Nicholas Alan ClaytonNicholas Alan Clayton

I may have been living outside of the States for years now, but that has only grown my Chiefs Pride. I am a journalist by trade and a Chief by blood. Born and raised in Topeka, Kansas, I was reared on Chiefs football and Jayhawks basketball. I am currently the Caucasus correspondent for Mergermarket, a part of the Financial Times Group.

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If The Chiefs Were Characters From Game Of Thrones

So, after Paddy put together a great piece on the crucial offseason question: “If Chiefs Were Characters from the Wire,” I felt it necessary to move this important thought-experiment beyond the realist,…Read More

Chiefs Abroad: The Guide To Being An Expat Fan

For many of you reading this, the prospect of taking a job or traveling for an extended period of time far from Chiefs nation mid-season is likely terrifying. Fear not. As an experienced expat fan, I…Read More

Four Ways To Use New Players In Sub Packages

I should preface this post by saying that I do not reside within the cerebral cortex of Romeo Crennel and Brian Daboll. I do not know that they will do any or all of these things, but I do think that…Read More

Remember The Zombie Chiefs

This week, I went back to watching the Chiefs’ 2011 game tape. While I had been primarily focused on losses to examine areas the Chiefs needed to improve, I had been saving one particular game as a…Read More

The Chiefs’ 10 Most Valuable Players

First off, an explanation of how I am approaching this: I don’t look at this list as the 10 most productive players necessarily, but rather how important they are to the team and how much their loss…Read More

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The Top 5 Stories You’ll Be Sick Of By August

It’s that time of year – the time of year when there’s not really much to talk about in football,…Read More

Hillis Could End Up The Chiefs’ Most Important 2011 Signing

Like many of you, I was very skeptical when the Chiefs signed RB Peyton Hillis this March to a one-year,…Read More

How to Beat the Chiefs

Note: For Internal Use Only. Coaches, players and fans of the Raiders, Chargers and Broncos are not…Read More

Drafting McCluster’s Replacement

(Hindsight is … Complicated Part II, for Part I, click here) To me, among the most intriguing Chiefs…Read More

Hindsight is … Complicated: Part I

With four days to the Draft, we still have no idea who the Chiefs are going to pick first in the Draft. I…Read More

With The 11th Pick, The Chiefs Select … No One

It’s time for me to get off of my Poe soapbox. I have loved the discussion we have been having on…Read More

The Chiefs’ Top Draft Pick Has To Be About Manning

Can anyone out there remember an offseason like this? There have been more Earth-shattering developments…Read More

This Week’s Signings Lock Up Poe As Chiefs’ 1st-Round Pick

Free agency is always a nervous time for a Chiefs fan. As has been the M.O. of the Pioli regime, KC…Read More

Win Now Vs. Win This Decade

Maybe it’s because I spent some time in Washington following the Redskins, maybe it’s because I…Read More

The Most Foolproof Offseason Ever

Over the past several weeks, we’ve talked a lot about it without coming out and saying it: this year’s…Read More

NFL Scouting Combine: Four Players I Want in Chiefs Red

Look, the Combine is what it is: a track and field competition when the sport is neither track nor field.…Read More

Chiefs Free Agency Wish List

According to Brian Williamson of ESPN.com, the Chiefs have $62 million in cap space going into the 2012…Read More

What the Chiefs Can Learn From the Super Bowl

Yes, I know the Patriots lost, but if the Chiefs truly are going to follow the Patriots Way, then there…Read More

What Brian Daboll Brings to The Chiefs

Well, no one saw this coming. Basically, Addicts, if it weren’t for the perspective of Phin Phanatic’s…Read More

Revealing the Chiefs’ Identity: Workmen, Wiretaps and Wins

The 2011 season turned the entire AFC West on its head, multiple times. All four teams, which have had…Read More



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