When: Noon central time

Where: Bank of America Stadium, Charlotte, North Caroline

SBN Affiliate: Cat Scratch Reader

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I just caught the updates on AP to Sunday's game and I almost can't believe it. Who was this team?

Quick question because I have slow internet here in India: Was Sunday's game a fluke of sorts or did you see real progress in the way this team is developing?

GOOOOO CHIEFS!!!!

When: Noon central time

Where: Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, Missouri

SBN Affiliate: Mile High Report

Chiefs Blogs: Home of the Chiefs, Arrowhead Addict, BobGretz.com, KC Chiefs Football, Red Zone, The Mothership and KC Chiefs Fanatic.

Coverage of the game leading up to now is here.

Injury reports are here.

Listen online here.

Find out what NFL games you get on television by clicking here.

I'll be catching this game via the radio, or the Sling Box if I can get it working. There is a curious lack of sports bars in India. I think I can be around for this entire open thread, which should be a lot of fun.

GOOOOO CHIEFS!!!

Good afternoon everyone!

Or good morning rather. It's 12:35 PM in Ranchi, Jharkand, India, now and I wanted to drop in while I had a solid internet connection.

The weather is gorgeous here and is just starting to heat up for the day. No rain is on the horizon just yet but I'm sure that will change. I was walking outside yesterday and came across a half dozen water buffalo. I was on a path a few feet above them and one turned, looked right at me, and made a slight charging motion. I froze until a boy who looked to be about six years old called off the water buffalo. Crisis averted. Your AP founder is safe.

I wanted to mention one thing I've gotten a couple of emails about but haven't had the bandwith to check out.

We cannot, absolutely cannot, have anyone insulting anyone else on this site. I have not and will not stand for it and neither will Primetime. This includes nasty sarcasm as well. We have grown quite a bit in the last few months and that means a lot of new opinions. People need to know what we stand for and what we don't.

Insults ruin the vibe of the site, degrades the work I've done for the last two years building this site and obviously degrades our other visitors. I have not banned anyone yet but if some of this nasty talk continues, some lucky person will get to be the first. I've built this thing on respectful and intelligent conversation and that will never, ever change. We'll have our growing pains but rest assured I have kept my eye on our community and its integrity.

I haven't been able to check the site much (I'm writing this off line) so I could be overstating this. But the comments that were emailed to me were inexcusable.

Thank you all for understanding and I advise you to make use of the "Flag comment" option under the actions link which is under each comment. That way, Primetime and I can easily track which comments the community finds offensive.

Ah, that's where the game clock is!

As I've been going through the regular features this season - game recap on Monday, stats on Tuesday, etc. - I've noticed a lot of similarity to last year's Kansas City Chiefs team in a a few key areas. The usual caveats apply - this is only the fourth week of the season; the Chiefs are rebuilding; this team is fundamentally different than last year's team regardless of the stats. But here are a few areas where the Chiefs have yet to markedly improve from 2007.

Of course, you can find more areas where the Chiefs have improved and areas where they've gotten much worse. This is just a short look at some stats.

Run defense

2007: 28th in run defense
2008: 31st in run defense

I'll keep harping on this, even though the Chiefs defense is the victim of a lot of more rushing attempts made on them, especially in the second half of games.

Scoring points

2007: 31st in scoring offense
2008: 30th in scoring offense

We may be at the bottom of the league rankings for a while in this category. Last year, the Chiefs scored 13 or fewer points ten times and, as you may have noticed, the offense hasn't progressed far beyond that.

Passing Attack

2007: 20th in passing yards
2008: 28th in passing yards

The interesting point about our highly ranked pass defense is that it comes at the expense of our run defense. Teams don't have to pass on us so they don't, resulting in higher rankings in pass defense. A similar point can be made about passing stats. When you can't run the ball and are playing from behind most of the time, your passing stats are going to be bolstered.

Turnovers

2007: -11 good for 28th in the league
2008: -2

In 2003, the season I seem to remember most vividly in my head as you may have noticed, the Chiefs were +19 on turnovers. How many of you remember us getting all of those turnovers and thinking how ridiculous it was? The Chiefs are still a ways off from being judged too harshly on their turnover ratio but if you have to guess if it would get better or worse....

First downs per game

2007: 28th in first downs per game
2008: 27th in first downs per game

This one is killer and is a stat that indicates major offensive problems and not just trends or an easily explainable alibi. If you can't move the ball down the field, what can you really do?

And with that, I'm about to get on a plane headed for India. I'll be traveling for most of the next two days and will hopefully be back online very soon. Don't worry about the ship though - Primetime and others are here to keep it steady. I'll be checking in as much as possible. I'm still not sure what my schedule will allow while I'm there so we'll have to wait and see.

I got sentimental when I read this post at Arrowhead Addict and decided we needed to have a long overdue caption-this post. You provide the caption to the photo below.

via www.thedashow.com

"Hey Trent, we're going to be together forever, aren't we Trent?"

"We sure are Damon. We sure are."