The offense is certainly looking better than it did at the beginning of the season. That’s because out of desperation the Chiefs finally built an offense that tailored itself to the abilities of the players they had rather than attempting to force the players to play an offense they weren’t capable of fitting. This is what the Chiefs should have done from the start, but didn’t. And why? Because Herm hates this kind of offense and will look for any excuse to go back to his old style, regardless of whether it works. Just look at his post-game comments:

You turn the ball over five times it doesn’t help you. That and the fouls gave them too much field position. I thought at times we moved the ball offensively. Defensively, I thought we did some things early but the turnovers got us.

Notice how he lays it all on the offense that scored him 31 points and lets the defense that gave up 34 points (without the turnovers) off the hook?

When it was close they kept coming at us offensively. We did some things offensively but the turnovers kill you. We didn’t play our game."

Again…he doesn’t look at a game like this and say “Man, our defense is really playing like shit. Maybe I’m doing something wrong here and maybe my philosophy is off.”. Nope, he looks at the game and takes from it that the only people out there doing their jobs (the offense) are somehow to blame because they didn’t play a perfect game. Never mind that the Chiefs couldn’t register a single sack against a mediocre offensive line, never mind that if the Bills hadn’t scored any points over turnovers the Chiefs still would have lost the game and that our offense under Herm’s “style” would never have kept us in the game…in his mind his defense is doing their job and it’s that goddamn kid Thigpen taking too many risks who’s sinking us. Defense good, offense bad, regardless of what actually happened on the field…that sums up perfectly why Herm’s such a miserable fuck-up as a head coach.

In fact, go through his post game comments and count how many knocks he made against his defense that gave up 34 non-turnover points versus how many times he harped on the offense. I counted nine times where he talked about turnovers and one where he indicated that the defense might not have done their job because Trent Edwards “got out of contain in the red zone”, after which he glossed over the complete lack of a viable pass rush.