2011 First Round Pick

Jonathan Baldwin - WR - Pitt

Who is this guy? Baldwin is an athletic freak and finally brings the Chiefs another WR to help out Dwayne Bowe. He has great ball skills and an amazing 42-inch vertical. His 6'4" frame is in the Pioli mold, but his character issues don't seem to fit. Despite being on the Big-East All-Academic team in the fall and reportedly being a hard worker in the weight room, he was arrested and charged with misdemeanor indecent assault, summary harassment and summary disorderly conduct. However, all charges were dismissed. He also has attitude issues and was a distraction to his team in the fall. Hopefully the other high quality characters we have on the roster, combined with how Haley runs the team will get Baldwin in line to really showcase his abilities and help the team.

How is he going to help us?  Getting some help for D-Bowe was a priority in the draft, but I didn't expect it to come this early. However, without the character issues Baldwin may have been a much higher selection in the first round. Remember how far Randy Moss dropped because of character issues? And how did that turn out (mostly)? Moss was even the 2nd WR taken that year, behind the forgettable Kevin Dyson from Utah. I'm not saying he'll be Randy Moss, I'm just saying..... Moving on, Baldwin is a big, physical guy who should fit really well in our offense that needs a big play-maker opposite Bowe, and someone who can dominate the one on one coverage defenses will be showing us due to our superior running game. His 4.49 speed will be a huge help due to our high number of short passes that require yards after the catch. Combine him with Bowe and Moeaki in the red-zone, and defenses are really going to have to worry about who is going to get the ball. This draft pick gives Cassel 3 guys who can jump for some of his errant passes. 

Kansas City Chiefs 2011 Schedule

Arrowhead hosts MNF rematch with San Diego on Halloween Night; NBC Sunday Night Football visits Kansas City for first time as the Steelers roll into town. @New England is the second MNF game on November 21st.

Chiefs Land Four Primetime Games In 2011

I'll go into what I think our record could be this year in a post following the draft, but off the top of my head I believe we could go 9-7, with a majority of those wins coming in the 1st half of the season. The 2nd half of the season looks absolutely brutal. If we win there, we're legit.

PLAYOFFS!! Chiefs Vs Ravens

"This is going to be a tough football game," Ravens head coach John Harbaugh said to the Baltimore Sun. "There's a reason these guys have the record they have. There's a reason they won their division. There's a reason they got a home game. It's really a tough place to play. Historically in the playoffs, it's been an incredibly tough place to play. So, we've got our hands full."

"Historically in the playoffs, it's been an incredibly tough place to play"? Really? That's a tough thing to gauge, John. When the game is played on Sunday, it will have been 17 years and 1 day since the last home playoff win for the Chiefs. A lot's changed since then. For example: The Houston Oilers were still a team. The Seahawks were still in the AFC and the Jacksonville Jaguars didn't even exist. So, here's what I think: Home field advantage isn't going to come into play much this week. Why? Obvious reasons, that's why. The Ravens are a veteran team. They know how to deal with a loud crowd rooting against them and they've done it numerous times over the past few years in the playoffs. Arrowhead magic just won't matter. Sure, it'll pump up the Chiefs hearing 70,000 people cheering for them, but that's about it. It's not going to rattle the Ravens. They won at Pittsburgh this year and that place is about as close to Arrowhead as you can get.

What's going to come into play?

1) Ray freaking Rice. If the Chiefs give up more than 125 yards on the ground to Rice, or 150 total rushing yards to the Ravens, they might as well just give up because they're not going to win. The problem with Rice, however, is that he's great in the passing game as well, with over 500 rec yards on the season. Our best bet is going to be shadowing Rice all day with a linebacker in rushing situations and someone line Javier Arenas in passing situations. Make Flacco beat us. I trust our corners and safeties more than our DLine and most of our Linebackers.

2) The Ravens run defense. Yes, this is about as obvious as I can get. The Ravens are going to shut down the run game. That's a fact. So we'd better have a backup plan in place that doesn't include Cassel getting sacked or knocked down every play like he was against Oakland. Also, it's getting pretty obvious that when Thomas Jones is in the game we're going to attempt to run it up the middle. If the Chiefs do that against the Ravens, he'll end up with 8 carries for 10 yards.

3) Pressuring Flacco. If we don't get to Flacco, we aren't going to win. When the Ravens beat the Chiefs in 2009, Flacco threw for over 300 yards and 3 TDs. He had all freaking day to throw. Romeo is going to need to mix up the blitz packages and the like to keep Flacco from sitting back there and picking us apart. Tamba Hali is the main key to this. Also, if Wallace Gilberry, Glenn Dorsey and whoever else wants to get in on it, that's perfectly fine with me.

4) Chiefs Special Teams. Our special teams really hasn't done anything spectacular since Week 1. Sure, were a few decent run backs, but nothing huge. We need something huge this week. A PR ran back for a TD. A KR ran back to get us instantly into FG range. A blocked kick. Anything that gets the crowd into it more and fires the team up. Special Teams can do that. Just as long as Jon McGraw or DeMorrio Williams doesn't get called for a block in the back.

Here's an interesting fact: The Chiefs have dropped six consecutive postseason games. With a loss to the Ravens this weekend, Kansas City will set a new NFL record for most consecutive postseason losses. The Chiefs currently share the mark with six other teams.

We'd better fucking win.


- ACF

Seriously?

After last week, Todd Haley said, "What you're seeing out of our guys, and what's an exciting thing to me as a head coach is we have a lot of guys who really care". Well it didn't look like they gave much of a shit today, did it Todd?

A few questions I'm thinking about right now:

Did the Chiefs, who could have basically wrapped up the AFC Division title with a win, seriously get shut out by the Chargers?

Did they seriously strip down the playbook so much that Croyle only amassed 40 yards passing?

Did the Offensive Line seriously decide not to block ANYONE to give Croyle even 3 seconds to find an open receiver? And Barry Richardson, seriously man, learn how to fucking block without holding someone. It's not that hard. You're 6'6" 320. You should be able to push someone for 5 seconds without him flying past you and sacking the QB.

It looked to me like the entire team, sans Eric Berry and Tamba Hali, decided that they didn't want to show up to play at all today. It seemed like they decided they had no chance without Cassel and threw in the towel before the game even started. PATHETIC. I've seen high school players who haven't won a game all season put forth more effort than what the Chiefs gave today. I understand losing your QB the Wednesday before the game might damper your enthusiasm some, but come on. Getting SHUT OUT in the biggest game of the year is fucking terrible.

Most of my hatred here is being directed at the Offensive Line. Mostly Brandon Albert and Barry Richardson. Neither one of them could keep San Diego's pass rushers out of the backfield for more than 2 seconds giving Brodie zero time to find someone open. Not even Peyton Manning could have done much out there with that piss poor protection. But still, 40 yards passing Brodie? What the fuck?

The team I saw out there today wasn't the team that beat the shit out of San Fransisco or Jacksonville. Or the team that fought to beat Denver last week. This was the team I saw all of 2008 and most of 2009. The team that just shows up and doesn't care.

-ACF

Movies!!!

Movies are awesome. AWESOME! And following this opening there will be a list of my ALL-TIME FAVORITE movies!! Hooray!! However, this list isn't one of those lists where I act like a douche and name a bunch of foreign and "old-timey" movies that I'm supposed to like because everyone else does. No. These are the movies I don't get tired of, no matter how many times I watch them. Even if they're on regular cable with all the fun words bleeped and "formatted to fit my screen and the time allotted".

TOP 10

10) The Boondock Saints (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144117/)

What's more badass than two guys blowing the heads off of criminals AND being religious while they do it? Nothing, except maybe if Morgan Freeman and Sam Jackson were the two guys doing all the killing.

9) PCU (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110759/)

"Don't be that guy."

8) The Natural (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087781/)

Here's all I have to say about this movie:

7) Rock Star (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0202470/)

I think it's just the soundtrack that I love about this movie, because Mark Wahlberg isn't that great and I'm not a big fan of Jennifer Aniston, but I can watch this thing ALL THE TIME. Once, I actually saw it starting on HBO and said, "Rock Star!?! No way!!!" But, most of all, it's this part:

6) Field of Dreams (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097351/)

This is a great baseball movie and most people remember the "if you build it, he will come" line. But personally, I remember the flickering scoreboard telling them to find "Moonlight" Graham and the final scene of the movie (stop reading here if you haven't seen it) when Ray asks his Dad, "You wanna have a catch?" Tears me up every time.

5) Full Metal Jacket (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093058/)

The first half of this movie is so awesome, if they canned it up and sold it, it would cost $45 an ounce. THAT is pure awesome, my friends.

4) Monty Python and the Holy Grail (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/)

I'm just going to leave you with this scene, and that should suffice:

3) Big (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094737/)

Seriously, Tom Hanks is lucky that Zoltar didn't screw up his "big" wish and make him insanely fat. Like 'John Goodman post-Roseanne' fat. I could probably watch this movie once a week for the rest of my life and not get tired of it. I am not going to attempt this, however.

2) Rudy (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108002/)

If you don't tear up during the final sequence when Rudy finally gets to play then gets a sack and gets carried off the field, I'm not sure I want to be friends with you. It happens to me EVERY SINGLE TIME. Actually, I just did a little watching this clip:

1) The Shawshank Redemption (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111161/)

Morgan Freeman is possibly my favorite actor of all time. If he could have narrated my text books while I was in school, I'd be some sort of doctor. This movie is the best thing known to mankind, in my opinion.

Andy Dufresne - who crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side.

Honorable Mention:

Anchorman

The Dark Knight

Step Brothers

300

The Big Lebowski

Office Space

The Goonies

Rain Man

For Love of the Game

Suicide Kings

The Hurt Locker

Apollo 13

Coming Soon: My Least Favorite Movies

Through the Eyes of ACF

I'm getting off work at 10pm a few weeks ago and I head to the local Wal-Mart near my house, in a semi-bad part of town, or the "Ghetto Wal-Mart" as I have dubbed it, to pick up some blank CDs. As I pull in, the Wal-Mart parking lot is packed to the brim and looks like I imagine the parking lot of 'Biff Tannen's Pleasure Paradise' (http://tinyurl.com/2clm8l2) from "Back to the Future 2" would look. Anyway, I'm chatting up my momz as I pull in since she had to ask me something, and the first thing I hear as I open the door is a car alarm. Not a good start to the trip and since my mom can hear it in the phone, she thinks I've stumbed into the local jail or I'm heading into Compton. But not 10 feet later, I hear some guy in a wife beater yell, "Hey, watch out, yo!" and as I turn to see what the ruckus is, I see him rear back and PUNCH THE SIDE OF A CAR. Smacked it like Muhammad Ali. Right in the baby maker.
I guess he thought the car backing up 10 feet from him was going to run him over, so he felt like teaching it a lesson and punched it. Now, I've never punched a car, nor known anyone who has done it, but I'm going to assume it doesn't feel like punching a delicious marshmallow. Anyway, as this is happening I'm trying to do play-by-play to my mom while being subtle as to not piss off the car puncher and all I can say while holding back laughter is, "Some guy.... just...... seriously..... punched a car!" So, I end the conversation by telling her I may need to fend off attackers and should probably have two fists to do it with. She agrees, and I quickly grab what I need and scramble out of there to the safety of my car.
I've never been to jail, but I have to imagine that what I witnessed tonight is what life in the yard was like for Andy Dufresne in Shawshank.

True Story.

The End.

Kansas City Fan

I've been asked more times than I can remember which NFL team and which MLB team I root for. And for as long as I can remember, I've supplied one answer for both of those questions. "Chiefs and Royals", I say without a moment of hesitation. What usually follows is one of three things: 1) Laughter 2) The response of 'Really? That blows" or 3) "Wow, why don't you pick a new team to root for?"
I don't mind the laughter, because as a fan of the Chiefs and Royals, you laugh at the teams yourself when you watch Bruce Chen blow a 6 run lead in the 7th, or when Brandon Carr drops an easy INT/TD and the Chiefs end up losing by 4. I also, don't mind the 'Really, that blows" comment either because I know it blows to be a Chiefs/Royals fan. We haven't seen a playoff victory since 1994 and haven't seen a championship since 1985. So yes, it does blow to be a Chiefs/Royals fan. But, when someone tells me to pick a new team to root for, that's when I get pissed off. People that change teams like socks really, really make me furious. Why? Because most of the people that do LOVE to rub it into the faces of Royals/Chiefs fans that they root for a winner and we root for two teams that are worse than seeing Abe Vigoda naked. Braves fans of the 1990s? I hate you. Yankees fans of.... forever. I hate you even more. Patriots fans? I hate you the most. I didn't see you bragging about being a fan of that team when they were 1-15 in the early 90s but now? You tell EVERYONE how great your team is and how badass Tom freaking Brady is. I'm staying as a Royals/Chiefs fan, bitches. I want to be happy when my favorite team finally wins, not so numb to it that it doesn't even matter. I want to cheer loudly when Bruce Chen finally makes it out of an inning without giving up a run. I want to high five random people in my section when Jamaal Charles scores a Touchdown to seal the victory that gets us to the Super Bowl. I want to be happy when the Royals finally make the playoffs. So, go fuck yourself, people who tell me to change teams all the time or change teams yourself. I'll stick with my teams until they win. Which they will. And I'll rub that shit in your face so hard you'll smell like a hobo in the summer.