Drive for show, putt for notes. . . .
Ah, Arrowhead Stadium, the Best Little Horror House in Missouri. . . .
Mike Shanahan career vs. the Raiders and Chargers: 41-16. Shanahan vs. Kansas City: 16-15. . . .
What gives? It’s as much a Gunther Cunningham thing as it is an Arrowhead thing. Nobody plays Shanahan’s offense tougher than Cunningham. That’s why Shanahan tried to hire him back in the day. . . .
Nice weekend on the Front Range. CU, CSU and the Bronx lost by a combined score of 114-47. . . .
To paraphrase Casey Stengel, can anybody around here throw a strike? Jay Cutler throws two picks at Kansas City, and Luis Vizcaino walks in the losing run at Arizona. . . .
The Chiefs’ defensive strategy was simple: If you can’t stop ’em, strip ’em. Cutler’s two interceptions kept the Broncos from coming back, but the two fumbles put them in a hole. . . .
The Broncos hadn’t allowed a point on an opening drive all season, and the Chiefs hadn’t scored a point in the first quarter all season. So what happens? The Chiefs march down and put up a field goal. . . .
You’ve got your death, you’ve got your taxes, and you’ve got Champ Bailey having to make a touchdown-saving tackle on the kickoff-coverage team. . . .
A buck-98 for Larry Johnson? I repeat, Shanahan can’t wait till next year’s draft. The Broncos need to be burning up the phone lines right now in search of an impact Front Seven player. . . .
Nice guy, pretty good player, that Kenny Peterson. But is he supposed to be leading your team in sacks a quarter of the way through the season? The Broncos have six sacks and K.P. has two of them. . . .
Paging Mr. Dumervil, Mr. Elvis Dumervil. . . . The Broncos don’t have a single draft choice on their defensive line who has recorded a sack in 2008. . . .
Great news, Broncomaniacs. The Broncos have allowed 30-plus points in three consecutive games. The last time they pulled off that feat, they went to the Super Bowl in 1986. . . .
Who knew? Cutler is 12-13 in 25 career starts. Damon Huard is 15-11 in 26. . . .
By the numbers: The Jets scored 34 points in the second quarter Sunday. That’s more than three teams — Cleveland (26), St. Louis (29) and Kansas City (32) — scored in their first three games. . . .
Not that New England and Indy have issues, but the Patriots were plus-16 in turnovers in 2007, just behind the Colts at plus-18. This year, the Pats are minus-2, the Colts minus-3. . . .
A little love, please, for those feisty Brownies. They were 0-4 in the preseason and 0-3 in the real thing before beating the Bad News Bengals. . . .
I don’t know, you tell me. What were the odds that a former Harvard quarterback would start in the same month for the defending national champions (LSU, Andrew Hatch) and an NFL team (Cincinnati, Ryan Fitzpatrick)? . . .
The Browns have 492 net yards passing in four games. I only mention it because Kurt Warner had 472 vs. the Jets. . . .
A tale of two teams: The Falcons have scored nine touchdowns in two home games, none in two roadies. . . .
Hey, beats me. All I can figure is he took one too many hits to the leather helmet in “Leatherheads”: According to the NFL P.R. department, George Clooney is a Bengals fan. . . .
Quirky stat du jour: Of the 24 quarterbacks who started Sunday, 10 were first-rounders. Three — Jake Delhomme, Kurt Warner and Tony Romo — were undrafted. . . .
What do Warner and Brett Favre have in common? For one thing, they’ve combined for five MVP awards. For another, they combined for eight touchdown passes Sunday. And for another, they were in the Packers’ 1994 training camp together.
Jim Armstrong: 303-954-1269 or jmarmstrong@denverpost.com
