Kwesi accomplishments keep racking up.

TOPEKA, Kan. -- The Kansas City Chiefs announced Monday that they have entered into an agreement with the State of Kansas to play their games there beginning in 2031.

The announcement comes after Kansas lawmakers approved a proposal Monday to help pay for a new domed stadium for the team. The Chiefs have been seeking a new stadium to replace popular but aging Arrowhead Stadium.

The agreement includes a $3 billion domed stadium to be built in Wyandotte County and a new Chiefs headquarters and training facility in Olathe, Kansas.

"Today is an extraordinary day in the history of the Kansas City Chiefs," Chiefs chairman and CEO Clark Hunt said in a statement. "We are excited to partner with the State of Kansas to bring a world-class stadium to our fans. This project represents another step in our legacy of innovation and our fan-first mentality, which started with my father, Lamar Hunt. The stadium, practice facility, and surrounding development will benefit the entire region, and further elevate Kansas City in the eyes of the country and the world."

The Legislative Coordinating Council, which includes the state's top lawmakers, voted unanimously inside a packed room at the state capitol to allow for STAR bonds to be issued to cover up to 70% of the cost of a stadium and accompanying district. The bonds would be paid off with state sales and liquor tax revenues generated in a defined area around it.

The Chiefs have played at Arrowhead Stadium on the Missouri side of Kansas City since 1972. Kansas City (Missouri) Mayor Quinton Lucas and city officials planned to address the media later Monday.

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New York Giants: 2-13 record; .530 strength of schedule
Las Vegas Raiders 2-13; .543 SOS
Cleveland Browns: 3-12, .490 SOS
New York Jets: 3-12, .536 SOS
Tennessee Titans: 3-12, .574 SOS
Arizona Cardinals: 3-12; .575 SOS
Washington Commanders: 4-11; .502 SOS
New Orleans Saints: 5-10; .494 SOS
Cincinnati Bengals: 5-10; .516 SOS
Miami Dolphins: 6-9; .488 SOS
Atlanta Falcons (pick belongs to Los Angeles Rams): 6-9; .500 SOS
Kansas City Chiefs: 6-9; .518 SOS
Dallas Cowboys: 6-8-1; .443 SOS
Baltimore Ravens: 7-8; .504 SOS
15. Minnesota Vikings: 7-8; .520 SOS
Tampa Bay Buccaneers: 7-8, .528 SOS
Detroit Lions: 8-7; .492 SOS
Indianapolis Colts (pick belongs to Jets): 8-6; .531 SOS
Carolina Panthers: 8-7, .510 SOS
Pittsburgh Steelers: 9-6; .508 SOS
Green Bay Packers (pick belongs to Cowboys): 9-5-1; .484 SOS
Philadelphia Eagles: 10-5; .478 SOS
Houston Texans: 10-5; .542 SOS
Buffalo Bills: 11-4, .460 SOS
San Francisco 49ers: 10-4, .496 SOS
Los Angeles Chargers: 11-4; .459 SOS
Jacksonville Jaguars (pick belongs to Browns): 11-4; .496 SOS
Los Angeles Rams: 11-4, .531 SOS
Chicago Bears: 11-4; .448 SOS
New England Patriots: 12-3; .380 SOS
Denver Broncos: 12-3; .433 SOS
Seattle Seahawks: 12-3; .500 SOS

Master Class in defensive football scheming this year...

Would love to see him him here another season or 2 - after that I think he'll get settled with the NFL and be a HC candidate for real

I put it at 50% - should be more imo. 

But there is enough smoke out there about him leaving that there may be some legitimacy to it.

to someone Ive been dogging all season...

Aaron Jones Sr yesterday could have tapped out and instead took a beating for the team. 

That was a hella example to set.

What a weird year in the NFL. Seriously. 

• Want to bag on a team? I give you the Detroit Lions. Their chances of making the playoffs are on serious life support (6.6% chance), so what's changed? I mentioned months ago that it was possible they just don't have the fight or grind in them after blowing and choking away 2 seasons where they were arguably the best team in the NFL. Is their window closed? 
  
• Along that vein, what happened to the Tampa Bay Bucs? Or even the Washington Commanders? I get it, Jayden Daniels has missed a decent part of the year but they look like complete ass. Add the Baltimore Ravens. And the Kansas City Chiefs. Maybe a handful of decent teams, but a buttload of mid to horrible teams. 
  
• So those fans that live in Minnesota and have PTSD about the Packers every year, how do you feel about Jordan Love now? How many more games do you need to see from him to feel that he's probably much closer to above average than great? 
  
• JFC, Drake Maye. You're smoother than a fresh jar of Skippy. Nothing but major props to that kid. 
  
• Ashton Jeanty: overrated? Probably too early to say, but 3.7 yards a carry isn't 'generational' to me, despite the team you are on. 
  
• The Tush Push keeps getting less effective every year. Refs aren't letting their guards fire off the ball a millisecond early or line up illegally anymore which diminishes the effectiveness greatly.
  
• Dallas is the most underperforming organization in NFL history for all the media hype they get EVERY...SINGLE....YEAR. 
  
• The strangest thing this season is all the low-yardage games by QBs this year, its amazing. Josh Allen threw for 130 yards yesterday. Mayfield 145 yards. Take a stroll through various boxscores of games throughout the season and they are everywhere, for every team, almost consistently weekly.
  

That's pretty amazing in this day and age.

Not that it matters much at this point, but I thought it was due to the Burns strip/sack, but evidently it wasn't...


McCarthy suffered an injury to his right hand late in the second quarter. He left the game after a monster hit by Brian Burns, who was unblocked off the right side of the offense. McCarthy fumbled the ball, and it was scooped and scored by Tyler Nubin, a 27-yarder that made it 13-10 Vikings just before halftime.

Vikings Head Coach Kevin O'Connell said after the game he did not yet know the extent of McCarthy's injury but it apparently happened before the first-year starter scrambled for a 12-yard rushing touchdown with 2:01 remaining in the second quarter.

"I was actually concerned with the angle that I had when he did run it in. I just wanted to make sure he, you know, I thought he got hit in the head or neck area going into the end zone, but he was clean there," O'Connell said. "And then I asked him if he was all right. He said he was. And obviously we had just scored a touchdown, big moment. But then we went out for the next drive. That's when he seemed to have some discomfort there, so we'll evaluate it and make sure we find out what's going on there.

O'Connell said McCarthy didn't mention discomfort when he returned to the sideline after the touchdown.

"I've done something pretty similar — quarterbacks hit their hands all the time, whether it's helmets or defenders and things like that," O'Connell said. "It happened to me in college, and I didn't even know I had a significant injury until the next time I took a snap.

"We ran the ball in first-and-10 [on that drive], and then just trying to throw a simple receiver screen, very similar to what we had thrown to Justin [Jefferson] on some of those third-and-long conversions," O'Connell added. "And I'm not sure he was able to even grip the ball, but I don't know if he knew or not at that point. I have not had a chance to talk to him. They took him away to evaluate him. But yeah, he was unable to grip the football."

Thus, having Burns unblocked was part of the play's design, since the intent was for the ball to come out fast.

'Connell said he was pleased with multiple levels of decision-making and execution by McCarthy before the QB left his ninth career start.

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So have we considered converting any of receivers to cornerbacks since they obviously cat catch.

The Vikings’ flight to Newark, N.J., returned to Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport less than an hour after takeoff on Saturday afternoon because of a mechanical issue with the plane.

A team spokesman initially said the Vikings were boarding a new plane for Newark shortly before 5 p.m. However, a little before 6 p.m., the Vikings said the were still awaiting the arrival of a second plane and still intended to depart Saturday night.

The team eventually left MSP a second time at 7:43 p.m., with an expected arrival at at Newark just before 11 p.m. Eastern.

According to data from Flight Radar, the first plane turned around just southwest of Madison, Wis., at 2:05 p.m., and landed back at MSP at 3:04.

While crews attended to the plane, the team deplaned to switch to a different charter jet.

“Shortly after departing, the team plane experienced mechanical issues that required a return to Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport,” the Vikings said in a statement shortly before 4 p.m. “The team will board a second plane momentarily and is expected to arrive at Newark International Airport later tonight.”

Travel glitches happen infrequently for teams taking charter flights for road games, but they aren’t unprecedented. Before their 2016 game in at Green Bay, the Vikings had to depart their plane in Appleton, Wis., by a cherry picker after the plane slid several feet off the runway and got lodged in wet grass following touchdown.

The Vikings lost to the Packers the following day, and were eliminated from the playoff race.

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