merlin
I’m a long-time A.A. commenter and featured contributor. I have designed software and architectures for many years for major corporations. I love the strategy of football especially the draft. I have been a Chiefs fan for more than 40 years. I try to bring a long-term, more strategy than logistics perspective to A.A. My “Merlin’s Magic” features appear sporadically.
Will Charlie Weis leave the Kansas City Chiefs after this season? I know it sounds strange, but Pro Football Talk is reporting that this might indeed be the case.
The only logical explanation of a Weis-Todd…Read More
It’s Raider’s week for the Kansas City Chiefs. While newer Chiefs fans think of John Elway and the Broncos with disdain, older fans hold the Raiders as the biggest rival we have. NFL.com’s…Read More
Twas the night before Chiefsmas, when all through the stadium
Nothing was stirring, not even Pioli’s cranium.
The stockings were hung by the lockers with care,
In hopes that a playoff berth soon…Read More
Watching the latest Kansas City Chiefs game, I thought of what Mary Schottenheimer use to say. That is there were a handful of significant plays in a football game. Whatever team was successful in the…Read More
The Chiefs are in an enviable position. They are playing with house money. What is house money? House money is a betting term when the money you are betting is money you have already won. In effect, you…Read More
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OK Addicts, final review time. Let’ stack the needs, talk about strategy and I will unveil my current…Read More
OK Addicts, last week we reviewed the Defense and how our draft needs are evolving over the course of…Read More
It’s been a long time since I have written an article. Real life has intruded into my life in a…Read More
Nostalgia is the idealized yearning for the past. It affects all of us to a degree. We tend to remember…Read More
The most exciting thing about this year is that it’s finally year two. It’s been a long time…Read More
It’s obvious that the Chiefs and Jarrad Page are a divorce waiting to happen. The Lions have been…Read More
Loyal readers on AA know me as sort of the resident curmudgeon. I generally pass on the Kool Aid for…Read More
Recently, Bob Gretz put together his own personal ranking of the current Chiefs. Bob ranked every Chief…Read More
Earlier in the year, I compared Eric Berry with Dale Carter. The comparisions are interesting and telling.…Read More
Well, here at Merlin’s Magic, the draft is always a topic of conversation. Since we just completed…Read More
Well, the Chiefs completed their Christmas shopping, I mean NFL draft. The reviews were generally good,…Read More
We are on the cusp of one of my favorite times of the year, the NFL draft. Now is the time for me to…Read More
I’ll confess, I have a love/hate feeling about Walter Football. In many ways, they do a very good…Read More
With all the offensive line activity going on with the Chiefs recently, shortly I will probably have…Read More
Pro Football Talk is reporting that Cleveland may be open to trading Shaun Rodgers.
The Cleveland Browns…Read More