Originally Posted by PastorMikH

I think what bothers me the most about last week is that for the first time in 3 years I actually had some hope and excitement about the Chiefs actually doing something. I had NO hope at all that DV would get anything done in his last year. From the time Herm was hire and throughout the season, I just has a wait and see attitude. Even when we were 7-3 I was thinking there was a chance that we might do something, but there was a lot of ball left to be played. Then, when we lost to the Browns, I pretty much lost hope in this year.

But when we managed to get in, and I got to thinking about the matchups, I felt that we ACTUALLY had a shot at doing something. I honestly thought we could beat the Colts. I thought that we could play with the rest of the AFC teams once we got going - even the Chargers. I pulled out the car door magnets that I pulled off two years ago and refused to put back on until the Chiefs were contenders. I was actually a bit dissapointed when I realized I would miss the game because of my daughter's basketball games, but I went anyway because that's where I knew I was supposed to be.

Then I get home. I read and watched what happened and I'm so frustrated right now. Rationally, I know that making the playoffs is at least a step in the right direction. But emotionaly I would have felt better right now if we hadn't made it - I've been conditioned for that outcome for several years now. At least then I wouldn't have had false hope built up and then smashed to bits and pieces.

I'll be a fan throughout the offseason, I'll be a fan next fall, I'll be a fan next year, this is my team. But WHY oh WHY did I have to fall in love with the Chiefs? Why couldn't it have been another team? Why did I have to pick a team that is content with mediocracy as long as the tickets sell?

Man it hurts. I just keep hoping that one day things will change. It probably won't, but a fan can hope.



I just had to get that off my chest.

Originally Posted by PastorMikH

I'm to the point that I am sick of football. I don't want to root for another team, I just want to put sports down for a while.

Originally Posted by Boyceofsummer

SEE: The Chicago Cubs

Originally Posted by siberian khatru

I want to know why we can't just lose a playoff game the old-fashioned way -- without missing FGs or stepping on our dicks or having our coaches pull out the most god awful stupid game plans.

Why couldn't we have rushed for 150 yards and just been beaten 28-20 or something, with Manning putting together a couple of better drives than we did? Something where we could say, Oh, well, good game, tough fight, we gave our best, etc.

Instead, the possessors of Larry Johnson make one of the worst run D's IN THE HISTORY OF THE NFL look like the 2000 Ravens or the 85 Bears or the 76 Steelers. I mean, WHAT -- THE -- fuck? How in the holy HELL do you do something like that?

Originally Posted by PastorMikH

And we are getting ready to see another round of talent go to waste on the D side of the ball because the HC doesn't see a need to put together a balanced team.


All of the great teams over the last 10-15 years have 1 thing in common - they are BALANCED.

Marty has an O and a D in SD - this is probably his best shot ever at a SB run IMO.

Pitts last year had an O to go with the D they've had for years (and the refs)

New England - I don't even know which side of the ball is better - but I do know that I don't really look forward to either the O or the D.

When Tampa Bay won, Chucky left the D alone and fixed the O (Jeesh Herm, you should have at least noticed that one).

StL under DV had a top 10 D to compliment the Greatest Show on Turf

'97 & '98 don't apply since the team that won the SB those years cheated the salary cap to do so

Green Bay, Dallas, and the 49ers - they were BALANCED teams.


The ONLY team in the last 10-15 years that could be argued as not a balanced team was Baltimore - and they at least could manage the ball on O.



In the late 80s and erly 90s here we emphasized D and we struggled on O - Our best QB was 8 years beyond his prime and couldn't throw more than 30 yards.

DV turned it around. We had one of the best O's to play the game but put the D in the hands of a dufas that pushed to cut one of the best players we had at the time in Donnie Edwards.

Gunther probably fielded the most balanced team we've had in 20 years - both sides of the ball stunk.

Originally Posted by SEA_OF_RED

99 Rams defense wasnt as good as advertised. They played one team that entire season with a winning record and got stomped by the Titans, which later beat them in the SB.

Dallas was filled with Probowlers everywhere.

Everything else though I agree completely.

Originally Posted by PastorMikH

I actually had some hope and excitement

Originally Posted by dj56dt58

It was hard to watch our D a few years ago when they couldn't stop anybody...but I prefer that high power offense and no D over this. At least we could dominate teams when our D played decent. I'll never forget that 56-10 dominating performance over Atlanta. 8 rushing tds against at the time the best run defense in the nfl. Damn I miss those days already. The Indy playoff game in 03 was at least fun to watch

Originally Posted by NewChief

This is how I feel pretty much every year at the conclusion of the season, regardless of what kind of season it was. Give it until March or May and you'll start missing it again.