Chiefs Look Lackadaisical Against Last Year's Losers

by Chris on Aug 23, 2008 9:33 PM CDT

What progress Kansas City Chiefs fans saw in the first two preseason games was completely dashed by the Miami Dolphins tonight in a 24 to 0 loss.

Don't look for any semblance of progress by the Chiefs in their third preseason game- there wasn't any.

The Miami Dolphins, 1-15 last season, played smarter, faster and harder in virtually every facet of the football game. In fact, a Chiefs fan would be hard pressed to find any series of plays on offense or defense to applaud. Despite three turnovers by the Dolphins (the Chiefs had four), the offense was not able to generate any points.

But you know what? This is the preseason. You'd love to see progress, any progress, but I'm not calling for anyone's head. Our team is young, missing plenty of starting players due to injury and still learning a new offensive system under a new offensive coordinator. To expect anything beyond major growing pains, especially early on, is setting yourself up for disappointment. The preseason is too small a sample to garner any solid analysis.

Breathe deep, let it out and look forward to next week against the St. Louis Rams.

Patience. Patience. Be patient. Please?

Box score is here.

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Patience my rear I wanna choke someone!

by Eric Allen on Aug 23, 2008 9:36 PM CDT 0 recs

by Ridiculous Matt on Aug 23, 2008 9:40 PM CDT 0 recs

No really I would like to see

Some progress, but it seems like we already went backwards. It is like Herm told Gailey to slow down the Offense because we scored too many points against Chicago. On the brightside Barry Richardson did not look any worse than the rest of the O-line.

by Eric Allen on Aug 23, 2008 9:41 PM CDT 0 recs

Oh dear lord...

…we play the RAMS next week?!

For all that is holy about the I-70 war…whyyyyyy?!?!

by gritsnyc on Aug 23, 2008 9:41 PM CDT 0 recs

Al Saunders back to put it on Hermie!

by Eric Allen on Aug 23, 2008 9:43 PM CDT 0 recs

You know

I’ll never forgive Vermeil for doing this to us. Wow. I just can’t believe he’s responsible for this disgusting display.

chants: “Not till December. Not Till December. Not Till December.”

by Ridiculous Matt on Aug 23, 2008 9:49 PM CDT 0 recs

Yeah he made this offense inept!

by Eric Allen on Aug 23, 2008 9:50 PM CDT up 0 recs

Everyone was saying how great the new offense was last week.

There is not hing good to say about this game. It stunk from top to bottom. But lets not overreact based on one game and forget what we’ve seen up till now.

by ChiefDJ on Aug 23, 2008 10:06 PM CDT up 0 recs

Why the change though?

Things looked alot better in the first pre-season game than they do in the third. Shouldn’t there be even more signs of progress? This team looked like they went backwards.

by Eric Allen on Aug 23, 2008 10:09 PM CDT up 0 recs

Your guess is as good as mine

Hey, I don’t want to make excuses. They stunk it up. The reality is that what we saw tonight is probably a lot closer to what we can expect the rest of the season. We have a young team that makes mistakes and encounters new things for the first time and doesn’t know how to handle them. We’re going to see a lot of that this year.

The playcalling didn’t seem to be as varied as they were in other games. Even Brian Waters said they only had 2 running plays tonight because they aren’t wanting to show too much before the regular season.

Is it me or did Croyle not audible at all? I remember seeing Huard do it once and couldn’t recall seeing Croyle do it once.

All I know is this game was rough and its a good thing the next one comes on Thursday so we can forget all about this one.

by ChiefDJ on Aug 23, 2008 10:15 PM CDT up 0 recs

Yeah, but we will only see the starters for a series or two.

The wife and I will be there.

by Eric Allen on Aug 23, 2008 10:17 PM CDT up 0 recs

If this team loooks as bad as they did tonight all season,

Everybody will be learning a new scheme all over again next year.

by Eric Allen on Aug 23, 2008 10:20 PM CDT up 0 recs

No reason to go nuts here

Believe me, Im as frustrated as anyone is.

But as I always have to remind people, we know this team is not going to be great this year.

I have said all along that we should go 8-8 and Im not changing that after one horrendous game. If they start making a habit of playing like that, I might change my mind, but so far its just one game.

We’ve talked for months about what a genius Gailey is. Well, this is preseason and they don’t gameplan for anything and are trying to hide plays for the regular season plus we have a ton of guys out injured.

So either we were all idiots for believing in Gailey all this time or else this was just one lousy preseason game.

by ChiefDJ on Aug 23, 2008 10:34 PM CDT up 0 recs

Clone Savage

The way Savage hustled to run down the Dolphin who made the last interception and wrangled him to the ground was awesome. When all was lost. Savage’s running was inspired, too.

Brandon Carr: Excellent interception.

Manderino: can’t block; can’t catch; can’t make the team.

Price: solid – on the team.

Kolby: good job. Would almost rather see him start over LJ. sorry

Allan: stone-handed his way off the squad

Linebackers: somebody please step up besides DJ

Dorsey: played okay — more importantly, he played.

Flowers: how many years has this guy played in the NFL? 4? 5? Seems to be hitting his prime. Yeah, he didn’t wrap up on one tackle, but he hung on to a foot; refuses to get beat long in non-obvious passing situations. He’s the real deal.

by sunny D on Aug 23, 2008 9:50 PM CDT 0 recs

+1 spot on

I like Kolby, but I still want LJ starting… but yeah, Kolby looked good.

Can’t agree with you more on every other point.

by Ochophosphate on Aug 25, 2008 12:22 AM CDT up 0 recs

MacIntosh injured his way off the team.

This proven way to play football, burn up the clock rest the defense was proven when? I would take the score at will offense anyday over Hermieball.

by Eric Allen on Aug 23, 2008 9:54 PM CDT 0 recs

Oh by the way I agree on Kolby.

by Eric Allen on Aug 23, 2008 9:54 PM CDT up 0 recs

Pat Thomas

Thomas played okay. I can see him playing like Kawika Mitchell did his first years here, just tackling a lot, not making a lot of plays.

Oh, Kawika. How I miss you now.

by Ridiculous Matt on Aug 23, 2008 9:55 PM CDT 0 recs

We have to let go of the past,

I know it is hard to let go, but we have to.(jumps off of edge of tub noose tightens)

by Eric Allen on Aug 23, 2008 9:57 PM CDT up 0 recs

Guys!!

Remember that the Dolphins are new too. New front office, only two coaches still there from last year. A lot of new faces in the lines(o and D) and lb’s.
Anyway, a friend of mine, a Chief fan, has been calling for the AXE on Herm, because even though, he is D oriented coach, he has destroy one of the premier NFL Offense(went he took the team) and had not improve, at all, the D. With this outing tonight, i’m going to avoid him for a while ; )
Ps don’t think he will be in the mood to talk about football, he will be more into the screeming ; )

I will see the Dolphins win a SUPER BOWL before i die(21 years and counting)

by Aleta on Aug 23, 2008 9:56 PM CDT 0 recs

All new schemes and shut us out!

by Eric Allen on Aug 23, 2008 9:58 PM CDT up 0 recs

We can't

start talking about sacking Herm after a preseason game. It’s fruitless and if we want to actually make the argument later, it weakens our case. We need to support him for now.

by Ridiculous Matt on Aug 23, 2008 9:58 PM CDT 0 recs

Do I really have to?

by Eric Allen on Aug 23, 2008 9:59 PM CDT up 0 recs

That game was really hard to watch.

The only real highlights of the game was when Dantrell had the ball, I would like to have seen him or Kolby in that goal line situation.

by Eric Allen on Aug 23, 2008 10:03 PM CDT 0 recs

I agree but

running the same play twice with LJ was the problem, IMO. it was obvious he was going straight and would try to jump the pile.

by KS on Aug 23, 2008 10:26 PM CDT up 0 recs

The Wizards outscored the Chiefs and Royals tonight

boy Herm is looking better and better as a judge of talent

by sm7600 on Aug 23, 2008 10:35 PM CDT 0 recs

Give me a break

I swear some people sit around hoping for a bad game as an excuse to bash the coaches and organization.

by ChiefDJ on Aug 23, 2008 10:40 PM CDT up 0 recs

this is two suck ass games in a row

and this one against the (allegedly) worst team in the NFL.

There really isn’t much of a future here.

by sm7600 on Aug 23, 2008 10:45 PM CDT up 0 recs

I recommend you go buy some Patriots gear

If you don’t see a future with this team, theres no reaon for you to continue watching.

Seriously.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but some people only come out of the woodwork when theres a chance to bash the team. Where are you when the team does well?

by ChiefDJ on Aug 23, 2008 10:59 PM CDT up 0 recs

O, I'm here. Just take a look

and by the way, I said nothing last week.

The last couple of years really call into question the Kuharich/Edwards talent evaluation combo. Both were essentially run out of town in their last jobs. Given the inability of the Chiefs to find sufficient talent to plug gaps, one has to wonder if we’ve continued the unfortunate habit of hiring the over-the-hill…this time in the front office

by sm7600 on Aug 23, 2008 11:03 PM CDT up 0 recs

See that Merriman actually has two tears?

by Eric Allen on Aug 23, 2008 11:03 PM CDT up 0 recs

yes

I think one of them is in his vagina.

by Ochophosphate on Aug 25, 2008 12:23 AM CDT up 0 recs

Is that what I heard flapping when he was running down-field?

by Eric Allen on Aug 25, 2008 5:08 PM CDT up 0 recs

DJ

Look, I’m siding with you on the “let’s not get wrapped up in this” even though I’m deathly afraid that what we saw tonight was not a freak preseason abberation but a preview of the offensive ineptitude we’re in for the entire year. I’m down with letting it slide. But you have got to stop with this “You’re not a fan!” stuff. We have no way of knowing from someone’s comments after… whatever that was… whether they’re a fan or not. I don’t want anyone calling you a flat-out Herm lover and apologist, but I also don’t think you should make judgments about someone’s fandom.

People would be here cheering if we won. And they have reason to be upset after tonight. We got blanked by the freaking Dolphins in a preseason game. While it doesn’t matter, it’s still kind of embarassing that our second team couldn’t get a field goal against their second string.

But let’s keep gloves up.

by Ridiculous Matt on Aug 24, 2008 12:04 AM CDT up 0 recs

in the current regime

one is rarely disappointed by underestimating the talent and accumen

by sm7600 on Aug 23, 2008 10:45 PM CDT 0 recs

Nice to see the Raiders getting blown out too

Cardinals 24, Raiders 0 with 7 minutes left

by KS on Aug 23, 2008 10:45 PM CDT 0 recs

Good the Raiders suck too!

by Eric Allen on Aug 23, 2008 10:47 PM CDT up 0 recs

the battle for the worst team in the division

should be an interesting one

by sm7600 on Aug 23, 2008 10:48 PM CDT up 0 recs

When Chiefs play in Florida

I know it is no excuse for the way the Chiefs played tonight. But is Florida a jinxed state for the Chiefs to play in? As I can only remember like once or maybe twice where the Chiefs have even won a game or even looked good in a game regular season or preseason game in the last 10 years.

by DLChiefs on Aug 23, 2008 10:46 PM CDT 0 recs

Seems like I have had that thought before.

by Eric Allen on Aug 23, 2008 11:02 PM CDT up 0 recs

189 total yards?

Are you serious? WTF???? All hope I have been mislead to gain has now vanquished. I couldnt watch the game, but come on i mean come on, I am now accepting wins as the exception and far from the norm. (sorry bout the late post I am bartendering in my final semester at LSU).

by ChiefinSaintsland on Aug 24, 2008 1:17 AM CDT 0 recs

Also

Chiefs played the dolphins in miami not long ago before a hurricane and beat them pretty handily, I believe it was 2006(our last playoff year, if you wanna call it that).

by ChiefinSaintsland on Aug 24, 2008 1:23 AM CDT 0 recs

Did we set a record? (AP not the Chiefs)

for longest thread? That thing hit 351 by game end. I think it bogged down the site it was so immense… it took me 5-6 tries to get in to one of the other fanposts to check the comments.

I must say I love The Official Arrowhead Pride Parade’s images.

by Ochophosphate on Aug 25, 2008 12:25 AM CDT 0 recs

This has all the ear marks

of Herm meddling in Chan Gailey’s offense. Ist game the play calling is great, the offense looks good. 2nd game Herm dials Chan back a notch and the offense doesn’t look so good. 3rd game and Chan is toeing the Herm Edwards line and the offense sucks. What else could it be? Or did the offense just go south by itself?

by G.L. on Aug 25, 2008 3:48 PM CDT 0 recs