I am totally sold on Thigpen, and he deserves to hold the job through next year. I was completely wrong about him (as almost everyone with eyes was too).

He has truly improved beyond any reasonable expectation. Granted, he isn’t Marino or Brady, but have we seen a Chiefs QB play any better since Trent Green?

The kid has earned the right to lose the job, if he ever does.

the bad news: he mad a couple silly decisions -like when he ran out of bounds for a 2-yard “sack”. The good news about the bad news: The poor decisions weren’t all /that/ bad.

The good news, that’s 3 good games in a row. He ain’t a lock in my eyes until he’s finished the season playing well all the way, and getting a win or three, but he’s coming along. Seems to me that he’s doing better than, say, Eli Manning in /his/ first 3 games, and with less help on the field. Anyone know more how he stacks up against the good/great QBs in their rookie seasons?

For all that, it’s looking like Peterdaughter has managed to do something that has eluded him for over 16 years(About when i got to KC): grab a young QB who can lead our team, and grow into a reliable starter, as opposed to the string of re-treads and over-the-hill types (with the exception of Green, and the possible exception of Gannon – ‘possible’ wouldn’t be there if he’d won the starting job), and even those two were imports with limited life expectancies on the field. Or am I wrong on that count, and CP found a young QB, with a long future ahead of him, that I’ve not heard about?

The most positive thing I’m seeing is that for whatever reason, the Chiefs and not subbornly trying to stick to the consHermative smash-mouth appoach. Chan appears to be adjusting the offense to fit the personnel, rather than trying to make the personnel fit the scheme.

They /do/ need to realize that the consHermative approach won’t work in the third quarter, given that this D isn’t dominant. They have to keep scoring points, and not worry so much about burning clock – ‘cause that ain’t working. Other teams don’t fear this D, and they don’t panic just because they are a couple scores down. Therefor, the real way to take the pressure off the D, is to stretch that lead, and I believe that this O can do that.it ain’t the Greatest Show on Turf Mk III, but TT’s shown he can get them into the end zone. 3rd Q, they need to come out with both guns blazing! That will let the D worry less, and react more, and up the pressure on the opposing Offenses. That strategy won’t guarantee that the other O will screw up, but it should help.

But however it breaks, I’m looking forward to next week!

66-102 710 yards 6 TDs 0 INTs 0 Fumbles lost

^ I’ll take that from a QB every time.

Pat

congratulating the team, and especially Herm, for making the decision to go for the two-point conversion. I would like to say, however, that I’m not so happy with the game as a whole – the decision not to go for it on fourth-and-2 from our 46 right after Rivers’ second INT was, in my mind at least, very questionable. Also, there were some odd play calls (this falls on Gailey) on a few makeable third down situations – like the pass in the flat to Savage on third-and-5.

That being said, I still can’t find it in me to be too mad about any of those things. Once again, the team showed obvious progress – we seem to have found a #2 WR and a QB, the offensive line is showing signs of improvement, we were able to get pressure on the QB while rushing just the 4 down linemen, and our defense may well be fairly good once we can get the M*A*S*H helicopters away from the field.