Good morning! We have some movement in the OC search. Can you guess who is a closet Chiefs fan? Oh, and you can read about beer. All of that and more in today's Kansas City Chiefs news. Enjoy.
Lame-duck former Oakland offensive coordinator Al Saunders met with the Kansas City Chiefs about their open offensive coordinator job, according to Bob Gretz.com.
Saunders has been replaced by Greg Knapp in Oakland, but the Raiders haven't said what they plan to do with Saunders.
Report: Al Saunders Talks To Chiefs from ESPN
"I feel badly because they want me to stay," said Muir, who joined the Chiefs in 2009 as offensive line coach and also served as coordinator last season. "I'm not leaving because of anything that has gone on or is going on or will go on with the Chiefs. This is a personal decision. It's very personal. I've been denying myself a lot of things over the years, but I'm at a point in my life where I want to do some other things.
"I've been denying myself a lot of things over the years ... there's nothing earth-shaking. I'm not going to Egypt to climb the Pyramids yet. That's on my bucket list."
Offensive Line Coach Bill Muir Tells Chiefs He's Retiring from KC Star
The Kansas City Star reported that Chiefs quarterbacks coach Jim Zorn has interviewed for the offensive coordinator opening. Crennel has been considering candidates for several weeks. The Chiefs reportedly recently denied the Bears permission to talk to Zorn about their quarterbacks coach job, which signaled that the Chiefs could be interested in promoting Zorn.
AFC West Coaching Updates from ESPN
Crennel wanted Muir to stay. Muir, 69, thought things over and even travelled to the Senior Bowl last week as a member of the Chiefs coaching staff. On Wednesday afternoon, however, Muir had reached an official decision regarding his coaching future.
After 34 seasons in the NFL, Muir told his friend that he would retire.
"I am excited for Bill as he moves into retirement," Crennel said. "I have known him for a long time and he is one of the finest coaches I've ever been around and an even better person. Bill is a very good friend and I have a great deal of respect for the way he worked. It was a privilege to work alongside him."
Chiefs Offensive Coordinator Bill Muir Decides To Retire from The Mothership
The Kansas City Chiefs may not have made it to the big game, but Kansas City's beer continues to rack up awards.Boulevard Brewing's Pale Ale and Saison-Brett seized Gold Medals at the 2011 Great American Beer festival. Both beers and their cousin, Boulevard Wheat, are all available in bottles and on draught around the area.
Top Football Cities And The Beer Their Fans Love from The Joplin Globe
Jeff Webb already has trained a handful of professional athletes and made a difference in their play.
Now, the La Quinta High School graduate and former Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver wants to help aspiring athletes from the desert realize their dreams.
Webb is hosting a grand opening for his training business, 101 Athletics, on Saturday at the Palm Desert Athletic Club, located at 73-600 Alessandro Drive. He and several of his pro clients will attend the daylong event at the club.
Webb Winning With 2nd Career from The Desert Sun
Up until 1970, the only time you could find "skiing'' and "Super Bowl'' in the same sentence was when Jan Stenerud booted three field goals to help the Kansas City Chiefs upset the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl IV, and the media reported how the unheralded Norwegian had only learned about football after being lured to Montana State University on a skiing scholarship.
Not Fumbling This Chance from The Boston Globe
The National Collegiate Athletic Association wants a judge to dismiss a lawsuit by former USC assistant coach Todd McNair, who alleges the organization cost him his job and derailed his career after he was punished for his role in the Reggie Bush case...
...McNair played professional football with the Kansas City Chiefs and Cleveland Browns. He was hired as USC's running back coach in February 2004.
NCAA Wants Ex-USC Assistant Coach's Lawsuit Tossed from Daily Breeze
Powell's teammate, Iman Smith pulled the surprise by signing with Middle Tennessee State over Florida Atlantic and Florida International...
... It was quite a transformation for Smith, a basketball player who started playing football two years ago. Former Largo standout DexterMcCluster, now with the Kansas City Chiefs, attended the signing ceremony because he knows Smith's family.
Pinellas Park's Jeremy Powell Stays With Florida, Iman Smith Picks Middle Tennessee from The Tampa Bay Times
New York Giants kicker Lawrence Tynes could walk down the street in downtown Kansas City, the Country Club Plaza or anywhere in Overland Park, where he is building a house, and it's doubtful anyone would recognize him...
...After performing in the fishbowl of New York, Tynes enjoys his incognito status in Kansas City.
"I can cruise anywhere," he said.
"I love it. We hang out a lot at grandma and grandpa's house," he said of his in-laws. "We're building a house there.... That's where we're going to live when we're done. My wife is an undercover Chiefs fan. But so am I.
Pressure Doesn't Faze Giants' Tynes from KC Star
What effect has the Patriot Waste had on the Kansas City Chiefs?
Scott Pioli, Joel Collier, Matt Cassel, Mike Vrabel, Ryan O'Callaghan, Steve Maneri, Matt Gutierrez and Darrell Robertson. They're all ex-Patriots who came to the Chiefs in the past three years. Have they made the Chiefs better or not? And, at what cost?
Vrabel had one good year. Cassel is still too inconsistent to evaluate, or the offensive line hasn't been good enough yet to fairly evaluate him. Two schools of thought and school's still out on that one. However, no one else has made a noticeable difference. Ask yourself, have these Patriots wasted the Chiefs' time... or have the Chiefs invested wisely?
The Patriot Waste II from Arrowhead Addict
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Man, I love Boulevard
Their beer made me learn to love beer. Glad to hear that they’re still doing so well.
And that’s a great story about Tynes. Glad to hear that he’s still a closet Chiefs fan and even still lives in the KC area. Seems like a real classy guy.
cheapham - February 2, 2012
I loved the show he used to do with Nick Wright in the mornings on Thursdays.
Seemed like a really personable guy. Glad to hear he still calls KC home.
JacinB - February 2, 2012
St. Louis is proud of Bud Light? Bud Light in a can=Worst. Beer. Ever.
I’d gladly pound Milwaukee’s Best (Or Beast, as it’s known in MD) all day over Bud Light.
severn58 - February 2, 2012
Bud Light = Hangover-in-a-can
SCKSChief - February 2, 2012
For a decent, cheap, American Light beer that you can buy in mass quantities for bongs, shotguns, and games
I always roll with Yuengling Light
severn58 - February 2, 2012
Nattie Shack
TheScootness - February 2, 2012
my name is SFL and I support this message...
always a “go to” cheap American beer…
SFLChief - February 2, 2012
For that purpose
I rock Keystone Light…so cheap, so not good, so gets the job done.
Everyday light American beer is Miller Light for this guy.
SCKSChief - February 2, 2012
i don't usually drink light beer...pretty much only when golfing...
I have been on Sierra Neveda Pale Ale kick for the last few years…
SFLChief - February 2, 2012
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
There is a beer my friend. I may be biased being a KU grad and working at a bar on Mass street, but Free State beers (Copperhead and Ad Astra) rank up with any beer in the country. I’ve spent time on the East Coast and they just don’t appreciate beer like they do here in the Midwest.
JayhawksNChiefs - February 2, 2012
Negative. Born and raised East Coaster, we're stepping up our Micro game
Now, when I visited my family in MO, it was at my Dad’s local watering hole where I spotted Beast On Freaking Tap. Again, Beast On Freaking Tap. Midwesterner’s sure do appreciate their Beast On Freaking Tap.
severn58 - February 2, 2012
I spent a few months on Long Island.
Couldn’t find some decent Pale Ale’s to save my life. Same thing when i was near Philly. Never heard of this Beast On Freaking Tap. Maybe i need to step up my game. Truthfully, been sippin on some Crown lately. Those Pale Ales taste great, but they sure are filling.
JayhawksNChiefs - February 2, 2012
If I was in NY, I'd probably hit up Brooklyn Brewery, especially if you're an IPA kind of guy
I’m not a big Hop-Head, so pale ales aren’t really my thing. When in doubt, Crown ain’t bad, but once the weather turns warm, Gin & Tonics all day, every day, I don’t know what else to say.
severn58 - February 2, 2012
She's enjoying "Beast" Lite
severn58 - February 2, 2012
I endorse this photo
and would like to officially say that I would make the switch from Keystone Light to Beast Light were she to come and…persuade me. Yowzer!
SCKSChief - February 2, 2012
Brunettes and Beer
Thanks for the work chubby. I guess im staying at my desk for the rest of the day.
JayhawksNChiefs - February 2, 2012
Yes, sir. I understand there is a fire drill.
No, I cannot leave my desk at present. Why? Funny story…
SCKSChief - February 2, 2012
The hell, she has a head?!
severn58 - February 2, 2012
I don't usually drink beer,
but when I do, I prefer Dos Equis.
Stay thirsty, my friends.
SCKSChief - February 2, 2012
That sounds familiar.
Did you just make that up?
JayhawksNChiefs - February 2, 2012
Why yes...I...did...?
SCKSChief - February 2, 2012
Copyright that shit, dawg.
JayhawksNChiefs - February 2, 2012
I know, right?
Kind of has that feel like it could be a HUGE deal.
SCKSChief - February 2, 2012
Today is full of universal troofs
severn58 - February 2, 2012
Thank you, thank you
I like to do what I can do, when I can do it.
SCKSChief - February 2, 2012
It's called Beast everywhere
TRSChief - February 2, 2012
Hmm, that's surprising. Thought it was a regional thing.
severn58 - February 2, 2012
Negative.
Pretty much one of those universal things.
TRSChief - February 2, 2012
We have found absolute truth!
Get this man a Nobel Prize! I believe the President has an undeserved one lying around…
SCKSChief - February 2, 2012
Ah, just add it to the pile.
TRSChief - February 2, 2012
u mean the guy who said he going to be lazer focused on jobs
i wonder who the pres took in the super bowl
niageriannit1 - February 2, 2012
Go opposite
Probably the Bears.
SCKSChief - February 2, 2012
truff...
SFLChief - February 2, 2012
Yes
that is a science fact.
SCKSChief - February 2, 2012
I'm having a Super Bowl party with both kinds of beer....
Busch and Busch Lite
HIV 2 Elway - February 2, 2012
Fellas, it just doesn't get any better'n this.
TRSChief - February 2, 2012
Head for the mountains.
JacinB - February 2, 2012
Pick up some store-brand Cheetos and Corn King hot dogs for the trailer park win.
/ahh childhood
go_saleaumua - February 2, 2012
Not Zorn! Go for Al Saunders over Zorn!
aFan4Life - February 2, 2012
I dont think I would mind if
Al is hired and Zorn leaves like he said he would… I would love for him to stay but having Al over Zorn as an OC is well worth finding a new QB coach.
KSU-Chief - February 2, 2012
If Al comes to KC and is made the OC
maybe Zorn stays because Al might be the HC in waiting and then he would promote Zorn to OC
KingChief - February 2, 2012
He fell for that once already
electriclight - February 2, 2012
Poor bastard, he got hosed.
But he did throw ol’ Don Coryell under the bus back in ’86 for his crack at running the Chargers (or so the rumor goes). Whitless promoted it, so it might be true, he does have a couple sources.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=19861030&id=6GwzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mzIHAAAAIBAJ&pg=6947,7329984
(Coryell stepping down)
http://www.extremeskins.com/archive/index.php/t-142349.html
(regarding Whitlock saying Saunders got Coryell to quit)
go_saleaumua - February 2, 2012
Sign up today!
How to become a shitty, underachieving wide receiver! Run lazy routes! Develop stone hands! Call now!!
TheScootness - February 2, 2012
Webb as trainer...I have no words
SCKSChief - February 2, 2012
Usually shitty players make great coaches and trainers
KingChief - February 2, 2012
yeah, see?
Don’t do it this way.
TDubb - February 2, 2012
Patriot Waste
maybe some of them have helped provide leadership but overall we pciked up too many of them.
aFan4Life - February 2, 2012
Good luck Bill
Good luck to bill on his retirement,enjoy life ,we never know how long we will be around.thank you for your services with the chiefs organization.
chiefsfool - February 2, 2012
I like Bill Muir
Seems like a stand-up, no-nonsense sort of guy. Wish he’d stayed, but I respect his decision to retire.
Not sure if he was a serviceable OC or not, but he handled the OL pretty well and got the most out of what we had. Seems like there may have been too many cooks in the kitchen for our offense, with Haley, Muir & Zorn. We’ll never fully know the level of dysfunction our offense suffered through the first half of the season.
Chief_Elmo - February 2, 2012
Just wondering
if there are gunna be advertisements posted all over this site of someone posing in their underwear, could we maybe pick some pictures of a hot chick
badassz1987 - February 2, 2012
why, are you having trouble typing with a Bone?
SFLChief - February 2, 2012
Yeah it totally makes the keyboard all lopsided and it's really difficult to tpwye
TRSChief - February 2, 2012
Odd
Oakland took KC’s ST coach.
STL takes Oakland’s ST coach.
We take STL’s ST coach.
TheScootness - February 2, 2012
If only this muscial chairs scenario could happen with Starting QB's
km230015 - February 2, 2012
Make it happen!
OAK gets Cassel
STL gets Palmer
KC gets Bradford
I’ll take it.
TheScootness - February 2, 2012
x
upamtn - February 2, 2012
Soooo...
The team who hosed us on 2 special team kicks and potentially got the ST coach in hot water and/or fired hires said coach because he’s so good? Funny. I know he is supposed to work wonders with kickers but this is too ironic.
Wichita Chief - February 2, 2012
Next thing you know
Clark Hunt will be trading Pioli for carson palmer.
chiefsfool - February 2, 2012
Cool story on Tynes
He didn’t work out here, but it’s cool to know he still roots for us. I mean, he could have a strong hatred, but he doesn’t. I think that’s really cool to see players on Super Bowl teams still hold an interest in our organization.
KCTigerChief - February 2, 2012
Man that Tynes story changes my perspective
I used to hate this Guy. How could he suck so much for us, yet be clutch enough now to win a Superbowl? But after that, he might not be such a bad Guy after all.
ChiefRoyal - February 2, 2012 via mobile
Not sure if he sucked, or if the Mike Priefer years just made him look like the world's shittiest kicker.
Not like Prief has had success anywhere else. How in the hell do these bad coaches keep getting rehired?
Good for Tynes, he’s gotten his ring, a wife and family, and sounds like a nice life after football. It’s all a man can ask for, right?
go_saleaumua - February 2, 2012
Saunders hasn't had the same level of success he had in KC...
anywhere he’s gone. He had 4 pro-bowlers on that offensive line and 3 of them are potential hall of famers. a lot of what that offense and Priest Holmes accomplished those seasons was because of them.
rdub - February 2, 2012
Wasn't he the OC with the Rams when they won the SB?
Or was that Martz?
jmcgoblue - February 2, 2012
WR Coach under Martz I believe
cheapham - February 2, 2012
Nope. That was Henry Ellard. Saunders was the Lambs' WR coach during the Vermeil years, not when Martz was coach.
go_saleaumua - February 2, 2012
He was here when the Rams were in the SB under Martz.
He was the wide receivers coach when the Rams were coached by Dickie V….who I believe, doesn’t get nearly enough credit as an offensive mind.
Have Martz or Saunders done anything of note since he left, on their own? (Martz DID go to the Super Bowl, but he still had a loaded roster to play with too).
go_saleaumua - February 2, 2012
rdub, you got it
the “secret sauce” is having killer great players, including (omg, who’d have imagined!) on the OLine … yup, Roaf, Waters, Shields and Wiegs and Priest, TonyG, Trent, Fast Eddie … a chimpanzee could have called plays and had success with a group like that
look, Hoodie is a genius and the best coach who ever lived, right? the Patriots Way and … hold it, my ass he’s a genius: he’s a lucky bastard who happens to have Brady – think about it, if this was the Colts and Manning instead of the Patriots everyone would be saying how absurd it is for them to be in the Super Bowl because they have no defense, and they don’t have a great coach other than HRH Manning, and they’d be right! so what makes the Patriots any different than the Colts?
not one damned thing … nothing. really. it’s perception, mystique, a “name” called The Patriots Way … bogus through and through
getcha great players top to bottom and you gots yourself a great team … it really is just that simple :-)
upamtn - February 2, 2012
BB did coach Cassel up for a season and tricked people into thinking he was good
KingChief - February 2, 2012
Yep. Went 11-5 without Brady. Caldwell went 2-14 without Manning.
Brsrkr - February 2, 2012
Believe it or not, though, the Colts almost certainly would have done better than 2-14 with Matt Cassel as their starter instead of Collins/Painter/Orlovsky.
They wouldn’t have gone 11-5, though. That was back when NE still had a defense.
MtHammer - February 2, 2012
Coulda woulda shoulda. It's all theoretical. All we know for sure is what happened.
And I refuse to get sucked into a Cassel >< Painter debate.
Brsrkr - February 2, 2012
It's like asking whether you want a root canal or a colonoscopy.
go_saleaumua - February 2, 2012
Brady is great.
But Bill deserves credit for what he does. Bottom line is, the two will always be thought of in the same sentence. Brady-Belichick will go down as one of the most cold blooded duos in NFL history.
JayhawksNChiefs - February 2, 2012
Al Saunders has more creativity in his toilet bowl
than the Chiefs have had in their play book the last 3 years.
(Not saying great players doesn’t help).
electriclight - February 2, 2012
Phh, that drawplay is GENIUS. No one ever sees it coming.
go_saleaumua - February 2, 2012
Belichik is a great coach because he gets the most out of his players
And he knows how to adjust. The guy is running his offense through two monster Tight Ends right now. He plays to the strength of his players.
Yes, it has worked because Brady is able to keep the offense moving. Be he still has the foresight to make the adjustments.
ArrowSpread - February 2, 2012
whoever begged Muir to stay should be fired immediately
JC25FoMVP - February 2, 2012 via mobile
ha
i thought the same thing
rdub - February 2, 2012
muir would be a good oline coach
niageriannit1 - February 2, 2012
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