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The Case for Tyler Thigpen
The Kansas City Chiefs will embark on their 50th season in the NFL this year. A year that is to be filled with surprises and the unknown of what to expect. Lamar laid down the hammer this offseason firing GM Carl Peterson and picking up Scott Pioli, an assistant GM for the Patriots, and hiring Todd Haley, former Offensive cord of the Cards. Pioli is obviously a mob man, and obviously knows people because within his first month on the job he somehow reeled in All-stars Bobby Engram, Zach Thomas, Mike Vrabel, and the “savior” Matt Cassell. Of course by getting both Cassell and Vrabel for a 2nd round pick (absurd). I feel Pioli and Haley are the mob men of KC right now, plundering Offensive Coordinators 2 weeks prior to the season opener, and drafting a kicker. It seems to me though that they are overlooking the real future of the KC Chiefs, one Tyler Thigpen.
Thigpen, or Thiggy as we know him as, was the man when he quarterbacked Coastal Carolina in their maiden years of football. Obviously setting records in every quarterback category, and leading the “chandeliers” victories in an irrelevant football atmosphere. The 6-1 224 lbs. kid stood out, and was signed as an un-drafted free-agent to the Minnesota Vikings (the purple pansies). After not making the squad due to overwhelming ability to just naturally be cooler than everyone was picked up by the Chiefs of Kansas City, Herm saying that “this kid can play ball.” He was to be the third string experiment, the chiefs not real sure of what power they had, until unleashing his thigness last year when Croyle got injured and Huard decided he didn’t really care for football anymore. So Thig comes out and plays like a man the rest of the year (in the first half that is) throwing for 2608 yds, and 18TDs (not to mention rushing for more yards than LJ, who sucks btw).
Now we can all look past the record the Chiefs had that year and look at Thigs exceptional play regardless of a brain dead coach, and a re-tawd running back, and see that this kid made plays. He busted out QB ratings of over 100 several times, and stunted his running ability often when are physically unable to perform offensive line broke down.
Now as this season looms, the Chiefs bring in this Matt Cassell character. Matt “the cat” comes from a Patriots team that my economics professor could quarterback. It will be fun to see Cassell run for his life this year and really experience what it is to play quarterback in the NFL, a dose of reality per se. The only QB that can win with such a crap hole team is Thig, why? Because he can run. Our offensive linemen, besides the lustrous Brian Waters, would struggle to make the 3rd string on any other NFL team. The Chiefs need to just spread it out again like they did last year, and play alittle D, throw Thig in to run around, then the wins will come.
