That's the kind of guy I am.  I don't hold grudges. 

Sure, I get frustrated to see people flip flopping and losing hope after just two games.  Many of the same people that were so excited to see Chan Gaileys new offense in the Bears game are now cursing Herm Edwards "obvious meddling", and I know that WHEN the offense gets on track, the credit will shift back to Gailey and everyone will assume that Edwards has somehow been cut out.  I get that people are that naive and want to stick with their preconceived prejudices.

Everyone knew before the season that the Chiefs were going to be a bad team, just like we all had a pretty good idea before the 2007 team.  We've gone from admitting that the Chiefs talent level was demolished by Vermeil's "Veteran Surge" push for the playoffs and poor drafting to just blaming everything on the usual scapegoats in K.C., Carl Peterson, the QB of the day and in more recent years, Herm Edwards.

How quickly so many lose sight of the big picture.  Of the "plan".  I understand.  It's easy to SAY that you're prepared to suffer through a 4-12 season for a better future.  Its a whole lot harder to LIVE through it. 

We saw an inkling of how many fans were on the edge when the Chiefs were roundly criticized for going 2-2 in the preseason, which should have impressed them.  We saw even more when the Chiefs nearly beat the New England Patriots, even though everyone expected us to lose by 30 or 40 points.  Oh sure, Tom Brady got knocked out of the game.  Maybe it would have been a lot worse if he had been in there, or maybe not.  We'll never know.  But even without Brady, we had the opportunity to defeat the team that are the defending AFC champions coming off a perfect season that has won the Super Bowl three times in the last seven years.  Brady is a great QB, maybe one of the best ever.  But he didn't do it by himself.  It takes a TEAM to win.

That's something some Chiefs fans seem to have a difficult time understanding.  The concept of needing a complete team in order to really be successful, because a lot of people seem to expect the Chiefs to be playing like the Patriots with their high powered passing attack and solid defense, even though more than half the team are rookies and second or third year players and a good percentage of the rest are holes plugged by whoever we could find to plug them because the team was left so devoid of talent by the previous coaching staff. 

How many teams can you name that have all but two players they drafted in the last three years still on their team with 11 of them starting?  NONE!  Because it doesn't happen if there is talent already on your team.  We have had good drafts, no doubt, but the reason all these players are starting and getting as much playing time as they are is because there was so little talent on the team to begin with.  We have some great prospects playing on ths team, but we also have a whole lot of players that would not be starting or even getting playing time on a more talented, established team.

I mean, come on.  Pat Thomas at middle linebacker, probably the most important position on the defense?  Hole plugger.  Adrian Jones, a failed Tackle converted to Guard?  Hole plugger.  Damion McIntosh, an injury prone mediocre LT moved to the right side for the first time in his career?  Hole plugger.  Devard Darling?  Hold plugger.

These are critical positions on the team that have place holders in them because even after 3 drafts in which almost every player drafted are either starting or heavily contributing, there are still enormous holes on this roster. 

But OH NO!  Poor play on the field is not the fault of the young inexperienced players or the below average place holders.  Its the fault of the scapegoats!  It's not the players fault that they can't open a simple High School Guard-Tackle running lane, its the playcalling!  It's not the below average WRs fault they can't get open, its the playcalling!  It's not the 3rd string QBs fault he more accurately throws to the opposing teams DBs than to his own WRs, after all, what do you expect out of a 7th round pick?  But its most DEFINITELY the coach's fault.

You have to learn to walk before you can run.  Until our offensive line can figure out how to block a 5 yard out to the TE without getting the QB killed, how can you possibly expect them to be able to hold long enough to throw a 40 yard bomb?  Until our young QBs can learn to not telegraph their screen passes, how can we expect them not to telegraph the 20 yarder?

Don't get me wrong, this is not an indictment of the players.  The young players are getting valuable experience that will make them better players.  Just look at Pollard, Tank and Turk; three players many were ready to give up on after bad rookie seasons; but though not Pro Bowl players, are vastly improved over last year.  The placeholders are there not because they are good players, but because they are a warm body that we need to fill the position until the next draft.  If they were that good, they wouldn't be placeholders.

I've never claimed Herm was the greatest coach in the world, but its preposterous to call him a "team-killer" because he took over a squad that was so old it turned to dust and so devoid of talent because of years of bad drafting that nobody really batted an eye when he cut 90% of the team in three years; and that that recreated team has struggled.  I know Herm isn't popular with a lot of people that loved the old Vermeil offense, even though that offense only led to a single playoff appearance in 5 years.  I know a lot of people want to replace him with a coach like Bill Cowher, who took 14 years on the most stable team in the NFL to finally win a Super Bowl, but people forget that too.  Or Marty Schottenheimer who people were trying to run out of town for five years before he finally resigned.  Both of those guys run a more conservative offense than Herm does.  Are they better coaches?  Yeah I'm pretty sure they are.  But neither of those guys could turn the work in progress the Chiefs currently are into a winner overnight and certainly not in the two games that people have given the Chiefs this year before giving up on them.

IF HERM WAS A GOOD COACH, HE COULD WIN WITH THE PLAYERS WE'VE GOT!

People predict we will go 4-12 or 6-10, but as soon as we hit 0-2, its time to throw the baby out with the bathwater.  THE PLAN ISN'T WORKING!  FIRE EVERYONE!

It's OK.  I won't draw a line in the sand.  I won't gloat when the seeds that have been planted come to fruition down the road.  I won't laugh at you for trying to rip the seeds out of the ground screaming at them to "GROW DAMN IT!".

I'll be right here, watching the seeds get watered, patiently waiting for them to sprout.  And when they do, I'll be patiently waiting for them to come fully into bloom.  It's just a matter of time.  Whether you believe the guy watering that seed is capable or not doesn't really matter.  We're going to find out one way or the other.

I'll be right here on the wagon waiting for you to climb back on and I'll welcome you with open arms when you return.