Why you should be scared...

[Mr. Flopnuts]

Originally Posted by jwhit

Pioli and Haley thought this team would be competitive. They thought we had a shot at winning eight games.

Everyone wants to talk about how bad the roster is and how we have to cut them slack because they're digging out from Peterson and Herm's mess. This is no different from the last Chiefs team. Peterson and Herm thought that roster was capable of being competitive. They thought we could win six or seven with last year's roster.

Pioli and Haley thought we could win eight or more with what they've put out there.

Do they know what it takes to win football games? It takes players. Not signs or media policies or Pentagon-like security or secrets or cursing at the players. Players win football games.

22 guys off the street could win two games. We're halfway home and the Chiefs have one victory.

I can't disagree with you. We all celebrated when Carl and company left, and Pioli was hired. Since that time it seems we've had 1 head scratching moment after another.

Haley's hiring was a head scratcher. Hiring a bunch of fired defensive coordinators to come coach the defense was a head scratcher. Trading for Matt Cassell essentially leaving us no value with our 3rd pick in this year's draft was a head scratcher. Forcing a 3-4 scheme on a team built for a 4-3 was a head scratcher, particularly considering how many teams were converting to the 3-4. Not addressing our offensive line in a draft that seemingly had plenty of talent to choose from was a head scratcher. Haley makes a ton of head scratching decisions during games. There's plenty more but for the sake of time I'll move on.

Here we are at 1-7 in the opening year of this regime and it's apparent these guys are going to do it their way regardless of what was available to them when they first came on board. It's flat out going to take some time and you know as well as anyone that the Hunt family is loyal to a fault at times. There are plenty of reasons for concern even though we're just getting started.

I hope you start writing about some of the reasons for concern, and your opinions on solutions rather than repeating the alarm over and over. We all know that Pioli and Haley are ego maniacs and have locked down Arrowhead to all of you guys. Let's talk about what they're doing wrong, why it's wrong, and what the solutions are.

It's not going to change their philosophy but at least we'll have something interesting to talk about instead of just inserting the fatlock smiley and talking about your hurt butt after every article.