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.”

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

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!

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.

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

GO CHIEFS!!!!!!!!

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?

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.

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.