Update: Jared Allen did not make the trip. This is really too bad, as I think we all were looking forward to him taking on Phat Albert. From Red Zone:
As reported earlier Thursday, Minnesota Vikings and former Chiefs defensive end Jared Allen did not travel with the Vikings on Thursday for the teams’ joint practice in River Falls, Wis.
According to Vikings coach Brad Childress, that could very well be the case. From the Access Vikings:
Today’s main Vikings story — at least the one that didn’t focus on Brett Favre — was all about Jared Allen’s return to see his Kansas [...]

Looks like the Cheaps Chiefs are going to save some money this offseason. The Chiefs have around $39 million in cap room, almost $10 M more than any other team. I don’t think the Chiefs have ever held this honor, and quite frankly I hate looking like the Arizona Cardinals, but I believe the Chiefs have a plan (hopefully). I think that they are saving money to add players through free agency next year to add to their young players.
The Green Bay Packers are in great shape financially.
The team is $30.5 million below its adjusted salary cap of $126 million.
That [...]

Thought everyone would enjoy this video clip from the vault. It’s a clip of the altercation that went down the last time the Chiefs and Vikings held their annual training camp scrimmage. Let’s go Red and Gold! We need to make some things happen tonight. Especially Phat Albert going up against the artist formerly known as the One Man Gang.

John Lynch said peace out to the Denver Broncos today. He is Herm Edwards‘ kid’s Godfather, or something like that, but I still don’t expect him to end up with the Chiefs. The Tampa Bay ties might make it a rumor, but pay no heed. Doesn’t make sense for either party. From ESPN:
Longtime star safety John Lynch is leaving the Denver Broncos.

The likely Pro Football Hall of Famer made his decision this afternoon after pondering his future for the past 24 hours. Lynch, who will turn 37 in September, confirmed his departure to Denver television station KCNC. Lynch appears on [...]

I’m going to take sort of a free-flowing, word-association approach to running down the developments of Kansas City Chiefs‘ training camp so far…
Biggest Surprise – Pat Thomas
Only one person had him penciled in as a starter before camp, and that was Maine Chief. Who knows if he can hold on and keep his new starting gig, but for now he’s running with the first string.
Beast Mode – Glenn Dorsey
Marshawn Lynch coined the phrase “beast mode” last year, and that’s apparently the mode Dorsey has entered the past few days. You knew it would just be a matter of time before [...]

Looks like another former Chief wants to run his mouth about taking it to the Chiefs this season. This time it comes from Casey Wiegmann, who will be playing second fiddle to Tom Nalen.
“It’s strange, and it isn’t. When I first signed here, the first thing I thought of was Neil Smith,” Wiegmann said Tuesday, referring to perhaps the most successful Kansas City-Denver convert. “Hopefully I can duplicate what he did and win a couple Super Bowls. That would be nice. But it’s a job and you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do.”
“I think it was that way [...]

Here’s my breakdown, er, beat down of our AFC West rivals:
Denver Broncos:
We were also interested in OT Ryan Clady, until we saw that he basically tanked his Wonderlic. He actually would have scored a 14 on the test instead of 13, but he spelled his last name with two “Ds” accidentally.
As for their receiving corps, what a mess. Darrell Jackson? That guy could drop a newborn baby in the delivery room. Keary Colbert? He hardly played in Carolina even when Steve Smith was hurt? Brandon Stokley? He had one good game–Thanksgiving day about four years ago. Must have been white [...]

(Sorry for my disappearing act the past 24 hours or so. Came down with one of my patented migraines some of you have heard about. No, I’m not talking about a hangover, as, like, Jared Allen, I’ve been dry for a while now. Anyway, had to unplug for a day, but I’m back…)
The other AFC West bloggers were kind enough to drop their assessments of the Chiefs recently. Here they are:
Johnny of Bolt Beat (Chargers):
Dwayne Bowe is promising… but who is going to get him the ball? What’s his name? (I refuse to remember the name of a Chiefs quarterback. It’s [...]