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Chiefs news for February 7, 2023
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Good morning, AG!
Today in Chiefs history, “Blech!” The Chiefs lost to the Bucs in Super Bowl VI.
Charles Dickens was born in 1812, The Beatles arrived in NYC in 1964, beginning the British Invasion, Chris Rock was born in 1966, and Mississippi formally abolished slavery in, wait for it…1995, because of some paperwork or some such.
Chiefs make Mecole Hardman, Clyde Edwards-Helaire injury moves for Super Bowl | Clutch Points
The Kansas City Chiefs’ injuries have piled up before their Super Bowl 57 clash with the Philadelphia Eagles, with the likes of wide receivers Mecole Hardman, JuJu Smith-Schuster, Kadarius Toney and cornerback L’Jarius Sneed among the notable players popping up on the injury report. On Monday, the Chiefs made a couple of key moves with Hardman and running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire, who has been sidelined since Week 11, placing Hardman on Injured Reserve while activating Edwards-Helaire before the Super Bowl, per James Palmer of NFL Network.
Super Bowl LVII: Chiefs bar Big Charlie’s Saloon closed Sunday | CBS News
A famous Kansas City Chiefs bar in Philadelphia will be quiet on Super Bowl Sunday. Big Charlie’s Saloon in South Philly said Monday on social media the bar will not be hosting a party this year.
Patrick Mahomes is already a Hall of Fame lock | Yardbarker
Patrick Mahomes has bigger things on his mind than thinking about his legacy, so we’ll do it for him. There’s no question the Chiefs QB would be a first-ballot Pro Football Hall of Famer if he retired today.
Chiefs FB Michael Burton says no moment is too big for Isiah Pacheco | Chiefswire
Kansas City Chiefs FB Michael Burton has always known there was something special about rookie RB Isiah Pacheco. It wasn’t just their bond as former Rutgers alumni, but the passion with which Pacheco ran the football which impressed Burton. Pacheco seems to play every snap like it’s his last time touching the football.
Chiefs CBs Trent McDuffie, Jaylen Watson discuss slowing down Eagles’ offense | Chiefswire
The Eagles’ offense led by QB Jalen Hurts produced two 1,000-yard receivers this season in WRs A.J. Brown and Devonta Smith. They also quietly had one of the NFL’s leading rushers in Miles Sanders. Stopping this offense is going to be a tough task for Kansas City, but a challenge that they won’t be shying away from.
Chiefs legend Christian Okoye greeted team in Arizona as they arrived for Super Bowl LVII | Chiefswire
Chiefs legend Christian Okoye also known as “The Nigerian Nightmare” was waiting on the tarmac to greet the team as they arrived. The former NFL fullback played his entire career with Kansas City from 1987-1992, twice earning All-Pro and Pro Bowl selections along with leading the league in rushing yards in 1989.
Nick Sirianni on being fired by Andy Reid: You always have this little chip on your shoulder | PFT
There was less notice paid to the fact that Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni also has a history with the Chiefs. Sirianni was the Chiefs wide receivers coach for the 2012 season and he was let go when Reid was hired in 2013 because Reid wanted to have David Culley in that spot.
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.
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Streaming LIVE now …
I’m really scared about Hitchens, Niemann, Sorenson and mathieu trying to tackle hurts and their rbs… oh wait..
Cheapest SB tix down to $3,900 per tix – BEFORE the bull jive “fees”.
If SB tix goes down to $2,000, I’ll go to SB.
EA Madden game which has predicted the correct SB winner with almost 70% accuracy. EA Madden correctly predicted 13 of the past 19.
Chiefs 31
Eagles 17
Just like I keep typing: Chiefs will win by 10+ points, probably closer to 14+ points.
Link? Because the one I saw had the same score, but reversed. And it is 1-3 in the last 4 years.
The EA Madden game which has predicted the correct Super Bowl winner with almost 70% accuracy just placed its bets on this year’s game (yahoo.com)
I incorrectly read article.
EA Madden predicting Eagles 31 | Chiefs 17
Chiefs will win by 10+ points, probably closer to 14+ points
Last ten years have been a coin flip, 5-5. That 72% (hardly worth bragging about) is built on early successes
I never thought I would say this but it has happened. I now expect the Chiefs to be playing football in February. This is amazingly cool and I hope I can continue to say this for the next 10 years.
We can only hope
“9. I think this is one of my pet peeves about the media and playoff football. It comes from a USA Today tweet about the Super Bowl officiating crew. “Get ready for a whole lot of flags on Super Bowl Sunday,” it read. “Carl Cheffers crew leads the NFL with an average of 12.6 flags thrown per game.” Except the Carl Cheffers “crew” is not the crew he worked with during the regular season. Of the seven men on the crew, only side judge Eugene Hall was on the Cheffers crew during the season. It would be wiser, and true, to say one of these two things:
What will happen Sunday? Who knows? But it’s certainly no lock that the crew, 75-percent different than the regular-season Cheffers crew, will be flag-happy.”
This gives me some hope.
We did win both of the games he reffed this year.
Let’s go !!!!
‘Scuse Me while I offer my services for a ” Mole Check ” … ; )
Toney says he’s playing and Sneed is out of concussion protocols and will play. Juju’s knee is good to go
We’re looking healthy
I wonder if the weather is going to be nice for the parade?
Only 5 days to the end of the season and Super Bowl celebration
This is the week!
Soak it up; Patrick Mahomes is the best QB in the world!
We’re going to the Super Bowl
We’re going to the Super Bowl
We’re going to the Super Bowl
We are AT the Super Bowl