2009 NFL Kansas City Chiefs Football Team

2009 NFL Kansas City Chiefs Football Team are a professional football team from America.  They are part of the National Football Leagues American Football Conference member Western Division.  They were originally known as the Dallas Texans, the team was founded last 1960 by Lamar Hunt as a charter member of the AFL.  In 1963, the team moved to Missouri in Kansas City. Then they made a new name as the Kansas City Chiefs. The team is corporately registered and legally named as Kansas City Chiefs Football Club, Incorporated and valued at over US$ 1 Billion according to Forbes.  

It has been a successful franchise since 1960 to 1969 in the AFL, winning three championship leagues (1962, 1966, 1969) and getting an all-time AFL record of 92–50–5.  The Chiefs were the second AFL team next to the New York Jets to defeat an NFL franchise in an World Championship Game of the AFL-NFL when they won the Super Bowl IV after defeating the Minnesota Vikings.  These are some of the 2009 NFL Kansas City Chiefs Football Team achievements.

Clayton: ‘Chiefs Could Be Dangerous’

ESPN’s John Clayton seems fairly analytical and isn’t afraid to go to the opposite field when it comes to voicing the mainstream opinion.  I liked him even further this offseason when he predicted the Denver Broncos would go 3-13.  Even though he’s already wrong on that account, it doesn’t change my mind about his opinions. That said, he’s got an interesting take on this weekend’s game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Dallas Cowboys. Clayton was critical of Tony Romo for some ill-timed mistakes in the Cowboys two losses this season and argues that his erratic play could spell trouble for Jerry’s kids.  He says that the Chiefs could be facing the perfect storm because of all the pressure Romo is under to perform

Romo is a pretty accurate passer thus far in his career.  However, 2009 hasn’t been as good to him.  He’s only surpassed his career completion percentage (63%) once this season.  He has four interceptions in two games, in which the Cowboys lost both games.  It’s pretty obvious to me what the Chiefs have to do to win this game.

Haley Sees Chiefs’ Brutal Schedule as a Learning Experience

Even in the face of a condition Todd Haley called a “worst-case scenario” on Sunday; the Chiefs’ first-year coach is trying to stay optimistic and poised. The Chiefs are 0-4, and Haley acknowledged this week that there’s no altering that. There is one dynamic thing to do, though: Look toward a potentially more forgiving outlook with, as the coach hopes, a team strengthened by having to play an atrocious schedule to begin the season. Baseball players sway a weighted bat in the on-deck circle, sprinters train with ankle weights before of an important race, and the Chiefs played three heavyweights in the first four weeks. Haley expects the team to have become stronger as an effect.

Haley has tried to make this season seem more convenient for players by breaking it into a series of four-game segments. Like a game, Haley tells his team, the season is composed of four quarters. And in this season’s first quarter, the schedule couldn’t have been much more difficult. Other than a depressing 13-10 home loss to Oakland, the Chiefs have played — and lost to — two teams, Philadelphia and Baltimore, which participated in last year’s conference championship games and another, the New York Giants, which won the Super Bowl two seasons ago.

Derrick Johnson Not Complaining About Not Starting

Derrick Johnson still hasn’t asked why. He said he doesn’t care to distinguish why he was demoted from the Chiefs’ starting linebacking corps six weeks ago and has been a high-dollar, high-expectations bench player in the time since. He said he’ll will keep waiting and practicing the way he knows how. And instead of asking coach Todd Haley on the subject of being benched and what Johnson might do to work his way back into the starting lineup, he said he prefers to explicate himself with his play, limited as it has been.

While Johnson has kept his silence, with injuries overtaking him and the distance growing between his outstanding performances — four tackles, an interception and a sack in the Chiefs’ first and second games — veteran Demorrio Williams has taken and kept Johnson’s starting job. A player with less speed and fewer athletic gifts is taking Johnson’s playing time, and Johnson said Wednesday that he doesn’t let that bother him.

NFL Admits Mistake On Page Penalty

Safety Jarrad Page said the NFL sent the Chiefs a letter acknowledging an error was made when Page was penalized for unnecessary roughness in last week’s loss to the Giants. Page broke up a pass over the center for wide receiver Steve Smith but was penalized for making helmet-to-helmet contact with Smith. Replays showed Page in fact used his shoulder to hit Smith in the chest. The Giants scored on a touchdown pass to Smith on the next play, taking a 14-3 lead and eventually winning the game 27-16.

The league’s acknowledgment didn’t make Page feel better. Why would it? The team still lost this game. The NFL is somewhat stupid. They apologize for something they can’t change anymore. Do not apologize for something like that, do something about it. They should do a better job next time and make sure this will not happen again. Page said what good will it bring to them now that they have lost the game.

LJ says it’s time for offense to move forward

Even for a 0-4 team that long ago lost its way; the Chiefs spend an inordinate amount of time going backward. Including penalties, negative runs and sacks, the Chiefs have lost yardage on an astounding 19 percent of their offensive snaps. In that light, Larry Johnson’s feeble per-carry average of 2.6 yards makes sense. So does Johnson’s frustration, which boiled over after last week’s loss to the Giants. Johnson rushed for only 53 yards, which was once far less than a game’s work for him, and was largely an afterthought as the Chiefs tried to score when near the New York goal line. Afterward, Johnson appeared to blame Todd Haley’s play calling for their offensive failures.

Johnson was in a better mood Thursday after practice. He declined to explain his insistence that “ego” was responsible for the Chiefs’ problems but did agree it’s time for them to move forward instead of in reverse.

Romo-To-Williams Not Producing Much for Cowboys

Tony Romo’s first two passes of the season went to Roy Williams, a powerful, symbolic beginning to their connection as quarterback and top receiver. That’s all it was, though—a start. Romo and Williams have hooked up only nine times ever since the initial drive of the initial game. That’s a total of 11 catches through four games, hardly what Jerry Jones is paying either of them to produce. It’s also not what Williams was expecting after he and Romo spent about four weeks throwing together before the start of offseason workouts.

Their lack of tempo was especially apparent on a fourth-quarter drive in a loss at Denver on Sunday. On the first play, Williams was very much open going across the field on a short course. Romo threw to him but it was so low and behind him. On third down, Romo overthrew Williams on a long ball. He leaped to catch it and was solidly hit in the ribs. Williams now has cartilage injury around three ribs. It still hurts to get in and out of bed, and his car, so he did not attend practice Wednesday. His status for Sunday’s game at Kansas City is doubtful.

Winless Chiefs Facing Many Woes

Just as the Kansas City Chiefs were running out of the passageway onto the field this past Sunday, a horse used in pre-game ceremonies did what usually horses do. While many in the crowd cheered, a man in a dazzling red shirt came running out and cleaned up the untidiness. Just a few minutes later, Jamaal Charles fumbled the kickoff and the New York Giants grabbed a hasty 7-0 lead in a game that suggests the guy trailing the horse and Chiefs coach Todd Haley have something in general. Haley is also trying to fix a mess as fast as possible. The Chiefs are 2-29 going back to 2007 and last in the NFL in 3rd-down conversions. The problems here run deep, really really deep.

The defense seems to have been better by a bit from last year’s 2-14 record with the addition of linebacker Mike Vrabel, who came over from New England along with quarterback Matt Cassel. But a destroyer for the offense game after game has been an incapability to convert on third downs. It’s a statistic in which the Chiefs rank dead last among the 32 NFL teams.

Manning’s 3 TD Passes Lead Giants Past KC

The best offensive line in the planet couldn’t have secluded Eli Manning from this injury. All he did was drop back to pass, something he’s done a thousands of times. All of a sudden, he felt a sting in his right heel. He stayed in for another play, a short pass to Hakeem Nicks which the rookie turned into a beauty of a 54-yard touchdown play in a 27-16 victory over Kansas City. But now Manning and the Giants will have to linger and see if a troublesome bruised right heel will let him play next Sunday against the Raiders.

Manning threw a pair of scoring passes to Seth Smith, who caught 11 for 134 yards, as the Chiefs were defeated for the 27th time in 29 games. In the closing minutes, Matt Cassel threw two short scoring passes that made the final score more respectable and not how badly the Giants outplayed their miserable hosts.

The Future of Kansas City Chiefs

The Chiefs are probably one of the worst teams in the league this year but they don’t have to worry because they have the Future, their Franchise, Dwayne Bowe. All Dwayne needs now is a capable quarterback who can give him the ball. Chiefs traded for Cassell but he is not the answer. Cassell was good in New England last year because there were a lot of capable receivers, here in KC, it’s only Bowe. Brodie Croyle isn’t ready to quarterback the Chiefs, maybe if he the Chiefs tank the season, they can pretty much let Croyle play the rest of the year. Giving him much needed exposure and playing time.

Lastly, Larry Johnson is not the Larry Johnson of old. He’s aged, uninspired and can easily be defended. They have to trade this guy or cut this guy and let the young ones play. I can see the Chiefs competing in 2 to 3 years time but not this year. The Chiefs have the Future, they have Dwayne Bowe.

Chiefs Vs. Giants

The Giants have only been good, but not fantastic, so far this unfortunate season, averaging 6.0 yards per play and allowing 5.2 yppl to a schedule that is 0.2 yppl worse than average from the line of scrimmage and about 1 point worse than average on a points scale. Kansas City, on the other hand, has been out-gained 4.6 yppl to 5.6 yppl by a schedule of teams that would out-gain an average team by 0.4 yppl – so the Chiefs are 0.6 yppl worse than average.

These two teams are epitomes of what fans thought they would be and my ratings favor New York by 8 points in this game, so the line is about right, but the situational analysis favors Kansas City in this game. The Giants are an incredible 21-4 ATS in their last 25 games away from home, but they’re only 1-2 ATS in those games when favored by more than 7 points. I’ll lean slightly with the Chiefs plus the points against a banged up Giants team with a long injury list.

Miami Dolphins Acquire QB Tyler Thigpen From Kansas City Chiefs

The fact Miami dealt with Kansas City is hardly a surprise, as it’s not even the only trade between the two teams in the last two months. Bill Parcells and his son-in-law—former Patriots and current Chiefs GM Scott Pioli—worked out an agreement sending Dolphins offensive linemen Andy Alleman and Ikechuku Ndukwe to the Chiefs for a draft pick in August. This was a move that had to be made in some way, as the Dolphins were in hopeless need of an experienced backup following the loss of Chad Pennington. Thigpen definitely provides that, as rookie Pat White is obviously not able of leading an NFL offense if Chad Henne were to go down.

What Thigpen does offer, however, is a gifted, low-cost and experienced backup to Henne should an injury happen. He’s also someone that, unlike an aging veteran, also has a chance to compete for a starting job in the next year or two if Henne fails to impress.

Patriots Vs. Ravens

Baltimore has looked very good so far on both sides of the ball, but dominating Kansas City and Cleveland at home is expected and their win at San Diego isn’t really impressive given that the Ravens were out-gained 5.4 yards for each play to 7.1 yards per play by the Chargers. It’s pretty obvious that Baltimore is improved offensively in quarterback Joe Flacco’s second season but their pass defense has been poor (6.8 yards per pass play allowed) and Tom Brady should be able to exploit that weakness in this game. The Patriots are worse than average defensively as expected, allowing 5.4 yards per play to the teams that would combine to average 5.1 yards per play against an average defensive unit, so Baltimore should move the ball as well.

My ratings favor Baltimore by 2 points, but the Ravens apply to a negative 25-57 ATS road letdown situation following last week’s easy win over the Browns.

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