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November 27, 2005

'Today we learn the truth about the Chiefs' -- K.C. Star

4:07 p.m.
I'm not sure what we learned, except that Brady's sore right shoulder seems to have him throwing high, and that the Pats didn't show up till the second half, when they were already too far in the hole to pull off the comeback for a win.

10:00 a.m.
Opposition research for the 1 p.m. showdown: I thought that headline was our line -- the Pats fans' line -- but the Chiefs' hometown paper doesn't know, either. Columnist Joe Posnanski: Today we learn the truth about the Chiefs: Performance against the Patriots will determine whether KC is contender or pretender:

Today, finally, we find out. It's show time. The Chiefs play the two-time defending champion New England Patriots at Arrowhead Stadium, and everything is on the line. Everything. The season. The playoffs. The future. The past. All of it.
Win, the Chiefs are for real. Lose, and they're not. Simple...
If the Chiefs lose, though, it's over. The Chiefs would be 6-5, and with that brutal schedule ahead -- all five of the teams remaining have winning records -- the Chiefs will almost certainly not make the playoffs. (Coach Dick) Vermeil probably will retire. The five-year Vermeil experiment, which began with such big hopes, will have to be considered a flop....

But there's one other troubling part of Vermeil's record that we should mention, one that will be on display today. Vermeil's Chiefs have consistently lost to imaginative, hard-working, prepared coaches....

Star running back Larry Johnson doesn't like Kansas City:

"You get a young guy, tattooed up, diamonds everywhere, who can talk and speak his mind but also back it up, and it kind of rubs people the wrong way. Usually out there, everybody's old. It's like the Bush Republican crowd. Nobody's going to want to accept something strange. They're always going to fear what they don't understand and don't know."

It didn't help that his coach last year "said Johnson needed to 'take off the diaper and go play.'"

How they see us: Pats hurt but still winning

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