Chiefs Demoralized by the Raiders

11 in a row!

The big problem was last week’s game. Herm probably came out of that saying “well we held them to within a score, almost took them to overtime, all we have to do is more of the same”.

Whereas it would have been better for the Chiefs to have been blown away 50-0 last week and we might have turned up this week.

More so than ever, the Chiefs need to make a major move for a #1 QB.

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After watching that nightmare, I will assume the following.

1. We did not watch any of the tape from the Denver Oakland game, therefore not gaining any knowledge about how to defeat Oakland.

2. We have only ONE run play – it’s called up the gut for 1 yard. We took the playbook and ripped out + burnt all of the tosses, fake toss/counters, and anything other than “up the gut” after the Chigago preseason game when we realized they might actually work. Someone please check the Arrowhead fireplaces for evidence of said burning.

3. Thigpen is not the answer – and he never will be. Sorry Thiggy, I saw this coming after your stellar preseason. Ingle Martin, you’re up to bat, please step up to the plate!!

4. MacIntosh is still terrible at RT.

5. I should go ahead and cancel my NFL Sunday Ticket – I can’t believe I’m paying to watch this crap.

though they were hard to find

I though a few defensive players had moments: pat thomas, bernard pollard, and carr did okay considering they were throwing his way all afternoon.

albert played well for most of the game, only let a couple of linemen through.

at least we know about thigpen.

We lost to a terrible raiders team in Arrowhead. Marty would not have allowed this. That is all.

I am coming back this week…hard. I am too angry to write coherently at the moment.

Special Teams… Should be gutted entirely. (Sole exception of Colquitt)

Thigpen… CUT, waivers, NOW

MacIntosh… Sit him, he’s a backup

Or, more specifically, maybe it’s the Boggs talking...

But I was at the game and I’ve never felt more hopeless after the game.

It has to be the worst feeling.

Think about this….if we can’t beat the Raiders, at home, on opening day….what do we do??

Yet.

We committed to the rebuilding plan. We gotta give him this year. I’m as pissed as anyone else but let’s not one game control our feelings.

i remember watching some really, really bad chiefs teams over the years. . .isn’t any team only a couple of years away from a superbowl run? isn’t that what’s great about the nfl? We knew this was going to be a tough year a long time ago.

Are we going to do this every terrible loss this year?

It doesn’t get any worse than this, so let’s look ahead. . .

I’m a Arrowhead Addict guy, but I check AP EVERYDAY… I thought it’d be cool to run on both sides. We’re all Chiefs fans here.

i have a fantasy league with 2 qbs and went out on a limb and started Huard today….time and again I try to have faith.

I extremely admire LJ for not pouting or getting pissed on the field despite the ridiculous and continuous up the gut run calling.

This can’t be Chan, and LJ is being a good soldier despite knowing that everyone knows what play is coming and when.

Maybe he could last a whole game under center as Herm’s starting qb?

but what an embarrassing game.. by far and i mean BY FAR the worst chiefs game i have ever watched.. just horrible

…Is a post game picture from the PARADE. Can you help us out?

about our team from last week to this week?

sudden negativity? Didn’t Chiefs fans pretty much agree that this season would be a 2-4 win year, and that as we found out more about which youngsters could play and which of them couldn’t hack it, there would be games like this?

Look, there’s no defending the offensive ineptitude today. The QB merry-go-round was a disaster, and Thigpen should not still be in this league. Our run defense was just as bad as last year’s, and the O-line still needs a lot of work. The playcalling was horrible for the most part, which I’m sure is mostly due to the idiotic idea to play 3 different QBs – though at least we learned what we needed to about one of them.

Didn’t we all see games like this coming? This is the kind of stuff that happens during rebuilding – we have to find out about these players at some point – at least we’re finding out, good or bad, early in the process.

also, to those of you complaining about Huard not playing more, I’m absolutely sure that I heard Gannon or Harlan say that he was “dinged,” which was why he wasn’t playing. What injury “dinged” describes, I’m not sure – but I know that it was mentioned.

how many problems the Chiefs had. They wouldn’t have signed Martin and worked out Bartel if they thought Thigpen was the guy. But if you look past the obvious talent mismatches, we were not mentally prepared for today. The Raiders took it on the chin last week at home and they came ready to play hard. This is the kind of loss that believe it or not should teach these young guys a lot about playing in the NFL and help to galvanize this team. Or… they tank it. I guess we will have to wait and see.

San Diego is getting screwed on that fumble call.

but the main difference in what I saw today was just pathetic performance from both our O- and D-line. RBs don’t pick up yards when the O-line doesn’t create holes, and opposing RBs look like superstars when your D-line lets itself get pushed apart and create more holes than Swiss cheese.

I can’t imagine watching this all year that was just horrible. Today it didn’t look like we were even trying to win the game.

- Thigpen staring down his recievers and trying to force it into cover. I honestly couldn’t see him going through progressions.

- Larry Johnson only had 12 carries we just gave up on running the second half, now he’s pissed and doesn’t want to be in our future plans.

- Our defense played well the first half but looked so tired the second half because our offense pretty much went 3 and out every time they had the ball.

- We just made the Raiders look like a good team. Enough said.

I could probably go on like this all day and I can’t think of many positives from this game other then the fact that it is over.

I give.

Huard should start. Thigpen can’t be a starting QB it looks like and Croyle’s an injury issue. Huard’s the only option. UCCrawford’s right. It’s time to start looking to develop the rest of the team, if there’s anything to develop.

I was prepared for a loss. Not really prepared. But kind of. But I wasn’t prepared to be beaten like that. By the Raiders.

This franchise is in ruins right now. The Bono era was better than this. The Grbac era was a dream compared to this. We’re a nightmare. I don’t care if Huard starts because I find it hard to care about anything we do, outside of my emotional attachment to the team.

I can’t criticize the coaching staff without looking like a hypocrite, so I’ll leave it be. Suffice to say that firing Herm does no good at this point in the season anyway, and if you were Bill Cowher, or really ANY coach in America, would you want this job right now?

Again, it’s not the loss, it’s watching DMac, one of my favorite players in college football, who went to my homestate’s University, torch us on top of it. It’s looking like we’re not even a real franchise.

Simms is gone, Culpepper can’t play, all the rest are scrubs. There’s no good option. And it really won’t matter since whoever steps under center is going to get crushed and injured regardless.

I really can’t come up with anything positive for today. I want to. I just can’t.

I’m not gonna lie: I feel like most of our problems are offensive (obviously), and moreover, directed at the offensive line. Protection is piss-poor. Huard or Thigpen or whoever’s job should not be to run for their lives and then throw on the run—have any of you ever tried that? It sucks, huh?!

I put my initial blame on an offensive line that couldn’t create holes in the defense for our backs to run through. This forced us to throw the ball (on a windy-ass day where I actually struggled to drive down to KC from I-29 without drifting into the ditch).

Very hesitant to pin a lot of blame onto Chan. He doesn’t have much to work with, and he at least showed a spark by instituting the option to our playbook. Awesome.

However, I believe that Billy Shakespeare (a Chiefsfan at heart) put it best when he uttered those immortal words: "

Now is the winter of our discontent…

-cw

Well, me and my three brothers are traveling to Atlanta next week to cheer on the Chiefs, and I’m wishing I had a way to get the trip refunded at this point. We suck, and it took me two years of mediocre herm-ball to realize it. I can’t understand why the clowns in our front office and Herm himself weren’t fired last year, being that his terrible conservative game plans doom us as much as bad play. Jerry Jones would have fired these clowns after that showing.

I lay the blame ultimately on the Hunts. We won’t see any meaningful changes until the franchise stops making money like it has in the past.