The Morning Fix

Steve Stocker just isn’t the same. He is the director of Recreation and Sports Facilities for the University.

“No, it doesn’t feel right at all,” said Stocker.

What doesn’t feel right to him are the locked field gates and empty turf. The Kansas City Chiefs are nowhere to be found. But not only are the players gone, so too are their fans.

“We’d probably have 12-hundred a day for the first week or so,” Stocker added.

Ever since 1991, River Falls had rolled out the red carpet for the NFL franchise which brought seven semi-trailer loads of football gear and training equipment to town. Along with the 100 or more players, coaches, trainers and support staff – the town filled with cash spending fans.

NFL’s Chiefs Leave River Falls After 19 Years-WCCO.com

Video: John McGraw, Brian Waters and Matt Cassel Arrive At Training Camp-KCStar.com

A big day for the Kansas City Chiefs will start with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell at their new Founder’s Plaza in Arrowhead Stadium this morning and wind up with the first workout at their gleaming new practice facility in St. Joseph, Mo.

Goodell will be on hand at the Founder’s Plaza when a nine-foot statue is unveiled of the late Lamar Hunt, founder of the Chiefs and the American Football League.

Coach Todd Haley will begin practice a few hours later in the team’s new facility in St. Joseph. It will be the first time in 20 years the Chiefs have not camped in River Falls, Wis., and mark the beginning of what Kansas City fans hope will be a sharp upward turn following three dreary losing seasons.

Chiefs’ big day: statue unveiling, commish visit, training camp on tap-LJWorld.com

Following last season’s success that Minnesota’s Percy Harvin had working out of the slot, teams are copying the formula by drafting fast, quick receivers to work the slot and take advantage of their yards-after-the-catch ability. The Panthers used a third-round choice on Armanti Edwards, a former Appalachian State quarterback who has wowed coaches as a slot receiver in organized team activities. The Kansas City Chiefs are opening camp with second-round choice Dexter McCluster working the slot. He has the ability to run after the catch.

The increased talent base for the slot receiver is only a natural reaction to the increased use of spread offenses in the NFL. A lot of people don’t realize Patriots coach Bill Belichick, a mastermind for defensive schemes, traded for Welker and let him use some of the Texas Tech slot routes that got him into the NFL as a prospect.

Offenses cashing in with inside targets-ESPN.com

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