Kansas City Chiefs Injuries halfway through 2008

November 5, 2008 by bigknoxy · 2 Comments
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Brodie Croyle (photo from ESPN)

(sorry I thought a picture of Croyle would be appropriate here)

The Chiefs had quite a few players come down with injuries this year so I thought I would make a list. This is just off of the top of my head so if I have forgotten anyone please let me know in the comments section below.

Any Chiefs who has had an injury this season (missed time and/or listed on an injury report):

Donnie Edwards

Branden Albert

Nap Harris (former Chiefs with Vikings now)

Brodie Croyle (IR)

Damon Huard (IR)

Patrick Surtain

Brandon Flowers

Kolby Smith (IR)

Tamba Hali

Turk McBride

Glenn Dorsey

Jamaal Charles

Dustin Colquitt

Demorrio Williams

Will Franklin

Jarrad Page

Jean-Philippe Darche (IR)

Weston Dacus

Maurice Price

Dimitri Patterson

Erik Walden

J.P. Foschi

Derrick Johnson

In case you don’t believe this the official Chiefs Injury reports can be found by clicking the link.

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Chiefs: Shortage at DE

September 19, 2008 by bigknoxy · Leave a Comment
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The Chiefs are now down to two healthy defensive ends. Turk McBride has a bruised spleen and now our other starting DE Tamba Hali was a surprise addition to the injury report, listed as having a sore knee. That leaves the Chiefs with 7th round draft pick Brain Johnston and former DT “The Fonze” (ALfonso Boone) as the two healthy ends.

At this time no one knows if Turk is going to play Sunday, but he hopes that he can:

    The second-year left end said he hoped to play against Atlanta but that he wasn’t yet certain of his status. He was limited in Thursday’s practice.
    “We’re basically just taking it day by day,” McBride said. “My mindset is, I’m playing.”

Something else to consider is that linebacker Demorrio Williams has been lining up DE this season already, but only is passing situations. This is something we could see more of, especially  if one or more of our starting ends can’t go on Sunday.

In my opinion (just guessing), I think that Tamba will play and I wouldn’t be surprised if Turk was held out. That kind of sucks since Turk has been our best DE, but that man needs to heal up. I wish them both speedy recoveries.

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Another change in the defensive lineup

August 20, 2008 by bigknoxy · Leave a Comment
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Honestly from everything I heard about in River Falls I am surprised this move didn’t come early, but it is here nonetheless:

    Tank Tyler replaced Ron Edwards as a starting defensive tackle in practice, marking the second lineup change on the line and the third on the defense since the start of training camp.Edwards has been a solid if unspectacular run defender since he joined the Chiefs two years ago. But the Chiefs think Tyler, in his second season, has more potential and has earned the spot. Edwards will play as part of the defensive line rotation [KC Star].

Now the Chiefs starting defensive line is Tamba Hali, Glenn Dorsey, Tank Tyler, and Turk McBride. Tamba is now the grizzled vet of the starters coming into his third year.

This is defiantly the D-Line of the future (and of the here and now) for the Chiefs and I really hope they all come together sooner rather than later.

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Chiefs still have NFL Sack Leader

August 18, 2008 by bigknoxy · 2 Comments
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Just thought I would make sure Chiefs Nation knows that they currently have the NFL Sack leader, Turk McBride. (pic from AP via NFL.com)

Looks like we did replace Jared Allen!  LOL…

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Turk moved ahead of Boone at DE

August 11, 2008 by bigknoxy · Leave a Comment
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I have been one of those people that wasn’t sure if i believed Alfonso “The Fonzie” Boone would be our starting DE during the regular season. I thought well, meybe he is trying to push Turk and looks like for at least this moment that may be the case as Turk has now moved into the starting lineup ahead of Boone.

    Turk McBride replaced Alfonso Boone as the starting left defensive end in practice. Edwards stopped short of saying that the change is permanent, but he made it clear the battle is on.

    “There are a lot of positions still open on this football team, a lot of competition going on,” Edwards said. “We want to make sure we get the guys in the right positions that want to do it the way we want to do it. If you do it that way, you’ve got a great chance to play for us.” [KC Star]

I just hope that if Turk beats out “The Fonzie” that it is because he deserves and not just because Boone is playing bad at DE. Although this camp especially Herm seems to playing the best player regardless so for that I applaud him.

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