Dwayne Bowe Gets Too Little Respect

Do you see what Mr. Bowe is doing in the picture above?  I'd characterize what he's doing as scoring points.  In ways that the vast majority of NFL wideouts can't.  The man is a major talent in this league, yet many Chiefs fans want to see Dwayne cut loose.  Why?  Well, ostensibly because they say, Dwayne wants to get paid and he ain't worth it.  

All I can say to that is, "If you were Dwayne Bowe, wouldn't you want to get paid?".  I have written a long piece on another website called Arrowhead Pride that discusses the comparison of Dwayne Bowe and the player known as Megatron.  You can find that article here.  I'm not going to rehash all the information in that piece, but suffice it to say there is considerable reason to consider DBowe as an elite option in this league.

Bob Sutton--Right Now He's a Fifty/Fifty Shot

So, Chiefs fans, how ya feeling about ol' Bobby Sutton?  Anybody ready to give him the keys to the city?  No?  How about declaring him master of all he surveys?  Not there yet either huh?  I can understand it if you are somewhat puzzled about the direction of the Chiefs defense for 2013.  Sutton has very little to hang his hat on at this point and if you do a little digging, you can find some not-so-complimentary stuff about his time as a New York Jet.

I've said already that I believe that the KC fans acceptance of Andy Reid has been a bit luke warm.  I had another poster take issue with my characterization, but if you look at the polls on another well known blog about the Chiefs, you'll see that the folks that were 'very happy' with the Andy Reid hire was only in the 60 percentile range.  Now, I don't know about you, but given an extremely well known name like Andy Reid as your new HC, I'd think if the fan base was beside themselves with glee that number would have been much higher.  

Maybe Reid's choices of assistant coaches is one reason that number is a bit low.  In my opinion, the Choice of Bob Sutton as DC is one that is high risk/high reward.  It's Reid swinging for the fences with his first choice out of the box.  If it works, he'll be a genius.  If it fails, it'sgonna be the first dominoe to fall.  Let's take a look at Mr. Sutton so you can see what I'm talking about.

The Case For Keeping Matt Cassel

I know, I know.  Everybody wants him gone.  Maybe not in the same way that they wanted Pioli gone (you know, in a puff of smoke), but gone just the same.  It's true that Matt has under performed his last couple years as a Chief.  Some of it was due to injury and some of it was due to the inability to execute, but Matt is the only QB in the NFL that I can think of right now that would actually inspire fans to clap because he was concussed.  That was totally uncalled for and should not have happened.  In fact, I think it's adding insult to injury, both literally and figuratively.  Why?  Please Lucy, let me splain.

Andy Reid--Can He Really Walk On Water?

So Andy is the new man in KC.  Ok, fine.  I think Andy is about 1000 times better and a definite trade up from what we just had to suffer through with Romeo Crennel.  What concerns me though, is the way the fans are damn near drooling over the choice at the moment.  Come on people!  He's a football coach for crying out loud and he will make mistakes.

Welcome to my Blog!!

Welcome to the inaugural post to Aiken_Drum's new blog!  If you are reading this, I thank you for coming by.  

The reason I started my own blog to discuss the Chiefs was because I got so damned tired of the mewling mouth pablum pukers on other blogs that so arrogantly kept telling me how I should say what I want to say rather than tell me what they think in regards to what I say.  If I say something to you that does not represent what you meant, then tell me that.  Don't revert to crying about how I said what I said, ya know?