Chiefs at Ravens - Week 3 - Record: 3-0

"The Chiefs are having a party."

Those were the words of the television announcer right after Mecole Hardman took the wildcat snap, tossed it to Clyde Edwards-Helaire, who then pitched it to Mahomes coming from the left, who then threw a strike to back to Clyde wheeling over to the other side of the field who ran for a first down. 

Wow, what fun. We were already ahead 27-10 and just having a blast mowing down the Ravens in a game everyone thought would be closer. Thing is, right after that play early in the 3rd quarter, Darwin Thompson fumbled the ball away allowing the Ravens to put up 10 unanswered.

Thing is, we should've been up 31-10, but Harrison Butker who couldn't miss on 15 attempts from 78 yards away last week (okay, an exaggeration but he was nails with the kicks) missed a PAT and an easy very make-able FG tonight.

Turns out we still finished them off 34-20, but wow, that we put up a 27-spot in the 1st half on one of the best defenses in the NFL is just amazing. Mahomes was his usual amazing, throwing incredible deep-strike TDs to Hill and Hardman, as well as a little shovel-pass TD thing to The Sausage and a nice tackle-eligible TD toss to The Sausage II, Eric Fisher!

We were so much sharper than we were last week. Clyde Edwards-Helaire turned it up this week, really showing us what he has in the passing game. We heard all about how good he was catching passes, tonight he showed it. When it got down to when we needed to score that game-clinching TD, he carried the ball well snapping up those critical 1st downs.

On defense it was nice to see Chris Jones be the manhandler he is on the defensive front. When the Ravens got down early and had to pass, Jones could get his game on. I also liked seeing much better play from Juan Thornhill. He was all over the field, seeming to really get his feet back under him.

As strong as our defense was in the 1st half we were not as much in the 2nd when the Ravens tightened things up and got Lamar's legs moving a bit more. At the very end of the game when they were threatening our pass rush stepped it up, keeping Lamar in the pocket a bit more forcing him to have to pass.

Next we've got the reconstructed Patriots! Brutal first few games of the season this year!

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The photo is from Steve Sanders at the Chiefs Official Site. Thank you.

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Chiefs at Chargers - Week 2 - Record: 2-0

We had no business winning this game. Wow was our defense the most melted butter -- we lucked out far too often when their fine very-1st-NFL-game-of-his-career QB misfired a few too many times. And their D-line just overpowered our O-line. Did we actually even win this game? And next week, we have Baltimore. We're going to have to play a lot, lot better if we have a chance next Monday night.

The four horsemen of the football apocalypse started to rear their ugly heads again in the Chiefs Kingdom. The last time we had to withstand their cruelty was after this game, the last time we'd lost a game. Seems like eons ago.

To start we'd gotten hit pretty hard with the injuries. We'd already been down a few key players, but today at different times our linebackers got shaken up. Frank Clark also had to leave, Darrel Williams left, Sammy Watkins had a blatant helmet-to-helmet personal foul against him that wasn't called and will be in the concussion protocol.

The penalties started to pile up again. Last week we had one, and we all thought, woo-hoo! We'd finally got the discipline down. Today, it was gruesome.

The poor play calls, especially by our defense. We just never looked like we were ever in a position to do any serious damage on defense. We did pick it up a bit in the second half, with some people like Mike Danna showing some promise and Tyrann Mathieu making TD-saving plays. Our tackling was atrocious. Our defensive line couldn't stand anybody up if they wanted to. With our linebacking core already our obvious weakness, we need those stout guys in the middle. Here's what I'm wondering: We paid Chris Jones $80 gazillion? Already knowing how poor he was with run defense? 

The one horseman that didn't really hurt us was the turnover, so yeah, we did manage to take care of the ball. In this game if we lost it even once we would've been toast.

Mahomes just looked miserable in the first half, but then that's his game -- find a way to make it so you absolutely have to perform. I think the late game issues get him to step it up -- that's a very good thing for sure. Their new QB Herbert looked really good for his first game. 

Travis Kelce really kept us in it. And of course Tyreek Hill had the catch-and-flip-into-the-endzone of the game! With 12 minutes left we were down 17-9 and Mahomes flunk his patented long ball on the run, and Hill made a diving catch much like the one he had last year against Minnesota. They say he got away with taking his helmet off for an unsportsmanlike penalty, which would have made our two-point conversion attempt much more questionable, but Hill later said his helmet was coming off on its own. Whew... got the conversion to make it.

And then there was Harrison Butker, really saving our buttkers. He'd already had a 58-yarder, then in OT he banged through a 53-yarder to win it, except we had an offsides call against us. So now he has to hit another 58-yarder, and he does, except they call time out just before the snap. So then he has to kick it in again from 58 yards, which he does to win the game.

Very exciting, but way more than it needed to be! Maybe this is a nice little wake-up for us and we get a real idea we are not invincible.

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Texans at Chiefs - Addendum

I really feel I must add this note about last night's game. It does relate very much to the substance of the post I made a few days ago about Larry Johnson.

Our Chiefs right now are a thoroughly dominant juggernaut. Sure anything can happen in the NFL, and certainly there is a team out there that will play us very well. But it is clear with the addition of Clyde Edwards-Helaire, and for that matter Kelechi Osemele (how about our O-line!), unless something weird or crazy happens we're coasting to another Super Bowl title.

Everything seems to gravy for the Kingdom...

Except for this one thing.

The insane folly of the coronavirus and racialist hysteria.

The coronavirus hysteria first. How in the world can they continue to say this thing is anything except a threat to the very elderly, the chronically ill, and distinctly obese, when there are so many people out and about without masks and not social distancing and not getting this thing? How can they say it is anything when the case and death numbers are so miniscule, and those numbers are largely bogus and inflated? How can they lock down restaurants, churches, schools, and for our purposes, stadiums when everyone is still out in droves shopping at the grocery and retail stores?

Andy Reid was wearing one of the clear plastic shields, and it got so fogged up that he had to lift it to see his plays. Andy Reid STOP you're going to kill somebody out there! 

Please stop. Please stop yelling at me for not wearing a mask. Please stop calling me a conspiracy theorist nutball when I'm the one who knows and shares the truth about this thing. And please stop your idiotic virtue-signaling by wearing a mask when it is scientifically proven to be pointless, and go back to letting us all go to the ballpark (and restaurants and churches and schools) as we always did. Quarantine and do the very best to care for the elderly, sick, and for cryin'-out-loud if we're going to do anything let's tell the obese to diet and exercise already. And if you don't want to go out and enjoy life because you're afraid of the virus, then please stay home smothered in disinfectant ooze if you want. No one is stopping you.

Then there is the racialist stuff. 

When I watched the postgame sports reports about the glorious play of my Chiefs, I got an earful of how transcendently righteous and progressive everyone was, especially the players. Bullshit.

When you do anything untoward when an anthem is playing for the purpose of exhibiting some measure of respect for something somebody believes in, you are making a statement. It doesn't matter if it is kneeling crouching arm-locking fist-raising or even, as many teams are now doing, staying in the locker room, you are saying something.

Please don't get me wrong. I'm not a big fan of the national anthem thing to begin with. It isn't that I'm not patriotic, it is just my allegiance is to Jesus Christ, not a colored cloth. Whenever the national anthem is played in a setting like the pregame ceremony of a football game, however, I stand with my fellow fans out of respect for their feelings about it.

When these players do what they did, again it doesn't matter what it is, it is clear that they are saying one thing in particular. We all know it. They are saying in no uncertain terms:

You are all racist, especially you white people, and if you don't give up a better portion of your wealth to hand over to irresponsible people who blame others and refuse to have a reckoning with themselves to make something of their own lives, then we are not only going to browbeat you with the aid of the powerful news and media organizations who enable all of this, but we will seek government redress to accomplish those ends, at your peril.

This is precisely why quite a few of the some-17,000 fans at Arrowhead last night booed when the players did all this stuff, which apparently included some kind of lineup across the middle of the field with both teams' players arm-in-arm. This is precisely why the ratings for last night's game was crap, down 16% from last year's Thursday night opener, an exceedingly dull 10-3 Packers win over the Bears.

It is simply because so many people, including many blacks by the way, know that this is the message, loud and clear, and when you tell a paying customer the government and whatever other powers-that-be must prosecute you for something you didn't do, then they are going to take their dollars elsewhere.

That is a critical part of this equation. I can't deny that there are some people who may be horrifically racist. That's bad, I wish they weren't. I'm fine with talking with them about it. But what these people so hypnotized by the major race-hustlers are doing is grossly violating the Ninth Commandment: Thou shalt not bear false witness. 

They don't know dick squat about what any given white person does or has done out of their own individual, actual, real love for black people. I'd venture to say most white people have worked their asses off at their jobs so black people (and everyone else) may have a great life in this country. I'd venture to say most white people have done any number of other things that blacks have benefited from enormously: done community service work, given money to charities, donated blood that saved the life of a black person they care about. How many others?

This is precisely why when these "Black Lives Matter" aficionados thrust their middle fingers in the face of any large group of white people they encounter -- such as fans in the stands or those with their televisions on at the moment, they shouldn't be surprised when they get the middle finger right back. The few times I listened to TV pundits address it they plaintively bleated "How could they boo when this is about wonderful unity?" They don't get it. There's not much unity when you're interminably sneering at people about how intractably racist they are.

So here's the reality. I saw something there last night on the telecast about making sure more money is spent on helping out the disadvantaged black person. How should that money be spent? That's a fine question. Let's think about the best use of our financial resources to truly aid the disadvantaged.

The typical idea that is feverishly being heaved into the mainstream is wholly Marxist: tear down all the institutions that make our society decent and orderly (they're all so racist we are told) and rebuild it so the wealth is much more evenly distributed. Essentially, again, we're going to take your money and hand it to others who did nothing to contribute to the wealth to begin with. If that happens, behold a country that will be a communist hellhole. At least right now all those booing fans still have some capacity to say and do what they can to prevent that from happening.

But yeah? How about that glop of money now? What can we do with it?

Two key things.

First, spend more on the police, specifically to find and corral all the men, and yes, many of them are black men, who sire children they do not care for. For that matter, let's make more laws governing what happens with sex to begin with. That's really one of the core elements of this present quasi-dystopia. Here in California where I live there's a new law, AB 145 -- many people know of it because it is so disturbing -- that will make it easier for rapists to get away with sexual assault. There're a lot of technical details about statutory rape and sentencing, but the fact is we've gone so far away from the truth that marriage is so important to a stable society. So first, restore the firm sanctity of marriage and family. Make men accountable for their behavior related to sex and children.

Second, I know many will say "But you can't arrest an irresponsible man and force him to take care of his children beyond providing whatever child support he can." True. This is why one of the stupidest things to do is to enlist government to just hand him someone else's money because we feel sorry for him. One of the smartest things to do actually is to spend money on missionaries -- yes, that's right, missionaries, people who can minister to those men with the love of Christ so they will turn to the one who does heal and deliver and restore and empower a man to be the man God made to begin with. And don't get me wrong, women need a good measure of that too, for them in the way God created them to be!

I'd love to hear that feature of the solution moving forward. What blows my mind is it is not hard for anyone to readily acknowledge the millions of black people who are faithful followers of Christ and do understand exactly what I'm talking about.

Instead we only hear the propaganda from the progressive wings in government and the atheist materialist organizations, all who believe an army of social workers will get the job done. Not even. We've been trying to do that for years, and we've reached the boiling point. Look where we are. Hmm, that kerosene helped make this fire worse. To put out the flames... shall we add more kerosene?

The things you see at places like Arrowhead last night represent just another chapter in the expanding vitriol and violence.

I love my Chiefs. I loathe their racialist browbeating. It'd be great for pro football to get back to what it was like before with, yes, maybe a bit more actually meaningful support for getting more resources to enforcing the law for the exclusive purpose of then sharing the Kingdom with those most racked by their sin.

And I don't mean the Chiefs Kingdom.

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The image above was from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Thank you.

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Postscript: Right after I uploaded this post, I got word that Jason Whitlock wrote this. The dude is amazing. So encouraging that there are people who are insightful and considerate and get it. There are many more than just us -- there is hope. 

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Texans at Chiefs - Week 1 - Record: 1-0

Can the Chiefs be any more dominant this year? Everyone had an inkling Clyde Edwards-Helaire would be special, but wow. 138 yards rushing on 25 carries, and I don't even think he caught a pass -- maybe one if I remember when he picked up eight or nine yards. What will it look like when he does the other thing he's supposed to be very good at -- catching passes.

Oh my.

His touchdown run was an ankle-breaking sensation. He got a crease then juked two guys out of their shorts to get free. Our O-line played splendidly as well, just sealing off linemen to give CEH his space. They were speaking all night about an Andy Reid team just never running the ball -- I think they displayed a stat that said the Chiefs were the lowest run percentage team ever to win a Super Bowl.

When you've also got Patrick Mahomes there, no wonder. He was his standard excellent self, throwing a touchdown pass to Kelce first, then Watkins, then later in the game ice it.

I mean. We have a phenomenal embarrassment of riches.

Ah, to be a Chiefs fan.

And the Chiefs actually allowed fans in the stands, and the some 17,000 who were there were making noise. It was wonderful.

There are a number of things I could add to this post about our delightful opener win, but I will share something right now about the whole political thing. I actually DVR'ed this one for the first hour simply because I didn't want to have to endure looking at a bunch of coronavirus hysteria stuff (needless masks, pointless spacing, unnecessarily empty seats) and racialist insanity (slogans & PSAs telling me about how racist I'm supposed to be). I did fast forward past a lot of it, at times I did happen to catch a couple seconds of the racialist stuff before I hit FF, and I do know about all the grandstanding they did at the start of the game.

But to be honest, it did seem to be toned down. The painted and pasted on slogans were not as brazenly exhibited. I really think they toned it down a bit because they know how questionable it is to basically give the finger to so many who pay these players' salaries. That is encouraging. 

To be honest, I think it was awesome to see Patrick Mahomes wear a Negro League jersey at the postgame presser. Kansas City is proud to have downtown the Negro League Museum, and there is no reason we should not celebrate the accomplishments of those players in the face of the discrimination they faced. I totally understand that. Not going to get into it now, but let's hope more is in the mix to address the disadvantaged than just meaningless on-field demonstrations and lethal Marxist-oriented suggestions which if implemented only make anyone and everyone's lives so much worse.

For the bulk of it, however, an extraordinarily fun evening. The anticipation for Chiefs greatness just continues even further beyond 02/02/2020. How fun is this ride.

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The photo of CEH is by Andrew Mather at the official Chiefs site. Thank you.

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The Season

It has to end sometime. While everyone is waiting eagerly for the season to begin tomorrow, it is the end of a marvelous off-season just reveling in Chiefs Super Bowl glory. Yes, I do want it to continue, and sure enough, everyone on the planet, and maybe a few on other planets, believe this Chiefs locomotive isn't slowing down.

Marvelous.

But still, it is bittersweet. Tonight the NFL Network premiered its 2019 version of "America's Game," that amazing hour-long feature showcasing the year's Super Bowl champions. It barely started and I was in tears, with that majestic opening theme going. Thing is, I was extraordinarily familiar with practically everything they showed I'd so deeply bathed in it all over the summer.

Now we're starting a new chapter.

Every Chiefs fan is eagerly looking forward to it. We all know what's happening. It is so very fun.

A whole new episode in the great Chiefs Kingdom history is tomorrow.

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Larry

The best Chiefs blog out there is Arrowhead Pride, and I've written a few Fan Posts there. That is a neat feature, and I've been honored to contribute a bit.

About two or three months ago, during the dog days of the off-season, the AP people launched a series about their top five Chiefs of all time. Great topic, got a great response. The top AP writers each had their take, and I noticed a distinct lack of mention of the best running back the Chiefs ever had. I knew why they weren't mentioning him, and I pointed it out in response to a remark made by one of those top AP people -- sorry I don't remember which one. That remark was "There isn't a wrong answer in this."

To his credit I know why he said that. He was cautioning against how upset people might get if someone didn't quite agree with their selections. That's fine.

But I boldly went where no one had gone before, so to speak.

I put a comment or post or something in that declared, "Yes there is a wrong answer." I brought up the truth that to the AP people and everyone who is hypnotized by the World System propaganda about what we're supposed to believe about things, some answers are simply, and politically, unacceptable, even though they say we're not supposed to get political in these kinds of blog efforts and they would vehemently deny that they are.

But they are.

Who is the best running back in Kansas City Chiefs history?

It is Larry Johnson.

Before I share what happened with the AP activity, let me provide a very brief but lucid explanation about why Johnson was the best.

He is one of only a handful of running backs in NFL history to gain 1700+ yards in two different seasons. The others were people like Eric Dickerson and Barry Sanders. In 2006 he carried the ball more times than any running back in NFL history -- yes, you got that, his 416 runs were the most ever. Those two huge rushing years were both winning seasons for the Chiefs, and the team was only derailed because our receiving core was crap (some of why he so often carried the ball -- and the team itself, really) and our quarterback, while excellent (Trent Green), was getting old and injured too often, particularly in 2006. 

In 2007 Johnson was rewarded with the largest contract for a running back ever, but the negotiations were contentious. He was primed to continue his football excellence, but our fine QB Green retired and was replaced by Damon Huard who was an aging journeyman. In 2008 we handed the reigns to Tyler Thigpen, a fine athlete who was not a quarterback. Our receiving core was just as crappy (all due respect to Tony Gonzalez), our defense was weak, and our coaching was miserable.

Johnson himself suffered injuries during those seasons, continued to play through them into 2009 when his off-field troubles caught up with him. He was unceremoniously shipped off to Cincinnati in large part because it was discovered he made boorish remarks about certain people it has become unacceptable about whom to say anything untoward.

Yes Larry Johnson was kind of a butthead when he was on the Chiefs. Yes his formation of a triangle with his two hands together after every touchdown was an occultic signification he considered was merely an ad for his clothing brand. Yes Larry Johnson wore out his welcome in Kansas City, and is still persona non grata because even though he has found Christ and admitted he grew up a lot after his tumultuous early life that did include justified run-ins with the law, today he shares frequently about his convictions about the legitimate conspiracies among us. Ouch. Tin-foil-hat-wearing nutball. Too controversial.

None of this takes away from the fact that he was the best running back in Chiefs history.

Please know that I am saying nothing dismissive about Jamaal Charles and Priest Holmes. They were studs above studs. They were amazing. I love them to death, I do, just like any red-blooded Chiefs fan. They were both excellent excellent excellent football players and devoted Kansas City Chiefs. Charles and Holmes deserve every single accolade they can get.

But Larry Johnson was better.

Objectively so.

Don't misunderstand me. Is this opinion? Yes, I know that. I just have the goods is all. I have the evidence for my opinion to prevail. Will others disagree? Yeah, they can. Free country. That's a good thing. It's just they're still wrong.

Here's what happened at AP, however, after I pointed this out. I was called stupid. I was told I had no idea what I was talking about. There was one commentator who was actually respectful and gave me some cred, at least there was that. There was also a remark in there about toning it down.

I went back there with one last remark and it was something like this. "Everyone believes they are right. What I wrote was mostly about why I believe Larry Johnson isn't getting any mentions. Can you see why? Calling people names, however, doesn't accomplish anything. If you have a take, share it. I don't care if you tell me Junior Siavii should be on your list -- if you have reasons, share them. I'll respect that."

Then I left. I never went back. I just don't deal with being called stupid very well, not at all, even though I knew it was likely to happen. I would love to have seen someone write "Yes. Good call. I too know why Larry Johnson isn't getting any considerations." Maybe someone did. Bless them if they did.

Once again, the reasons Larry Johnson got barely any mention?

It is because of the politics.

It is because Larry Johnson was perceived as someone not worthy of the very well-deserved attention he should have gotten, and should still get right now. The negative press he received, much of it wholly deserved definitely colored people's considerations of him, and most judgments have been made with little consideration of his actual football talents.

It is a truth that is denied by people in tremendous denial about it:

Politics does impact what we think about people.

And it takes a lot of fortitude to see that and address it magnanimously.

What do I mean by that?

The object lesson is right before our eyes right now with what is going on in the NFL, and our beloved Kansas City Chiefs.

The NFL has become a rotten festering vat of racialist puke. It has been reaching this point for some time -- but now? It is absolutely grotesque.

I will tell you, and I've shared this many times before. The Kansas City Chiefs are my team. There is virtually nothing that will get me to not appreciate them. I'm honestly not crazy about my far-too prominent sentiment that I don't care if a Chiefs player is a serial murderer, I hope he scores 100 touchdowns.

Patrick Mahomes may very well be the greatest player ever to step on a pro football field. Already, right now. There're likely a bit more than just a few who would agree with this. We are a week away from the start of what most think is a long run of astounding Chiefs glory led by this phenomenal young star.

But what in the world is he doing joining his teammates and taking this racialist filth and spewing it out? What on earth are these people doing? Yes, I can excuse Mahomes for being only 25 years-old -- he's just a kid being browbeat into taking on the mantle of the "face of the NFL" and feeling pressured into being the voice of the "disadvantaged and downtrodden." I got that.

The problem is the racialist stuff he's sharing is just the grossly obtuse propaganda leftists want to splatter everywhere -- it is has gotten to the point where it is a racket. If you don't proclaim that you're not a racist -- or now: that you're an anti-racist and on board with all kinds of autocratic, draconian policy provisions and prosecutorial activity to ensure we rid the world of all evil racist troglodytes, well then we'll just torch your establishment.

I'm not necessarily picking on Mahomes. So many NFL players are seduced by it. But let's just take Mahomes in terms of the future reality. Not even saying I'm for or against anything, but look at the political landscape and I truly wonder how far Mahomes plans to be the face of the racialist crusade. By the way, the term: Racialism: Calling a whole classification of people racist and doing so with the most institutionalized vitriol. Yes, when people say things like "Black Lives Matter," they are definitively calling another person a racist while knowing nothing about that person. Seems like the most brazen example of bearing false witness there can be.

So Mahomes is planning to get in the neighborhood of $500 million over the next 12 years. That's awesome for the Chiefs, for him, for everyone all around. I cheered this news as did anyone who is a likely bit too impassioned member of the Kingdom.

Here's the problem.

How's that money going to get there when there is no one in the stands?

How are any of these guys going to get paid when no one is watching because they are tired of seeing all the racialist slogans painted all over the field, of having splashed in their faces public service announcements about how much of a racist asshole you are? I don't know if you noticed, but last year most NFL stadiums were half empty. This year many will be totally empty because of another lie sold to the American people, the one that a killer virus will kill you if you don't stay in your rooms until the government tells you when to come out.

You know, it is kind of funny, I'd thought about some of the weird similarities between the world champion Chiefs of 2019 and that of 1969. I'd shared a few before. For instance, did I share the one about both our starting quarterbacks being injured and both missing at least a few games? And that their replacements (Matt Moore in 2019 and Mike Livingston in 1969) actually did pretty well?

Well how about this one. That in 1969 the country was in the midst of racial turmoil and a virus (supposedly from Hong Kong) that was actually killing about as many people as they say the coronavirus is killing today. I mean that is just too weird.

What is weirder is not only how hysterical everyone is told to be about today's racist and virus phantoms, but how many people are buying the lies. It blows my mind that I feel I have to say "No I don't dislike black people" and "No I don't want old people to die." That I feel I have to say those things speaks to the power of the political deep operatives who are maneuvering public opinion in these insidious ways.

Really. Watch what happens with the NFL this year. Watch and see if anyone really wants to interminably endure, essentially "You're just an evil racist troglodyte" plastered everywhere a good, thoughtful, humble, paycheck-providing fan looks when trying to enjoy an NFL game.

Already the NBA's ratings have utterly tanked. Their racialist browbeating has been some of the worst.

So yeah. Not only is Larry Johnson the best running back the Chiefs ever had, but it is so good to see him in the mix of calling this stuff out himself with principled takes, especially those that point out what's really going on with things like child abuse. It simply isn't what most people think it is.

And here, you may want to look at this piece by Jason Whitlock. Awesome. It totally echoes how I too feel and what I too see about how pusillanimous these athletes have become. They may have great athletic prowess but they sure aren't behaving like men. That we simply don't have enough men authentically displaying the most positive masculine qualities as they should is one critical reason our country is going to hell, having to endure all this racialist garbage.

As it is, I sure hope I can enjoy Chiefs football this year without them telling me how rotten I am all the time. Oh it isn't that I'm not rotten -- I too am a sinner saved by grace. My own sin is far worse than any racism I might display. But that's why a great savior like Jesus is there for me. It is always my prayer that racists will come to Him and find their redemption and salvation.

But I pray that for racialists just as much.

Oh, and my five best Chiefs of all-time? Just FYI, in no particular order: Bobby Bell, Larry Johnson, Travis Kelce, Patrick Mahomes, Will Shields.

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The image of Larry Johnson is from Dave Kaup of Reuters. Thank you.

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