"ALL-IN" BY EAGLES A BUST, COLLEGE COACHING ROULETTE & A LOT OF MAIL REGARDING THE CHIEFS
Remember when I said the Eagles had gone "All-In" with their "Dream Team" acquisitions? Even I didn't see it going this badly. In just one hugely disappointing season, I expect to see a coaching change. After all it was Andy Reid who made most of the moves to create this dysfunctional crew. I think WR DeSean Jackson could very well be let go in free agency & a few others might be released outright. I never thought this was a Super Bowl team, in fact picking them to win the NFC East was my last & least favorite of all my preseason predictions. But who knew it could be this bad? Just signing a bunch of former Pro Bowlers doesn't guarantee success, it's sells newspapers, gives the local sportstalk ratings a shot in the arm, becomes the topic of discussion at both the water cooler & bars all over the region. But for all the Vince Youngs, Nnamdi Asomughas & Assante Sammuels on your roster, you need the ditch diggers, guys who do their job everyday without expecting a lot of fanfare. You needs coaches qualified to install the proper schemes for your personnel, maintain discipline & create winning gameplans. The Eagles failed at most of these concepts & for that Andy Reid will have to go. It was he who moved 10-year offensive line coach Juan Castillo to defensive coordinator. It was Reid who kept signing defensive backs who shied away from contact, corners who don't like run support. It was Reid who went with an undersized, underpowered group of linebackers. Reid knew he had "head cases" on his team, most teams do, but Reid has more than a few & he didn't do a very good job managing them. I expect owner Jeffrey Lurie to tear down some of this team & begin that process with the head coach.
The Houston Texans got the news they were dreading, Matt Leinart is officially out for the season. An MRI confirmed it this afternoon. They have rookie T.J. Yates, a 6th round pick & Kellen Clemens, a career 2nd & 3rd team QB. They brought in 41-year old Jeff Garcia & Jake Delhomme for tryouts. Essentially they're looking for a veteran backup just in case Yates struggles.
How bad are the Indianapolis Colts? Television stations around the state of Indiana are choosing to broadcast games other than Colt home games. The NFL requires regional broadcasts of road games, but home games can be switched if the local affiliate prefers to show a game that might garner more viewers. Yesterday for instance, the FOX station in Fort Wayne chose the Bears/Raiders game instead of the Panthers/Colts. This is reportedly the fifth time this has happened in Indiana, they want their Peyton Manning.
I've watched every play of every game Tim Tebow has started for the Denver Broncos. I think their success with him as their starting quarterback is way overblown. Denver is winning with a form of "Marty Ball." You remember Marty Schottenheimer don't you? Chiefs in the 90's? Play overwhelming defense, keep the score close, run the ball & then run it some more, that was Marty's strategy for winning football. It worked, during the regular season, but failed miserably when playoff time came. I expect the very same results for the Broncos in the long run.
The college coaching carousel is spinning like a roulette wheel right now. Lots of firings, lots of rumors & one very notable hire. That would be new Ohio State coach Urban Meyer. He made a class decision by retaining Luke Fickell, the guy who had the head coaching job thrust upon him last spring after Jim Tressel was canned/resigned(depends on who you believe). Meyer might have difficulty recruiting until the NCAA decides the punishment OSU will have to suffer for the "Tattoo-Gate" & "Payroll-Gate." If there are post season bans or scholarship forfeitures, it could get sticky for a couple of years. But after that wears off, I expect Meyer to have the Buckeyes back in the hunt for not only a BIG TEN title, but a national one as well. I don't know if Mike Vrabel will keep his job as LB coach under the new regime.
In addition to the ones I told you about yesterday, the newest coach to be informed his services will no longer be needed is UCLA's Rick Neuheisal. He will be allowed to coach the 6-6 Bruins in the first PAC-12 title game this Friday night against 10-2 Oregon, then he's out. The rumors flying about L.A. have Boise State's Chris Peterson as UCLA's leading candidate for the job. Like the University of Kansas, UCLA is a basketball school & they don't spend a lot of money on the football program. The training facilities Neuheisal was promised 4-years ago have yet to be built. The increase to assistant coaches pay that has been promised for early a decade is also M.I.A. Tough to get a successful coach to leave a good program that is well supported to go to one that is not. I don't see a way in hell Peterson takes this job. Houston's Kevin Sumlin is said to be the Bruins' #2 choice. With the success he's had at Houston, I expect him to move on to a higher profile job, I just wonder if UCLA is the right spot. I actually think Arizona State would be a better fit for Sumlin.
I was asked who was on the NFL coaching hot seat right now as we enter the last few weeks of the NFL's regular season. Here's my list of coaches(besides Andy Reid)who could be sent packing come January 2nd.
Jack Del Rio--no way he stays, very little offense plus questionable time management & lack of accountability will give Jack a one-way ticket out of Jacksonville.
Norv Turner--San Diego has underachieved for years & it's finally caught up with Norv. He might be joined on the unemployment line with G.M. A.J. Smith.
Raheem Morris--The 2011 edition of the Tampa Bay Bucs looks nothing like the 2010 version. This one is really disappointing & the Glazier family won't hesitate to pull the trigger if things don't change in the last five weeks.
Jim Caldwell--Yes he lost Peyton Manning, but that's no excuse to go from 10-6 to what looks like 0-16. He might get saved since the Polians dictate all personnel decisions & Caldwell was stuck with what they gave him to work with.
Steve Spagnuolo--The total regression of a 7-9 Rams team with considerable young talent falling to just 2-wins so far, might be enough to get Spags booted. Offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels should go regardless if the head coach is changed, his results with Sam Bradford should scare the hell out of any team considering him as a potential coaching candidate.
Todd Haley--Who the hell knows what will happen here. Scott Pioli probably has the flexibility from owner Clark Hunt to hire another coach. But is Haley the problem? Doesn't matter, Pioli can throw his first time head coach under the bus, hire a new guy & have another 3-years making huge money before he's held accountable for his sins.
The email box was pretty full this evening, mostly about the Chiefs. I'll answer a few of your questions & respond to some comments left for me.
"Why are you so down on the Chiefs and I know why, your more interested in being right than having a good team. I read your prediction before season started, 6 or 7 wins. I think having a winning team comes second to being right. Tell me I'm wrong."
"You R 1 negative person, you really must be an unhappy person. Do us a favor and just write about the other teams, leave the Chiefs out of it."
"I like a lot of your stuff but I just go right by all the Chiefs stories, there just to depressing."
I'm sorry some of you feel depressed by my writing. maybe you should be depressed by the Chiefs & not my attempts to figure out why they continue to disappoint us. I want more than anything to have a franchise like the Steelers or Patriots, a team that is truly a perennial contender. A team that before every season, we can get excited about, confident of post season success, not this roller coaster ride we've been on for 18-years now since our last playoff victory.
"Why won't they play Ricky Stanzi? How bad can he be?"
I think you answered your own question, he could very well be that bad. Of the 7 quarterbacks taken ahead of Stanzi in last April's draft, 6 have played this season. Only Ryan Mallett of the Patriots hasn't taken a snap, Brady has played every down but two. Houston's T.J. Yates will start the rest of the season if he's even the least bit effective. He was chosen after Stanzi.
"With their record, why isn't Haley prone to take more chances in an effort to win?"
He tried an onside kick last week & it was nearly successful & the fake punt run worked last night. One thing about the play that bothered me tho, why did punter Dustin Colquitt shift to his left right before the snap, it tipped me off, it had to do the same for the Steelers. The main reason it was successful was shear numbers, six of ours against 4 of them. I didn't understand the decision to kick a FG on 4th & 2 at the 22, it still left us needing a TD, I didn't get it.
"Why do they run no-huddle offense nearly the entire 1st half but when it came to crunch time in the last 3 minutes of the game they have to huddle after every play & they run short of time."
Excellent question that I have no answer to, I didn't get it either & when Palko started looking rattled, I was expecting something bad to happen & sadly it did. Honestly, I think part of the reason to huddle was to burn some of the clock so Roethlisberger & company wouldn't have any time to come back down the field. Another might have been to try to make certain Palko got the play call correctly in from the sideline without rushing. It was weird tho.
"You always say "the Chiefs don't have NFL-caliber talent at too many positions" exactly what does that mean?"
It means just what you think it means, the Chiefs don't have the same level of talent as other NFL teams. They have too many warm bodies. Tell me if you'd rather have Leonard Pope, Jake O'Connell & Anthony Becht or Rob Gronkowski & Aaron Hernandez of the Patriots? They drafted both in the same draft we took Tony Moeaki. Which is better, the Chiefs defense or the Texans? They have 6 defenders with 3 or more sacks, the Chiefs have one. That Houston defense was built mostly thru the draft with the exception of DB's Jonathan Joseph & Danieal manning, both F/A's. Don't forget, their best defender, Mario Williams went out for the season in week 4. Five of these starters were acquired in the past 3 drafts. Is Wade Phillips a better defensive coordinator than Romeo Crennell? Maybe, but if he is, it's by a very slim margin. The Bengals have 12 defenders who have registered a sack, the Chiefs have 5. How many backup quarterbacks league-wide could be realistically rated better than Tyler Palko? Even without looking, I'd say the number would be at least 30, maybe more. If not for Kansas City's cheap ways, guys like Sabby Piscatelli, Jerheme Urban, Palko, Becht etc wouldn't be drawing an NFL paycheck. That's what I mean by NFL-caliber talent.
"Do you believe Kyle Orton will give us his best since he wanted to go to a contender?"
Yes I do because it's in his best interest to do so. He is a free agent after this season, so these last five games are basically an audition for other teams. Staying with the Broncos wouldn't allow such an audition, so I can't see any downside. Did you see Palko the past two weeks? As my buddy Chuck told me yesterday, "That's the best Palko has." He's right. The other thing about Orton playing versus Palko or Stanzi, it makes evaluating the other offensive players much easier & that's a good thing.
"Were Dorsey & Jackson wasted draft picks?"
I've always said Dorsey could play in a 4-man front & I think he might make some impact. He isn't doing that in our 3-4 & never will. Jackson is a bust & any attempt to put a good spin on his performance is ludicrous. The two of them have a grand total of 5 sacks in their 3-years together. The Texans D-line has 16 this season playing the same defense. I didn't like Jax before the draft & neither did half of the teams in the league. Unfortunately Kansas City wasn't in the half that didn't like him, in fact, Pioli overrated him. Washington's Brian Orakpo was selected a few picks after Tyson. In his two-plus seasons he has 25.5 sacks over the same period playing OLB in Washington's 3-4. Could he have been the bookend for Hali we so desperately need? . Right now I've seen all of the Dorsey-Jackson combo I need to see, let's get Gilberry & Bailey out there as starters & not as situational role players.
"Do the Chiefs need to draft a QB number one & if they do who do you think they could get?"
Right now it appears the Chiefs will win 4 or 5 games total. That should put them somewhere in the 8 to 12 range of the first round. I do believe they should look very closely at a QB sitting in that position. Do you realize the Chiefs have not won a game started by a quarterback they drafted........since 1986. Todd Blackledge is the last drafted QB to win as a starter for K.C. Impressive history huh? As to who we could draft, they haven't even declared their intent to enter the draft. The top-4 college QB's all have a year of eligibility left. If one of them(Andrew Luck) doesn't like the situation on the team that would draft him(Colts w/Manning) he could return to Stanford. But for discussion sake, let's say all four of the top-rated QB's came out. Luck, Matt Barkley, Robert Griffin III & Landry Jones would be on most peoples list as the top prospects & right now, all would certainly go in the 1st round. Folks, I'm open for discussion, I want to see how they throw in the post season & at the combine, but I like all four. I like the potential of all four more than I like Kyle Orton, Matt Cassel or Ricky Stanzi. That's where I stand. in a quarterback driven league that favors the passing game, a QB is most important followed by the perimeter players, WR's, OT's, DE's, OLB's & corners.
"Fire Haley right f'n now."
O.K. let's say you get your wish. Then what? You never fire your coach unless you have his replacement in the wings. Coming to Kansas City is hardly a glamor job & for those of you who suggest "Bill Cowher would come here for the right amount of Clark Hunt's money" I'm sorry to tell you no, he won't come here. He wants control, something Pioli will never allow as long he's GM. So who else do you have in mind? Firing Haley just for the sake of firing him isn't a solution that helps move this franchise forward. If you want Haley out, give me the name of his replacement & I'll give you my opinion.
"Are the Chiefs chasing their tail? Will they ever get good enough to win the Super Bowl or are we kidding ourselves, a playoff loss every couple of years is as good as we can expect?"
I deliberately saved this one for last because I agree with this guys thought. Maybe this is as good as it's going to get. My buddy Chuck gave me this nugget yesterday:
"This team was put together based on last year's playoff run - no need to add depth at key positions like OL, QB, RB, S, etc. Pioli basically followed the formula Carl Peterson left in the top drawer of his desk - make the playoffs every couple of years, add a few marginal free agents & these clueless Midwest fans will line up to buy season tickets like it's Black Friday."
You know that just might be their business model, how else do you explain the last 18-years without a playoff win, the last 41-years without a Super Bowl appearance? Folks if all you want is to be entertained, go ahead & give the Chiefs your money & hopefully you'll be entertained. But what Chuck & me are talking about is WINNING! If you're happy just beating the Raiders or Broncos most of the time, God Bless you. I hope you are a happy Chiefs fan for life. But as long as they fail to win, fail to make progress, fail to take the right steps to get to the Super Bowl, I'm not gonna be happy. I know there's a growing number of Chiefs' fans who feel the same way, I hope Mr. Hunt takes notice of that.
I want to thank all of you who took the time to leave comments or send an email. I sincerely appreciate your loyalty to this site. Contact me anytime at rich@richsfootballreport.com
Also a special thank you to Sam in Logan Iowa. He sent me a fun video of the better days of Chiefs' teams of yesteryear. It was a good diversion, thanks.
The winner of last night's "Predict the score" contest on my radio show was won by Sam P. from Climax Springs, Missouri. Actually it was me, but I can't win. Sam was closest to the actual score of 49-24 with a prediction of 30-24, missing by 19. Congrats Sam, give me a call during next Monday night's show to get hooked up for your prizes.
The Houston Texans got the news they were dreading, Matt Leinart is officially out for the season. An MRI confirmed it this afternoon. They have rookie T.J. Yates, a 6th round pick & Kellen Clemens, a career 2nd & 3rd team QB. They brought in 41-year old Jeff Garcia & Jake Delhomme for tryouts. Essentially they're looking for a veteran backup just in case Yates struggles.
How bad are the Indianapolis Colts? Television stations around the state of Indiana are choosing to broadcast games other than Colt home games. The NFL requires regional broadcasts of road games, but home games can be switched if the local affiliate prefers to show a game that might garner more viewers. Yesterday for instance, the FOX station in Fort Wayne chose the Bears/Raiders game instead of the Panthers/Colts. This is reportedly the fifth time this has happened in Indiana, they want their Peyton Manning.
I've watched every play of every game Tim Tebow has started for the Denver Broncos. I think their success with him as their starting quarterback is way overblown. Denver is winning with a form of "Marty Ball." You remember Marty Schottenheimer don't you? Chiefs in the 90's? Play overwhelming defense, keep the score close, run the ball & then run it some more, that was Marty's strategy for winning football. It worked, during the regular season, but failed miserably when playoff time came. I expect the very same results for the Broncos in the long run.
The college coaching carousel is spinning like a roulette wheel right now. Lots of firings, lots of rumors & one very notable hire. That would be new Ohio State coach Urban Meyer. He made a class decision by retaining Luke Fickell, the guy who had the head coaching job thrust upon him last spring after Jim Tressel was canned/resigned(depends on who you believe). Meyer might have difficulty recruiting until the NCAA decides the punishment OSU will have to suffer for the "Tattoo-Gate" & "Payroll-Gate." If there are post season bans or scholarship forfeitures, it could get sticky for a couple of years. But after that wears off, I expect Meyer to have the Buckeyes back in the hunt for not only a BIG TEN title, but a national one as well. I don't know if Mike Vrabel will keep his job as LB coach under the new regime.
In addition to the ones I told you about yesterday, the newest coach to be informed his services will no longer be needed is UCLA's Rick Neuheisal. He will be allowed to coach the 6-6 Bruins in the first PAC-12 title game this Friday night against 10-2 Oregon, then he's out. The rumors flying about L.A. have Boise State's Chris Peterson as UCLA's leading candidate for the job. Like the University of Kansas, UCLA is a basketball school & they don't spend a lot of money on the football program. The training facilities Neuheisal was promised 4-years ago have yet to be built. The increase to assistant coaches pay that has been promised for early a decade is also M.I.A. Tough to get a successful coach to leave a good program that is well supported to go to one that is not. I don't see a way in hell Peterson takes this job. Houston's Kevin Sumlin is said to be the Bruins' #2 choice. With the success he's had at Houston, I expect him to move on to a higher profile job, I just wonder if UCLA is the right spot. I actually think Arizona State would be a better fit for Sumlin.
I was asked who was on the NFL coaching hot seat right now as we enter the last few weeks of the NFL's regular season. Here's my list of coaches(besides Andy Reid)who could be sent packing come January 2nd.
Jack Del Rio--no way he stays, very little offense plus questionable time management & lack of accountability will give Jack a one-way ticket out of Jacksonville.
Norv Turner--San Diego has underachieved for years & it's finally caught up with Norv. He might be joined on the unemployment line with G.M. A.J. Smith.
Raheem Morris--The 2011 edition of the Tampa Bay Bucs looks nothing like the 2010 version. This one is really disappointing & the Glazier family won't hesitate to pull the trigger if things don't change in the last five weeks.
Jim Caldwell--Yes he lost Peyton Manning, but that's no excuse to go from 10-6 to what looks like 0-16. He might get saved since the Polians dictate all personnel decisions & Caldwell was stuck with what they gave him to work with.
Steve Spagnuolo--The total regression of a 7-9 Rams team with considerable young talent falling to just 2-wins so far, might be enough to get Spags booted. Offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels should go regardless if the head coach is changed, his results with Sam Bradford should scare the hell out of any team considering him as a potential coaching candidate.
Todd Haley--Who the hell knows what will happen here. Scott Pioli probably has the flexibility from owner Clark Hunt to hire another coach. But is Haley the problem? Doesn't matter, Pioli can throw his first time head coach under the bus, hire a new guy & have another 3-years making huge money before he's held accountable for his sins.
The email box was pretty full this evening, mostly about the Chiefs. I'll answer a few of your questions & respond to some comments left for me.
"Why are you so down on the Chiefs and I know why, your more interested in being right than having a good team. I read your prediction before season started, 6 or 7 wins. I think having a winning team comes second to being right. Tell me I'm wrong."
"You R 1 negative person, you really must be an unhappy person. Do us a favor and just write about the other teams, leave the Chiefs out of it."
"I like a lot of your stuff but I just go right by all the Chiefs stories, there just to depressing."
I'm sorry some of you feel depressed by my writing. maybe you should be depressed by the Chiefs & not my attempts to figure out why they continue to disappoint us. I want more than anything to have a franchise like the Steelers or Patriots, a team that is truly a perennial contender. A team that before every season, we can get excited about, confident of post season success, not this roller coaster ride we've been on for 18-years now since our last playoff victory.
"Why won't they play Ricky Stanzi? How bad can he be?"
I think you answered your own question, he could very well be that bad. Of the 7 quarterbacks taken ahead of Stanzi in last April's draft, 6 have played this season. Only Ryan Mallett of the Patriots hasn't taken a snap, Brady has played every down but two. Houston's T.J. Yates will start the rest of the season if he's even the least bit effective. He was chosen after Stanzi.
"With their record, why isn't Haley prone to take more chances in an effort to win?"
He tried an onside kick last week & it was nearly successful & the fake punt run worked last night. One thing about the play that bothered me tho, why did punter Dustin Colquitt shift to his left right before the snap, it tipped me off, it had to do the same for the Steelers. The main reason it was successful was shear numbers, six of ours against 4 of them. I didn't understand the decision to kick a FG on 4th & 2 at the 22, it still left us needing a TD, I didn't get it.
"Why do they run no-huddle offense nearly the entire 1st half but when it came to crunch time in the last 3 minutes of the game they have to huddle after every play & they run short of time."
Excellent question that I have no answer to, I didn't get it either & when Palko started looking rattled, I was expecting something bad to happen & sadly it did. Honestly, I think part of the reason to huddle was to burn some of the clock so Roethlisberger & company wouldn't have any time to come back down the field. Another might have been to try to make certain Palko got the play call correctly in from the sideline without rushing. It was weird tho.
"You always say "the Chiefs don't have NFL-caliber talent at too many positions" exactly what does that mean?"
It means just what you think it means, the Chiefs don't have the same level of talent as other NFL teams. They have too many warm bodies. Tell me if you'd rather have Leonard Pope, Jake O'Connell & Anthony Becht or Rob Gronkowski & Aaron Hernandez of the Patriots? They drafted both in the same draft we took Tony Moeaki. Which is better, the Chiefs defense or the Texans? They have 6 defenders with 3 or more sacks, the Chiefs have one. That Houston defense was built mostly thru the draft with the exception of DB's Jonathan Joseph & Danieal manning, both F/A's. Don't forget, their best defender, Mario Williams went out for the season in week 4. Five of these starters were acquired in the past 3 drafts. Is Wade Phillips a better defensive coordinator than Romeo Crennell? Maybe, but if he is, it's by a very slim margin. The Bengals have 12 defenders who have registered a sack, the Chiefs have 5. How many backup quarterbacks league-wide could be realistically rated better than Tyler Palko? Even without looking, I'd say the number would be at least 30, maybe more. If not for Kansas City's cheap ways, guys like Sabby Piscatelli, Jerheme Urban, Palko, Becht etc wouldn't be drawing an NFL paycheck. That's what I mean by NFL-caliber talent.
"Do you believe Kyle Orton will give us his best since he wanted to go to a contender?"
Yes I do because it's in his best interest to do so. He is a free agent after this season, so these last five games are basically an audition for other teams. Staying with the Broncos wouldn't allow such an audition, so I can't see any downside. Did you see Palko the past two weeks? As my buddy Chuck told me yesterday, "That's the best Palko has." He's right. The other thing about Orton playing versus Palko or Stanzi, it makes evaluating the other offensive players much easier & that's a good thing.
"Were Dorsey & Jackson wasted draft picks?"
I've always said Dorsey could play in a 4-man front & I think he might make some impact. He isn't doing that in our 3-4 & never will. Jackson is a bust & any attempt to put a good spin on his performance is ludicrous. The two of them have a grand total of 5 sacks in their 3-years together. The Texans D-line has 16 this season playing the same defense. I didn't like Jax before the draft & neither did half of the teams in the league. Unfortunately Kansas City wasn't in the half that didn't like him, in fact, Pioli overrated him. Washington's Brian Orakpo was selected a few picks after Tyson. In his two-plus seasons he has 25.5 sacks over the same period playing OLB in Washington's 3-4. Could he have been the bookend for Hali we so desperately need? . Right now I've seen all of the Dorsey-Jackson combo I need to see, let's get Gilberry & Bailey out there as starters & not as situational role players.
"Do the Chiefs need to draft a QB number one & if they do who do you think they could get?"
Right now it appears the Chiefs will win 4 or 5 games total. That should put them somewhere in the 8 to 12 range of the first round. I do believe they should look very closely at a QB sitting in that position. Do you realize the Chiefs have not won a game started by a quarterback they drafted........since 1986. Todd Blackledge is the last drafted QB to win as a starter for K.C. Impressive history huh? As to who we could draft, they haven't even declared their intent to enter the draft. The top-4 college QB's all have a year of eligibility left. If one of them(Andrew Luck) doesn't like the situation on the team that would draft him(Colts w/Manning) he could return to Stanford. But for discussion sake, let's say all four of the top-rated QB's came out. Luck, Matt Barkley, Robert Griffin III & Landry Jones would be on most peoples list as the top prospects & right now, all would certainly go in the 1st round. Folks, I'm open for discussion, I want to see how they throw in the post season & at the combine, but I like all four. I like the potential of all four more than I like Kyle Orton, Matt Cassel or Ricky Stanzi. That's where I stand. in a quarterback driven league that favors the passing game, a QB is most important followed by the perimeter players, WR's, OT's, DE's, OLB's & corners.
"Fire Haley right f'n now."
O.K. let's say you get your wish. Then what? You never fire your coach unless you have his replacement in the wings. Coming to Kansas City is hardly a glamor job & for those of you who suggest "Bill Cowher would come here for the right amount of Clark Hunt's money" I'm sorry to tell you no, he won't come here. He wants control, something Pioli will never allow as long he's GM. So who else do you have in mind? Firing Haley just for the sake of firing him isn't a solution that helps move this franchise forward. If you want Haley out, give me the name of his replacement & I'll give you my opinion.
"Are the Chiefs chasing their tail? Will they ever get good enough to win the Super Bowl or are we kidding ourselves, a playoff loss every couple of years is as good as we can expect?"
I deliberately saved this one for last because I agree with this guys thought. Maybe this is as good as it's going to get. My buddy Chuck gave me this nugget yesterday:
"This team was put together based on last year's playoff run - no need to add depth at key positions like OL, QB, RB, S, etc. Pioli basically followed the formula Carl Peterson left in the top drawer of his desk - make the playoffs every couple of years, add a few marginal free agents & these clueless Midwest fans will line up to buy season tickets like it's Black Friday."
You know that just might be their business model, how else do you explain the last 18-years without a playoff win, the last 41-years without a Super Bowl appearance? Folks if all you want is to be entertained, go ahead & give the Chiefs your money & hopefully you'll be entertained. But what Chuck & me are talking about is WINNING! If you're happy just beating the Raiders or Broncos most of the time, God Bless you. I hope you are a happy Chiefs fan for life. But as long as they fail to win, fail to make progress, fail to take the right steps to get to the Super Bowl, I'm not gonna be happy. I know there's a growing number of Chiefs' fans who feel the same way, I hope Mr. Hunt takes notice of that.
I want to thank all of you who took the time to leave comments or send an email. I sincerely appreciate your loyalty to this site. Contact me anytime at rich@richsfootballreport.com
Also a special thank you to Sam in Logan Iowa. He sent me a fun video of the better days of Chiefs' teams of yesteryear. It was a good diversion, thanks.
The winner of last night's "Predict the score" contest on my radio show was won by Sam P. from Climax Springs, Missouri. Actually it was me, but I can't win. Sam was closest to the actual score of 49-24 with a prediction of 30-24, missing by 19. Congrats Sam, give me a call during next Monday night's show to get hooked up for your prizes.
I visit your sight every once and a while. Don't say long because your so damn negative about the Chiefs. But I've learned something after reading your stuff for almost 2 years. Your right a lot more than your wrong. if people can't see the real problems with the Chiefs, they're not looking hard enough or honestly. Like a few others, I was unwilling to listen to your arguments. I'm not anymore. Good blog dude.
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