Monday Morning Cup O’Chiefs
With now less than two weeks before the regular season openers, NFL teams are making all sorts of quarterback decisions.
In fact, there appears to be only one team that hasn’t made a final call: the Baltimore Ravens. There, it’s a battle between Kyle Boller, Troy Smith and first-round draft choice Joe Flacco. Right now, it appears that Boller will be the guy, but new coach John Harbaugh could surprise and go with Flacco.
After this weekend’s games, decisions were made on starting quarterbacks in Atlanta and Arizona. The Falcons are going with their first-round draft choice Matt Ryan over Chris Redman and Joey Harrington.  It will be interesting to watch how Ryan holds up under the pressure and pounding.
Out in the desert, the Cardinals are going to go with veteran Kurt Warner over youngster Matt Leinart, who had an especially bad performance against the Raiders, hitting only four of 12 p asses for 24 yards and three interceptions.
Last week, Chicago decided on Kyle Orton over Rex Grossman and in San Francisco, J.T. O’Sullivan got the job over Alex Smith.
COUNTDOWN
We are just a day away NFL’s first mandatory cutdown of the roster. Teams must go from 80 to 75 by 3 p.m. CDT on Tuesday. It’s 5 days from the NFL roster cutdown to the regular-season limit of 53 players.
We are now 13 days away from their regular-season opener against the Patriots in Foxboro and they are 20 days away from their home opener against the Raiders.
FROM THE PAGES OF CHIEFS HISTORY
On August 25, 1961 the Dallas Texans beat the Denver Broncos 29-27 in a pre-season game held at Farrington Field in Fort Worth; it was the first pro game played in city. A standing room only crowd in excess of 21,000. Denver jumped to 14-0 lead, but the Texans scored four of next six TDs. RB Jack Spikes ran 21 times for 89 yards and caught three passes for 57 yards.
AROUND THE LEAGUE
The defending champions have lost their best defensive player for the season to a knee injury.
One New York writer thinks the injury means the Giants should talk Michael Strahan out of retirement. But when last seen, Strahan was vacationing in Greece.
 San Diego writer Jerry Magee wonders what Mike Brown’s father would think of his decision to re-sign frequent offender Chris Henry.
 AROUND THE AFC WEST
Cuts are coming, and the bubble guys on the Chargers roster know it. But first, they have to play a Monday night game against Seattle.I
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n Denver they are hoping Brandon Marshall’s appeal of his three game suspension by the NFL will be dropped to just one game. Of course, the Chiefs would have preferred a solid four-game suspension, since they face the Broncos in the season’s fourth week.
Notes and quotes from Raiders loss Saturday night to Arizona, remarkably by the same score as the Chiefs loss to Miami.
Well, since its the first cut, Ill make a few guesses…Id say a wideout goes…Arthur. Barth seems to have lost it to Novak(altho I see Feely coming in) leaving a few more cuts, Id let go of Patterson for lack of effort, Keep Barksdale due to his Wire Name….And last but not least, Mandorino.