I am not big on the Chiefs taking big gambles. I wanted them to take Julius Peppers but I did not want them to pay a billion dollars to have him. I don’t mind, however, when the Chiefs make smart gambles. The signing of Casey Weigmann is an example of a smart gamble, so long as they don’t put all their eggs in his 36 year old basket. A major offseason need the Chiefs have been trying to fill is the offensive line. While it may appear the Chiefs have done enough to improve the unit by signing Ryan [...]

Happy St. Paddy’s Addicts. It is my favorite day of the year! I am going to work today against my better judgment. Then it is home for some soda bread, Jameson and The Quiet Man.
Until then, here is your Morning Fix:
The signing of G Ryan Lilja to a three-year contract on Tuesday kept alive what has been a busy 10-day period for the Chiefs in free agency. In fact, they have been the busiest teams in the league when it comes to adding talent to the roster. They’ve kept six of their own players and signed [...]

The signings of Casey Weigmann and Ryan Lilja have me thinking. Are the Chiefs mostly finished rebuilding their offensive line?
Scott Pioli said at the NFL Combine that the offensive line was a priority but not necessarily THE priority. That was the comment that convinced me that there was no way the Chiefs would take an offensive lineman in the first round. Now that the Chiefs have added two new lineman, I am thinking Pioli may be about finished up front.
The signings of Weigmann and Lilja all but confirms that there is no way the Chiefs are moving Albert out of [...]

What. Did. I. Tell. You?
Chiefs have confirmed the signing. I believe Josh Looney announced it on his live call in show on KC Chiefs.com. I am listening now.
If I can just take a minute to gloat here and I told you I would, I said this morning that Lilja would be a Chief by the end of the day.
Ironically, I had been hearing from a couple sources that the Chiefs were offering Lilja less than 2 other teams and that he likely would not be signed. I was just about to finish an article blasting Scott Pioli for not [...]

From KCChiefs.com:
Whether the names of those who split the backfield jump off the pages or quietly hide behind them, hundreds of different players have logged rushes over the 50-year history of Chiefs football. Of all those runners, no backfield tandem in the franchise’s history has entered a season quite like the pair of runners that Kansas City has lined up for 2010.
For the first time in franchise history, the Chiefs will go into a season with two 1,000-yard rushers from the season before. Thomas Jones finished third in the NFL with 1,402 [...]

I am going to go out on a limb here and make a prediction. Ryan Lilja will be announced as a Kansas City Chief by the end of the day today.I have no evidence to back up this claim, just a hunch.
As we told you yesterday, multiple outlets were reporting that Lilja would be visiting the Chiefs yesterday. All day long I obsessively checked Adam Schefter’s twitter account. I refreshed Pro Football Talk every other minute. Nothing. No news. Not even Josh Looney, who is inside Chiefs headquarters, had any news for us. All he could say was that as [...]

Just check out the activity from Monday at the bottom of this post. There were four UFA signings announced where a player changed teams. The movement of LB Paris Lenon, CB Marcus Hudson, WR Ruvell Martin and ILB Larry Foote didn’t create much of splash.
But that’s where the available players sit right now. There are a few players every day coming available; for instance, QB Chris Simms and S Deon Grant because available after they were released by the Broncos and Seahawks.
We’ll take a look at the best signings around the league on [...]