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Titolo: Chiefs favoriti per la prossima stagione?

Ciao,
forse i Chiefs hanno trovato il modo di sconfiggere il loro peggior nemico,
mi riferisco al loro staff tecnico.
Già l'anno scorso Kansas City aveva una grandissima difesa e con l'aggiunta
al roster di Leslie O'Neal e di Chester McGlockton potrebbe ritrovarsi con
un reparto difensivo dominante.
Paradossalmente anche il ritiro di Marcus Allen potrebbe portare un
vantaggio alla squadra, mi spiego meglio: è evidente che il sistema dei
Chiefs multi RB non porta grandi vantaggi e nelle ultime stagioni il grande
Marcus ha un po' mascherato i problemi.
Ora Schottenheimer dovrebbe capire che una grande squadra deve avere un
ottimo RB e dei validi comprimari.
Un'ultima cosa su McGlockton, visto che proviene dai miei Raiders, a mio
parere è un buonissimo giocatore che però non è stato controllato sul piano
disciplinare da Oakland.
Ciao
Giorgio
GO RAIDERS

sě i chiefs potrebbero finire imbattuti la prossima stagione (vedi
articolo):
tanto poi come al solito perdono al primo turno dei playoffs.!!!!!!!!!!!!1
GO BRONCOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
STEFANO
Article about chiefs
OK, I'm coming down from my Chester McGlockton high. 
              The Chiefs aren't going to shut out all of their opponents.
Dale Carter and James Hasty won't intercept every pass. Derrick Thomas and
Leslie O'Neal won't beat the quarterback to the pocket on every play. 
              But perfection -- a 16-0 regular season -- is a real
possibility. 
              I've been saying that to people ever since the Chiefs signed
McGlockton, the Notorious D.F.T. (defensive tackle). He loves it when you
call him "Big Whoppa." 
              But everyone looks at me strangely or walks away laughing
when I mention 16-0. 
              Everyone except Thomas, the Chiefs' Pro Bowl pass rusher. 
              "I'm realistically looking at 16-0," Thomas said Monday.
"There's no reason why we can't be 16-0. With this kind of lineup, you've
got to look at that. You can't look any other way." 
              I caught up with Thomas on Monday afternoon at the Lucile H.
Bluford Library on 31st and Prospect. Thomas had handed over a check to the
Kansas City Public Library for more than $61,000 to repay the delinquent
fines of kids across Kansas City. Thomas plans to raise another $58,000 by
selling a limited-edition football that commemorates his 100th NFL sack.
Fifty-eight footballs signed by Thomas and Denver quarterback John Elway,
whom Thomas sacked for No. 100, will be sold for $1,000 each. The money
will be used to buy children's books for the libraries. 
              D.T. deserves mad props and much love for keeping it real and
sprinklin' the
              Benjis in the hoody (ask your kid to decipher that
sentence). He's not the only Chief to give back to the community, but he
might be the most consistent giver. 
              Anyway, leave it to a sportswriter such as yours truly to
show up at a charity function and start talking football. But the additions
of McGlockton, Derrick
              Alexander and O'Neal have made me fantasize about covering a
team that will go down in history. 
              The Chiefs went 13-3 and had the league's best defense last
year despite an inexperienced team and several weaknesses. What should we
expect now that the personnel of the team has improved so obviously? 
              "When you come with most of the talent, you can say we should
be 12-4, 11-5," Thomas said. "But when you've got all the talent, there's
no reason you can't say 16-0. I know that back in the day the Dolphins said
they could win 'em all." 
              The 1972 Dolphins are the only NFL team to complete the
regular season
undefeated. They went on and won the Super Bowl, finishing the season 17-0.
The
1985 Bears finished the regular season 15-1, losing only to the Dolphins.
The Bears also won the Super Bowl. 
              The Dolphins and the Bears were led by extraordinary
defenses. 
              The Chiefs have an extraordinary defense. 
              "On paper we do," Thomas said. "But paper doesn't mean
anything. You have to avoid injury and all that other stuff to end up on
top. But if I had to put a defense on paper, it would be ours." 
              It's a defense so good that McGlockton said he wouldn't be
surprised if the Chiefs shut out half of their opponents. 
              "That's realistic," Thomas said. "(Last season) we went 10
games without giving up a touchdown in the second half." 
              That was an NFL record. Thomas has another NFL record in mind
for this
season. He wants to top Mark Gastineau's sack record of 22 in a season. 
              "You can't look at any other goal than establishing a new
mark in the league," Thomas said. "Gastineau's mark has stood for many,
many years. When he got it, there were other factors in the game that
aren't in the game now.  Everybody lined up in the shotgun back then.
People used to drop back and throw the ball deep
back then. Now, they've gone to the West Coast form of passing, and it's
all quick
stuff and timing. 
              "But this lineup we have should even out the playing field." 
              And could lay out all 16 Chiefs opponents.