I’m a little late this week with my attempted witticisms and high-horse ramblings. I like to shoot for a Tuesday night/Wednesday morning release, but due to unforeseen events like my job, girlfriend, dishes, laundry, cheesy nachos, comic books, fantasy football, and just being plain lazy, I also ran out of gas. I, I had a flat tire. I didn’t have enough money for cab fare; my tux didn’t come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town, someone stole my car, and there was an earthquake. A terrible flood! Locusts!
And that is why I was unable to get my column in under the buzzer. But rest assured, if I would have got it on time, I would’ve gone for two.
Chiefs 10, Patriots 17
Lost in all the hoopla over Tom Brady, is the fact that Herm Edwards is now the Kansas City Chiefs’ sole record holder of consecutive losses with 10 in a row. TEN LOSSES IN A ROW.
We got rid of our inexperienced offensive coordinator, we got rid of all those crusty, aged, over-the-hill veterans and replaced the team with…
YOUTH! (Yeah!)
DRAFT PICKS! (Yeah!)
A NEW Offensive Coordinator! (Yeah!)
WITH A PROMISE BY HERM TO THROW THE BALL! (uhh…)
It’s amazing, with all those changes and we still had a game that was a carbon copy of any of last year’s losses. Jokingly, I even predicted a final score of 13-10 with New England winning. Well, I was four points off an exact score prediction, so what do I know?
With all those changes, it’s almost statistically impossible to repeat last year’s futility. Let’s examine what could be the reason for this anomaly.
Chan Gailey was a successful play caller before coming here, correct? He was promoted to head coach, so he must’ve done something competent once, right? Hmmm…
Isn’t it kind of funny that we’ve had three different opening day starting quarterbacks, we’ve had two different offensive coordinators, yet somehow we still have the exact same offensive production. Hrmm….
Sunday’s loss looked just like any other loss from last year, no touchdowns until the 4th quarter, 10 points total overall, no downfield throws until the end of the game, mostly dump-offs to the running back, no taking chances on 4th & 1, and no real sense of purpose on offense. Hermm…..
I just can’t seem to put my finger on what the problem is!
Going for Two
Herm Edwards hinted after the game he might have ordered the Chiefs to try for a two-point conversion had they scored a touchdown in the final moments of the New England game.
From the KC Star 9/9/08:
On Monday he said he’d already made up his mind that they would have.
“Absolutely,” he said. “We wanted to win the game. I just felt that at that point, you’ve got to go for two. There was no question in my mind. I already knew the play we were going to run and it had a chance to go.”
Edwards, of course, wouldn’t disclose what the play was.
“We’re going to save it for another day,” he said.
JD: The only time Herm ever makes a definitive stand on any topic is when it’s something like this, when it’s in the future, and can’t be contested. You’ll see more examples below. It’s too bad Herm couldn’t have used this great two yard play on 4th & 1 instead of getting Dustin Colquitt started on setting the record for punts in a season.
Arguing about Herm
There were some spirited debates in the comment section of last week’s column. Some took offense to my label of “Herm the Liar.” It’s not slander if it’s true. I provided three examples off the top of my head and the Hermites were quick to provide excuses and “what he really meant”.
Herm is what he is, and he will say silly, untrue things whether I hi-light them or not. I documented his buffoonery for 20 something columns last year and I’m not going to go back and reprint them, but feel free to look them up yourself.
If you don’t believe me, I really don’t care.
Or you could just listen to Herm. He is the gift that keeps on giving. This isn’t a case of me taking one quote out of context and dwelling on it. He says mistakes, misquotes, half-truths, lies, and sheer idiocy in just about every press conference.
People that are honest don’t need their supporters continually coming about to explain what they really meant. Don’t you get tired of having to defend him?
Bottom line, if he were winning, he would be that crazy uncle we wish would JUST SHUT UP. But he just set a record for consecutive Chiefs losses in a season. That’s more losses than Frank Ganz, more than John Mackovic, and more than Paul Wiggin had. People like to bring up his “success” and playoff wins with the Jets, but how long ago was that? The Chiefs 10 straight losses are ongoing, RIGHT NOW.
The Jared Allen DE/Long Snapper joke, I mean debate, will be addressed next week.
Hermisms
Normally I try to have short, snappy, sometimes witty retorts to the silly things Herm says, but we seem to have an influx of new Hermite readers. So, for this chapter, I will probably over-explain myself, but we should be back to normal by next week.
Patriots Game
EDWARDS: “Well, you watched the game. We had some opportunities, I thought, it the first half to capitalize on field position and points but we didn’t quite get it done offensively. [We had] too many three-and-outs.”
JD: Gee, just like last year.
EDWARDS: “I thought at the end, defensively after the turnover, we held them to three and that was important to try to get the ball back and go down and score seven to try to keep it to a tie game or decide whether we are going for two points to try to win it. But, that never occurred. It’s like anything else. There are always a couple plays in football games that you don’t make and the outcome is like it was today – a loss for us.”
JD: When your strategy is to “hang around till the 4th quarter”, of course one or two plays will make a difference. But if you go for the jugular, and throw for the endzone, or hell, just downfield in the first, second, or even third quarter, one or two plays won’t make a difference. For 16 weeks in a row, Len Dawson lamented the Chiefs for not even attempting downfield throws, “just to keep the defense honest”. But what the blue hell does Len Dawson know? He only called his own plays and won a Super Bowl.
EDWARDS: “We have to go back and regroup.”
JD: Regroup? IT’S WEEK ONE.
EDWARDS: “We have a home game this week. We have to figure out a way to win a game.”
JD: Gee, just like last year. Again. For someone who was so “successful” with the Jets, he’s sure having to try to figure out how to win a lot.
Q: I know you never want to lose your starting quarterback, but is this a better team with Damon Huard?
EDWARDS: “I don’t know that. We lost the game with Damon playing half the game.”
JD: Well you’re the head coach, if you don’t know, then who the hell does? Let me help you, Brodie Croyle is 0-8 as a starter, and Damon is 9-8. Yep, you’re right, I don’t know if the team is better either.
EDWARDS: “We have to score more points. I know that. We have to have the ability to score points and get some drives going. We had too many three-and-outs early in the game.”
JD: Are you sure? You’ve had three quarterbacks, two offensive coordinators, and completely overhauled the roster, yet you still score 10 points a game. No wonder why you thought 21 points was a lot. For you, IT IS.
Q: What did you discuss when you took a timeout when they were pinned on the 1-yard line and they completed the big pass to Randy Moss?
JD Q: What’s a four letter word describing moving air starting with a W?
EDWARDS: “Well, we were going to try to make them punt into the wind because the wind was in their face. So we called a timeout knowing that if they ran the ball we would call another time out and try to make them punt into the wind. We’d get good field position that way. I guess the game was 3-0 or whatever it was at that point. We just felt we wanted them to punt in the wind because he would have been in the end zone punting against the wind and that was to our favor.”
JD: Wait, which way were they punting? Oh that’s right, into the wind. I didn’t catch it the first four times you said it.
EDWARDS: “So, that was our thinking there. It didn’t work out because they got the big pass.”
JD: If you told your coaches as many times what way you wanted them to punt as you told us, maybe New England read your lips and figured that out and thought, since we have to punt into the wind anyway, let’s go for it. Maybe not calling the time out and letting them feel secure about punting with the wind probably would’ve led them to run on 3rd down. But what the hell do I know about “Clock Management”.
Q: How do you think the rookies played overall?
EDWARDS: I thought, for the most part, I can’t tell because I can’t watch all of them. But, I thought they went in there and they were very competitive. They probably made some mistakes, but we had some veterans make some mistakes, too.
JD: Herm The Politician rears his ugly head, again. Why is it so hard for him to give a straight answer? Judas Priest! You’re the F’N head coach! Then just comment on the ones you did see. Holy crap! What in the blue hell do the vets have to do with it? The question was about the rookies. Herm always has to throw in a “well, they did it too” line. What a douche.
Q: Watching from the sideline, did you think that [Devard] Darling was going to outrun the defense and score on that play?
EDWARDS: “I thought, but I guess the guy caught him. I guess the guy had an angle or something.”
JD: You guess? Why is so hard for you to give a straight answer?
EDWARDS: “The guy made a great play and it ended up being a great play because we couldn’t score.”
JD: Wait a minute, he made a great play and it ended up being a great play? That just doesn’t make any sense. What if he made a great play, but you scored, does that take back his great play? It either is a great play or it’s not. My head hurts.
Q: It looked like Larry Johnson was only in on one play during that final drive.
EDWARDS: “We were in a two-minute offense. There are different personnel groups. I thought LJ ran pretty good too today, the first time out. He ran hard against a good team that can play against the run.”
JD: If he ran “hard” and “pretty good”, wouldn’t it make sense to have him in your two-minute offense?
On the decision to start Huard at quarterback over Thigpen this week vs Oakland:
EDWARDS: “For this week’s game, I just think it’s not fair to (Tyler Thigpen). I just think Damon, he got us some momentum going, and hopefully we can build on that. It’s just not fair to the kid, opening up at home, you know, it’s just not fair. He’ll get a chance, though.”
JD: This is where “Herm the Liar” really came to prominence. Herm tends to repeat words or phrases three times in consecutive sentences, like “fair” in this case, and it’s hard to tell who he’s trying to convince, us or him. Either way, it seems like he’s trying to convince someone. This is my opinion I formed after my observations of his little tap dance I like to call “The Hermy Shuffle.” He does this almost every press conference. If you come to a different conclusion, then good for you.
On the long-term effects of the Chiefs’ quarterback issues:
EDWARDS: “You want to make sure the players feel like the guy that’s playing quarterback gives them the best chance to win. You know the psyche of the football team; you know where they’re at. When you make decisions like that, you’ve got to make sure that it’s the right guy and that your team can rally around him. With a young quarterback, you’ve got to put him in the best position to win, and that can’t mean dropping back and throwing it 40 times a game. So that’s a struggle.”
JD: In My February article, I documented Herm talking about the new offensive coordinator, and he said this:
EDWARDS: “I want the ability to play fast-break offense. Some weeks, that’s going to be the best way for us to win. You have to be able to take advantage of people’s weaknesses. If you’re playing a team that isn’t very good when they get into their nickel defense, YOU MIGHT HAVE TO THROW THE BALL 40 TIMES IF THAT’S THE BEST WAY FOR US TO WIN THE GAME. But you have to have an offense that has the ability to do that.”
JD: The follow-up argument becomes “What’s the best way for us to win?” In this case, MY INTERPRETATION of what he said just reads desperation. You have to throw 40 times, you can’t throw 40 times. He doesn’t know what the best way to win is, and just throws out enough paint to hopefully cover the whole canvas, and his ass, so that way he can’t be blamed when whatever “plan” he has this week doesn’t work.
Q: It seems over the past few years, the team hasn’t approached the rivalry (Raiders) as intensely as Marty Schottenheimer did in years past. Why is that?
EDWARDS: “This is what we lose sight of. First of all, your players change. There’s about a 20-man swing every year on your roster. And if you keep doing that for 3-4 years, guess what, you get guys who were not in your division playing those guys. The coaches make a big deal out of it, but I think you have to realize the players change. I think the players we have now know that because they’re young and they’re going to be here for a long time. They have a great opportunity to learn the history. As well as this division and the rivalry in the division. That’s being built right now.”
JD: Slick Hermy dances again. This is just like last years’ “the players were prepared, they just got to make plays” scapegoating Herm did last year. Herm makes a big deal about the Raiders, but the players change, and we’re too stupid to realize that. Herm thinks he’s pawning this off on “changing players”, but he really is undercutting himself. If he makes a big deal out of it, but nothing happens, it sounds more to me like they are tuning him out. And when the players tune you out, you’re finished.
JD – great post always enjoy reading it – I am a huge chief fan from Jersey and I have had the privledge of witnessing Herms BS for years when he was the coach of the jets and all my Jet fan friends thank me for taking him away to KC or should I say bust my Balls is more like it. Flyin out for the Raider game hopefully we can finally win one – keep up the good work and thanks for makin me laugh. GO CHIEFS
Comment by Chief Vito — September 12, 2008 @ 1:01 pm
Oakland looked really anemic against the Broncos the other night and I think we could potentially end our losing skid at a franchise record 10 games this Sunday. However, since we have virtually no offense this will depend on the ability of our defense to keep the Raiders off the score board. The Chiefs will probably not score more than 17 to 21 points at the most. That means our defense will have to hold Oakland to 14 points or less in order for us to have a realistic chance to win the game. Oakland is basically a team in total disarray, going nowhere in a hurry. They suck. Yet here I am hoping that our offense may be able to BARELY score enough points to squeek by them and that our defense can hold them under fourteen points to give us a chance to win. What is wrong with this picture? This is the franchise of Bobby Bell, Willie Lanier, Buck Buchanan, Len Dawson, Otis Taylor, Jan Stenerud, Hank Stram and Lamar Hunt. The current coaching staff of the Kansas City Chiefs is an absolute disgrace to the team and to the NFL. If Clark Hunt doesn’t have the cojones to fire some of these jerks at the end of this season (he said as much last year), then Clark Hunt is not a miniscule fraction of the man his father was. We have fallen far as a team, but those of us who wish to keep the traditions of a great team alive will continue to speak out against the farce of a coaching staff we currently have.
Comment by g.l. — September 12, 2008 @ 1:50 pm
As always, a good, informative piece. I can’t believe the time it must take you to analyze Herm and his excuses. Dude, relax and give yourself time for other things; you know, laundry, dishes, girlfriend.
My biggest issue with the game was the way Larry Johnson is running the ball. He isn’t hitting the hole like the power back should. On nearly every touch, he completely stopped in the backfield to make some sort of adjustment to which hole he was going to try to make it through. My personal opinion is that Jamaal Charles should be getting as much, if not more touches than LJ. He turned several plays that LJ would have lost yardage into 3-4 yard gains. I don’t think the outcome would have been any different had they handed the ball off to LJ all 4 downs. First play call was the right one, DBowe just choked. The rest were questionable.
This weeks game will tell us how much Herm has locked up Chan Gailey and the offense. If we run much misdirection and go downfield more, he has relinquished control. If we try to run between the tackles every down, or run WR screens or short crossing patterns, it will be evident that the real Chan Gailey is locked in a closet somewhere.
Good luck Chiefs, and may Clark Hunt break the hold of the dark side and take the position his father intended.
Comment by Travis — September 12, 2008 @ 4:40 pm
Finally many of you are waking up and realizing that Herm must go! My question is why does it take so long for some of you to see the light! When C. Hunt finally does get around to canning Edwards it will be great, but much too late! By the way, where are those Kool-Aid drinkers now? If the Chiefs do beat the Raiders on Sunday, it will not make up for anything! Remember this is the one game on the docket that they should win, considering they are playing the train wreck that is Oakland! Even Herm probably can’t blow this one. Or can he? Yep!
Comment by Goldzone44 — September 13, 2008 @ 4:40 am
GoldZone, I was against the Herm Hiring from the beginning
Comment by kcchiefs19692003 — September 13, 2008 @ 9:32 am
How many games must we win for you to be happy during a youth movement?
Comment by Jake — September 13, 2008 @ 8:33 pm
Would going 3-2 into the bye week not be a good enough start?
Comment by Jake — September 13, 2008 @ 8:42 pm
3-2 ?
I’m sorry, I’m a huge Chief’s fan but no F’n way. A 3-2 start with this play calling?
Our only hope to start 3-2 is that fact that Huard is back under center. And NO I am not a big Huard fan, but he’s a vet and understands this offense better than Croyle… he gives us a better chance to win NOW.
Comment by Johnny 5 — September 13, 2008 @ 11:51 pm
Jake, I wondered how long before you reared your ugly opinion. Can you name 3 positive things that Herm has done since he’s been here? Sure we had a good draft this year but we can’t win in the NFL with Herm’s style of play. He is holding us back and there’s no question about that. I am a die-hard Chiefs fan and would love to sing his praises but he is useless as a head coach. I don’t think that Herm could run a lemonade stand to be honest with you, let alone an NFL team. My only hope is that when Clark Hunt wakes up he ships that useless Carl Peterson out with him.
Comment by Mark — September 14, 2008 @ 12:21 am
Mark- AMEN!, And Jake, 3-2? You must be drinking an entire gallon of Kool-Aid! When they are 1-4, or worse, you will need some Maalox to wash that Kool-Aid down!
Comment by Goldzone44 — September 14, 2008 @ 3:49 am
WORD!
Comment by Kojak — September 14, 2008 @ 8:34 am
I appreciate your optimistism, Jake.
Most teams have to reinvent themselves with youth eventually. However, most teams understand how to use that youth and talent to give that repective team an opportunity to win, Denver is a good example, as much as it hurts to say it. Herm and Carl haven’t been able to do it with veterans or young players.
Despite the score from last week, we had no business being in that game. I am happy that we “competed”, absolutely. It is evident that our defense is much improved and should give us a better chance to win if the offense can give them a break. I respect Herm for his passion for the game and think he is a positive influence on players as people. Unfortunately, that doesn’t win games.
You have to look at it this way; Herm has a job to do. If he can’t do the job, which he is proving, we need to go another direction. Carl also has a job to do, but apparently has forgotten what that is. No GM on the planet has been allowed to run an organization this long, without winning. In my opinion, he is the root of our problems. He displays an arrogance only deserving of frugal, successful business men. It does not reflect on the Chiefs in a good light, regardless of our wins and losses.
We have the athletes and coordinators that I believe would allow us to be competitive right now. Maybe not be a playoff team but show steady improvement. The coach is responsible for putting it together. Unfortunately, Herm isn’t the guy to do it.
Comment by Travis — September 14, 2008 @ 12:11 pm
“How many games must we win for you to be happy during a youth movement? Comment by Jake”
Why don’t we start with winning one game? Let’s please just win one game first, shall we?
Jake, how many 3 & outs do we have to go through? How many scoreless first halves must we go through before you can acknowledge Herm has failed?
Comment by Alex — September 14, 2008 @ 1:09 pm
Hey everyone…..Its me. Mr Positive himself…..Its official. I’m following my own advice. Im jumping off ship. Just fire everyone, starting with the GM. The performance today really turned my stomach…..I pray that Glen Dorsey doesnt turn into a Ryan Sims……On a positive note….Kudos for Tank Tyler.
Comment by J-Rock in TX — September 14, 2008 @ 3:39 pm
I don’t know Jake. I don’t know JD. I know Herm, and he will NEVER be a head coach in this leauge EVER again after Clark wakes up and fires his butt. Yeah Herm “were over it”. I challenge my fellow chiefs fans. If you love the Chiefs as I do you will not stop supporting them, however you will come to the games supporting our players, not the management or our so called head coach. Let your voice be heard on Sunday. Bring the biggest Herm/Carl bashing sign you can make. Our voices shall not go un noticed. And as for Herm I hope he has access to the pope mobile, because that’s gonna be the only safe place for him in Kansas City. It’s been fun Herm/Carl but the fans will unite and you will see how “over it” we really are.
GO CHIEFS!!!!!!!!
Comment by Rob — September 14, 2008 @ 3:53 pm
With their first pick in the 2009 Draft the Chiefs pick…….. a real head coach……. With the second pick the chiefs choose a new GM. 2010 Chiefs win the superbowl and I can die a satisfied happy man!
Comment by Rob — September 14, 2008 @ 4:05 pm
Here is the deal people. I made a bet with my cousin. I always talk about my Chiefs. He told me he was waiting on this week. He is a Cowboys fan. We made a bet on a local High School game. He said if our high school lost then I would have to root for the winner of the KC-Oakland game for a year (who he said is the two worse teams in the league) or become a Cowboy’s fan until we get a new head coach. That was kind of odd. So I didn’t think he knew what he said and I quickly shook on it. After the shake, I asked him did he realize what he said. He said without hesitating “Yeah, I know Oakland is going to win because you all have the most conservative coach in the league and all he will do is run the ball.” He continued on saying “Y’all QB is terrible and the run defense suspect.” So I’m officially a Cowboys fan since they has just moved to my fourth most hated thing in this world behind 1. Oakland 2. Queen Carl 3. Herm Edwards. Bye Bye HERM’S Chiefs, hello COWGIRLS.
Comment by J-Rock in Texas — September 14, 2008 @ 4:10 pm
One more thing…..My apologies to VLDC, GI, Goldzone, and JD….You all were right. Fire Sperm Edwards and Queen Carl.
Comment by J-Rock in Texas — September 14, 2008 @ 4:18 pm
I have to apologies to everybody and say I was wrong I must of been drunk or high to say Herm was a good coach. I have proposal we as fan should get organized and go to the Hunts family home and also Queen Carls,Herms home to protest 24/7 for the rest of the season or until Queen Carl and Herm the dummy are gone.Again I have to say to VLDC, Goldzone44, and JD you were right I WAS WRONG!!!
Comment by Steve — September 14, 2008 @ 5:34 pm
I MUST SAY,,,I HAVE BEEN A LIFELONG FAN OF THE CHIEFS AND I AM ABSOLUTELY FED UP AND AS A FAN,,CANNOT TAKE ANY MORE OF THIS F*#%&NG BS,,,THESE COACHES SUCK WORSE THAN ANY I HAVE “—â€EVER—— SEEN AND THEY MUST GO!!!!!!!!HERM,,,YOU SUCK,,,,CHAN,,,,YOU SUCK!!!!US FANS ARE COMPLETELY FED UP AND WE AS FANS,,,NEED TO TAKE THIS TEAM BACK!!!!I HAVE NEVER BEEN SO ANGRY IN MY LIFE BY THIS HORRIBLE DISPLAY OF COACHING AND SO CALLED “â€NFL CHIEFS PLAY—â€!!!AS LONG AS WE HAVE THESE COACHES AND THESE PLAYS BEING CALLED,,,,WE WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE SH*%TY EMBARRASSING LAUGHING STOCK OF THE LEAGUE AND I AS A LIFELONG FAN,,,,REFUSE TO ACCEPT OR PUT UP WITH THIS ATROCIOUS OBNOXIOUS DISGUSTING NON- COACHING PATHETIC REPETITIVE BULL-SH*T ANY FURTHER!!!!MAN AM I PISSED AND HAVE HAD ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by JIM S. — September 14, 2008 @ 5:45 pm
I can’t believe that game that I watched today. It has to be the worst performance by a team in NFL history. I love how I heard from the announcers on Fox while flipping back and forth from the Rams/Giants game how “not far from here in KC Herm Edwards is SECURE IN HIS JOB and is playing young players”. Why in the world would someone who has as many consecutive losses as he has be secure unless he has been told the moron Carl Peterson that no matter how much he sucks and how many Chief fans don’t show up to the game, his job is secure. WAKE UP HUNT FAMILY AND GET RID OF HIM and that useless Carl Peterson with his five year plan which is now in its 21 year!! Shuffling in quarterbacks how bush league is that.
Comment by Mark — September 14, 2008 @ 8:35 pm
J.D.
Another great commentary, but i have a suggestion for you. Please, you might want to just re-run this commentary and change the word Patriots in the Header to Raiders. I am concerned about your health and do not want you getting Carpel-Tunnel from typing the SAME THING for the raiders game commentary and probably many more times this year. Hermeroid (because he is a pain in all our asses) has taken us to a new low today with 11, thats right, ELEVEN LOSSES IN A ROW!!!!! Unfreakin believable!!! GOD i am glad i gave up my season tickets this year!!!
Today I got a call from a friend of mine that is a misguided Raiders fan that was at the Game. She said that she was AMAZED that the stands were so empty with this being our home opener. Watching on T.V. today I must agree that the stands looked pretty empty. And this was the RAIDERS GAME!! So, JD, you can just carbon copy this commentary for this week as the SAME crap just happened for the SECOND time this year, and keep a carbon copy of this for future commentaries, because it looks like we will be dealing with the SAME CRAP for quite a while. Even the “Talking Heads” in the pregame show said that the Raiders were the WORST TEAM IN THE NFL and they kicked our asses. All I can figure is Hermeroid must have wanted his title back.
My question for Jake is, how much more of this crap are YOU willing to put up with??? I mean jeez, Lynn Elliot missed a couple of field goals and got death threats. Hermeroid has just lost his 11th game in a row!! This is the third year in a row, that Hermeroid has been our head coach, and has lost the first two games of the season.
Mr. Hunt, its time to pull your head out of your %#$ and take charge of YOUR team and DO SOMETHING before it gets worse!
Now i got to call the Dr. in the morning and order a season’s worth of antidepressants.
Dennis
Comment by dennis — September 14, 2008 @ 10:12 pm
You cannot win in the NFL scoring under 300 points in a season, a feat Herm has accomplished 3 times in his coaching career. Marty is considered the ‘poster child’ for conservative football, so lets compare that to him. Marty has scored less than 300 points 3 times in 20 seasons. 2 of them were his first full season on a job (Cleveland and Washington… both times he won more than 4 games) and another was a 1996 KC team that scored 297.
Even worse… Herm has TWICE scored less than 250 points. Marty hasn’t done that and he’s never had a team score a pathetic 226 points like KC did last year.
You may need defense to win championships, but if you can’t score points the best you can do is tie.
Comment by The_Jonas — September 15, 2008 @ 10:33 pm
Worst. Chiefs. game. ever.
I don’t know what it’s going to take to get me back out to Arrowhead in 2 weeks. My son and I went thinking there’s no way we could drop an opening day game against the Raiders.
We left after the third quarter. I wanted to puke. My son said I should sell the rest of my tickets on Craigs list and get some money. I’m not sure I could find buyers for them.
I understand “rebuilding” and “youth” but this game was worse than that. It was a poorly run pre-season game. What the hell were those stupid option plays with the slashback? And why did they run it more than once?!?!?!?!? They went into this game planning on getting Thigpen some snaps. That’s a f@#$ing preseason strategy! You don’t plan on putting the third-string QB in the game unless you’re up 35-0!!!!!!!
Herm is a complete failure as a coach, and I am torn between wanting to see the Chiefs go winless so he loses his job, and not being able to bear a winless season.
My preseason prediction for the Chiefs: 5-11
My updated prediction: 1-15. Look out Miami!
Comment by KC-Dave — September 17, 2008 @ 1:42 pm
not only is herm the gift that keeps giving….so is herpes!!
Comment by chris b — September 18, 2008 @ 8:52 am
As a bonus news item, Tyler Thigpen has been named as this Sunday’s starting QB.
According to Herm, “We want to take a look at him. He’s another young player at quarterback we want to look at and see where he’s at. We’re trying to look at young players, and this is part of the process. Is he a (second-string quarterback)? A one? Is he always going to be a three? You don’t know until you have an opportunity to play.â€
I thought this was what the preseason was for.
Herm’s decision communicates one of two things to me (maybe both). Either:
1. He no longer cares about winning this season. (Not sure he ever did, actually) It’s a write-off. If the Chiefs don’t win any more games, it’s OK because they are trying to look at young players.
or
2. He is giving up on the prospect of Brodie Croyle becoming a decent QB and he is now “developing” the next guy. Yes, I know Brodie is out with an “injury.” So why not put Huard in and keep Thigpen as backup?
Stay tuned, Chiefs fans. This season is not going to get any better.
Today’s Hermisms can be found in this article. It’s chock full:
http://www.kansascity.com/sports/chiefs/story/801948.html
Comment by KC-Dave — September 18, 2008 @ 12:32 pm
So starting him on the road is fair and starting him at home is not? What a nut job.
Comment by FatDaNn — September 18, 2008 @ 12:50 pm