MIAMI — Dee Ford has a chance to ruin the Chiefs’ season for the second year in a row.
This season, he plays for the 49ers. Last season, he played for the Chiefs, who lost in the AFC championship game against the Patriots. Lost because of Ford.
With 1:01 left in that game, Ford lined up in the neutral zone — a five-yard penalty which negated an interception that almost certainly would have won the game for the Chiefs and sent them to the Super Bowl — they had a three-point lead at the time. Instead, they lost when the Patriots scored a touchdown a few plays later.
Monday evening during the opening night of the Super Bowl festivities, Ford reflected on the lowest moment of his career.
“It was hard for a brief period of time,” Ford admitted. “But just like everything else, I had to get over that. Now it’s in a compartment with other bad plays. I got over it.”
The Chiefs never completely got over Ford’s mistake, though. This year, just two days before they beat the Titans in the AFC Championship, Ford’s replacement on the Chiefs, Frank Clark, unloaded about Ford’s penalty.
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Dee Ford will be highly motivated to give a little payback to a team that dumped him. He has been worth every penny, if he helps the Niners win the SB. Bet he spilled his guts.
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The trainers were smart to keep him from playing, so his knee can be fully healthy, and he could heal from all of his injuries. Now he has fresh legs, and little wear and tear.
Frank Clark plead guilty to felony home invasion when he broke into an apartment and stole an $1800 laptop. He also beat the hell out of his girlfriend and ended up pleading guilty to disorderly conduct. He was kicked off the Michigan football team for his actions. This is a bad guy and my sincere hope is very bad things happen to him. I’m glad we have Dee Ford instead of this lowlife scumbag. I truly believe Andy Reid and the Chiefs should be forced to answer questions about the issue they have with domestic violence from their players. From an article about one of his arrests…
“The victim, Clark’s live-in girlfriend, told Perkins police Officer Martin Curran how he allegedly punched her in the face, breaking a hotel room lamp as she fell.
The victim’s brother, who’d just emerged from the hotel room shower at the time, reportedly saw Clark grab the victim by her neck and slam her to the ground.
At one point, the woman said Clark pinned her to the bed, prompting her to bite his nose in an attempt to get him off.
Maui Sands employees became aware of the situation after someone in a neighboring room called the front desk, explaining actions inside Clark’s room “sounded like a head was being bounced off the wall.”
The caller also saw and reported three small children running from the room, with one supposedly saying, “Frank is killing our sister.” One child, the victim’s brother, said Clark hit his sister.”
Can’t wait for Kittle vs. Clark. Should be an epic battle.
oh yes…i can’t wait to see Kittle put him right on his back and laugh…should be a good match-up…..for Kittle
He’s pure scum, and yet arguably not even the biggest POS on KC. I’ll bet he and Tyreek Hill get along great though.
Houston,
And this guy calls lining up off side unforgivable? What a POS. Before your post and reading what he said about Ford I had reasonably positive thoughts about the Chiefs but now I am a true Chief hater.
They need an ass whooping and we’re just the team to do it.
He’s seriously scum.
He was kicked off his college team.
It says something pretty awful about this country that people like this, violent criminals, get rewarded with millions of dollars because they were given some good genetics and had people carry them through life (re:school).
In a just world, you would not only have to be athletically gifted but actually be a decent, non-criminal, human being to be a athlete who gets paid like this.
Thankfully he will undoubtedly be broke within 5 years of his retirement, as the statistics show. Now if only that fate could be directed at a certain orange man.
If the Frank Clark info bothered you then you should also know about Tyreek Hill. On top of punching a woman, Hill was under investigation for 2 separate instances of child abuse one of which resulted in a broken arm for his son. The police ended up dropping the case even though the office believed that a crime occurred, but “the evidence does not conclusively establish who committed the crime,” which led them to close the case. This is Andy Reid’s team. This is the Chiefs. They should really be forced to answer questions during Superbowl week about these situations.
https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/04/25/tyreek-hill-audio-recording-son-broken-arm-fiancee-threatened-chiefs
“They should really be forced to answer questions during Superbowl week about these situations”
Why? I thought both teams last night were very respectful of one another. 2 class act organizations. Bringing up these incidents does nothing for the game and at the end of the day, who cares?
Sherman does and you can bet he’ll use it to our advantage right before the game.
I care. KC employs men who beat women and children. I think that’s despicable.
So does Sherman.
Yeah, I’m not a fan of his either.
I respect Sherman. Clark and Hill not so much. Sherman and friends will teach them respect.
Not sure why that matters this week when there are way better story lines than that.
2 class act organizations competing in 2 contrasting styles of play.
2 exceptional QB’s, one who will win his first SB at a young age.
All these guys in the NFL have made major mistakes at one time or another,and yes, these teams still employ them. But this week means way more to these organizations and their fans than that.
Prime, Sherman used a conjured sleight at a handshake to fire up the troops. I’ve made tons of mistakes but hitting a woman, let alone a prego one is not one of them. I spanked my kid but never broke their bones. Sherman can use this as a charge to teach them a lesson on how to respect woman and children!
“2 class act organizations competing in 2 contrasting styles of play.”
This is kind of the point. The Chiefs are not a class act if they employ men like Clark and Hill. Perhaps there is some background or more to the story but the media should at least ask questions. Don’t you think if Ray McDonald or Reuben Foster were still on the 49ers Kyle Shanahan would get peppered with questions? And rightfully so.
The turning point on the culture shift for this team came when they released Foster. No one player, no matter the talent level is bigger than the team, and that’s simply not the case when it comes to the Kansas City Chiefs organization….
I LOVE ……#21 D Sanders aka Primetime…. he keeps it 100 all day everyday
Frank Clark is listed as the RDE, so he will go against Joe Staley. Joe Staley, at 300lbs, has a 40 pound weight difference over the 260 lb Clark.
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Joe should know him well, since Clark played 4 years for the Seasquawks.
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With Kittle to chip him, they should run right at Clark, and wear him down. Eventually, I hope they run him off the field. Unfortunately for Clark, there are no women to hit on the field, which is his style. He may verbally abuse Katie Sowers, though, like he did with Natalie Weiner.
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I hope the Niners make Frank Clark crawl off the field.
“Unfortunately for Clark, there are no women to hit on the field, which is his style”
The dumbest guy on the blog right there folks!
You are defending beating women? Good show.
Yeah that’s what I said idiot!
He wasn’t…but you defend rape.
She was in his hotel room, I mean she should have expected to be beat right…thats the logic you used about Kobe.
But for people with that mindset, it is not the same logic. The premises are different, and it is in the difference of the premises in which we find the insidious truth of this particular mindset.
The premises in the Clark case are as follow:
(A) Only bad men harm innocent, defenseless women.
(B) Clark harmed an innocent, defenseless woman.
The conclusion is that Clark is a bad man (this is a valid syllogism, but the conclusion still may be unsound as Premise A is an presumption rather than a categorically truth).
The premises in the Kobe matter focus on the woman, not the man, within this particular mindset:
(A) Women who go to the hotel room of a man with whom they are not involved do not deserve the protection of society.
(B) The young woman went to the hotel room of a man with whom she was not involved.
The conclusions that people with the mindset draw form these premises is that the man is not to blame for a woman putting herself in a situation in which society will not protect her.
This conclusion is a non sequitur as the conclusion that the man is not to blame does not follow from the premises. But the valid conclusion of the syllogism, that the young woman did not deserve the protection of society, is as troubling. With the valid conclusion, the syllogism is not formally fallacious as the conclusion follows from the premises, but premise A is arguably false, which renders the conclusion unsound.
The presumptions that underlie both syllogisms are sexist and patriarchal, as they place women in the role of needing protection, but the second syllogism contains a premise that some women are not worthy of that protection, which is far more insidious. What would be better would be to do away with the gender aspect of both syllogisms and instead acknowledge that society’s protections should extend to whoever has his or her rights and/or person violated by another in a manner that is not permissible under the law (and yes, ‘whoever’ rather than ‘whomever’ is correct here as it is the subject of the clause that is the object of ‘to’).
All cases can have extenuating circumstances. Yes, she was in a hotel room. Yes, they had an argument. However, she also had her 2 young brothers in the room, and they claimed he was beating her.
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In another case, she was alone, late at night, and started a consensual act. Maybe there were not verbal communications that stated consent. Maybe there were non verbal implications, like hugging and kissing as foreplay. He did not rip her clothes off. Sounds like she undressed, and then dressed again, by herself. There are grey areas involved. They both could have different recollections of what happened.
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Yes, this may be the age where women do not need any protection, but when a younger brother runs out of the room screaming that he is going to kill her, some women need protection.
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Personally, I wish that prostitution becomes legal, so many women can have more legal protection, and adequate health care. It is hypocritical to continue to outlaw the oldest profession. She deserves to have regulations and protocols established, so bad things do not happen behind closed doors.
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Let me be clear, I detest violence against women, be it physical or sexual. I firmly believe all women should be respected whenever they go to a hotel room, or anywhere at all. All women are worthy of protection, anytime, and everywhere.
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I also detest using the system to financially gain, not caring if they destroy some one’s reputation. Since that incident, he led an exemplary life, and that should be the focus now. I bet he never went into a room alone at night with a women who was not his wife.
* After that incident, I bet…….
Read the above “Seb” post. Read it again. Notice the inherent sexism? Notice how men either protect or allow women to act in certain ways? Notice the fixation on how the clothes came off? This line of thinking was prevalent in society and law until the late 20th century, when we realized that such concepts were sexist and access rights based. Sexual assault, sexual battery, and intimate partner violence/family violence laws have evolved to encompass the concept that people, without regard to gender, can be and are victims of these crimes.
Actions such as those alleged against Clark constitute intimate partner violence not because his victim was a woman, but because the nature of their relationship creates a special circumstance. Actions such as those alleged against Kobe are criminal not because the complaining witness was a woman, but because the allegations entail that consent, which can be given and withdrawn (even when one voluntarily disrobes), did not pertain to the entire encounter. This would be so regardless of the gender of the alleged perpetrator or of the alleged victim.
The real issue is not that the alleged victims were women, but that in both cases the alleged perpetrators were accused of violating the rights and physical persons of others in manners that were, if true, violative of the law.
‘Frank Clark is listed as a RDE…..’
Yup, except when Suggs is the RDE and Clark plays LDE.
Thanks for your helpful insight.
I’m looking forward to Moseley and Ward squashing Hill between them on a deep ball — like the hit Ward put on Diggs…
Ford’s about to shake up another SuperBowl, along with his sidekicks–Armstead, Buckner, Bosa & company.
NFL Team Defense, NFL.com
Game Stats
Rk Team G Pts/G TotPts Scrm Plys Yds/G Yds/P 1st/G 3rd Md 3rd Att 3rd Pct 4th Md 4th Att 4th Pct Pen Pen Yds ToP/G FUM Lost
1 San Francisco 49ers 2 15 30 103 252.5 4.9 14.0 5 21 24 2 4 50 7 61 26:23 7 2
2 New England Patriots 1 20 20 57 272.0 4.8 19.0 6 12 50 0 0 0 5 25 31:09 2 0
3 Baltimore Ravens 1 28 28 53 300.0 5.7 15.0 7 13 54 0 0 0 5 20 27:54 0 0
4 Seattle Seahawks 2 18.5 37 120 313.0 5.2 21.0 12 25 48 0 2 0 11 75 31:22 3 0
5 Minnesota Vikings 2 23.5 47 122 316.0 5.2 20.0 9 23 39 0 1 0 11 90 32:56 2 2
6 Buffalo Bills 1 22 22 65 360.0 5.5 19.0 6 13 46 0 1 0 4 20 36:25 2 1
7 New Orleans Saints 1 26 26 74 362.0 4.9 22.0 10 18 56 0 0 0 4 26 36:56 1 1
8 Green Bay Packers 2 30 60 111 364.5 6.6 21.0 7 19 37 1 1 100 8 57 29:39 0 0
9 Kansas City Chiefs 2 27.5 55 136 368.5 5.4 21.5 8 25 32 3 8 38 15 172 32:22 2 1
10 Philadelphia Eagles 1 17 17 57 382.0
San Francisco is the more balanced team. Kinda remind me of the 1970’s Steelers.
Fellas, Frank Clark is beyond arrogant and cocky. Read what he just said about the matchup. I hope the 49ers Offense eats him alive.
https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2020/01/28/frank-clark-49ers-havent-seen-a-defensive-end-like-me/
With Clark’s use of the double negatives there, I’ll take the literal meaning. Not to mention his hilarious third-person references to himself.
wow….
Here’s the rest of the story story that explains Sherm’s antipathy to the Niners as a Seahawk
https://sports.yahoo.com/richard-sherman-wanted-put-jim-164038134.html
David Lombardi wrote a great piece on Sherman yesterday in the Athletic
https://theathletic.com/1562357/2020/01/27/a-decade-of-richard-sherman-back-in-the-super-bowl-the-49ers-star-reminisces-about-a-full-circle-journey/
Reasons for his animosity to Harbaugh is made clear in this article”
“Sherman says that 49ers CEO Jed York has since told him that the team had him pegged as a third-rounder, but that Harbaugh used some veto power to entirely remove Sherman off the team’s board.”
And also in the previous article:
“Harbaugh accused Sherman of quitting on his teammates by undergoing season-ending surgery in 2008. Sherman, then a wide receiver, wasn’t allowed to play offense in his redshirt junior year and fell to the fifth round in the draft.”
This is to no one in particular, but…If there exists a cautionary note in all of this, I certainly don’t like the banter coming from the blog….All this ” Cock-of-the-walk” may be only be nerves, but rather than to get overly blustery, consider that there’s another team on the field too. Over-confidence can strike quickly and deadly…it (SB) may come down to only one play, so IMHO, maybe it would be propitious to tone it down a bit, and let the teamswrite the epilogue….
I get your drift, but imho it doesn’t mean a thing. No one reads are stuff but us.
Tempest in a tea pot.
Sorry, I forgot…….Chiefs 28 49ers 35
When the 49ers win on Sunday.
They will have went 3-0 VS the AFC west in the Super Bowl
They would then have only one team to beat in that division the complete a sweep.
And it would be the super bowl of my dreams.
It could very well happen in a couple of years too.
Broncos down
Chargers down
Chiefs down
Raiders come in down…. tbd
Is good to see that so many think that Shanny is protecting the team from JG. Unfortunately, Reid isn’t going to fall for that kind of nonsense. I also think that Reid knows he has a problem on how to stop the Niners offense. He knows if they sell out to stop the run JG is going to shred them to pieces. Both defenses have their hands full.
Pound the rock baby pound the rock.
If experience is an advantage, then Niners are more experienced at riding out earthquakes than the Chiefs. Check.
Also, 30 years ago today Joe Cool and the Niners opened up a can of whopazz on Horseface and the Broncos. Historic beat down.
From Kyle’s presser via Barrows:
“Shanahan also was asked about Garoppolo’s pre-draft workout in 2014, which Shanahan attended when he was the Browns’ offensive coordinator. The 49ers head coach said his biggest memory is that there weren’t enough pass catchers on hand. So Shanahan, who had been a receiver at the University of Texas, volunteered. “He threw it so hard and I didn’t have gloves,” Shanahan said. “And I remember the next few days my hands were purple — but I think I still caught most of them.” “
Not sure if this has been mentioned but what other offence in the league runs what KC does an offense?
To me it’s an air-raid offense similar to the Cardinals.
Best quote so far:
Jimmie Ward;
“If we do line up for a relay, they probably win,” Ward said. “But one thing about it, this is football. There’s such thing as a helmet and shoulder pads. And we hit, and we are very physical with how we hit”
The greatest equalizer in the game. Physicality! There is no substitute.