 Back in 1988, the Kansas City Chiefs used the third overall pick of that year's draft on a promising young defensive end named Neil Smith from the University of Nebraska.
In the season that followed, the Chiefs ended up with the league's worst rush defense, hemorrhaging a horrific 162 yards per game. That season, the Marty Schottenheimer-led Chiefs floundered their way to a 4-11-1 record.
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 As a kid growing up in the '70s and '80s, I was a huge baseball fan. Back then, baseball was a sport that wasn't dominated by any single aspect of the game. Teams won games with dominant pitching, defense, the running game, the occasional 3-run homer, or a combination of all of these.
Players like Pete Rose, Fred Lynn, Rickey Henderson, and George Brett put every fundamental on display ...
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 Kansas City Royals General Manager DaytonMoore is a bargain shopper, and he's turning into a pretty good one at that.
When he first took the Royals GM job, Moorewas like a young new lawyer at one of the city's smaller law firms. He knew heneeded a good suit to wear to the office, so he went shopping. Unfortunately,Moore went shopping at Armani those first couple years with only enough moneyto buy ...
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 The only thing differentin Saturday's two Wild-Card matchups from the games pitting the same teams aweek ago was the location of the AFC Wild-Card game. Everything else, includingthe outcome of each game, was the same.
A week ago, the New YorkJets hosted the Cincinnati Bengals in the final game to ever be played inGiants Stadium in New York. In the NFC, the Philadelphia Eagles had to onceaga...
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 With the anticipated announcement of Charlie Weis as the new offensive coordinator in Kansas City, the Chiefs are about to make themselves playoff contenders in 2010.
The embattled former Head Coach at Notre Dame brings to Kansas City as impressive a resume as any coordinator in the NFL today. Most impressive are the three Super Bowl rings he earned as the Patriots offensive coordinator duri...
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 The Kansas City Chiefs went into Denver this weekend to battle a Broncos team needing a win to secure a playoff berth. The Broncos didn't get it.
The Chiefs' 44-24 win on Sunday was the franchise's first in Denver in eight years, and the first time they have ever won at Invesco Field at Mile High.
The Chiefs continued to do what they've done well in recent weeks, they handed the b...
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