I was originally going to write this post last year, but I decided to hold off until NFL free agency started, just to give the Chiefs a chance to prove me wrong. So far, they have failed. I also considered titling this post “Look out Silver Market, Clark Hunt is stockpiling Cash!” All numbers were sourced from major news publications via Google searches.
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So the season ended with a surprising victory over the Denver Broncos that featured a pair of historically significant performances. A lot of the coverage of the team seems to have focused on this 44-24 win and the solid performances turned in by several young players during the game.
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So the Chiefs game was blacked out in KC for the first time in 19 years. Among other things, this led to the presence of two geniuses at the bar who thought the game would be on there by virtue of “the Cleveland feed”. This also led to the asked and answered question series “So is there anywhere in KC showing the game?” ”Arrowhead. I hear they’re showing it out there today.” And that’s about the best thing I can say about the game.
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For your consideration, I present two NFL quarterbacks over a roughly equivalent period.
QB 1: 14 games 11 starts, 18 TDs, 12 INTs, 54.8 completion %, 2608 yds, 6.2 yds/att, 76.0 QB rating
QB 2: 13 games 13 starts, 13 TDs, 13 INTs, 54.6 completion %, 2206 yds, 5.6 yds/att, 69.1 QB rating
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Ok, the title of this post is kind of a lie. I’ve never been a Lions fan, and I didn’t think Millen was a particularly good or capable GM. However, the more I see of this years Chiefs team, the more I think, wow, this is the most unwatchable, horrifying, awful, terrible football team I’ve ever seen. Then I wonder how long it will be until the tired old (but still funny, man that commercial rocked) “Chefs” jokes die out and the Chiefs start getting talked about in the same terms as the Bungles and the Faders.
Then I remember that until recently, there was always one GM and franchise in football that you could count on to completely screw up way worse and in more baffling and obscure ways that what your team was doing. And for a few minutes, I’m happy. Then I remember Matt Milled got fired last year.
So I guess I lied a bit at the start of this post, because I do miss Matt Millen. If nothing else, he made our incompetent guys look less incompetent by comparison. Sort of like a chubby guy standing next to Mark Mangino looks kinds not fat, our front office looked “good enough” when compared to the disaster in Detroit.
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Yesterday the Chiefs cut Patrick Surtain, Donnie Edwards, and Damon Huard. This yeilded a total salary cap savings of about $13 million or so. Combined with the $37 million the Chiefs were already under the cap this year, and you’ve got a team that’s about $50 million under this year and was $30 million under last year. I’m ok with this because the team is chock full of first and second year players who just don’t cost that much. The team is rebuilding, the surplus is a side effect of that, not a goal.
Pioli’s track record with the Patriots indicates he’s likely to bring in a bunch of not very expensive but good players to fill out the roster and focus on the draft to build the team for the future. That’s fine, its a strategy that has worked very well for him before. But it also means the Chiefs are likely to be significantly under the cap again this year when the season starts. The team has won six games over the last two years, the economy is in recession and KC has some of the highest ticket and parking prices in the NFL. Why not use some of that salary cap surplus to cut the fans a break and reduce ticket prices?
The team has sucked and will probably suck again this year. Clark Hunt pocketed an extra $30 million last year from the young team and Arrowhead was often empty at the end of the year. Why not give some of that back to your hurting fans and help more people see a game? It’s good business because it would keep people in the habit of going to games even as the economy tightens, and it’s great PR. This should happen. It never would have under Carl Peterson. Let’s see if Pioli, Clark, and Haley are any different.
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Well, to the surprise of absolutely no one in KC, the Chiefs hired Todd Haley as their next head coach. I’m fairly unenthused about this. Haley has two years at the coordinator level. He had a good offense, one of the best in the league. But.
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Well, there really isn’t much new to say about the latest loss. KC jumped to early lead, led at halftime, and the offense disintegrated in the second half. The defense continued its season long lack of ability. The Chiefs may have the worst front seven in football right now. The coaching staff continued to look baffled, abandoning the run early in 10 degree weather that included high winds. This move made especial sense because the team had a lead and was averaging something like 8 yards a carry, and Thigpen’s deep throws were off target all day.
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It finally happened. King Carl is gone. Long live.. whoever replaces him. It came about five years too late, but Carl Peterson has finally been dethroned from his perch atop the Kansas City Chiefs.
In retrospect, everything went wrong when Marty left town. You often hear about how a particular coach needs a strong GM to balance him. Well, Carl needed a coach who was just as strong as he was to keep him in check. Vermeil wasn’t the guy who was going to tell Carl that the team was getting old, he just wanted another super bowl before he retired. You don’t win super bowls this year by starting a youth movement on a roster filled with pro-bowlers. Edwards wasn’t going to challenge Carl either. Half of Herm’s time coaching in KC has been spent covering up Peterson’s mistakes.
Ol King Carl did a lot to create the Chiefs renaissance in the 1990’s. But it’s past time for him to move on. It should be interesting to see who Clark Hunt brings in as his first GM. I’d also like to take this opportunity to congratulate Hunt on announcing the seperation of Peterson’s many titles into multiple fiefs, each with their own head honcho. Peterson ran the entire organization so singlehandedly that the room for debate was limited and an echo chamber resulted with the same ideas getting amplified over and over again. The offseason has begun already for KC, and it should be interesting.
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The Chiefs lost today. They were up by eleven with less than two minutes to go and they lost. By my count, the Chiefs have played the Chargers twice this season and lost both games by a combined 2 points. 21-22 and 19-20.
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