Couldn’t sleep. I guess it was the combination of my big fantasy draft tomorrow (my second of a personal record six leagues–yikes!), and the Chiefs‘ last tune-up before these babies actually count. Anyway, I saw this while doing some late-night perusing. It looks like Branden Albert might not only suit up, but also play a few snaps. From The K.C. Star:

Will Branden Albert play? The Chiefs’ rookie left tackle will be in uniform tonight, but if he plays, it would be a handful of snaps at the most. The Chiefs are being careful with Albert and his sprained foot, but they also want to get him some game action before the opener Sept. 7 at New England. Albert is undoubtedly rusty, and coaches will need to weigh risk versus reward.

Regardless if Phat Albert plays tonight or not, this report indicates that his recovery is at least on schedule, if not ahead of schedule. Good news if you ask me. I think what’s even more important than our final win-loss record is guys like Albert and Glenn Dorsey playing the full schedule and making huge strides over the course of the season.

One more preseason game and then it’s on to the real thing. Who needs to step up tonight? A lot of guys.

I think Tyler Thigpen and most of the second-tier receivers need to play well to secure their jobs. The Chiefs‘ passing game needs help, especially with Will Franklin on the mend. If nobody steps up, I’m almost positive we’ll import help when some decent players get cut later this week. Our linebackers will also be watched closely, as will our two kickers. It should be interesting. Well, at least for a half or so.

Which players need to play well tonight in order to make the roster of 53?

This one is from Double D…

Hey Adam, how about this for today’s AADQ?

With DaJuan Morgan now in the mix and given the apparent lack of legitimate alternatives, is there a good argument for trying to reshape Bernard Pollard into a MLB?

Double D

I think the Chiefs would look at moving him outside and possibly Derrick Johnson inside first, but I like the idea. I’m also a big Bonecrusher guy, but his tackling wasn’t so hot the other night. Just playing devil’s advocate here. It is definitely an idea that merits consideration. Hey, this is the outside-the-box thinking that gave the Bears Brian Urlacher. I also have always thought Adam Archuleta should have been moved to linebacker. It certainly wouldn’t be an unprecedented move.

Addicts, what do you think about the proposition of moving Pollard to LB (either spot) in order to get him and the Torpedo on the field together?

Here’s something nobody is talking about.  Not only will Trent Green be the Rams starter when they play the Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium tomorrow night, but former Chiefs offensive coordinator Al Saunders will be calling the offensive shots. I wonder what the fan reaction would be should Brodie Croyle and Chan Gailey stink up the joint again, and Al and Trent tear it up? From The Belleville News-Democrat:

Rams coach Scott Linehan announced on Tuesday that Green will be the starting quarterback when the team plays the Kansas City Chiefs at 6 p.m. Thursday at Arrowhead Stadium.

Starting quarterback Marc Bulger, who played the entire first half in the Rams’ 24-10 win over the Baltimore Ravens last Saturday, will sit out the game.

“Everybody wants work,” Green said. “That’s why I came back. I love playing. But I told Coach Linehan, ‘I’ll play as little or as much as you want me to play.”‘

Green said he understands why he has played so sparingly in the preseason up to this point.

“I understand that they are trying to get Marc ready, they’re trying to get the new offense ready, they’re trying to get the linemen and everybody acclimated to a new set of calls, and they’re also trying to develop two young quarterbacks,” Green said. “Because of my experience level — I won’t say age — I feel comfortable with where I am right now.”

It will sure be interesting. With Orlando Pace and Steven Jackson over there, the Rams’ offense might even resemble the Dick Vermeil-Saunders Chiefs at times. I’m not sure how much Jackson we will see, though. Or how much of Larry Johnson we’ll see either.

The campaign starts here and it starts now. Special teams coach Mike Priefer is an incompetent nincompoop. He needs to be fired ASAP. He won’t be , but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t call for his head.

Let’s look at this chumps greatest hits with the Chiefs:

• Drafting Justin Medlock with a fifth-rounder. The move’s UCLA ties have King Carl written all over it, but I’m sure he played a part.

• Bringing in and not only keeping Eddie Drummond on the roster last season for its entirety, but insisting on playing him as our returner.

• Bringing in and not only keeping Dave Rayner on the roster for most of last season, but insisting on playing him as our kicker.

• Kicking to Devin Hester last year, costing us the Bears game. He obviously hasn’t learned his lesson, as evidenced by kicking to Ted Ginn Jr., who’s basically Devin Hester Jr.

• Bringing in B.J. Sams and seriously contemplating heading into the season with him as our return man.

• And now, inexplicably cutting Jay Feely–a proven commodity at kicker who was released by the Dolphins simply because he wasn’t a Tuna guy–roughly 24 hours after he touched down in Kansas City.

Point blank–Feely got a raw deal. His agent breaks down the situation. From The Kansas City Star:

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What the eff is going on here? Yesterday, I was totally stoked because we signed a real kicker and my least favorite player got cut by my least favorite team. Now, not only does Samie Parker have a new gig with the Panthers, but the Chiefs have already cut Jay Feely. Did he even have time to get his cleats on? This is unbelievable, man. From Red Zone:

The Chiefs released veteran kicker Jay Feely today, one day after signing him.

Feely went 11-15 on field goals Monday and 13 of 15 today but that wasn’t as good as either Connor Barth (28 of 30, including a perfect 15 of 15 today) or Nick Novak (27 of 30). Barth and Novak will kick for the job in Thursday night’s game against the Rams at Arrowhead Stadium.

Does anyone else consider this a fair shot for Feely, because I certainly don’t? Stupid Chiefs…

*Cue up cheesy trailer music*

The Trailer Guy: “There was one man. One man who disappeared in the clutch. One man who celebrated routine eight-yard catches like he was Chad Johnson after hauling in a 60-yard TD bomb. One man who if he had worked in a delivery room, he would have dropped enough babies to constitute genocide. He was known as…Uno Ocho. But now he wears a new number–12. Now they call him…Doce. He was a Bronco for a moment, but now he is something more ferocious–a Panther!

“Uno Ocho II: Doce’s Vegeance

“Coming to Chiefs fans October 5*

“*If he’s not playing in Canada by then”

Not going to happen. I don’t see any way Samie Parker sticks with the Panthers long enough to face the Chiefs in Week Five. Not with all of their receivers. At least I don’t think he will. Which brings me to…

Do you think Parker will stick with the Panthers long enough to play against us?

For those of you that have spent a lot of time perusing the outstanding offerings put forth in the Chiefs Nation blogosphere over the past year and half, you’ll probably recognize me pretty quick. But just in case you don’t, my name is Chris and I’m the owner/lead author of KC Chiefs Fanatic.

Some of you may have caught on to my no-holds barred kind of style when it comes to the way I write, and while I’ll be trying out some different approaches here, rest assured that you’ll still be getting more of the same attitude and substance as you would if you were hanging around my own site.

It took a lot of convincing and wrangling on the part of both Adam and Zach to get me over here, but I couldn’t be more excited then I am right now in knowing that I now can count the Arrowhead Addict audience as my own. This is definitely one of the best sites on the web devoted purely to Chiefs football, and I’m glad that I have the opportunity to share with you my passion and love of both the Chiefs and the game of football itself.

Ok, enough about me. Today we’re going to get right down to business by laying out the top five guys on the Chiefs that should be printing up their resumes and hitting the streets to look for a new line of work.

All of these guys are players who at one point in their pitiful careers actually showed a bit of promise but despite having the Chiefs invest large sums of money and time into molding them back into top-tier caliber players, they all have performed like a group of fat chicks trying to make the cheerleading squad.

Unfortunately for the Chiefs, no one ever wants to be the bad guy and tell them the awful truth that they suck beyond belief and should probably find a new career path. That is until now, of course.

So without further adieu, let me be the first to introduce you to the Chiefs version of Dead Men Walking…

5. Napoleon Harris

At one time I truly was excited about the addition of Nap Harris to the Chiefs defense. Here is a guy that is uniquely suited to playing the exact kind of defense the Chiefs just so happen to employ under Herm Edwards - the cover 2. He showed that he was definitely capable of being an every down middle linebacker while playing in both Oakland and Minnesota, but once he hit the nice contract the Chiefs doled out to him at the end of the 2006 campaign, he decided to take a stroll down Easy Street and hasn’t looked back since.

He’s had every opportunity to solidify himself as the Chiefs top middle linebacker, but he has chosen to bitch and moan about the perceived injustice of his lack of playing time all while consistently proving himself to be worthless time and time again by missing key tackles, blowing coverages down field, and making a general ass of himself in the process.

He probably won’t get the boot right away considering the Chiefs complete lack of quality depth at the position, but I for one think that he’s made a strong enough case for his one way ticket out of town, and if Herm had a real set of stones, he’d have made this move yesterday.

4. Damon Huard

Once upon a time there was a backup quarterback who played for the Chiefs named Damon Huard. He sat on the bench year after year, patiently waiting his turn in line behind the likes of Trent “Which way did he go? Green and Todd “Al Saunders is my daddy” Collins.

Then one day he finally got his shot with the Chiefs and he made the most of it by engineering a remarkable playoff push that still astounds most if not all of Chiefs Nation to this day. But instead of riding the hot hand arm of Huard into the playoffs, head coach Herm Edwards dumps him like he’s the ugly girl at the prom in favor of the concussed one, Tr-INT.

The Chiefs lost that game miserably of course, and while it was a nice season on the part of Huard, that was almost three years ago, and yet Huard is still somehow hanging on by a thread with the team. He has shown time and time again that he has little left to offer this team, which is why the Chiefs are so hell bent on throwing Tyler Twigpen to the wolves this pre-season.

It would be nice to say that Huard was just mentoring the Chiefs young QBs, but let me be the first to say that Damon Huard is the last veteran QB I would want teaching my young starter Brodie Croyle how to play the game. I mean what’s lesson one? How to be a crappy journeyman QB and still collect a paycheck?

All kidding aside, it’s high time Huard hit the road back to Washington and gets a head start on his new life, because right now he’s just wasting space on the bench.

3. Damion McIntosh

When the Chiefs brought BigMac into the fold two off-seasons ago, many in Chiefs Nation rejoiced, as they had seen him play solid football during his time in Miami, not to mention that he also played ball down the road for the K-State Wildcats.

But of course, as many a former decent player seem to do when they come to KC, the Mac Attack worked on developing his feminine side, and deposited himself firmly on the bench with a bunch of excuses and nancy-girl injuries. He was supposed to be the anchor of our offensive line, but instead of holding down the fort like solid left tackles are meant to do, he folded like a deck of cards, and dragged the rest of the team with him into the abyss otherwise known as a 4-12 season.

Now don’t get me wrong, D-Mac isn’t the only one to blame for that Hindenberg-esque disaster of epic proportions. But truth be told, he did little to stem the flow of blood, and as such deserves a spot on this list. That being said, MacInturd sealed his coffin with his atrocious play this pre-season, and should vacate his spot and paycheck on this team to someone more deserving… say it with me now - Herb is the word.

2. Will Svitek

I won’t dwell too long on Route 71 as mi amigos here at AA have done plenty to enhance Svitek’s image as a worthless piece of crap for quite some time now. But that being said, it’s always fun to kick a terrible player when they’re down, and Svitek is no exception.

I doubt very seriously that any of you can look at me and say that he is deserving of spot as my trash man let alone as a professional football player. Svitek has done more to speed along his quarterback’s demise than anyone I have ever seen, as he seemingly turns tail and runs every time he faces off against an opposing defensive end, allowing his QB to be routinely blindsided and annihilated in the process.

The case has been made time and time again for his quick departure via trash truck to the nearest dump, and although it’s always possible that Herm could temporarily lose his mind and keep him on the roster, I have an outstanding feeling that this is finally the year where we get to see him tossed overboard and fed to the sharks.

1. B.J. Sams

Never before has a player made me hate his guts so quickly, but Sams has done just that through three games this pre-season. If there’s one thing I hate to see more than anything else, it’s D-bags like Sams tip-toeing around on kickoff/punt returns like he’s trying out to be on Dancing with the Stars with Jason “Twinkle Toes” Taylor.

I’m going to be brutally honest with this one - Sams is worse than Eddie Drummond ever was. I know that’s saying a lot considering the level of suck that Drummond forced us to watch each and every week when he returned kicks last season, but I’m telling you right now, Sams is much, much worse.

Not only is Sams completely unwilling to run the ball in a forward direction on a consistent basis, but he is also absolutely inept at making would-be tacklers miss, which is an attribute that I would think to be of critical importance to anyone wishing to be a return man in the NFL. He has quickly earned his way into this spot on the list, and without a doubt, he should be gone by sunrise tomorrow.

Chris Kolb is the owner and lead writer for KCChiefsFanatic.com

Oliver Hoyte and Trevor Johnson just got the axe. So the big question on everybody’s lips is this: who’s next?

I honestly have no clue who’s next, because the Chiefs seem dedicated to giving their young players ample time to develop. The roster is currently at 81. It needs to be trimmed to 75 by tomorrow, 53 before the season starts. There’s at least thirty guys shitting bricks right now, I can tell you that much. Ray Farmer, the Grim Reaper, is coming.

Addicts, in your opinion, who are some other players who will get cut?

Wow! All in one day, the Chiefs signed a damn good kicker, and my least favorite team cut my least favorite player. Thanks to reader ComeSackMyQB for the tips!

First off, the Chiefs have signed Jay “Touchy” Feely. Yes, he does have the touch. From The Star:

Kicker Jay Feely, cut by the Miami Dolphins two weeks ago, has been signed by the Chiefs to a one-year contract. No other terms were immediately available.

Feely was at practice Monday in Kansas City.

In 2007, his first season with the Dolphins, Feely experienced the most productive season of his career and in Dolphins franchise history.

As if that wasn’t good enough news, those bums the Broncos have cut that bum Samie Parker. Celebrate that, Uno Ocho. From Red Zone:

Former Chiefs wide receiver Samie Parker was just released by Denver. It’s never a good sign when a veteran doesn’t make it to the final round of cuts.

And I could have done without the smartass Bobby Sippio barb, Teicher. I caught that. Freakin’ Teicher…

I expect Feely to be our starting kicker, maybe even for years to come. I’ve always liked him. Good to see us actually spend some change. As for Parker, he’ll flourish on some other team…in Canada!