lawrence | kshb.com
“I can’t imagine (Arrowhead) will be much louder than our fans were here on Saturday, honestly,” Lawrence told media members in Jacksonville Wednesday. ED: Challenge accepted.
Frank Clark still limited in practice, but there’s a silver lining | Clutchpoints
“Even though #chiefs pass rusher Frank Clark (groin) was limited again today, he did more than he did yesterday in practice and looked like he was moving well in the portion of practice we were able to watch.”
Josh Allen on Chiefs rematch: ‘They’re about to see a different Josh’ | Jagswire
Jacksonville Jaguars pass rusher Josh Allen has found his form. The defensive team captain has recorded a sack in four of his last six games with 13 quarterback hits over that stretch.
Chiefs P Tommy Townsend Trolls Critics After All-Pro Nomination | Heavy
Kansas City Chiefs punter has received quite a bit of criticism this season, which is why he was happy to troll his critics after being named an All-Pro for the first time in his career by the Associated Press.
Palmer: Chiefs ‘want to put the game on Trevor Lawrence’s shoulders’ this Saturday | NFL.com
Biggest vulnerability for eight remaining NFL playoff teams; plus, updated Super Bowl LVII probabilities | NFL.com
https://www.nfl.com/news/biggest-vulnerability-for-eight-playoff-teams-super-bowl-lvii-probabilities
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Kansas City Chiefs Free Agents 2023 | boardroom.tv
What must Kansas City do this offseason to keep its status as the AFC’s top dog? Let’s take a closer look at the full list of Chiefs free agents for 2023.
Morning Bowl of (T)Weeties:
Arrowhead Guys Twitter:
The Chiefs add former Colts DT Byron Coward, who had 12 tackles in 17 games last year. https://twitter.com/JLSports3/status/1639290472966307842
Congratulations to client @ByronCowart1 on signing with the @Chiefs
Can confirm the Chiefs are re-signing Blake Bell on a 1-year deal (@RapSheet 1st).
The team keeps its top 4 tight ends from last year — in Travis Kelce, Noah Gray, Jody Fortson & Bell — & could add another player at the position in the draft next month.
Excited for this new chapter! 🙏🏾
The obsession with Jackson Mahomes. 🙄
You can just choose to not follow him and/or block him. He doesn’t appear in your feed anymore.
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers confronts TikTok CEO:
"Why would you willingly give Jackson Mahomes a platform in this world?”
Update: The #Chiefs have signed back DT Derrick Nnadi, a 2018 3rd round pick who played his entire career with the team, per his agent SportsTrust.
Local Chiefs Reporters:
"I think the data was very clear: it doesn’t show a higher injury rate. But we recognize shorter weeks. We went through this with COVID too.”
Roger Goodell defends the Thursday Night Football flex proposal.
Goodell defends TNF flex proposal, owners postpone vote
The NFL approved a measure that would allow every team to play on two short weeks. It previously was only one week.
theathletic.com
One would hope Clark Hunt would be a no vote on flexing Thursday night games.
Chiefs draw from a huge geographic footprint, and there's plenty of frustration from fans when Sunday games get flexed.
Let's hope the NFL won't force teams to play two home games on Thursday nights.
More John Mara: "People make plans to go to these games weeks and months in advance. 15 days ahead of time to say ‘Sorry folks, that game you were planning on taking your kids to Sunday at one o’clock, it’s now going to be Thursday night.’ I mean, what are we thinking about?''
Point to the only quarterback in the NFL with two Super Bowl wins
Roger Goodell, just now: “I don’t think we are putting Amazon over the players. …We recognize shorter weeks. I hear from a lot of players directly who love the 10 days after the game.”
🤦🏽♂️ https://twitter.com/mysportsupdate/status/1640849428566396928
NFL confirms that moving forward there will now only be one “NFL Redzone” channel. That’s with Scott Hanson hosting.
DirectTV’s deal came to an end and that version of Redzone no longer exists.
National Talking Heads:
.@Ckancey8 explosiveness is next level. 📈
📺: 2023 #NFLDraft - April 27-29 on NFLN/ESPN/ABC
Prior to reaching his decision, Calais Campbell had a 40-minute phone call with owner Arthur Blank and the two discussed leadership, charitable efforts, and how Campbell thrives in the community. That non-football call helped seal it.
Sources: The #Falcons are making another splash, as former #Ravens star Calais Campbell intends to sign a 1-year deal with them. The Pro Bowler and former Walter Payton Man of the year will lend leadership to a young team he believes in. And Atlanta adds — again — on defense.
While Calais Campbell had several options, he bought in to the vision of Atlanta coach Arthur Smith and GM Terry Fontenot. He’s been to a conference title game with a young team and young QB before (the #Jaguars), and perhaps there are some similarities.
Sources: The #Falcons are making another splash, as former #Ravens star Calais Campbell intends to sign a 1-year deal with them. The Pro Bowler and former Walter Payton Man of the year will lend leadership to a young team he believes in. And Atlanta adds — again — on defense.
Falcons to sign DE Calais Campbell to one-year deal. (via @RapSheet)
Free-agent tight end @fhmoreau shares his thoughts on being diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma while taking a physical with the New Orleans Saints.
🎧 https://apple.co/3lPmnfz
As of right now, you can still get a nosebleed section seat for Saturday’s playoff game for a mere $107 on Seatgeek.
Are you going?
Cowboys-49ers rivalry set for record-tying 9th playoff game
https://apnews.com/article/nfl-playoffs-cowboys-49ers-rivalry-083928bbc0f793885f2eb89bb7ef771d?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_10
… few rivalries have had as many big games or star players such as Roger Staubach, Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, Emmitt Smith, Deion Sanders, Steve Young, Troy Aikman and Michael Irvin
Chiefs fans know this as well as anyone, and THANK YOU Andy Reid
Analysis: Right coach can turn around a franchise quickly
https://apnews.com/article/new-england-patriots-kansas-city-chiefs-jacksonville-jaguars-los-angeles-chargers-nfl-b8ff291e04a9259d351e2739c3246048
Can’t forget this play:
“The Catch,” Montana to Dwight Clark. And once again, confound you NFL and your prevention of embedding.
Say cheese! Galactic photo shoot captures 3 billion stars
https://apnews.com/article/science-chile-stars-60fecb7e18e0ad9b247b8d7aa75a4b3c?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_11
good stuff, Nova
Thank you, Sir
Outstanding!!
Gold Coast woman Shannen Michaela sets foot archery world record
Jaguars’ Trevor Lawrence says he ‘can’t imagine’ Arrowhead Stadium being louder than Jacksonville ahead of Chiefs playoff game.
Trevor (aka: sunshine) has lost his mind lol
yO mAMA!
The weather is looking interesting for saturday
Last I saw, rain early, snow late (after the game, most likely). Any change to that?
More detail than is saw. I just frozen mix. Probably favors the team not based in Florida.
HFA is hopefully just that
The Sea of Red is officially going to Germany.
Hopefully Munich and not Frankfurt. Have they said that they’re doing the same locations as last year? I hear Berlin is cool too.
Good band
i hope the kingdom shows Trevor what 142 db feels like
that’s the one i wanted but couldn’t remember where it was, thanks
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you win!