From Pro Football Talk:

Though the official 2010 regular-season schedule won’t be unveiled until April, the annual league meetings traditionally feature a partial lifting of the tarp.

Specifically, we’ll learn — most likely on Monday — the participants in the prime-time games to be played during Week One and the three games to be played on Thanksgiving.

We already know that the season will begin with the Saints hosting a game on Thursday, September 9.  With Steelers president Art Rooney II saying last week that his team won’t be the road team, the only other compelling opponent on the Superdome slate is the Vikings.

The early Monday night game will be hosted by the Jets.  If recent trends hold, it will be an AFC East foe.  Our guess is that it’ll be the Dolphins.

While I am not ruling out that the Chiefs will get a prime time game this season, we likely won’t find out Monday. The Chiefs don’t play the Saints next year so they won’t be in the opener. The Jets will be hosting the early week 1 Monday night game in their new stadium and the Chiefs don’t play them either. The Thanksgiving games that will be announced will involve the Lions and Cowboys, two more teams the Chief won’t face.

The only hope is that the Chiefs will be involved in the late Monday night game in week 1. That game usually features a west coast team taking on a division rival. I think we can rule out a Raiders, Chiefs contest. Out only hope is a Chargers, Chiefs game. The Raiders played the Charges last season in this slot, however, so it is unlikely the game will feature the AFC West.

I have a feeling the Chiefs will return to Monday Night Football this season but we may have to wait until April to find out when.

Not a lot to say about Pro Football Talk’s weekly special detailing, in a short 3-minute video, how they’d fix the Kansas City Chiefs.

Not a lot to say because… well, PFTV didn’t have much to say either. In three minutes, they put forth exactly one suggestion for the Chiefs, while merely reviewing the moves the Chiefs have already made.

The one suggestion made?

Well, I’ll let you watch for yourself, but I’ll give you a hint: I can hear the “Theme From Jaws.”

(h/t ChiefsPlanet)

Dick’s Sporting Goods investigates.

(h/t Ryan Jones @ KC Chiefs Blog)

If you’ve been keeping up with Arrowhead Addict this offseason, you know that we’ve resisted resigning to Russell Okung, debated CJ Spiller and Taylor Mays, considered Gerald McCoy and Joe Haden, dissed Rolando McClain, sang Eric Berry’s praises and warred with one another over Jimmy Clausen.

Yep, we’ve talked incessantly about the Chiefs’ top pick on this blog. But I think it’s about time we discuss some midrounders that could hold a lot of promise for this team. The rough target here is the rest of the team’s picks.

After doing my best to pick 10 promising offensive prospects that nobody’s talking about (and kudos to Ehud for picking up on the theme), I finish the two-part series with defense. Here are ten defensive players I think Pioli would/should consider later on in the Draft, after watching a lot of tape and incessantly researching as well as I can. Essentially, I’m trying to shine light on players that nobody else is shining lights on.

In alphabetical order:

ILB Reggie Carter, UCLA — The Bruins had a deceptively talented defense last year, headed of course by first-round prospect DT Brian Price. But behind Price was the energetic leader of their defense, MLB Reggie Carter. What Carter lacks in speed he makes up for with great size, willpower, and intelligence. Few ILBs can recognize a play as it unfolds with greater speed than Reggie Carter. Fully recovered from a nasty knee injury in 2007, he has played well every single season he’s taken the field for the Bruins — this is as close to a sure thing as you’re going to get at linebacker.

OLB Antonio Coleman, Auburn — Coleman has shown up on this blog a couple times now, both times featured in my Mock Monday series:

He’s a bigger 3-4 OLB, and plays very intensely against the run. But he has stacked up a ton of sacks in his time at Auburn and had a great volume of games for the Chiefs to scout; he’s as known a quantity as you’re going to get. Coleman, unlike [Clemson OLB Ricky] Sapp, does not have great athleticism, but he balances that out with a nose for the ball and good fundamentals.

Coleman’s a bigger OLB who would likely find himself rushing from the strong side. A very powerful player with relentless pursuit, he is a rare passrusher in this Draft that can play very well against the run. In college, Coleman has racked up double-digit sack seasons with frequency, but he projects as solid depth and run support to the NFL. Might be more of a 4-3 DE.

Source: Yardbarker.com

Casey Wiegmann

Perhaps the most unusual thing about Wiegmann’s return to the Chiefs is that the team chose to bring in a veteran center over 35 and it wasn’t former Tennessee Titan Kevin Mawae.

It’s been obvious over the last year that Scott Pioli and Todd Haley put a premium on players they have prior experience with. Wiegmann has strong ties to the Chiefs’ franchise, but he has no history with the new regime. On the other hand, Pioli and Haley, plus numerous other members of the Chiefs’ staff, were with the New York Jets in 1998 when Mawae began his eight-year stay there.

Like Wiegmann, Mawae is a smaller center, adept at pulling and zone blocking. He’s about a year and a half older than Wiegmann, but the fact that he’s coming off two straight Pro Bowls suggests his tank isn’t empty quite yet. If the Chiefs wanted to sign an aging center, Mawae seemed like a perfect fit.

Lilja & Wiegmann: More Questions Than Answers-WPI

Draft season is here! Photo Source: Yardbarker.com

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If you’ve been a consistent visitor to Arrowhead Addict you have no doubt read the plethora of discussion and speculation on what the Chiefs should/will do with the first 4 of their 8 picks.  What hasn’t been talked about, as much, is what the Chiefs might  do with the 2^nd half of their 8 picks.  The Chiefs have four picks that are all Day 3 and three of which come in the 5^th round.  So, inspired by Crocker’s article http://arrowheadaddict.com/201…..d-offense/, I decided to give my 2 cents on my thoughts with the possible picks the Chiefs could make on Day 3.

Quick Note: Here are the positions I see being addressed by
the Chiefs with their first 4 picks:
ILB, NT, OL, S.

Quarterbacks: The only QBs I would consider Day 3 are Tim Tebow and John Skelton from Fordham.  Tebow is worth it if he slipped this far for his intangibles alone.  Skelton has the size of a NFL QB and his arm looks good as well.  He is a small school prospect and might be worth a Day 3 pick for us to take a look at him.

Source: Yardbarker.com

It’s hard to imagine that the Kansas City Chiefs are in the market to add another running back to the fold after Jamaal Charles had a breakout season last year, and they signed former Jets featured back Thomas Jones to a two-year deal. But, there’s no harm in looking for a diamond in the rough, and it appears that the Chiefs have their eye on a runner in this year’s draft that’s off-the-radar, Arizona State’s Dimitri Nance.

Scout.com has learned that the Chiefs will hold a private workout with Nance on March 24th and host him in Kansas City for a visit on April 13th.
Primarily a backup during his career at Arizona State, Nance received his opportunity to be a featured back this past season and carried the ball 188 times for 795 yards and six touchdowns. The 5-foot-11, 224-pound Nance played in 45 games, starting 18 of them with the Sun Devils. Nance participated in the East-West Shrine Game this offseason, but wasn’t invited to the Scouting Combine. He will try to impress scouts at Arizona State’s Pro Day on March 26th, two days after he’s scheduled to work out for the Chiefs.

Chiefs After Arizona State RB-Sout.com