I’m not going to walk on eggshells here; if the Chiefs don’t cut Tyler Thigpen and go after Chris Simms, then they are idiots. Simms was just cut by the Bucaneers. Simms has shown a knack for pulling off comebacks, and is no stranger to big games. His size, experience and potential would combine to make him a perfect Plan B to Brodie Croyle’s Plan A. From Bucs Beat:
“They released me,” Simms said in a text message Saturday.
Simms played in three preseason games, completing 19-of-30 passes for 155 yards with no touchdowns and one interception. But he performed well enough to prove to other teams he is fully recovered from the effects of abdominal surgery that forced him to miss nearly all of the past two seasons.
The Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers are expected to have the most interest in signing Simms, who becomes a free agent.
The Cowboys’ backup quarterback is 40-year-old Brad Johnson, Simms’ teammate with the Bucs. The Packers have no experienced quarterback behind starter Aaron Rodgers.
“I really don’t know what’s going to happen,” Simms said. “I’m just going to wait and see.”
You’d have to think that if we were interested, that we’d be a more intriguing option than either the Cowboys or Packers. This is no knock on Croyle, but at this point I think Aaron Rodgers and Tony Romo are more entrenched as thier respective team’s starters. Coming to Kansas City might be Simm’s best shot at earn a starting gig by the end of the season. That is, if we are interested. Again, we should be.
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This is one free agent I would explore signing.
You bet your ass they would be idiots not to bring him in.
Like I’ve already said in several other blogs, I like the guy. I live in Tamapa, I know what he can do and not do. He has a tramendous heart and can sling it too. The only thing I hate about Chris is that he gets a ton of batted balls at the line of scrimmage. Tyler out Chris in!!!!
I watched him for several years here in Austin playing for the Longhorns and I liked him a LOT then… and while folks said he was soft, I believe the playing on a ruptured spleen episode there in Tampa puts that to rest permanently.
Here’s the catch… would he prefer a better chance to start over a playoff team. KC could go after him and still not get him.
Great point, CMF, but I think he would. He would be a third-stringer in Dallas, and Romo is still young. Green Bay has two other top draft choices on the roster that would be ahead of him presumably, so he’d be No. 3 there as well. I think he wants to play, and he’s still young enough to be patient about winning.
And even Merlin is on board with it! We might have an A.A. staff consensus for once
Quinn Gray is also somewhat intriguing. If you recall, two years ago he looked pretty good late in that game at Arrowhead. Just another option. The Colts just cut him because they are only keeping Peyton and Sorgi, the long-time back-up.
I actually like Croyle but I’d take a look at Simms in a heartbeat as the number 2. If it came to it I’m sure he’s smart enough to know that he would have a better chance of playing in KC than either Dallas or Green Bay.
wat do yall think of lookin at delta oneal we could use some more depth at CB?? wt do yall think??
Just can’t agree.
Chris Simms has been a mediocre QB his entire career. Why you want to bring that to KC is beyond me.
Here are his CAREER stats:
Completion % 59.1
TDs 12
INTs 17
QB Rating 71.2
THAT is pretty pathetic for a 4 year career, the last of which he didn’t play a single game.
Why you want to bring THAT in is beyond me.
Include these stats:
9 career fumbles
162.5 avg yds passing/game
i really think deltha oneal could really help us!!
You think I’m surprised by you not agreeing, D.J.? Sometimes it seems like your mission in life is to disagree with me. Oh well, maybe we just have two conflicting viewpoints on our Chiefs. Something.
That doesn’t tell the whole story either. He’s one quite a few ballgames, some being comebacks. Yes, unlike Croyle he has actually been victorious in an actual regular season game. He was a better player in college and has been better in the pros. Last year he had a ruptured spleen, too. Let’s see you do much of anything with that ailment.
And answer this question: are you sold on our QB situation? Please don’t tell me that you are.
Deltha O’Neal is 31 years old. There’s no way we sign him.
I’d rather have Quinn Gray than Simms, but either of them is better than Thigpen. Joey Harrington was also cut. He’s definetly not great, but he’s a suitable backup, and he CAN win games as a starter. Much better than Thigpen has showed.
And DJ, aren’t you on the DVD bandwagon as well? If you want dismal stats in a 4 year period, look no farther than Devard Darling’s career stats in Baltimore. Kkthxbai.
I’d rather have Tyler Perry than Tyler Thigpen. Thigpen is a joke. The Chiefs talked him up like he was the second coming, but there was a reason the Vikes let him go despite their awful QBs.
I’d have no problem bringing in Simms or Gray, but to replace Huard as a younger vet, not to replace Thigpen who has some long term potential. No way I’d even look at Harrington, who is worse than Huard. I’d also look at Matt Gutierrez as a young QB, but again, to replace Huard.
Adam
I’m not surprised you like Simms considering you drove the Sippio bandwagon straight off the cliff. You seem to have a liking for underperforming players. You’re doubtful of Croyle, yet if you project his stats out to the number of games Simms has played, they would be much better.
Yeah, Simms has won more games. He was on a team that won the Super Bowl a couple years before he came to the NFL, so it reasons to believe he had a better team than “Boy we have to decimate this roster and build it from the ground up” Chiefs that Croyle was thrown in with.
xxxlp
“And DJ, aren’t you on the DVD bandwagon as well?”
I have absolutely no opinion of Darling whatsoever except that he obviously has a hard time getting open because he’s been invisible in the preseason. Evidently the coaching staff sees something in him, but I haven’t seen it yet.
The advantage of Simms is he gives us more flexibilty to develop a 3rd string QB – whether its Pigster or someone else. We bring him in now to replace Thiggy Smalls and keep Huard at least until Simms is completely up to speed on the playbook. Then we can look to find another developmental guy. I promise you if we release Pigster he’ll still be available if they want to bring him back later.
The only team that is going to claim Thigpen is an Arena one.
As for the Sippio bandwagon, I’m convinced that the other receivers being younger and faster–not better–drove that off the cliff. He is an awful lot like D-Bowe.
Man, such contempt for a guy who made a lot of plays in the Red and Gold in limited ops.
Adam
Wow, thats such a delusional statment! What did Sippio do as a Chiefs? Well he was a good blocker!
Preseason games against scrubs don’t mean a whole lot. If he had real talent that could help the team, they would have thrown a pass or two at him the entire time he was on the squad last year, but they never even sent him out on a route.
I have no contempt for Sippio, I have no opinion of him whatsoever any more than I do for any other guy that comes in for training camp and doesn’t make the team.
I just think its hillarious the loyalty people have to him when he’s never done ANYTHING to deserve it.
He stuck on the roster for about a year despite everybody counting him out as an AFL castoff, even the staff and the local media it seems. He worked his ass off, performed well on special teams, blocked well and made quite a few big plays as a receiver when he was given the chance, which was only during the preseason really, unfortunately.
You know what, the only difference between Boomer Grigsby, the most popular Chief of all time practically, and Sippio is the color of their skin. Well, except I honestly think Sipp is more talented. No one ever had a problem with the Boomer bandwagon. Both guys even played against each other in college and switched positions when they got to the pros.
This venom for an underdog overachiever who gave everything he had trying to make this team actually really gets on my nerves.
Then again, I know that D.J. just likes being the contrarian, so I’m not going to pay too much attention to it.
Blue, c’mon man, seriously? Harrington is that bad? Pssh. What kind of a line did he have in Detroit? About the same kind of one that Brodie had last year. After that he’s been shipped around so much he probably couldn’t memorize 12 pages of a playbook before he got sent out there to ‘be the savior’. If we picked him up, and Brodie stayed healthy, he had time to get our playbook down, good things would happen. With our improved offence, a MUCH better running game than Detroit had, better WR’s (remember, Joey had a bunch of first rounders on his team, but most of them never performed to expectations) an elite TE, and basically, a better line… Joey would do far better here than he has shown in the past. I’d also say the same about Carr. In Houston he was the most-sacked QB in the NFL for how many years running? But if we bring him here, with better.. basically everything, he’d not be ‘written off’ like he was before.
DJ my friend I couldn’t agree with you more. Chris Simms has never been any good. He under achieved at Texas, never able to win the biggest game of the year agaisnt Oklahoma. He’s done nothing in the NFL to merritt NFL teams looking at him at anything other than a back up. He will be a career back up QB if anything.
Harrington has been bad everywhere he’s ever been. A career 69.4 rating, only 1 season in 6 that he had more TDs than picks, and a career 56.1 completion pct. Now if he was young like Brodie it would be one thing, but the guy is turning 30. I’d start Croyle, Thigpen, Huard, and Herm Edwards at QB before I started him LOL.
I’d like for us to dump T. Thigpen and D. Huard, then we could sign C. Simms and Q. Gray. I would also love for us to go after OT Anderson and LB Hobson.
If we are gonna make a move on simms it better be soon, he’s already worked out for the ravens