merlin

Latest Updates

Kansas City Chiefs Mini-Camp Review

It’s nice to get back to football. Well, it really wasn’t football. It was a football-like activity. Mini-camps are football-like activities. Rookie mini-camps are even worse. Those camps…Read More

Off

Chiefs 2012 Draft Review & WTF Pick Award

It’s been a couple of days since the draft. Now I can look back and reflect on the picks, grading them accordingly. This was a very strange draft for the Chiefs. Scott Pioli deviated from his usual…Read More

Off

Chiefs 2012 NFL Draft: Trade Up/Trade Down

Each draft has its own character. There are positional strengths and weaknesses. Teams are presented with the same basic set of options. Do you trade up? Trade down? Or make your selection. Of course,…Read More

Chiefs Mock Draft Challenge

Welcome to this year’s Chiefs mock draft challenge. I love doing this every year and I invite the readers to post their own Chiefs mock in the comments. To make this a fair exercise, we have to…Read More

Chiefs Draft Needs: Post Free Agency

The flurry of free agent activity for the Chiefs has resulted in a very significant restructuring of the draft needs. When you do the draft needs for any major website, like DraftTek.com, you have to…Read More

And more..

If It’s A Lie

“Don’t matter who did what to who at this point. Fact is, we went to war, and now there ain’t…Read More

2012 NFL Mock Draft Primer

Well, it’s mock draft time and hardcore fans will be sending out mocks fast and furious. Every…Read More

The Evolution Of The NFL

Traditionally, NFL teams have had strong and weak sides. Offensively, it started with the positioning…Read More

Draft Tek’s End Of Season Chiefs Draft Needs

Well, Addicts, it’s time for the end of the season draft needs list. As many of you know, I produce…Read More

Kansas City Chiefs Defensive Front Seven Evaluation

Continuing our evaluation of of the Chiefs, we shift focus to the defensive front seven. Along with the…Read More

Breaking Down The KC Chiefs’ Blockers

Now that the season has entered its final quarter and the Chiefs’ playoff hopes are in a coma, it’s time to  start drilling down on the team and picking it apart to see where the weak spots…Read More

Will Hubris Doom The Chiefs?

 Along with many Chiefs fans, last Sunday was a gut punch. Losing to the Broncos when they were playing with a college QB and their third string running back was beyond the pale. All the good of the four…Read More

Chiefs Mid Season 2011 Draft Class Review

Now that the Chiefs have reached the halfway point, it’s time to take a look at the most recent draft class. So for, Scott Pioli has had an erratic draft record. His first draft class, the 2009 class,…Read More

Chiefs Updated Draft Tek 2012 Draft List

Now that the Chiefs have risen from the dead, it’s time to take a tour though the draft needs for the 2012 draft. Has this caused me to change the draft needs? This is a bit of a preview of the needs…Read More

Thank You, Al Davis

The NFL lost a legend recently with the passing of Al Davis. To younger Chiefs fans, this may seem like an odd and out of place statement. The last several years, Davis had become a caricature of his…Read More

Merlin’s Arrowhead Adventure

Confession time: Merlin has never been to Arrowhead. A 40-year plus long distance love affair changed on Sunday, October 2, 2011. That day, I entered Arrowhead for the first time of my life. Now, I had…Read More

I Am Tired

 The ACL tear suffered by Jamaal Charles just finished tearing the heart out of the Chiefs for the 2011 season. Hearing the news, I went through the normal range of emotions concerning the Chiefs. Shock,…Read More

You Can’t Polish That Turd

After a long, torturous lockout, Chiefs fans were looking forward to the start of the NFL season. Even though the Chiefs mailed in the preseason, there was cause for optimism. The Chiefs were an ascending…Read More

Chiefs Announce Practice Squad

The Chiefs have announced their practice squad. From Pro Football Talk, the list is:   Kansas City Chiefs Signed FB Shane Bannon, LB Justin Cole, OL Darryl Harris, WR Jeremy Horne, DB Quinten…Read More

Chiefs Preseason Assessment And Pro Football Weekly Response

As becoming the norm for a Todd Haley Chiefs team, the Chiefs are limping through their pre-season schedule. While I do not care about the win/loss record, there are a few areas I care about. The first…Read More

Around FanSided