Re: About the Chiefs
All of those guys have more talent than Palko.
It's kind of hard to say that isn't it? Considering that he's never played an NFL game before?
I watched him here at PITT for a few years, and he's certainly gutsy, has enough of an arm to get the ball there, and can tuck it down and take off with no problem. For all we know, he can be a spark plug to KC's offense by running it and getting it to their WR's (Bowe, Breaston--who I wanted here, and Baldwin), and having someone have to shadow and contain him.
He led the Big East with over 3,000 yards passing with 24 TD's and only 7 INT's in his first year of actually playing as a very young kid (freshman or sophmore). In his very first year, he had 2 games where he threw for 5 TD's and 0 INT's (S.Florida and Notre Dame). In those 2 games alone he threw for almost 800 yards.
The next 2 years were mixes of running TD's and throwing TD's, as he often played hurt through injuries, and led them on gutsy come from behind wins.
In his last year in 2006, he threw for 25 TD's.
He missed out on breaking Dan Marino's passing yardage record by 254 yards. Mulitple coaches on the staff chose him over Joe Flacco, who was also on the team at the time. Flacco decided to transfer to Delware St because of that decision, and was a 1st rd choice in the draft.
I certainly agree that we should win the game, and probably by double digits, but until we see a consistant effort by the defense/team altogether, I wouldn't rule out a closer game than many think, and I'd certainly hold off on labeling Palko one way or the other.
We've all seen crazier stories from other "new" QB's before. Everyone has to start somewhere, at some time.
