I am with you on the fact that they need to string a few of these types of games together. But I have to say you seem overly critical of the improvement shown today.

This is a rebuilding team and as such will be wildly inconsistent all season long. So, we must look at every game and compair it to earlier in the season and see how they match up and if things are getting better or not. This was a vast improvement on the offensive side of the ball. We saw better play from more players than we had seen all season, as such it gives us the ability to look for building blocks for the future.

Now the D really didn’t show much if any improvment, our corners continue to get better but lets face it Farve throws interception a lot. Our LBs are still playing out of position and over playing their gaps thus giving up huge rushes. Our D line still needs five minutes to get to the QB to manage a single sack.

Be happy that we saw some players step up and don’t worry Herm still can’t coach so you have plenty to hang him with. Such as using the worst part of our offense to try and run the clock out with 4 minutes to play, we should have been going for another score.

We didn’t lose because of anything Tyler Thigpen did…the terrible defense, the injury to Jamaal Charles (our only effective RB) and the questionable playcalling at the end were what cost us. Statistically there were no knocks on what Thigpen did yesterday, it was an outstanding game by any standard. The only knock on Thigpen will be if he goes back to his previous level of performance after this week….which is very possible because what he did was so far out of line with the rest of his career.

Although I will say that his mechanics looked very sharp and I can’t recall any of Thigpen’s pass attempts yesterday where I was wondering “What in the hell is he throwing at?”.

The rest of the season’s so bad that the few good spots we see get blown way out of proportion.

The Jets certainly played down to our previous level of performance, but let’s not take away what the Chiefs did…our offense played well and so did our QB, despite a relatively decent performance by the Jets defense. But I’ll wait until next week’s game against the Bucs (who have a very solid defense) to say that the Chiefs have it figured out.

Most of us said that if we saw improvment in the team as the season goes along that would be enough because we knew a young team would lose some games they should win.

I was glad to see the offense start to put things together. What I have to wonder is if Chan finally just told Edwards that there is no way in hell that we can play power football this year with the players we have. It seemed like they finally put together an offensive game plan that played to the players strenghts, and this actually worked. You could tell that Thigpen was much more comfortable with this way of running the Offense and it had production. When things fell apart was when we try to play “preserve the lead” power football, we just don’t have the players for that type of game this year.

if Turk develops some technique, he could pose a very difficult problem for Left Tackles. So many teams are using Linebacker sized guys at RDE, it might be a surprise if you’re a LT to face someone who, although he might not be as quick, is only 15 pounds lighter than you instead of 50.