Kevin Kietzman Has Issues

   The Chiefs stay alive with a 31-13 win over Washington that was not nearly as easy as the final score indicates.  Stan Weber separates the good from the bad.
   And it was a beautiful day on campus in Lawrence, Columbia in Manhattan but the football teams were total disasters.
   Also, SEC football is blood sport as LSU has fired its national title winning coach right after he beats a ranked rival.  This is nuts.

   Don't be fooled by a fantastic display the Chiefs put on late against the Redskins.  Remember the first two hours and imagine what the score would have been if the Chiefs were playing a real team.  Oh, wait, we've seen that this year.
  Winning is fun and winning 31-13 is something you never apologize for, but it doesn't seem like the Chiefs have fixed their root problems.

The Chiefs are a 7-point favorite at Washington, as they look to get back to .500, which is unfamiliar territory for this bunch. The defense has to get better, and fast! Jon Gruden is out as the Raiders coach, so what will he really be remembered for? K-State, MU and KU are all at home this weekend and are in desperate need of a win. Riley Gates of 24/7 Sports joins to talk football as we near the halfway point of the College Football and NFL Season.

    There's a lot of pain going around in America this year, but sometimes it hurts to win.  There is no question now that conservatism is on the rise as people who don't normally pay attention see the ills of socialism.
   The Kansas City Star just unloads on Andy Reid after the Chiefs coach wouldn't comment about his friend Jon Gruden.  Andy "slapped every one of his black players in the face" and "white, good ole boys" are just  a couple of the whoppers they bust out while claiming Andy is not a true leader.  Wow!
   And former KU coach David Beaty is completely exonerated by the NCAA's Critical Case Unit.  No such luck for basketball or the athletic department as the CCU announces it is "proceeding" on the rest of the violations.

   Lots of football this weekend and the forecast is great for our college campuses.  That's the good news. The bad news is there's a chance everyone loses as they are all underdogs.  We cover colleges, including OU coach Lincoln Riley kicking out all media in Norman.  This is really childish.
  But first, Lee Sterling shares his picks from www.paramountsports.com 

   Andy Reid is a Hall of Fame coach that's won a lot in Kansas City, including a Super Bowl.  He's gotten pass after pass with the local media for all kinds of things average coaches would get run out of town for.  But now, Reid has chosen to "no comment" on the Jon Gruden emails and the gloves are off.
    The NFL, meanwhile, says it hasn't released any emails and won't.  Sure.
   Kyrie Irving stands his ground for freedom, Joe Montana's big pay day, Joe Rogan undresses CNN and the CEO of Southwest Airlines says he isn't firing anyone over some mandate.

   With Jon Gruden out, the media go straight to the Eric Bieniemy playbook.... and we don't mean the kind with actual football plays in it.  Almost everyone thinks EB is the leading candidate, but should he be?  He's got some pretty bad actions in his past but we guess in 2021,  that's better than bad words.
    The Chiefs are trying to work out a trade with the Colts for runningback Marlon Mack, now that CEH is out for a few weeks.
   Social Security benefits are going up 6%, the biggest cost of living adjustment in 39 years and sure sign the Dems know they are wrecking our economy.
  And,  Sir Paul McCartney slams the Rolling Stones.

   Jon Gruden was dumb to write what he wrote in emails to a Washington Redskins executive 10 years ago, no arguing that.  But if the NFL has 650,000 emails from the Washington Team as they investigate misconduct in the workplace, how is it they selectively leak Gruden emails to the Wall Street Journal?  There has to be more here, or this looks really petty from Roger Goodell.
   The Chiefs have had a lot to say about their crappy play this year, but haven't really done anything about it.  I'm sick of style over substance.  Show me something, I don't want to hear about re-evaluating and gut checks.
   And it just gets better and better with VP Harris.  She does a video with NASA where the kids in the production are hired actors to look interested.  And the production company that made it is from Canada and they are called Sinking Ship Entertainment.  How appropriate.

   The Chiefs are an absolute mess.  The defense could be the worst in team history, the offense has turned into a turnover machine and they commit stupid penalties all the time.  
   Here's the truth.  The coach has health issues, the players look bored and nobody in this organization can identify and acquire good defensive players.  This team has to go 9-3 the rest of the way to make the playoffs... do you see a team that can do that?  I don't.  But Stan Weber is here and he thinks the Chiefs can... and will.. turn it around.

   The ALS Walk KC is Saturday morning at Kauffman Stadium and we would love to have you come say hello.  Or, make a donation here  http://web.alsa.org/site/TR/Walks/KeithWorthington?team_id=398426&pg=team&fr_id=14687 to support James Bishop and his family as they raise money to fight this awful disease. 
   The confidence people have in news media is now lower than our confidence in Joe Biden.  That's hard to do. 
   After Republicans caved in to raise the debt ceiling, Dem Chuck Schumer took the podium to rip Republicans.  Dem Joe Manchin was so upset, he walked out.  It's getting wild to be a Democrat.
   The Urban Meyer video has clearly hurt the Jags coach but now a pair of stories are out about the collateral damage.  The woman in the video and the man that released it aren't having a good week either.
   And if you ever want Vegas to lose... and this is lose big... there's one baseball team that can win it all and cost Vegas millions in losses.