The 2007 Kansas City Chiefs Thread

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Pre-Season Schedule
Week 1: @Cleveland L 16-12
Week 2: Miami L 11-10
Week 3: New Orleans L 30-7
Week 4: @St. Louis

Regular Season Schedule
Week 1: @Houston
Week 2: @Chicago
Week 3: Minnesota
Week 4: @San Diego
Week 5: Jacksonville
Week 6: Cincinnati
Week 7: @Oakland
Week 8: BYE
Week 9: Green Bay
Week 10: Denver
Week 11:@Indianapolis
Week 12:Oakland
Week 13:San Diego
Week 14:@Denver
Week 15:Tennessee
Week 16:@Detroit
Week 17:@NY Jets

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Huard named team starter

[Goose]

That's temporary, Brodie is the man there it's just a matter of time. As soon as Herm realizes they aren't a contender Brodie gets the call.

[TheRoyalChief]

I would start him around week 8, when were probably gonna be 2-6, let's see if this kid is for real or not!!!!

Not too many Chiefs fans huh.........well GO ROYALS!!!!

My thoughts on Carl Peterson

[Gzus]

Originally Posted by TheRoyalChief

I would start him around week 8, when were probably gonna be 2-6, let's see if this kid is for real or not!!!!

Maybe even 0-8. They're having issues on all fronts of the game, even with one of the supposed best RBs in the league as well as one of the best TEs the Chief's offense is going barely anywhere.

[Jay]

Originally Posted by TheRoyalChief

I would start him around week 8, when were probably gonna be 2-6, let's see if this kid is for real or not!!!!

Not too many Chiefs fans huh.........well GO ROYALS!!!!

My thoughts on Carl Peterson

You guys better beat the Vikings at home. I have a bet with Viking fans that Schaub will have more wins than Tarvaris Jackson. Please don't disappoint.

[Gzus]

How can an offense with Larry Johnson have the 31st ranked offense? This team is looking horrible, and I wish the Chiefs were on our schedule, but o well.

[Blaze_1UP]

They're looking a lot better now

[TheRoyalChief]

Yeah it's hard to belive we are 3-3 and in FIRST PLACE in our division. Oakland scares me a little, but if we stick to our brand of football, Oakland will probably beat themselves.

[Fish on The Sand]

this season obviously sucked, but things are looking up next year. This defence is going places. A top 5 passing defence and a run defence that will get better. The offence will remain a huge question mark, but with the probably addition of Jake Long and a healthy Larry Johnson the offence should be able to establish itself as a cut above the worst in the league. I hope I am not being too idealistic, but the Chiefs could contend for a playoff spot next year. They play the two first divisions in football next year, the NFC South and the AFC East, combined with a 3rd place schedule.

Having Tampa Bay, Atlanta, Carolina, New Orleans, Buffalo, NYJ, Miami, Cincinnati and Oakland x2 on the schedule is a great thing to see.That is 10 games that are all very winnable, and I honestly think Kansas City should be able to take 7 of them. That leaves the Pats, Titans, Charger x2 and Broncos x2. 10 wins should be enough for a playoff spot, so going .500 should be key here. Right off the bat we can assume Kansas City will lose to New England, so that narrows it down to 3 wins against the Titans and Broncos/Chargers twice apiece. It will not be easy, but that schedule is quite favourable to a team looking to make the playoffs, but more than likely they will finish 7-9, out of the playoffs and with a mediocre draft pick.

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Chiefs TE Gonzalez saves man's life in restaurant - NFL - Yahoo! Sports



Chiefs TE Gonzalez saves man’s life in restaurant

By DOUG TUCKER, AP Sports Writer 3 hours, 54 minutes ago

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)—A California man says Pro Bowl tight end Tony Gonzalez of the Kansas City Chiefs kept him from choking to death.
“Tony saved my life. There’s no doubt,” Ken Hunter, a shipping company manager, told The Associated Press in a phone interview from Huntington Beach, Calif.
“Tony came up behind me and gave me the Heimlich maneuver. Thank God he was there.”
Gonzalez, a nine-time Pro Bowl selection who has set numerous NFL records, was having dinner with his wife, brother and 5-week-old daughter at Capone’s restaurant in Huntington Beach Thursday night. Hunter, 45, was dining with his girlfriend at the next table when suddenly a piece of meat stuck in his throat.
“I tried to take a drink of water, but I couldn’t swallow,” Hunter told The AP. “Then I couldn’t breathe. That’s a terrible feeling. I couldn’t breathe. Then I guess I started to panic.”



Gonzalez, sitting with his back to Hunter’s table, looked around when he heard Hunter’s companion yelling.
“She was screaming, `He can’t breathe, he can’t breathe,”’ Gonzalez said by phone from California, where he lives in the offseason. “The whole restaurant was quiet. Nobody was doing anything.”
Then I saw he was turning blue. Everybody in the restaurant was just kind of sitting there wide-eyed.”
The 6-foot-5 Gonzalez, about a foot taller than Hunter, jumped out of his chair and came up behind the stricken man and began to perform the Heimlich maneuver.
“After just a few seconds, the piece of meat popped out,” Hunter said. “I could breathe again. It’s a good thing Tony is so tall because I had stood up— I think.”
Diana Martin, a restaurant employee, said no one else seemed to know what to do.
“He was so lucky Tony was there,” Martin said. “In a situation like that, every second counts. It helped a lot that Tony’s a big, strong guy because you have to be able to apply some pretty good pressure. I don’t think I would have been strong enough to help him.”
Hunter went into the restroom to clean up and didn’t realize he’d been saved by a famous athlete until he came out.
“I’m a big NFL fan and I recognized him right away. I was still kind of dazed when I went over and thanked him and said, `What can I do for you?’ I guess I said it about 1,000 times.”
Gonzalez, who has been active in charity and community activities during a brilliant career with the Chiefs, said he had no intention of having the incident become public.
“The next night I had a dinner for my grandmother’s 90th birthday, and people were saying, `Why didn’t you tell me about that?’ I honestly don’t want to make a big deal out of it. But of course it does give me a lot of satisfaction to know that I was able to help somebody.”
One of the most productive receivers in pro football history, Gonzalez holds the NFL record for tight ends with 820 career receptions and 102 catches in a season. He needs only 79 more yards receiving to become the career leader among tight ends.
He has never received any formal instruction in the Heimlich maneuver.
“I had seen it done, so I just did it,” Gonzalez said. “When you find yourself in those situations where you have to take action in a crucial situation, you just do it. I got the same feeling I get when I go on a hospital visit.”’
Hunter is a lifelong fan of the San Diego Chargers, one of Kansas City’s key rivals in the AFC West, and plans to be at the game when the Chiefs visit the Chargers on Nov. 9.
“I’m Tony’s No. 1 fan now,” he said.
And what will this longtime follower of the Chargers do if they’re ahead by four or five points in the final minute and Gonzalez runs into the end zone and leaps up for what would be the game-winning touchdown for K.C.?
“I’m going to be yelling for Tony to catch the ball,” Hunter said. “I think all my friends will understand.”

[Abraham Lincoln]

Larry Johnson has a big year ahead of him