Hey, at least Chiefs owner Clark Hunt tried…
He went out and bought Andy Reid, the most experienced head coach he could get. However, he paid dearly. Then Reid and Hunt got us Green Bay‘s John Dorsey. Next the Chiefs secured quarterback Alex Smith ,a tried and true starter who’d been to the NFC title game just two years before. Smith was a winning, experienced quarterback with a big upside. Well, Hunt tried – it didn’t work out.
Already the players are grumbling about Andy.
The defense is, as always, horrid. Smith is average at best. We never found even one great offensive lineman and our O line is football’s worst. None of our top draft picks are worth a damn. Eric Fisher is done. D Ford is a no show most of the time he gets a chance, and our new corner is far from hot.
In fact, our loaded, all-pro defense is simply awful – much worse than the offense – which has its moments with a few standout players like Jamaal Charles, Jeremy Maclin and tight end Travis Kelce. Our defense on the other hand, really has nobody that stands out, including Justin Houston who once again was a no show against the Bengals.
It came as no surprise that the Chiefs got run over Sunday by the now 4 and 0 Bengals.
The Chiefs played three playoff teams in a row and lost to them all – the Broncos, Packers and Bengals. At 1-3 with 12 games remaining we’d need to win 9 to be a wild card. Not likely, huh?
Maybe we can beat Oakland or the Chargers at home. Maybe. However, we lose to Oakland there, lose to the Chargers in San Diego and to Denver at Denver. Now you have the rest of NFL teams we play to win out. Uphill to say the least.
Hey, Alex Smith did try, but he’s getting killed out there. And the Chiefs are on way to setting the NFL sack record – against us. We did get like seven field goals – whoop-dee-doo – but no touchdowns. Smith threw for nearly 400 yards and went deep a few times when he had some time to throw. He was better, just not good enough.
And there are no words for a defense that has pretty much quit. Arm tackles, can’t stop the run up the middle or any passing at all. Our name guys are getting run over at all positions. All of them.
Next week the Chiefs go to London to play Detroit.
They stink, so maybe the Chiefs get a win. Hey, at least they will visit Europe and have a nice time. The NFL is an odd creature, it’s never really over until the numbers say it is, but a playoff run for our Chiefs is all but over now.
They know it -we all know it – kit’s time to rebuild…again.
36- 21; still too many ‘entertainers’, not enough ‘football players’ resulting a 1-3 record the swiss and sole possession last place AFC West.
Where to begin? So much to say, so little time and internet paper… a brief critique
* The ‘some things never change’ category (Chiefs Championship drought, fandom as local & national media fibs) – ‘stop your lyin’ – tv announcers again stated Charles has the best yards per carry average NFL history; Charles DOES NOT, rather ranks 4th behind three other players & 2nd among all RB’s history
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/leaders/rush_yds_per_att_career.htm
* 21 points by way 7 fg’s is a real accomplishment: first team NFL history to kick that many and lose. The guy who kicked them, Santos (‘Saints’) proved not to be one – his kickoff aft his 7th went out of bounds, resulting in a short field and an easy CIN score – a touchdown, their case. Yet, there Santos sky-pointing x 7 without fail celebration of… what? Another loss
* No WR tds again – no tds at all = a new streak begun the swiss
No hand-jive from the usual suspects ‘entertainers’ this past Sunday:
* We have a problem, Houston – another 0fer the $101 mill sackless one
* Another lost fumble for Kelce aka ‘fake Gronk’ as dubbed DEN’s All Pro LB Miller
* CB ‘Toast’ Peters gives up yet another td pass, 4 allowed in 4 games ‘the best rookie in the NFL’ – consistency if not quality, his. That he totally whiffed & allowed a td run, also ‘entertaining’
* Alex ‘Garbage Time’ Smith again shined in his unique element (between the 20’s)
* DeAnthony Thomas: not saying it is predictable he’ll run the jet sweep whenever he enters the game, but Ray Charles saw that one coming… C-R-U-S-H-E-D
* Dee Ford: when not busy retreating pass coverage a running play, he turns his quick first step into another non-sack the QB; Sunday, he managed turn the Bengals QB into Barry Sanders, Andy Dalton’s juke nearly breaking the swiss LB’s ankles
This week, a toss-up: Bears @ KC… they can’t win this one, may not win again in 2015
K you are the best man. I remember I said this season might be better. The Chiefs might contend, with the new weapons we all talked about. The 4-0 preseason I thought mattered and winning game one….boy were you right and I was dead wrong. It was wishful thinking. “Bet against the team you know best, a team that can’t win when it plays good teams” said the old man in Vegas more than a decade ago….I said well my team, the Chiefs can’t beat Denver or Inday or any team Manning is on” so it began…first one was Elvis vs. Manning at Arrowhead…we lost I had Indy..won and from then on it was my main Vegas bet…the Chiefs never let me down, they lost 7 times in about six or seven years on those bets…they NEVER won, never covered. Yes I had a few other teams I liked, Pats, Packers over the years…the most consistent winners. I did lose a big one with Pats when they won but failed to cover.
The Chiefs as much as we love them here just always let us down…always. After a couple decades its gotten old. K you hammer it out. ‘Failed Organization’ better than I do or anyone else with stats and reason. KC fans can’t and won’t accept the truth cause it hurts. In the Chiefs we see ourselves our hopes and dreams of greatness. Thus the pain and sadness. I get it and well I was around when they were great back with Dawson and Taylor and Bobby Bell…and the good teams with Marty…that’s all we have..memories.
I’m sure one day, I don’t know when, like the Royals today, the Chiefs will have a good football team…it may be many years from now..it won’t be soon. There is no core team anymore. It will have to be rebuilt again. Hunt won’t let Andy go or Dorsey for a couple more bad years. Alex will start next year and the pain will continue…that’s a given. Only the fans screaming and loud and now will make him do something. Maybe. Who knows. I guess you do K.
in other words glaze….you flip flopped…
where are the comics?
A fan since the Chiefs started 1963, Kerouac experienced it all – rough start, ‘good old days’, through the bad & to date. If seeing is not believing, reading adds context, perspective & opinion.
The late (and oh so humble) Tex Schramm in his autobiography ‘The Man Who Built The Dallas Cowboys’, speaking about Lamar Hunt: “I see Lamar Hunt as one of the most selfish, commercial people I’ve ever met in sports… when he saw a chance to get out of Dallas for a better deal he cut and ran.” Against that backdrop the AFL Champion Texans left Dallas for Kansas City in 1963.
Realization came early for me: already Champions in Dallas and despite being stacked with talent, Chiefs were ‘underachieving’. No one loves an also-ran, sports/business otherwise, including an bottom line. Then compared now, much less sports money via TV contracts, moving franchises thus was more likely/did happen (Cardinals football, Dodgers, Giants baseball, Chargers, Braves, Texans/Chiefs among others as the 50’s gave way the 60’s.)
By the middle-60’s, many thought the Chiefs had better talent than any the other team in pro football AFL & NFL. That other teams have talent is a given; KC players themselves have said ‘we should have done better’, i.e. winning multiple Superbowls, certainly at their peak late 1960’s to the early 70’s. Yea or nay, Chiefs were also-rans their first three years here, 1963-1965. Attendance also sagged, possibility their departure to greener pa$tures real at that time, despite denials. That KC’s then GM Klosterman resigned (was fired?) for alluding to such, fact.
Injuries aside (every team has them and internal conflicts too), the Chiefs stumbled through 1967 & 1970 following Superbowl appearances, were crushed at the end 1968 & gave away 1971 Christmas Day, ample evidence in support underachievement.
We’ll never again see such a collection talent that era presented, 7 players Hall of Fame, 2 more (Robinson and Tyrer) sure-fire worthy & 4 others (Wilson, Budde, Mays, Taylor) arguably so. To think all those guys, 13 total including those enshrined, were on those teams at the same time, staggering. To know that only once in all those years did they put it all together, baffling.
Comparison, Packers, still greatest dynasty NFL history, placed 11 players Hall of Fame their 1960’s teams & even that shorted them by a couple guys, likely. So, 13 Packers from their greatest teams ever = 5 Championships in 7 years, the Chiefs 13 = 1 their heyday 6 years, 1966-1971. Talent alone isn’t enough, nor is the money to procure said. If one believes bad luck or curse, Chiefs.
Looking on the bright side, it could have been worse: imagine no team in KC… imagine no Hunt outbid the NFL 1960’s for all that talent… even here, KC might well have been as the AFL Broncos then, perennial doormats. Flash forward 50 years, Broncos have won multiple Superbowls since and played in several others too, while the continuing Hunt legacy et al has not, ongoing.
Poor management, ownership & coaching? Poor Talent? Money spent or unspent? Karma? The Cubs- er, Chiefs have not been to the mountaintop in 46 years; if one is honest they would not have ever won a Championship in KC save for that ‘special one year only wild-card format’ the AFL in 1969, which allowed KC even be in post season.
Chiefs have had many different cooks/recipes since, yet, their hopefully crafted full the finest intentions/ingredients souffles have fallen flat every year, never a concoction that right ‘mix’. Imagine the Green Bay Packers yearning for another Starr (no need, Favre & Rodgers since), the Patriots another Babe Parilli (Brady) , Broncos for a Tripucka (Elway, Manning), Dolphins a Griese (Marino.) Imagine the Chiefs & their fandom same… no need to imagine, we do. That half a century later we still yearn ‘another’ Otis Taylor, another Len Dawson, another Buchanan, Bell et al, telling. The word ‘spoiled’ via our past, come to mind. Except in terms a young QB: the next one we draft who excels for us will be the first.
We now exit Mr. Peabody and Sherman’s ‘Way Back Machine’, emerge back the present. 2015 same as every season since, all these ‘super$tars’? the local & national media & fandom claim – some players to refer themselves such, celebrating themselves as they preen, machinate and embarrass – loss aft loss aft loss, excuses proliferating. Here sit they/we once more, last place.
In God you may trust, but place yours in the Chiefs & as history shows, you’re setting yourself up for unhappiness, ad nauseam.
1970
But how ’bout them Royals, huh?!
1985
Cynic? Hater? The truth hurts.
You be Norman Vincent Peale, I’ll be Aesop
‘This is our year!’
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‘Wait till next year, part XXXX, verse XX’
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‘THIS’ has been/continues be tragicomedy
CG, have another long comment yet to post due a link being in said; HC hasn’t yet approved it, hopefully will be up Thursday.
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In the meantime, here’s another…
Further grist for the football mill, filed under category ‘things are even worse than you thought’:
The Chiefs have a .348 post season winning % all-time, second worst pro football history…the only team worse the .278 mark Bengals. Of the 32 teams in the NFL, the only ones with fewer post season wins than the Chiefs:
Expansion Houston Texans 2, expansion Jaguars & the expansion Bengals 5, expansion Buccaneers 6, Cardinals 6, Lions 7, and the expansion Falcons, expansion Saints & expansion Panthers all with 7, same.
The Chiefs have won exactly 8 post season games (about 1 win every 7 years on average) in 55 years entering the 2015 season; this be what is known the parlance a trend.
Even the expansion Ravens have more post season wins than the Chiefs, 15-8; ditto expansion Seahawks with 14 & the expansion Dolphins with 20. The Ravens have the best post season winning % NFL history too at .652, just ahead of the Packers .608*
* When Lombardi was at Green Bay, his winning % post season was .900, Packers record 9-1 in those 10 games. Since he left post season ’67, the Packers are just 22-19.
Other: the Cowboys have won more post season games than any team, Dallas 34 wins tops the post season list.
Of note, the ‘great over-hypes’ modern Patriots aren’t first in wins, winning % or Championships. Once again the best is the Packers 12 Championships.
Superbowls won (said did not exist until 1967) Steelers have 6 in 8 tries, 49ers 5 in 6 tries, Packers 4 in 5 tries and Patriots 4 in 8 tries.
The only team to win consecutive Superbowl: Packers with 2 straight, 1967 and 1968. Green Bay is also the only team NFL history to win the Championship for 3 consecutive seasons (did it twice in fact, 1929-1931 & again 1965-1967.
Upshot: Lombardi, Starr, Packers up here
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Belichick, Brady, Patriots (and every other Coach, QB and team that matter) down here
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“The only team to win consecutive Superbowl: Packers with 2 straight, 1967 and 1968. ” – error – the Dolphins, Steelers, 49ers, Cowboys, Broncos and Patriots have all done so.
Kerouac will still take the 1960’s Packers over any those other teams… will play ’em and beat ’em all, one by one.
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TRIM THE FACT!@ thought you were talking about the dude losing 54 pounds.
Yeah sure…54 pounds…show us the before and after pics.
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hEre ismy picture w islon….. I Dontn eed to lose waight
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I own you…1:34 am and you’re thinkin of Harley.
you can’t even sleep without thinking of Harley.
what a loser whoever you are!
CG, you have to love this. Kitty Scrotum makes three comments on your great story, even for a non sports fan like me, that all relate to ME. Has nothing to do with you or your story. Plus, he comments at 1:35am about me, then again at 7am, about me, saying I’m up at 1:30am with HIM on my mind. It must have been another night his mom didn’t get his meds to him in time.
He owns me? Yeah, I can see that…. so much so he has to make three comments about me on YOUR story. Sad, sad little man…
54 pounds? lets see the pic!!!!hahahahahaha!
jesus…idont post pics or storieson kcc…
too much info for guys like porky, sugar bear
and wislon to understand…….ohand baldy too.
we know whowas upat 1:35am…youand your
lonely self writing some more articles about
shoes….aliens…and the penis you saw on kcc!
yes…the pe*** you saw on hearnes sight.
I’m kind of glad the Chiefs have had a rough time at the beginning of the season instead of going 9-0 and then Poof! their season collapses. We can definitely go 4-4 before the break and if we’re truly any good finish strong at 10-6.
Of course, if we truly are terrible then we’ll know for sure soon and maybe Reid isn’t the answer. One thing’s for sure it’s hard to get anyone to want to come to KC so we may go through another dismal rebuilding process.
Well Fur, this is a real bad team if you hadn’t noticed so were the lucky 9-0 bunch. This team has no defense…all the stars are injured or lazy or both…slow…as you can see on the field…Poe has one tackle in three games they run right over him…Eric Berry has been terrible, they throw at him and hit all of them…on and on…a bad team..they just are.
CG you’re probably right..Andy Reid better show he can still coach or he’ll ruin this season and be shown the door. Last year we were rolling to the playoffs and then we lost the last 4 of 6 and we were done.
I’ve still got hope Reid is trying to finish strong by taking it easy the first half of the season which is what all the good teams are doing nowadays.
If we’re not at least 3-5 at the break then 2015 is over for the Chiefs.
Simple: Every time Smith gets sacked, it should cost the offensive line $100,000 out oftheir payroll. Every fumble needs to cost the back $100,000. Every interception costs Smith $100,000. Dropped passes by receivers $25,000. That way we get the team we pay for.
Our players would go broke, hah. interesting Cowboy…but THE NFL wouldn’t allow it…makes sense..
No talk on Whitlock burning another bridge with ESPN firing him? According to Pork Chops twitter he’s going to have the Explanation 2 soon.
I think Hearne addressed this a few weeks back.
I’ll give em until London to decide if they really are bad. We played three great teams in a row. Just because Kietzman says a team led by John Elway and Peyton Manning is an easy win doesn’t make it so.
clark hunt has tried hard twice now. it’s almost sad in a way that he does his homework, gets info an insight from experienced football people, does all the things right to find the best people and still, somehow, falls short.
that said, hiring reid felt to me a lot like Kansas hiring weis.
I think the only way KC is going to break it’s 45 year old curse is to grow within. The NFL changes too much to chase another teams coaches.
Just get some smart young people and let em’ do their thang!
Fur you are correct and that will take time…maybe a few years just to be ready to compete for postseason. Hanging on to Reid, Dorsey Smith and some long in tooth vets like Tamba, Berry and DJ makes no sense, they are done…time to let them go and rebuild…cut your losses…draft a young qb, get a young hot coach, they are out there and a sharp new GM that maybe can draft, we can’t…how many more years do we waste. Fur you are 100% correct.
Right now this team has no answer. We are a poor to middle of the pack ballclub have been for a couple decades we were never close to a Super Bowl contender or even a deep playoff run since the 97 season with Marty…we’ve had zip, nothing, poor D, no quarterback etc…no receivers…a good player here and there like Jamaal…and maybe ten good players like DJ, no superstars…save Charles…none…zero on defense..ZERO….just a few solids…6 all pro’s yeah right…any decent NFL team can run all over us, have for years…simple as that…because of Charles we’ve had an ok offense just ok…no D, none..a joke..hence the INDY PLAYOFF EMBARRASSMENT. Thats us..
Dump this team and start over the window closed on Charles, DJ, Tamba, Berry and soon Houston…he ain’ no killer as advertised…move on.
Clark did try … not his fault… he’s no football man and it shows…he counts on others to make up his mind cause he is not a student of the game..never was…Lamar was when he was younger then he turned it over to Peterson..who’s only great move was Marty..and those who got us Joe, Marcus, Neil, Derrick,Dan and Joe Phillips..later and too lake Hasty and a couple others…not many…so Marty had some good teams…nothing since…we need new blood
ah, the martyball days. i’ll give him and peterson their due. fielded some pretty good teams. brought arrowhead back to life after the dismal 80s. for a time then, this town was all about the chiefs.
We had some very good teams in the 90’s and we had our chance with Montana and Marcus but Marty really was too conservative and he really made me mad by not even trying to win at Minnesota in Dec 93 so we didn’t even get home field advantage. Sooo, we ended up having to to to Buffalo for the Title game and got blown out. Still, we’re weren’t good enough to beat the Cowboys that’s for sure.
I remember when the Chiefs collapsed on Monday Night in 1998, that was an ugly sight and Marty left town leaving behind a kid or two I’m sure. Then the next year we finally lost to the Raiders on the last game of the year and man that was an omen for the new millenium wasn’t it? Then Derrick Thomas died a few weeks later and it was just downright depressing. We lost AT Phoenix Cardinals later that year and that sealed Gunter’s fate.
Vermeil made the Chiefs good again except for the defense and after a few decent years he left to mend his vineyards, how boring can you get?
Hunt died and we ended with Herm, who I admit got the most out of his players but he was out the door when Carl finally left the building. Haley was the worst, even worse than Gunter. Okay, he wasn’t as bad as Frank Ganz I’ll give him that. No wait, he was the worst ever because I hate that jerk. Romeo broke the Packers winning streak so I’ll love him forever for that. He just wasn’t head coach material and both he and Pioli had to pay for all the Chiefs front office sins by witnessing Jovan Belcher shoot himself in the head after murdering his girlfriend. CTE and alcohol don’t mix I guess.
Now we got Andy Reid and I just can’t accept him especially after he embarassed himself and all the Chiefs fans by wearing inappropriate Aloha shirts for the annual NFL coaches group photo T W I C E!! I’m sorry Andy, you either win a playoff game THIS SEASON or you and your Moo Moo’s are out the freaking door!