Laddie Morse
The 7-and-2 Kansas City Chiefs are hosting the 8-and-1 Philadelphia Eagles in a Monday Night Football game of the National Football League. While this is a Super Bowl LVII rematch, the reality is, it’s not. These are not the same two teams that matched up in the most recent Super Bowl. The Chiefs have added, Safety Mike Edwards, Linebacker Drue Tranquill, plus drafting WR Rashee Rice who is now their most productive pass catcher (behind Travis Kelce) over the first half of the season. K.C. also watched as WR JuJu Smith-Schuester signed with the New England Patriots. The Eagles have traded away defensive backend player Terrell Edmunds for Kevin Byard, plus they also drafted DT Jalen Carter 9th overall and DT Derek Barnett is returning from an ACL injury he sustained in their opener lst year.
Although these teams are different, Trent McDuffie has restated what DC Steve Spagnuolo told the team last Monday: “We also gave up 35 points.” Here’s KCSN explaining the difficulties of playing the Eagles, go to the 0:22 mark to hear Craig Stout explain Trent McDuffie’s point of view (0:59):
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Preview vs Rematch
This game is likely more of a preview of the next Super Bowl that it is a rematch of the last Super Bowl. Each team heads their own Conference. Last year the Eagles had 8 players to make the Pro Bowl and 6 of those were All Pros. The Chiefs had 7 Pro Bowl players with 6 of those making All Pro (0:40).
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Veterans Day Celebration
One week ago on Saturday was Veterans Day. Since K.C. didn’t get to play last weekend, here’s a video celebrating the occasion (3:22).
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When WWII arrived my father Bonard Morse signed up and went to help in the Air Corp. He had become a weather man and was two weeks away from flying into Japan and being air-dropped there so he could relay the weather report back to our troop and they could then plan their attacks. 85% of the Air-men who performed this job previously had died in action. Then… the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs were dropped and the war quickly came to a halt. VJ Day. As natioanlww2warmuseum.org explains:
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“Victory over Japan Day (V-J Day) would officially be celebrated in the United States on the day formal surrender documents were signed aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay: September 2, 1945.”
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None of us would be here celebrating this game we call football without the sacrifices of our forefathers in World War II. Let us never forget.
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Weather
Here’s the local weather report from weather.com.
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The forecasted temperature remains constant throughout the game and according to local forecasts the rain will taper off dramatically towards the end of our game and become a drizzle.
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My Prediction: Chiefs 31, Eagles 21
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Laddie Morse — ArrowheadOne
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