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May as well start thinking about next season in case this one ends quickly. So, whom would you like to see stick around?

KEEPERS: Furphy, Hunter (tough call here. Offensive Stats are nice, but a big liability on D. Very un-Self like)

ON THE FENCE: Dajuan. I honestly wouldn’t mind starting fresh next year, wouldn’t be sad if he left. Same with KJ. He’s fun to watch at times, sure. But does he make us better most of the time? Or would we be better off with a smaller guy who can shoot?

SEE YA WOULDN’T WANNA BE YA: Elmarko. Nuf said.

And since long term recruiting seems to be over, may as well dump the rest and go shopping.

The positive: Elmarko with potentially the best play of his college career.

The negative: Everything else.

The why award: everything Juan did. Wow.

Holy crap!

Cincy MADE 16 3 pt shots tonight. That’s like six games worth for us!

I hope our small ball lineup is better equipped to handle that!

Willie Gay out the door. Bummer.

WR option Mooney sign elsewhere, too.

As I guess expected it’s pretty quiet on the Chiefs FA front. Probably no big names coming our way? I do expect some lesser signings at some point. Cmon WR! Ha.

Actually, O line likely a point of emphasis, huh.

Dorrance Armstrong sings with the Commanders. Three years for 45.

Wow, sounds like the Jones contract is extremely cap friendly. $6M per year or so?

Roster construction is a complicated mess some years, but this year can be explained pretty simply: we lost seven players in the off-season, some unexpected, and then lost arguably the most important piece in Arterio.

That’s it really. We look different with him in the lineup instead of Furphy, Elmarko or Timberlake. Although I still think (as usual) we would struggle a bit from outside!

Sucks, but as Gene Hackman said: my team’s on the floor.

@AsadZ said in 2024 NFL Offseason - FAs, Trades, Draft:

@mayjay $95M guaranteed, about $32M per year, Wow

I haven’t seen the implications yet. Hope it’s not a cap crusher deal! Five years is a loooong time. Wow. But I’m very happy he’s locked in. Who’s next?

Yes!

No expert, but if Hunter’s shoulder is what it looked like, that could be a season ender. Hope not!

We may need a new thread about a new starting lineup!

Just done watching. That kinda sucked the wind out of my sail.

Maybe even sunk the boat if Dickinson is out for awhile. Dislocated for sure.

Haven’t looked ahead to next year too much yet. This guy a top dawg?

If he’s a shooter, sign him up!

But, I hate getting my hopes up for one recruit. What I’ve learned over the years as low level teams find success in the NCAAs without top recruits … there’s always somebody else.

Dang. I remember when it happened. I wondered if he’d hit the bench. But, he kept playing.

@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Beat Silo Tech! Lets save this season:

@dylans said in Beat Silo Tech! Lets save this season:

KU was a 10 loss 2 seed in 2014 - bounced in second round by Stanford. No Embiid. Most losses I can remember a top 2 seeded KU team having.

KU entered that tournament with 9 losses. The 10th loss was the Stanford game.

I sadly predicted that Stanford loss. They had our cryptonite that season: multiple bigs.

Jeez, what a difference energy and effort make! Can we bottle that? We had it all working tonight.

Happy we crushed the sheep lovers on senior night.

@AsadZ said in 2024 NFL Offseason - FAs, Trades, Draft:

@rockchalkjayhawk $56M, 2 year deal. He got paid.

Our KMart budget didn’t match his Lamborghini price tag!

There goes the Mike Evans pipe dream. Back with the Bucs.

Sure is talking like he wants to start somewhere @Gorilla72 .

Hmm, next year. It’s always exciting to see the freshmen. I hope that Bidunga will be bouncy and smart enough to at least get on the floor. Currently he’s the only assured back up big, assuming The Big Dick stays. Hey, I just thought that up on the fly. Kinda works? Ha.

Anyway, with his limited minutes, Let him go ballistic and try to block or destroy anybody approaching the rim. Could be entertaining,

If Furphy stays, that’ll be about the only other exciting player to watch. I do like Hunter. Amazing touch around the hoop. Defense is optional with him within Self’s switcharoo concepts. Gotta be tough for a slow 7-2 dude. Isn’t that weird btw? Self’s adapted his offense when needed for personnel, but has he changed defenses?

The rest? We know what Dajuan is, and isn’t. Same with KJ. I can’t say I have faith in Elmarko becoming a great starter by next year.

So who’s gonna score with McCullar gone? could we see an all time low in offensive output for KU?

I hope they are already recruiting in the portal.

Then please dump at least half the shit ton of non scholarship dudes on the bench for real players who can contribute.

I hollered enough before this season started about the desperate need for shooters (I must be a genius). May as well start that chant now. Recruit some freaking shooters, Bill!!! Fer crissakes.

So, unless we strike it rich in the portal, we could be way worse next year, sadly.

Looks like the Chiefs put the non exclusive tag on CB Sneed. I like that. They can match any offers if they like, or receive a few first round picks in return if he signs elsewhere and they let him go.

I haven’t looked, but how does this team do against the point spread? Maybe that will tell us something about how we’re perceived or expected to play.

A very odd team as others have pointed out. For a while I felt we could have won the Baylor game.

Well, was this game decided on the FT line?
Pretty much the point difference. 6-8 vs 15-20.
Other than the bitch slapping we took on the boards, the rest of the offensive stats are close.

@AsadZ said in 2024 NFL Offseason - FAs, Trades, Draft:

Mock drafts showing as many as six QBs going in round 1.

I like that a lot! More QBs taken in Round 1 means better options for the Chiefs later on! :)

@AsadZ said in 2024 NFL Offseason - FAs, Trades, Draft:

Report coming out that Chiefs cutting MVS, start of WR room change

Yea, that’s been around a few days. Saves the Chiefs $12 million on the cap. That’s not a bad thing.

Couple thoughts on the loss:

— I thought that was one of the worst first halves Dajuan has played. He looked high at times. Asleep. Disinterested. Disoriented.

— There were times I thought we defended the 3 well tonight. Before the game I wondered how many times we’d leave a shooter wide open in the corner by covering a guy in the lane. Got worse as the game progressed. What sense does this defensive philosophy make??? Can somebody with more basketball smarts please explain?

— I wish the post game with Gueldner was unfiltered and R rated. He’d drop F bombs all over the place! Ha.

— O-fer-Furphy tonight. No bueno.

— Timberlake made his usual one. Missed a crap ton. Looks like that fall hurt like hell. Despite his poor shooting night, he generally seemed like he was playing better lately.

— Elmarko simply cannot dribble nor even initiate a simple offensive set. Chaos. People think he’s a PG. I don’t see it. He barely looks playable. We need to recruit a backup PG. (he seems a bit better with dribbling in the open court)

— BYU fer crissakes. Wow.

— ESPN+ — what a bad broadcast. It’s like they don’t even care about quality or production. Sounds we all had audio issues. How hard can that be to fix?

Jeebus, that was disappointing.

Not fun things with the boxscore:

BYU outscored KU in both points off turnovers and 2nd chance points

BYU with a 29-9 bench scoring advantage

BYU outscores KU 47-33 in the 2nd half / this is unbelievable

And the obvious one: BYU with 13 3s, KU with 3

Did y’all see that Bienemy is joining the UCLA staff?

Crazy. Think he’s giving up on the pros? Sounds like there was still NFL interest.

Fun with the boxscore:

KU shot 61.5%!

KU shot 27 FTs, Texas 10

KU had seven guys play 15+ minutes, with the max at 33 min.

And five guys in double figures! Nice.

Texas with 26 (26!) 3 pt attempts. KU with 8.

@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Chiefs signings:

@rockchalkjayhawk said in Chiefs signings:

The Chiefs have had a good run of punters for sure.
I know the guy was cleared, but for KU fans, there are eerie ties to Arterio.
Fingers crossed.

Why is it eerie ties to Arterio? The case against Araiza was dropped because the girl admitted she lied about being gang raped. Araiza's situation is much closer to the Duke LaCrosse case than Arterio's case.

Doesn’t really seem like a reach to say a guy involved in rape and gang rape allegations is similar to Arterio. You can remove his name if you’d like. It’s eerie to me as a Jayhawk fan (and Chiefs fan) to be reminded of rape allegations against a player. Simple.

The Chiefs have had a good run of punters for sure.
I know the guy was cleared, but for KU fans, there are eerie ties to Arterio.
Fingers crossed.

Ruh Roh.

Matt Araiza is on course for an NFL return. The former Bills punter agreed to a one-year deal with the Chiefs on Thursday, ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler reports. Araiza’s agency has confirmed the move.

The Bills waived the 2022 sixth-round pick in August 2022, after it was alleged he was involved in a gang rape of a minor. Araiza, 23, has since been cleared of criminal charges, and an investigation into the 2021 incident on the San Diego State campus did not produce a connection involving Araiza, who has also been dropped from a lawsuit pertaining to the matter. He has periodically surfaced on the NFL radar as a result, but the former All-American had not previously caught on with a team since his controversial Buffalo exit

Poor JV. always a fav.

Speaking of KJ, does it seem like other teams have shut down KJ’s short roll and dunk?

The Chiefs did something with Chris Jones’ contract. Sounds like a precursor to a new deal, or a franchise tag.

@dylans said in Chiefs season long game thread:

@wissox - my brother was murdered by a car. The driver has shitty parents and borderline personality disorder. I don’t blame the car. One of my good friends growing up was murdered by a gunshot to the back of his head while driving. I blame meth not guns for that one. I had a friend blow his brains out after his girlfriend overdosed on his acid. I blame drugs and social pressures and internal strife created by the adoption process for that teenage suicide. Misplaced blame only creates a new issue. It’s easy to say take away the guns. Then it will be something else that needs taken away and another freedoms and then something else, because the root cause is being ignored. - from my viewpoint it’s a lack of morality, personal accountability and fortitude coupled with an external pressure such as envy, anger issues, undiagnosed mental disorders, greed, drugs, alcohol, debt, etc.

I hate that any of this happened, but there is no easy solution like take away the guns.

Instead of celebrating a champion we are discussing those spoiled brats.

I’m pretty sure that without assault weapons, the “people” pulling the triggers in these mass shootings would not kill nor injure near as many. Victory.

Video of regular folk tackling a shooter (supposedly).

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@nuleafjhawk said in Chiefs season long game thread:

@Crimsonorblue22 People suck.

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That sure was an interesting season! Glad we have a place to talk Chiefs. Fantastic ending!!

So the off-season could be very interesting. Veach and Co. have decisions to make.

We very well could lose some big names. Sneed is at the top of the keeper list for me. CBs like that aren’t a dime a dozen.

And the offensive line! Wow. Could be two or more changes there.

I don’t pay too much attention to cap space, but the Chiefs have about $30M to play with. Almost league average.

Chris Jones is gonna get big money here or elsewhere.

We’ll have one or two new running backs next year to back up Pacheco.

Lots of stuff to talk about in the off-season.

Well, sounds like I’m the only one thinking Self is out of his chair in a huff more this year. All righty then. Just my perception. Onward.

@Woodrow said in KU vs Tech chat:

@rockchalkjayhawk said in KU vs Tech chat:

He was ejected from the game. And with that he also allows TT to score free points.

Previous games he’s cost us points with technicals.

@Woodrow said in KU vs Tech chat:

@rockchalkjayhawk said in KU vs Tech chat:

Man, that was a total embarrassment. We should not lose by nearly 30 pts to anybody, ever, with or without players. At the very least our two dozen deep coaching staff should be able to keep it more competitive.

Self is losing his shit way more frequently this season. That’s also getting embarrassing. Bark all you want at the crap roster you created, not at the refs. Not their fault.

I’m almost wondering if we should be worrying about Self. Sacrilege, I know.

How did Self "lose his shit" ?? Please be specific.

He didn't lose his shit though. He didn't even cuss at the officials. Also, the 4 free throws were pointless.

Ok. to me it just seems like he's been ranting and raving up the sidelines more than usual, acquiring technicals. Coaches and players holding him back. I don't keep track over the years of his techs, but both the ranting and techs seem to be more than usual. That's all.

He was ejected from the game. And with that he also allows TT to score free points.

Previous games he’s cost us points with technicals.

@Woodrow said in KU vs Tech chat:

@rockchalkjayhawk said in KU vs Tech chat:

Man, that was a total embarrassment. We should not lose by nearly 30 pts to anybody, ever, with or without players. At the very least our two dozen deep coaching staff should be able to keep it more competitive.

Self is losing his shit way more frequently this season. That’s also getting embarrassing. Bark all you want at the crap roster you created, not at the refs. Not their fault.

I’m almost wondering if we should be worrying about Self. Sacrilege, I know.

How did Self "lose his shit" ?? Please be specific.

Man, that was a total embarrassment. We should not lose by nearly 30 pts to anybody, ever, with or without players. At the very least our two dozen deep coaching staff should be able to keep it more competitive.

Self is losing his shit way more frequently this season. That’s also getting embarrassing. Bark all you want at the crap roster you created, not at the refs. Not their fault.

I’m almost wondering if we should be worrying about Self. Sacrilege, I know.

Wow, what a crazy season for the Chiefs.

For all the worry we had about no receivers or playmakers before and during the season, look what happened! :)

Champs! Go figure. With Mahomes, anything is possible.

Chiefs!

Dippity doo dunkaroo!
( Vitale phrase? )

That was sweet. Very surprising and very athletic.

I’m a bit surprised Brady or another staffer hasn’t worked on his 3 pt shooting form. It doesn’t look good nor consistent to me. So, a little hard work on the side could do the trick?

Short handed victory! Over a good team no less. Hard to complain about that. Go Hawks!

Coincidence that we’ve beaten two top teams without McCullar?

Seems like teams are game planning for Furphy now. He’ll need to adjust and figure out how to get open, or drive the lane more.

Yup, lots of former Jayhawks on the move today. Too bad if Och and Dick have to compete for minutes.

Others swapping teams: Marcus Morris, Grimes

Ugh, this team.

Been away for almost a month, so haven’t had much time to chime in.

First a question…do the refs only go to the monitor in the last two minutes? I didn’t keep track, but seems like they randomly choose when to go. Maddening.

Random thoughts from the last month:

— nice to see Furphy stepping up. Sweet stroke. Not a knock on the freshman, but he has more than a few limitations. Not sure why others are sensing a lottery departure. I’d hope by year two he can learn to be Wilson-esque with his dribble. If he could rebound like Wilson that’d be awesome. Strength will help.

— The sheep lovers sure took us out of our game tonight. Barely any normal things happened on offense. Sloppy and awkward offense. Shocked Self couldn’t fix it.

— McCullar is so bad at the rim (sorry Approx).

— Hunter may have the softest touch I can recall in my KU watching days. I stopped being surprised that his zany shots go in.

— Are teams figuring out how to shut down KJ?

— Hey, if Elmarko can be one good, one bad play, I’d take it. Improvement. He had a nice drive today.

— This is a weird year for Self. I’m not sure how to define it.

— I don’t really watch any other teams play, but I dunno how we will be seeded. I feel like a 1 seed has gone out the window already. 3 or maybe even a 4 seed possible this year?

— Sheep lover fans are an embarrassment.

— I wonder what would have happened if we had played McDowell and not Timbermiss all year.

As a Bay Area guy who has watched all but one of Purdy’s games this year…

He can get the job done. Agreed that he finally executed poorly vs GB, but that was rare this season.

You’d think that he mostly dinks and dunks to his elite weapons, and he does, but he tosses some deep, accurate passes too. They can look like wobblers though! He’s smart, usually makes the proper choice. He did show a lack of poise at times late in the season though.

I am purely a Chiefs fan, but very much enjoy watching the 49ers play. Exciting weapons.