Well, last two games I'd say no, our defense soiled the sheets, and our only strength was that the laws of physics and the NFL rulebook dictate that the clock keep moving and the game finally ends.

How about we play to this strengggth: if you don't block someone you're fired?

/still angry.

"Look at that Svitektion out there!  It's like the French army swinging pillows in bubble-wrap armor!"

Seriously though, there's a lot of heads that should roll before Herm's thought cough SOLARI cough

Get a new O-coordinator, get an O-line, give Croyle another year, then if we're still 4-12 demand his head on a pike.

He may turn this team around next year or the year after, but for the time being, I think Dick Vermeil and the rest of our recent coaches have earned a break.

Perhaps you should revisit your Huard fanhood, if only he could - I don't know - finish an entire game.

The only difference between you and someone who wears a Champ Bailey jersey is geography.

I'll remind you that Bordie went toe to toe against Peyton Manning with a much more limited game plan, and Kolby threw down 150 yd.s rushing in his first NFL start.

"Great, just great, I can't wait to watch Ohio State lose the national championship AGAIN."

Writing either off at this stage is moronic.

You want to naysay and fret, start talking about LJ.  He's a 4th year veteran and our highest paid player who's basically sitting out this season.

Have LJ start with Brodie and trade off with Kolby and a decent O-line and then think about how you want to evaluate them.

In the games and situations where Brodie's been given a chance by the O-line (and not facing a 28 point deficit), he's succeeded. In the games where we've been close and needed good coaching, we've come up short.

As far as personnel goes, I want to be fair to Brodie, but I also think this is the most talented offensive skill player draft in years. I think passing up a known talent for an offensive lineman (especially off of a team that fell apart like Michigan) might be a mistake. I also think the worst case scenario is we have a quarterback competition between two players with athletic talent, and whichever one doesn't work out, we trade or cut.

It's a moral imperative that we trade LJ so we can move up and get McFadden, if only to keep the Patriots from getting him. We owe it to the world.

After our discussion of how much money we're spending (read:blowing), couldn't we cut some fat and bring in some high draft picks and truly rebuild?

I don't want us to ignore the O-line. I'm not a masochist. I just think we'd be better served by signing a major O-lineman and using veteran talent along with some 2nd-4th round talent, as opposed to gambling with a stud in a loaded offensive and defensive draft class. We can have our pick of the best QB class in years, a high talent running back, a shut down corner (since no one will be drafting defense), or Glenn Dorsey.

I worked over my DirecTV Superfan package this weekend and couldn't find a team playing with less heart than ours.

Even the Jets, Dolphins, and 49'ers were working through the 4th quarter.

Ugh.  

Herm's lost the team- they don't believe in him, his system, and his methods.

He's failed at his own credo-

"Know your role and do your job"

He is not a good head coach.

He is a good defensive coordinator.

He should go back to the role he's meant for.

MV

But aren't you going to defend your man? Usually all I say is that he's coaching badly this season and made bad personnel decisions. These guys want him taken out on a rail!

Herm defenders! A call to arms! Two weeks ago there was no end to the Herm-love! What say you! Defend your man! Stand by him! Stroke his sweet head! Don't let these fans tear him up like this!

You play to win the game! I don't know what that means, but it's true!

Those are Herm's faults.

NOW, did he get spooked?  Is that why when we went to the no huddle things crashed, or does our O-line suck so bad that they can't even pass block when the defense is rushed?  I don't know about that.  If you want a knock on Brodie call him "footsteps brocro," the kid may be spooked but he's no Damon "Help I've fallen and I can't get up" Huard.

Mawk, myself, and everyone else with half a brain will have to shut up and accept that our stupid notions of "developing a young QB" were foolish and misinformed, and the Chiefs will have a 6-10 record, with lingering doubts about QB which much have just had a "flukey" game against Indianapolis.

That way we can look forward to next year where we will be led Damon "I'm blowing into this straw to direct my wheelchair bootleg" Huard rolling his way to victory and another, what?, 8-8 season.  Maybe we would have had that impressive record if we just hadna let that Croyle kid start!

Now let me tell you what really is going to happen.  Let's say again, your glass jaw hypo is correct.  Well then Huard might come in for half a game, get injured.  Hello Thigpen 0-3 goodnight.

Or, Brodie who seems to finish games even without blockers struggles on for 3 more games, maybe in a last ditch effort to keep their jobs the O-line puts up a decent effort against the Jets or LJ comes back or something and we go 1-2; 5-11.  Then we know Croyle is tough enough to at least play.  So we draft a QB, who, wow remember this concept, has NO NFL experience, shocking how that works out, and we have an unknown who can take a hit and was at least alright against Indy vs. a total unknown that D Thomas might like more if he says "gee golly" and has tool-bag goatee, but with NO again that ABSOLUTELY NO, NFL experience, it's funny how these young guys never seem to have that!

So congrats, your season is now rooting that Croyle gets injured and hoping we get the worst draft pick possible to stay as mediocre as we can be, woo-hoo, rebuilding, such any concept, so easily lost on people.