Chiefs End the 2008 Season in Typical Fashion
by Chris Thorman on Dec 29, 2008 7:36 AM CST
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It's really hard for me to say the Kansas City Chiefs are improving when you finish the season with a game like yesterday's.
Are we being duped? The Chiefs look like a house of cards, ready to fall at any moment.
Close to the worst game of the season
I'm going to stop short of calling yesterday's "game" the worst contest of the season. That distinction goes to the Week 5 game against the Carolina Panthers.
But the Chiefs did make it close to the worst game of the year. Here's how this game stacks up against others this year.
- 220 total yards is the third worst output of the season and worst output under Tyler Thigpen
- The 30.77% 3rd down conversion rate hovers around some of the worst games
- Six points is the second lowest output of the season
- 22:52 is the second lowest time of possession this year
- One rushing first down is the lowest of the season
Not the worst but close. How do you possibly end this season on such a low note against such a terrible team? Did the Chiefs give up?
Worst rushing game of the season
If Larry Johnson wasn't such a complaining, pouty, excuse making off the field problem, he'd have a right to be pissed off about the number of carries he got this year.
The Chiefs managed 31 yards on the ground yesterday, which is a hair under the second worst rushing performance. 15 rushing attempts is the second lowest number of attempts of the season. The Chiefs aren't interested in giving the ball to Larry Johnson anymore. Hopefully this means he gets kicked to the curb.
2.1 yards a rush is embarrassing. Especially against the Bengals. We're broken in the running game and nobody currently on our coaching staff can help.
Rush defense
The Chiefs' running defense is so bad that I think we need to introduce a gambling scandal of some sort to justify their poor performances. Wouldn't that make you feel better if the Chiefs came out and said they were throwing the games for money?
I know it would make me feel better. 204 yards rushing given up in the last game is so picture perfect for this year. Yesterday was the fourth time the Chiefs have given up more than 200 yards on the ground and the seventh time they have given up more than 150 yards on the ground.
No team should play this poorly over such a long period of time. When is the Chiefs' front office going to hold Gunther Cunningham accountable for this NFL travesty of a defense? Expect the heat to fire up on Cunningham over the next couple of weeks. I'd love to hear a defense of his defense.
What else is there to say?
This Monday morning post is not unlike a lot of the posts I did this season. The Chiefs were outcoached, outplayed and outsmarted. Again.
I'm cutting this one short because, well, it's the off season and we'll be hammering home a lot of my points over the next few months.
For those of you that haven't been around for an AP off season, we still post everyday and we'll actually get bigger as a community during the off season. So come back early and often for your Chiefs fix. You can still get it here.
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The whole season was marred in tragedy,
not just on the offensive side of the ball. So how can Cunningham be the only one to be held accountable? He’s coaching a scheme that isn’t suited to him, or he sucks at coordinating. He is out of his league there, and that rests on his boss: Herm. The coaching staff is a complete JOKE. All of them. I’m pretty sour about this blowout, and the game earlier in the season against the Raiders at Arrowhead came to mind. Two terrible teams go in, and one looks like the worst to ever play the game… and it has been the Chiefs.
Hunt needs to hire a football maid, his house at Arrowhead needs cleaning.
"In the NFL, coaching has to make a difference when the games are close. The talent level across the league from team to team is too similar. Great head coaches do their best work in the fourth quarter when the game is on the line. Instead, we’ve seen Herm blow timeouts, put the game in the hands of the league’s worst defense, and most recently, run Larry Johnson behind Wade Smith and Adrian Jones as if they were Tim Grunhard and Will Shields in their prime.
Dr. Frankenstein is gone, but his monster is still roaming the sideline at Arrowhead Stadium." -C.E. Wendler, Warpaint Illustrated
Playing for draft position.
Any shot they were looking ahead to April and trying to slot up a few positions in the draft?
I mean, if they’d beaten the Bengals, that’d put them behind the Bengals drafting (at 3-13 with the Bengals 3-12-1), right … ?
Herm Edwards is Clark Hunt's guy. Herm and Carl forced Clark to choose between their differing visions on how to rebuild the Chiefs, and we all see who got their walking papers. Herm's going to be walking the sidelines at Arrowhead in 2009, and possibly even beyond, no matter who the new General Manager is.
Didn't they already have it sewn up?
3-13 is worse than 3-12-1.
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by RoyalsRetro on Dec 29, 2008 11:21 AM CST up reply actions
@ JacinB: No, even with a win the Chiefs would have picked at 3 in front of the Bengals!
@ Chris: Good to here that AP has every day news in the off-season, I am from Germany an this page is my first Chiefs information every day, big compliment!!!
Nice regards from Germany
Volker
That reminded me of this, in case none of you guys knew this happened...
The week of Super Bowl IV:
With it all, however, Dawson and the Chiefs had survived. After finishing second to the Raiders in the Western Division race, the Chiefs eliminated the New York Jets in the inter-divisional playoffs, 13-7, and defeated Oakland, 17-7, in the AFL championship game to qualify for their second Super Bowl appearance in four seasons.
Nothing, it seemed, could heap further grief on the Chiefs. They already had had more than their fair share.
But in the early afternoon of Tuesday, January 6, after the team had finished its noon meal at the Fontainebleau Hotel in New Orleans and as Dawson prepared to attend a quarterbacks’ meeting, he was beckoned aside by Hank Stram. The news from the coach was ominous. A few hours later, the National Broadcasting Company, on its Huntley-Brinkley newscast, would report a federal investigation into sports gambling and say that Dawson and other players would be summoned to testify in Detroit.
http://www.supernfl.com/SuperBowl/sb4.html
We need a future defensive leader, his name is James Laurinaitis and he can be selected in round 1 of the upcoming Draft.
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