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12-12-2005, 11:56 AM | Topic Starter |
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Good enough to be 11-2?
If you're Carl Peterson, do you look at the season so far as three missed opportunities: Blowing a lead at home to Philly, and losing two winnable games on the road to Buffalo and Dallas? Do you think you really have an 11-2 team but for a couple of hiccups?
Woulda, shoulda, coulda. Me, I think you are what you are. Especially since for 17 years now I've seen Chiefs teams suffering maddening inconsistency, plagued by bad losses and blown opportunities. I think we're an 8-5 team. I have no illusions about any kind of "hidden gem" we have -- that we're actually better than our record. So rather than count on one hand the number of plays that could've made us 11-2, which will drive you nuts, I just see it as the same old, same old for this franchise (at least in the Carl Era). What say you? Are we a sleeping giant or just a cut above mediocrity (or mediocrity itself)? |
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12-12-2005, 11:59 AM | #2 |
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We should be 11-2, based on what has happened. But this team at 8-5 is about right.
The Chiefs will not field a Super Bowl team as long as Carl Peterson is GM. I hope I'm wrong, and I hope I'm wrong this year, but it just doesn't look that way. |
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12-12-2005, 12:00 PM | #3 |
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this KC team has 3/4 of the talent to be 11-2.
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12-12-2005, 12:12 PM | #4 | |
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And this current Chiefs team might be good enough, if it weren't for coaching... |
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12-12-2005, 12:16 PM | #5 | |
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I don't mean to be a Carl hater, and I don't proclaim to know how to be a GM, but since he's 17 years into the 3-year-plan with Zero Super Bowl wins (and hardly any playoff wins period), he obviously is doing something wrong. The Chiefs will probably have to rebuild at some point soon, and it should start with a new GM. |
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12-12-2005, 12:18 PM | #6 | |
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12-12-2005, 12:27 PM | #7 | |
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I'm still not sure about this. What this suggests is that this team clearly has as much, or more, talent on the field than any other NFL team over the last few years and this year. I'm not at all sure that's right. I think the complaints about your offensive coaches, in general, are absurd. Strictly, positively, absolutely absurd. I'm not directing this comment at you, but at the entire BB in general. Your team has consistently been at the top of the NFL in every offensive statistical category that matters over the last several years. To say that your offensive coaches aren't very good is pretty silly, to me. Your WRs are good, but not great, which hampers the offense in certain situations, most especially if you're way behind or in running 2 minute drills and the like. On defense, I *still* don't see above-average NFL talent on the team. Your D-Line is pretty much Larry-Moe-Curly. Your overall defense has a precisely zero Hall of Famers and only a small handful (maybe 3) that are definitely above average at their position for the NFL. On special teams, you have Dante Hall, who is very good, but otherwise I believe you are, and have been, consistently average. In short, KC is *still* trying to win on offense alone. Indy, meanwhile (and unfortunately) has really developed some excellent, excellent players on their defense, and have always had Vanderjerk, who for everything else you can say about him, is a darn good kicker.
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12-12-2005, 01:53 PM | #9 | |
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Dam fine discription.
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12-12-2005, 03:13 PM | #10 |
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We're also a team that could have easily been 0-2 against Chokeland. Take that for what it's worth.
DV said when he was hired his No 1 stat in terms of how good your team is was margin of victory. His '99 Rams team was superb in that department. The 2003 Chiefs did pretty well in that column. These Chiefs aren't even close. They're talented, but they're just too inconsistent to be considered anything more than a bit above average... |
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12-12-2005, 03:23 PM | #11 |
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I don't look at that way. I think our O just played one hell of a football game. I think the Cowboys held like crazy on the last scoring Drive and the officials ignored it and then called DJ for holding. I think Tynes missed the biggest kick of his career and cost us a chance to win the game. I do think there is a lot of mediocrity to be found around Chiefs Plantet though.
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12-12-2005, 12:00 PM | #12 |
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Here's the deal
We only have 1 loss at home. Thats Good, but that is the game thats killing us. If we can go 7-1 at home and .500 on the road, thats a damn good record in any year. Its not over yet folks. |
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12-12-2005, 12:01 PM | #13 | |
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Could be 11-2, could be 4-9.
Our only dominant wins are NYJ, MIA, HOU, & NE
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Denver was a dominant win. I dont care what the score said.
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And this team's history over the last 17 years, since they became competitive again, is to often fall one play short of victory, often in the most important games. THAT'S what depresses me. Seeing the same shit over and over again -- a turnover, a missed FG, a dropped pass, a penalty, surrendering one big scoring play on D ... We just can't get over that hump. Championship teams make those one plays. They rarely dominate. They win lots of games -- their record looks dominant -- but most of those victories are decided by one or two plays. |
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