During all the chaos last night, player representative Dee Smith took it upon himself to barge into the middle of an ESPN live broadcast.

And barge in hilariously.

Seriously. When I saw that screen shot last night, I thought it was a joke. You know, the players were all mad at the owners and media reports so I thought somebody Photoshopped Dee Smith looking angry into the background of a shot of an ESPN broadcast

Nope. He really did it. Check out the video on youtube.

The Kansas City Chiefs are 2-0, have allowed only 28 points in two games, and are playing at home against a winless opponent this Sunday.

And they are the underdog.

After 10 wins in three seasons it was evident that the Chiefs were going to have to earn their respect on the field in 2010. Apparently knocking off the defending AFC West Champions at home and the Cleveland Browns, a team that beat them just a few months ago, on the road isn’t enough.

 Kansas City are underdogs in Vegas as well as over at ESPN where only 2 of 8 “experts” picked the Chiefs to win Sunday. You would think they might have learned after 6 of them picked the Chiefs to fall to the Browns last weekend. I guess not.

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This was a very difficult ranking and not because of all the top-notch talent. Actually, this group is not very deep and it includes several unknown commodities. It may become a strong group, but right now, this unit as a whole is a big question mark in the AFC West.

1. Richard Seymour, Oakland: Seymour is, by far, the best defensive lineman in this division. It’s not even close. Still, Seymour, who is entering his second season in Oakland, has plenty to prove. Seymour, 30, has to show he is still in his prime and he can bounce back from an inconsistent first season in Oakland.

2. Luis Castillo, San Diego: Castillo is a nice player. But he probably should be the second-best defensive lineman in a division. He’s solid, not great.

3. Glenn Dorsey, Kansas City: This was tough. I guess I still believe in Dorsey. But he has to show more in this third NFL season. He was expected to be much better than he has shown so far.

4. Jacques Cesaire, San Diego: A solid journeyman. He should be lower on this list next year if other players develop as expected.

5. Tyson Jackson, Kansas City: Like Dorsey, Jackson has to show up better than his rookie season. He was nowhere near as productive as the No. 3 overall pick is expected to be. But he’s a hard worker and he should make strides in his second season.

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Aaron Schatz has a look at how hurries are an important facet of the pass rush in an Insiders article on ESPN.com . Schatz points out that both the Denver Broncos and Kansas City Chiefs need help in the hurry area. They have quality pass rushers in Elvis Dumervil and Tamba Hali, respectively, but the two teams are getting little else hurry help.

Hali led the NFL by accounting for 32.5 percent of his team’s hurries last season. Hali had 26 quarterback hurries. The Chiefs’ second leader in hurries was linebacker Mike Vrabel with 10.

Dumervil, who led the NFL with 17 sacks last season, had 20 hurries. Denver’s second most quarterback hurries was Vonnie Holliday, who had 10. Holliday is now in Washington.

It will be interesting to see if Dumervil and Hali can get more hurry help this season. Denver reconstructed its defensive line to get more of a push. Kansas City’s big moves on defense were the hiring of defensive coordinator Romeo Crennel and the drafting of safety Eric Berry with the No. 5 overall pick.

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I told you yesterday that D-Bowe made some rather controversial comments via an interview with ESPN The Magazine. I also told you that former Chiefs coach, Herm Edwards is now on Twitter. As soon as the D-Bowe story broke, I wondered what Herm might say about it considering the shenanigans happened during 2007 when he was the Chiefs coach.

Well, Herm has tweeted that he is going to talk about it today on NFL Live.

I’m talking about D-Bowe’s comments on NFL Live @ 4p EST.

If you are able to watch, please do and report back to us what he says. =)

It looks like all the praise heaped upon the Chiefs draft was not enough to move them up in the ESPN.com Offseason Power Rankings. The Chiefs opened the 2010 rankings at #28, ahead of only the lowly Bucs, Lions and Rams.

Hey, what do you expect when you have only won 10 games in 3 years?

No, the Chiefs aren’t going to get any respect until the earn it on the field. They may pick up a little bit of steam if they look good in training camp but until they prove they aren’t still losers, that is how most folks are going to see them.

I think the Chiefs certainly have the players, coaches and schedule to, at the very least, double their win total from last season. 2009 was rife with a lot of change and a lot of foundation laying. Most of that is finished now and the Chiefs are set to move forward as a group. It may not happen as fast as we would like. It took Dick Vermiel the better part of 3 seasons to right the Chiefs ship before crashing it right back into the pier.

Will Haley and Co. do it faster and better?

Here’s hoping.

The Chiefs Draft Table. (Source: Fansided.com Patrick Allen)

AA’s own Patrick Allen is in house at Radio City Music Hall and will be updating his Draft Diary with thoughts, observations and media all night long. Be sure to refresh the page and check for updates.

9:32 AM:

Joel Thorman got me drunk last night but I still managed to make it to day 3. (J/K). Getting set up for a loooong day. The Chiefs have only 2 picks today, both coming in the 5th round. I am a little disappointed. I was hoping they would trade around to collect extra picks but it has been the complete opposite.

More after the jump.

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Bill Williamson is reporting that Okung is in Kansas City today and Mike Florio over at Pro Football Talk has stated that Chiefs coach Romeo Crennel will workout DT Terrence Cody personally.

Both of these moves make sense. While I don’t think the Chiefs should take Okung, he certainly won’t hurt their cause and he has a good chance to be available when they pick at #5.

As for Cody, I doubt the Chiefs are considering him a first round selection so they could be hoping he will fall to them in the 2nd round. I highly doubt that will happen but the Chiefs need to do their due diligence just in case.

Will the devil dance on draft day? Photo Source: Yardbarker.com

In a recent article on SFGate.com, home of the San Francisco Chronicle, David White reported that Raiders have been offered the opportunity to trade out of the first round of the 2010 NFL Draft.

Citing an unnamed source, White claims that an unnamed team offered the Raiders their 2010 second round pick and their 2011 first round pick for the 8th pick in this years draft. Remember, the Raiders foolishly traded away their 2011 first round pick to the New England Patriots for Richard Seymour. Taking this deal would move the team out of the first round this year but would give them two 2nd round selections. The extra 2nd rounder should be attractive to the Raiders as it is being reported that they may offer their current 2nd round pick to the Eagles for QB Donnovan McNabb. Essentially, if the Raiders were to take the deal and trade for McNabb, they would have acquired Richard Seymour and Donnovan McNabb for a 2010 first round pick. Not too shabby, eh?

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From ESPN:

Earlier this month, Mark Gaughan of the Buffalo News argues that it would be sensible for the Buffalo Bills to take a look at unrestricted free agent Chris Chambers this offseason.

Per Gaughan, Chambers could be a “one-year bridge,” providing a nice complement to Lee Evans for whichever QB winds up under center in 2010. Chambers struggled to open the 2009 season in San Diego, but after a move to the Chiefs, he enjoyed a nice renaissance, with 39 receptions, 608 yards and four TDs. Speculatively, the Ravens, Jets, Patriots, Panthers and Bears might also take a look.

Despite the possible competition, Bill Williamson is saying that the rumor floating around the Combine is that the Chiefs are pushing to resign Chambers.

So it is no surprise that the scuttlebutt at the combine is that the Chiefs and Chambers’ agent are working hard to get an extension done. Pioli wasn’t specific about any of his players Thursday, but he did say his own free agents are important. In my mind, none are more important than Chambers. So, it makes sense that these two sides are working to get a deal done.

Except for ESPN’s Adam Schefter. He recently gave an interview on ESPN Radio and we have some quotes transcribed courtesy of Buc’em.

On the basis of what I’ve talked to people around the league, everything I’ve heard and at some point it’s gonna shift to this guy, and I don’t know whether it will be now or late March. It will probably be after his pro day when he goes to his pro day and goes through his workout, then all of a sudden, it’ll be about a month from now, we’ll start hearing:

“Wow, would and could the Rams take with #1 overall pick, Sam Bradford?”

And I believe ultimately when all is said and done that the Rams’ #1 pick on April 22nd 2 months from now, will be Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford. And I am willing to take all bets on that.

Surprising, right? Especially since everyone is convinced that Clausen, not Bradford, is the QB prize of this draft. I have been saying for a while that I wouldn’t be shocked if Bradford eventually moved ahead of Clausen. It seems I am not alone. More from Schefter after the jump.

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The day didn’t start out great. I received a call at 7AM. A coworker was sick and I was needed at our other office for the day. This meant instead of going

My porblems yesterday were not the result of too many beers.

to my usual office, tucked nicely in the financial district of lower Manhattan, I had to travel all the way up to mid town, near Grand Central Station, which is not nearly as convenient to my Brooklyn apartment and is a crowded mess of professionals and tourists.

This turn of events, coupled with the minor hangover I had from the previous nights Super Bowl festivities, did not put me in a fantastic mood, I admit. Still, I wasn’t feeling grumpy because of my disrupted routine or the minor headache I was trying to shake off. In fact, I didn’t feel grumpy at all.

I felt, well, sad.

I couldn’t explain it. I just felt, really, really down. I noticed as much around midday, just after a finished compiling a monster blog post about Derrick Thomas and the 10 year anniversary of his death.

“Maybe that’s it,” I thought. “You’re just bummed out rereading all those old articles about Thomas and it made you think about the fragility of life, which always gets you down.”

I assumed the feeling would pass fairly quickly. It did not.

As the afternoon stretched on, it occurred to me that I was feeling bummed out well before I started the piece on Thomas. I decided I just needed to blow off some steam and that maybe banging out an article for Arrowhead Addict would do the trick.

15 minutes later, I was still staring at the blinking cursor in Microsoft Word. I had nothing. Moreover, I didn’t feel like writing.

“Whatever,” I thought, “I got nothing on football today.”

Then it hit me. I had a hangover that had nothing to do with the four six beers I had the night before. I had the Super Bowl Hangover.

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Why does Whitlock write the things he does? This writer thinks he has J-Dub’s formula figured out. It’s not as simple as him having the opposite-of-the-”popular” opinion, its that he writes articles contrary to the popular (implied or otherwise) “black community” opinion. As a black man, he has Carte Blanche to write about race issues in a way a white male sports writer cannot, yet he chooses to do the opposite of what is expected of him, making him controversial by default. Whitlock’s reign of terror has garnered him attention on Oprah, ESPN and Fox Sports because his reverse takes and “black attacks” makes him such an oddity. However, at most of these past gigs, like ESPN, his formula backfires.

As Americans begin to put the black-white issue behind us with a presidential candidate of color and wars with people of a lighter shade of brown in the middle east; Whitlock the race-baiter continues to spew his contrarian nonsense; turning the Klieg lights on and pointing them at issues that were non-existent until he decided to illuminate them to “get people talking”- like someone anointed him the Official Black Voice of Sports in America. “Get people talking” in KC usually amounts to message board flame wars about race, water-cooler talk of how bad of a writer he is, and barbs at his physical weight.

What if Jason Whitlock was white? A White Whitlock, from here on out, Whitelock, if you follow the formula, would write stories about how much he dislikes Barack Obama, 80s Night, and Grad School. All things White People like according to StuffWhitePeopleLike.com. (To clarify, his articles would be the opposite of typical things white people like these days…and if you get mad about Barack Obama, just substitute “Toyota Prius” or “Coffee“). He would write negative pieces on white water rafting, organic food and having black friends. (sub: country music, standing still at concerts or wine for any of those if you disagree.)

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As if the economy needed any more help sucking- here’s some reading to look busy at work and contribute to the summer economic slowdown. Keep the ALT+Tab at the ready with your Excel behind it.

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• Lisa Lipps with Wilbon? ESPN Guys hanging With Porn Stars
• Human Building Collapses under own weight: Ravens Ogden calls it quits
• New Chief’s Center? Browns release LeCharles Bentley Hashmarks Piece
• How Bad Could it be for the Chiefs This Year? Walter Football Previews the Chiefs
• New NFL Trend – WR’s wanting more dough This one? Plaxico.
• We Miss Lima Time In KC : He’s getting an Eyeful in the Korean Minor Leagues
• CraneDamage’s – Recommended Site of the Week
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• Bungles No trade-o Ocho Cinco - ESPN Says Time For 85 to Go Lito for Ocho?
• Who would the Chiefs want? Big Names and What Anonymous G.M.’s Think
• AA Highlights This week – Costner…Chiefs Fan- Landry Hat Owned -Again

Now, where would you rank L.J. among today’s top running backs?