Pissed about our schedule? Bob Gretz is too
 

3 out of 4 to open on the road. Our last 2 games on the road. 1 nationally televised game. I know KC is a small market but for Christ's sake draw a line SOMEWHERE.

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GRETZ: Schedule Reaction
Apr 12, 2007, 1:55:02 AM by Bob Gretz - FAQ


I don’t know about you, but every year when the Chiefs schedule comes out, I grab it and initially glace at the first month of the season. Then, I find the bye week and where it is situated, and finally I look at the last month of the season to see how things finish up.

After looking over the Chiefs 2007 schedule that was released on Wednesday, I had one reaction: just who did the Chiefs tick off at the league office?

Nobody is ever completely happy with the schedule they receive, but the Chiefs have to be wondering what the folks in New York were thinking with some of the decisions they handed down.

For instance, the Chiefs are the only team in the league that begins the season with three of their first four games on the road. That’s trips to Houston, Chicago and San Diego. They are also the only team that begins and ends its season with three of four games on the road. That’s trips to Denver, Detroit and New York. There are two other clubs – Dallas and Pittsburgh – that also finish the season with three out of four away from home. The Chiefs are one of only three teams – New Orleans and Atlanta – that open with consecutive road games.

Yes, the months of October and November have a lot of home cooking for the Chiefs with seven of nine weeks at home. Fast start? Not likely with what they’ve been handed. Strong finish? Possible, but let’s not forget the Chiefs road record in December, especially against good teams.

Plus, the Chiefs are scheduled for one nationally televised game: their final week, on the road in New Jersey against the Jets. The Chiefs are the only team that made the playoffs last year that has only one national TV appearance during the regular season.

Football coaches and teams constantly strive for balance, and that’s all that can be asked of the NFL schedule makers. But they failed that task miserably with the Chiefs. The Chiefs get a home game in October against Jacksonville, with the Jaguars coming off their bye week. The next week they host Cincinnati and guess what? The Bengals are coming off their bye week.

The only bone the league threw the Chiefs was they get to stay home for the game after their bye week and host Green Bay, after the Packers played a Monday night game on the road.

There’s no question that the biggest component in how the schedule falls together every season is television. Those of us who watch the game get that, and understand that. Then the schedule comes out and we are left shaking our heads in disbelief. For instance:

The Dallas Cowboys have seven, count’em seven, national television games this year. Last I looked, Cowboys haven’t won the Super Bowl since the 1995 season and their post-season record in the last nine years is 0-2, same as the Chiefs. This is not the Cowboys of Jimmy Johnson, Troy Aikman and Emmitt Smith. This is Wade Phillips, Tony Romo and Julius Jones.
One of those Dallas prime-time games is a Monday night trip to Buffalo on October 8th. I’d love for somebody from the league office to explain that decision, when other games available that weekend include Atlanta at Tennessee (Michael Vick against Vince Young), the Jets and the Giants in New Jersey, Seattle at Pittsburgh (Replay of Super Bowl 40) and Baltimore at San Francisco (strong defense against one of the league’s young and improving offenses.)
The Cowboys have more nationally televised games than the two teams that played in the most recent Super Bowl. Indianapolis and Chicago have five each.
Other teams with five national TV games are Denver (did not make the playoffs), New England, Pittsburgh (did not make the playoffs) and the New York Giants.
The six teams with four national TV games include Cincinnati (out of the playoffs, Green Bay (out of the playoffs), San Francisco (out of the playoffs.)
Other teams like the Chiefs with just one national TV game are Miami, Buffalo, Carolina, Minnesota, Detroit, St. Louis and Arizona. All of those teams did not make the playoffs last year. Cleveland and Oakland have no national TV.
The league and networks are ignoring Arrowhead and the Red Sea. If the 2007 schedule holds (it could change under flex scheduling) over the last six seasons (2002-2007) the Chiefs have had only two prime-time games at home. Last year’s Thanksgiving Night broadcast of the Chiefs-Broncos hardly qualifies as national exposure since so many markets do not have access to the NFL Network. There was a Monday night game against New England in 2004. That’s it.
There is an obvious lack of respect among the league officials responsible for scheduling for what the Chiefs are doing here under Herman Edwards and what they’ve accomplished as an organization for the last 18 years in creating the game-day experience at Arrowhead.

The opinions offered in this column do not necessarily reflect those of the Kansas City Chiefs.

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yeah, about 4 days late here sir.

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I looked for it. I didn't see it. I suck. My bad.

we have a shitty team- HELLOOOOOOO

I don't get all the Cowboy love though??

Just another reason to tank the season, scrap King Carl scrape the barrel and start over LOL 1969 BABY!!!! Anyone still alive to remember?

****ing Rush fans...

Indeed! :p

Check your pms Mike I need a friend :(

You mean it was a topic so popular that deserved two threads?

Hehe God bless you Mr. Rausch! :) You are a good person...

They could go 0-16 and still get 5 or 6 nationally televised games. For better or worse, they are one the the "Flagship" teams in the NFL.

seven home games in October/November...

..this will feel like the shortest season ever at Arrowhead.

I'm sure this has NOTHING to do with King Carl showing up and pissing in everyone's Wheaties every year at the league meetings.

I was there from the beginning.

Carl probably figured no one would show up to a home game the last month of the season without the warm feeling of a rolling roof over their heads....

Therefore; he told the league to put them on the road !!

It might be to accomodate the rennovations.....

I wonder if this is a rotational thing that some times teams have to do every few years.....

scheduling 32 teams maybe it works out that way?

NFL question.

THAT'S IT !!!

Carl want's the Chiefs to be on the road justtttttttttttttttttttttttt long enough so construction crew's can remove the upper and middle levels of Arrowhead; therefore leaving just the lower bowl section of Arrowhead...

Reason being -- Carl know's they will suck arse this year -- and he want's to be sure they still sell out in 2008 !!!

NFL execs have a MUCH higher opinion of Carl than people in KC do.

This schedule is perfect for the Chiefs. Herm can't get this team up to play to start the year-so it makes sense to go on the road where we lose anyway.

We usually kick ass in the middle of the season- so that is perfect to be at home, where the fans can get their hopes up after the typical bad start.

Chiefs get tired and quit after Thanksgiving and just want to go home- so might as well let the fade happen on the road so they have the excuse of a bad schedule instead of lack of heart, another year of horrible coaching and below average talent.

Its perfect!

ROFL

Now, this is a post Chiefs fans can rally around.

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no matter how shitty the chiefs may be, they did make the playoffs last year, and no way should a team that did not make the playoffs have more primetime games than one who did.

Good point, Mr. kcfanXIII. We are sports media's nappy headed ho.

FAX

With Lamar's good influence gone, maybe nothing held the league back from total disdain of Kansas City. RIP, Mr. Hunt. We miss you already.

You get all warm inside when someone reposts and you are the first one to mention it.

How dare you make sense out of this? It is a conspiracy.

Please muthafucka, what the Chiefs are doing under Herm is providing boring offense and mediocre defense. Gretz you are a Carl Peterson asswipe who does not know his ass from a hole in the ground.

You know that how?

Initially I was offended by this. But when I think about it, I'm actually happy. My father and I went halves on NFL Sunday Ticket for the first time this year. Previously we went to sports bars, but decided we'd rather watch the game in the comfort of my home on my tv, in HD, drinking vastly cheaper beer and eating vastly cheaper food. Now we'll get a lot more use out of the Sunday Ticket!

I've read it in multiple places. Carl and Lamar are highly respected amongst owners and GM's.

Yeah, i really didnt break it down good enough the other day...this schedule IS another punch in the face.

The 2&2 start & finish, back to back teams coming off the bye???

Suck it NFL.

I don't know that the Chiefs "made the playoffs" so much as the playoffs had to have one more team and in a sea of turds we floated the highest.

I like it better when we aren't on national TV. Besides, 2 of those 4 road games to begin and end the season are Detroit and Houston, which should be gimme games to any team that expects to make the playoffs. Plus, the Jets game is the last game of the year. If the Jets are out of the playoffs they will have nothing to play for and if we are out of the playoffs by then, it won't matter anyways.

Finally, a post the perfectly describes our playoff experience.

Whine Whine whine.......what a tool Gretz is sometimes.....

Perfect! ROFL