So the season ended with a surprising victory over the Denver Broncos that featured a pair of historically significant performances. A lot of the coverage of the team seems to have focused on this 44-24 win and the solid performances turned in by several young players during the game.
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So, this past weekend the Chiefs began their “new era” in earnest. On Thurdsay, Pioli started by trading away the team’s best player, Tony Gonzalez. Then on Saturday and Sunday Haley and Pioli conducted a draft that’s about as different from anything Carl Peterson has ever done on this weekend as is humanly possible. Finally, on Monday the team began a front office bloodletting that so far has showed no signes of slowing down.
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So things have been pretty hectic on the KC hometown front this weekend. The following four things happened over a 24-hour period.
1. Brian Waters requests a trade after badly failed meetings with new coach and GM.
2. Chiefs trade for Patriots linebacker Mike Vrabel.
3. Chiefs trade for Patriots quarterback Matt Cassel.
4. Royals sign Juan Cruz and DFA Esteban German.
I’ll be going over those moves in reverse order after the jump.
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Well, to the surprise of absolutely no one in KC, the Chiefs hired Todd Haley as their next head coach. I’m fairly unenthused about this. Haley has two years at the coordinator level. He had a good offense, one of the best in the league. But.
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