If the Al Davis-led Oakland Raiders end up actually firing Lane Kiffin, do you think we could have him?
It would be nice to have a decent offensive mind somewhere in the Chiefs organization. It’s strange that it might come from a train wreck like the Oakland Raiders, but a young mind is what we need to get through to the children we have as a part of this team these days.
I’ve put this off as long as possible, but I can’t keep it in any longer.
Herm Edwards must go.
I’ve said this before, I know. And if you would have told me that the Chiefs would lose 17-10 in week one at the Patriots, I would have taken it. Unfortunately, I – like many other Chiefs fans – saw the sorry excuse for a game.
Listening to the post-game interviews was like listening to Fox News or MSNBC after a big speech by one of the presidential candidates…you could predict exactly what everyone was saying and none of it really meant anything.
Look. It’s unfortunate that the NFL’s MVP was lost for the year, but the person that I feel worst for in that situation is Bernard Pollard. Brady will be fine, but Pollard is going to be demonized for the rest of his career (think Rodney Harrison-Trent Green, but 100x worse) for a clean, hard-working play.
I can’t believe that no one has said anything about how Moss caught the ball on the play that Brady was injured on and then promptly fumbled it away. Moss, who didn’t see the play, thought it was dirty, but he “doesn’t even know how to play dirty.” (BTW, read the comments on the link…they are hilarious.)
The other travesty in this game besides Brady’s injury was Herm Edwards’ inability to come up with any sort of gameplan at all. This is a game the Chiefs should have won. They got the Patriots to turn the ball over and they did not have to play against Brady, yet their offense was just as boring as normal (and don’t blame it on Brody…the Chiefs receivers sucked yesterday). Where was all this great innovation that Chan Gailey was going to bring to the Chiefs offense? I suppose it doesn’t matter when your head coach is a MORON.
Really…4 chances to go 5 yards at the end of the game…D-Bowe drops, so you go back to him instead of the greatest tight end in history or your multimillion dollar running back?
Will someone please tell me how this man is still an NFL coach? Career record is still an abysmal 54-64.
Other thoughts?
Via kottke comes this fantastic study done by the folks at Gelf Magazine, who used a football game analyzing software to rank the NFL coaches by who called the worst plays.
Guess what? Herm Edwards was near the bottom of the barrel. Now, granted, the New York Giants were ranked #31 on the list, but there’s only one thing that needs to be said here and I’m sorely lacking of my uppercase red letters like Tony, but I’ll try:
The study found that the Chiefs lost 1.02 games because of poor play-calling. There will be people out there who will blame it on Mike Solari, but he is a scapegoat for Herm Edwards’ failures. It also found that during critical times during the game, the times when the head coach should be most involved, that the Chiefs were wrong ALMOST 62 PERCENT OF THE TIME.
We would be better off just allowing Brodie Croyle to call plays in critical situations. a 2/3 failure rate by our head coach is completely unacceptable.
Still, I can’t wait for the NFL draft.
You play to win the game. Hello! You play to win the game!
- Herm Edwards, October 30, 2002
Note your own words. It’s not “You play not to lose the game.” which is what you did today in Indianapolis. Let me know how that worked out for you.
When you have a team like Indianapolis playing the way they did today, you step on their throat. I don’t care if your best friend is on the other side of the field. When he had the chance to step on your throat at the end of the game, he did just that. Going for it on 4th down so your abysmal clock management would bite you was a genius part of coaching on Tony Dungy’s part. You should go to his coaching school and learn how to coach a team to a victory instead of coaching them just to KEEP IT CLOSE.
Oh yeah, and let Brodie Croyle throw the ball down the field. The kid looked good.
It’s been 3 years since the Chiefs have dropped 2 games in a row at Arrowhead Stadium. I remember attending a game last year in which they put a quote up on the screen from Steve Young that said that he believed that Arrowhead Stadium had lost its mystique. In that game, the Chiefs beat down the Broncos and I was convinced that there was nothing wrong with The Greatest Outdoor Professional Stadium.
Listening (on my way back from preaching in Manhattan) and watching the Chiefs lose their second straight at home to a bad bad Broncos team I realized that someone is responsible for this loss of pride in our home field.
I’m going to do what I did last year and call for the firing of Herman Edwards. He has single-handedly destroyed a once great franchise with awful coaching. Carl Peterson certainly has had his role in the miserable nature of our football team, but I’ve made peace with the fact that he will continue to be our general manager until his deal with the devil runs out.
I call for Herm’s firing because he is the one is most responsible for the absolute awfulness of this year’s team. From the beginning of the season when he chose Damon Huard as the starter (we saw today that I was right all along – Huard never deserved it) to showcasing our abysmal team on HBO to sticking with antiquated cornerbacks and keeping Mike Solari as offensive coordinator…there are too many reasons to count. His philosophy on the game sucks and while we might make the playoffs occasionally while he’s here, we will not come close to the Super Bowl until there is a complete overhaul of the front office. Peterson, Edwards, Denny Thum – all should go.
The encouraging thing about the game today is that we still have Dwayne Bowe, who is a bona fide superstar. In fact, even Brodie Croyle managed to look OK, although the pick he threw directly to Champ Bailey was pretty bad. At least he provided somewhat of a spark to the offense, even if our terrible line managed to continue to let us down.
What an awful game. There aren’t many things I hate more than the Denver Broncos. Losing to them at home might be the worst of all.
Something needs to happen with the Chiefs. What we’ve got going right now isn’t working.
The Kansas City Chiefs are a poor excuse for a mediocre football team. And I blame Edwards. His poor game planning has single-handedly ruined one of the league’s most potent offenses over the last 5 years and turned it into a team that loses to THE CLEVELAND BROWNS.
I really thought that with the death of Lamar Hunt this week that the team would come out inspired and perhaps win one for the MAN WHO NAMED THE SUPER BOWL, but alas, it was the same old crap on the field. Our offensive line looking very old and very porous against a much better San Diego team wasn’t nearly as bad as some of the play calling executed by Mike Solari and Herm Edwards.
Our season really ended in overtime against the Cleveland Browns, but the truth is that we should have beaten Miami and we should have beaten Denver at Denver in game 2 of the season, but we didn’t because we have the most average coach in the world.
I would be fine with these last two losses if not for the above. San Diego is CLEARLY the best team in the NFL right now and they have perhaps one of the greatest players in the history of the game playing on their team. Baltimore is also a better team, but DEFEND YOUR HOME FIELD. We stink on the road and we stink against the AFC. Even if we were to win the last two games of the season (@ Oakland and vs. Jacksonville), we would still probably miss the playoffs even if people backed up into us because our AFC record is so abysmal.
The game yesterday was just so disheartening. It was made abundantly clear to me that the players don’t care nearly as much about winning as the fans of Kansas City do. They really don’t have a lot of heart. The death of a visionary like Lamar Hunt would have made me play extremely inspired, but they came out flat…so flat, in fact that I almost turned off the TV before the first quarter was over because I didn’t want to see it get too ugly. Still, except for the two big plays, the defense held their ground OK. I think if we get rid of some of the elderly players we have (Knight, Wesley, Law, Bell) and replace them with some halfway decent, somewhat FAST players (Pollard, Page, Bennie Sapp, Key Fox), we can even improve more.
Now, if we could just figure out how to fix the offense…