rebuilding yes, wasting our money and time also yes

by kc571 on Sep 17, 2008 8:23 PM CDT

Don't get me wrong, I want our team to be better for the long term, but every year is an opportunity to so "something". Look at Green Bay and Indy. They are among the youngest teams in the league. Yet they are more than competitive.

Fast forward to our team. I thought it was a joke when we played three QBs in our home opener vs. our biggest "rival". We didn't want to win the game. We, Herm and staff, want to evaluate players. Now we need to see which QBs on our roster can play or be cut. Unfortunately, not that I would, I can't get my money back from DirecTV. I think we can rebuild (or build) while maintaining a chance of winning. Right now, Huard gives us the best chance of winning.

Here's an excerpt from kcchiefs.com:

Q: This sounds that it’s more about an opportunity to look at him and develop him as opposed to try to beat the Falcons.

EDWARDS: “No, we’re trying to beat the Falcons. We feel that what we’re trying to do this week we’ll have a great chance to be successful.

Q: This is not then part of the overall plan to develop a young quarterback?

EDWARDS: “Well it is. He’s having a chance to play in the system. He’s got some talent. He hasn’t played a lot. We know that. We just felt we’d go with him this week. If he struggles a lot and it gets too big for him Damon’s always a guy who can come off the sideline and get the team going.”

Q: Was this the plan all along? Were you always going to start him?

EDWARDS: “I don’t know if it was the plan all along. It’s just where we’re at right now. It’s a decision we made as a staff. It’s week to week. Hopefully, he can hang in there and play well and get us a win and stay in there. That’s how we’re looking at it.”

Q: Why does he give you a better chance than Damon?

EDWARDS: “We just look at where we’re at as a football team. We’re constantly trying to evaluate players. We’re trying to grow a quarterback. Well, when do you grow em? They can’t grow unless they play. He needs to play. We know where Damon’s at. We know who he is. He’s a good quarterback.”

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Even since before preseason...

Herm’s had a hard on for Thigpen.

What a mockery they’ve made of football in KC. Like I read on a comment @ PFT – how can they look us, the fanbase, seriously in the face and say its the best they can do? If this was any other business whose services I’ve payed for you can be damn sure I’d be getting my money back while letting management know about it at the same time. I am all for the rebuilding of this team like the next guy but what they passed off as product was unacceptable last week. If that fact is not realized by the upper level management and coaching staff of this football club than I think its unrealistic to expect to win at all this season

I’ve been so negative since last Saturday that I don’t know if I’ll be able to stand myself after watching another Tyler Thigpen performance…..

by KansasCityShuffle on Sep 17, 2008 8:46 PM CDT 0 recs

ticket holders could always

file a class action against the organization…

just saying.

have you seen my baseball?

by IISaiNtII on Sep 17, 2008 9:08 PM CDT 0 recs

Or, you know... stop buying tickets

by ChiefDJ on Sep 17, 2008 9:32 PM CDT up 0 recs

You must not know

how season tickets work.

have you seen my baseball?

by IISaiNtII on Sep 17, 2008 9:35 PM CDT up 0 recs

I'm Not Sure How They Work

Being as I don’t live near KC…is there a PSL involved that would have to be paid again if you cancel?

Supporting the lesser of two evils is still supporting something evil.

by UCrawford on Sep 17, 2008 9:43 PM CDT up 0 recs

You pay for them in full before the season ends

and are contractually obligated to do so. Also, the new thing this season was, if you were going to try and pawn them off on others, you could only do it through will call, or ticketmaster (i believe ticketmaster anyway). Otherwise you would be in breach of contract, because the organization wants a cut of what you sell them for (which, as you can guess, it’s going to be hard to give tickets away this season).

Not sure what you mean by PSL. I think you can make 4 payments for the 10 home games throughout the year, or pay one lump sum. The cheapest tickets you can get are $40, so $400/person at least for season tickets.

have you seen my baseball?

by IISaiNtII on Sep 17, 2008 9:50 PM CDT up 0 recs

PSL

Personal Seat License

It’s basically a fee you pay to be a season ticket holder on top of the thicket price.

Giants and Jets just set their’s for their new stadium. Anywhere from $1,000 to $20,000.

“A personal seat license, or PSL, gives the holder the right to buy season tickets for a certain seat in a stadium. This holder can sell the seat license to someone else if they no longer wish to purchase season tickets. However, if the seat license holder chooses not to sell the seat licenses and does not renew the season tickets, the holder forfeits the license back to the team. Most seat licenses are valid for as long as the team plays in the current venue.”
—from wikipedia

by NJChiefsFan on Sep 18, 2008 5:51 AM CDT up 0 recs

I don't think the Chiefs

have that in effect….yet. But I don’t know for sure.

have you seen my baseball?

by IISaiNtII on Sep 18, 2008 8:12 AM CDT up 0 recs

They don't

I have season tickets and this is something that the Chiefs do not have yet and I think would struggle to implement especially now. If you are in the club level, they did require you to sign a 3 or 5 year contract which will have increasing prices to almost $200 a ticket for 2012 or else you could not have your tickets.

by skibum1537 on Sep 18, 2008 8:40 AM CDT up 0 recs

Yeah

I knew about that. The tickets increase regularly each year for club level to the point that some seats are going to be ~$2000/season.

They are going to lose alot of ticket holders there.

have you seen my baseball?

by IISaiNtII on Sep 18, 2008 11:17 AM CDT up 0 recs

You saw the end of last season...

and thought it would be miraculously turned around this season?

I understand being upset about losing thousands of dollars to watch horrible football. I don’t understand doing it willingly when you know its going to happen and then being upset about it.

by ChiefDJ on Sep 17, 2008 10:04 PM CDT up 0 recs

One word

Tradition.

I believe in the Chiefs. I believe that someday, they will turn the tide and make us proud again. And I believe they need the support of the fans to help do that. I live in KC, MO. I pay the taxes that are renovating one of the greatest stadiums in the NFL. I voted for the rolling roof. I want to believe that decisions made now are going to be better for the future, but how can I take these clowns seriously at this point?

Seriously, they let an aging team go down in flames. It didn’t happen overnight, and I’m tired of playing the blame game about who did or didn’t do what. Simple fact of the matter is, our offense didn’t go down overnight. It was allowed to happen, and many forsaw it happening. Yet they did nothing. Herm came in and did what he wanted to on defense, hoping to pull something out of his ass for offense. Defense is obviously still the main focus, but until they start playing both sides of the ball, and can do so for 60 minutes, we’re screwed and won’t score points.

Special teams are a joke. They have been since Vermeil left. You can’t deny that. Our ST show no sign of improving, and with Herms philosophy, they should be much better than they are.

have you seen my baseball?

by IISaiNtII on Sep 17, 2008 11:32 PM CDT up 0 recs

Playing Thigpen

is tantamount to throwing in the towel. And I can’t stand the quitter attitude. I don’t believe for a second Huard is injured. Has there been any official release as to what happened? I think from the get go the coaching staff has favored Thigpen and I don’t know what Damon’s done to piss them off so badly. I’m just flabbergasted how any NFL coach can set themselves up purposefully to lose and not be concerned over job security. For all those people that echo Thigpen needs his chance and it his time – get real. How much do you have to watch before you realize he shouldn’t even be suiting up for Sunday’s.

…I’ll circle these two weeks on the calendar (Oakland & Atlanta) as forfeits and not count it against our record. Hopefully thats all the Thigpen experiment will last for us and cost us

by KansasCityShuffle on Sep 17, 2008 10:11 PM CDT 0 recs

Starting QB

How is Huard getting killed behind the swinging gate we call the right side of our line going to help? At least Thigpen is mobile enough to get outside of the pocket. Surely either Herb Taylor or Barry Richardson would be a better option than sacintosh. How are we going to find out about richardson if he never plays. As far as right guard goes I don’t know. What I do know is until you have at least a competent line no quarterback, especially a 35 year old immobile one, is going to survive much less, thrive at the position.

by dklogue1 on Sep 18, 2008 5:03 AM CDT 0 recs