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http://www.kcchiefs.com/news/2008/10...nt_believe_in/

Change You Won't Believe In
Oct 09, 2008, 1:33:14 AM by Rufus Dawes - FAQ

We’ve said it before: disappointment follows defeat as ashes follow fire. The passions excited in the local psyche by the Chiefs latest loss show how deeply invested the masses are in the potential outcome of any game in a season that hasn’t looked very bright from day one. Media reports underscore the public’s fears of another poor season and that thought functions like a tightly-coiled spring, further heightening the disappointment as it comes and keeps coming.

Every community experiences defeat of its home team in its own way. But varieties of the response within communities conform to a recognizable set of patterns or arch-types that recur across the years.

The widespread depression among ticket holders and, really, all fans of a community caused by losses where more is expected, is as obvious as the joyous celebrations of victorious ones. But the losses in Kansas City burn longer and deeper than in most cities and the anxieties surrounding the Chiefs are more pronounced.

As the latest loss to Carolina, a crushing 34-0 defeat at the hands of the Panthers, began to sink in, the disappointment mutated into new levels of anger and people were anxiously looking for scapegoats, which followed the usual pattern.

The stark reality of the current Chiefs season is there will likely be more days like the loss in Carolina than there will be pleasant afternoons like the team experienced here in the win over Denver. You see, Denver was the exception not the rule.

“Change you can believe in,” to coin a popular phrase, doesn’t seem to be catching on with many in the fan base who are demanding that heads roll not even one year into the rebuilding program. The problems the Chiefs have, however, didn’t just start a year ago and they’re not going to go away in a year’s time, no matter who is heading the ship, so expectations must be leavened by reality. Firing “someone” less than a year into this new approach would only set the development back and follows what perennially losing franchises do, dismissing first front office personnel and then coaches year after year.

Sports Illustrated’s Peter King, ironically last week, identified the NFL teams with the worst records “over the past five-and-a-third seasons” and to no surprise they are the ones that continually fire coaches. Oakland has had six coaches since 2002 and Detroit, San Francisco, Arizona and Houston round out the top five teams with the worst records and happen to have had the most coaches.

With every new coach comes a new philosophy and a new offense and defense. There is no continuity. To date, Derrick Johnson’s development has been reeruned because after four years in the league he’s had three different position coaches and played in two different defensive systems.

As for the rookies, it is quite clear by the number and tone of newspapers and Internet sites that more was expected sooner than later. Each new player, be he college free agent or draft pick, has potential which might be realized and might not. In general, the higher the draft pick (Dorsey, Albert, Flowers, Charles, et. al.) the higher the expectations. The fact that several may advance under lofty expectations but fail to honor this hope in no way should reflect upon the perspicacity or wiseness of the choice. In any case, it’s far too early to tell.

Fellow columnist Bob Gretz, who was there in Carolina, can write that against the Panthers the “performance was unexpected,” but I suppose it has something to do with the level of expectation. I have no problem imagining other games ahead where the outcome will never be in doubt and it won’t favor Kansas City. But changing coaches or general managers isn’t going to solve the problem, particularly when you just went down a new road only this year. Moreover, to change course again will do nothing more than add Kansas City’s name to the list of what King has called “dysfunctional” teams.

**** him

"... changing coaches or general managers isn’t going to solve the problem ..."

Oh, really? It's worked before. I wonder what's so different about KC? Oh ... Rufus just said KC wasn't different. I understand, now.

FAX

Oh this is going to be good!

What a blowjob article, that was so pathetic...

KC Chiefs are not only one of the most dysfunctional teams in the NFL, right now the are one of the most Dysfunctional organizations in the NFL... They have zero leadership and no direction to speak of.....

Ahahaaha

None of you guys are on your first year, bunch of dumbasses.

Let's throw Gunther under the bus!

Wow....just wow...

I honestly have no idea why "real" fans would want to keep emptying their bank accounts for these insulting clowns??

I like how the Chiefs are showing 0 signs of getting better and the argument is "hey if we fire people we'll get worse" really it gets worse?

I dont know Rufus****you is he in the know or just ranting ...

Atchung Claythan!

I am ordering you to send Gretz the "Germ Warfare" recruitment video.

Commence Fire!

JFC you have to be friggin kidding me. Screw you Rufus you effn tool.

Yeah we could actually be worse.. I dont know how, but Carl says so, so it must be the truth...

How the hell did the DJ blurb fit in with any of the rest of that? At any rate, Rufus really didn't need to call him a reerun.

The only way I could imagine it being worse would be if a guy caught a ball and started running and instead of missing the tackle the Chiefs defense just all pulled their pants down and started jerking off right there on the field...

Wait I think that's what Carl does every Sunday.

Dear God man... ROFL

That gives new expression to Huard going big fetal doesn't it?

You know what? **** this mickey mouse shit that the Chiefs Public Relations is pulling around here. Maybe the ****ing Chiefs Public Relations needs to be ****ing rebuilt, along with the Chiefs Front Office.

Hey Roofus, you assrumper. The fans have been showing up year in and year out, and they have been rewarded with a shitty product on the field. How shitty? When was the last time the Chiefs won a ****ing meaningful playoff game, and when was the last time the Chiefs won a ****ing meaningful Super Bowl?

Roofus can eat shit and **** off already.

"I accepted the rebuild.... but I didn't expect to lose during the rebuild... "

We're 1-4. Right where we were expected to be.

Fans want blood.....

I doubt Gretz wrote this.

No I expect to see that the coaching staff is making strides to put the players in situations to allow them to succeed.... Play to the players strengths...

Hell most of this roster is Herms players, he should know how to coach a game to get the best possible production out of the players he has chosen...

Problem is, we are seeing the players try to develop, but a coaching staff that is scared shitless to allow them to develop!

:cuss: Probably just ruined another keyboard with the beer I just spit all over it.ROFL

"I like the way you think, kid."
http://www.jmu.edu/bethechange/slideshow/haley.jpg

I'm sorry, but much of the sucking that this team has done this year hasn't looked like rookie mistakes and growing pains. I can live with our rookie corners getting picked on, because I see the potential in the plays they make on occasion. I have harder time accepting MacInsack letting guys come untouched to blow up our QB on the 2nd play of the game.

This looks a lot worse than a rebuild job to me. It looks like there's a lot of incompetency to add insult to our growing pains.

Still love that CC commercial where that guy balls up in that armadillo outfit...

I ROFL everytime and say to myself.. THAT IS HUARD!

Wait. You guys hate your own team. This guy writes about it and you hate him.

I'm missing something.

If you click on the link you can rate this POS

LMAO

we're the freedom loving people of iraq, Carl is Saddam Hussein, and Rufus Dawes is the Iraqi Information Minister

Damage control. In the end, what will matter is asses in the seats.

Anybody else notice he tried to claim this was the first year of the rebuilding effort? Uggggh Nooooooo I don't think so.

Funny, this gets said ALOT

This will get interesting if Clark goes for another press run.

Nobody hates their team here.

We hate this guy regardless of what he writes.

I just took it from 3 stars to 2.5. How the hell did it get a 3?

The average emotional age level on this BB is about 5 years.

It's all part of the plan.:D

You know what's funny?

He points out that the organizations that fire coaches are the ones with the worst record.

Why the **** else would coaches get fired then if not for record?

The fact that this moron writes this shit, and the team supports it, makes me want to throw Clark Hunt down a flight of stairs.

He absolutely does not - he makes the point that teams that change coaches <b>too often</b> have the worst records.

to quote Chevy Chase in Christmas Vacation:

"Look around you! How could it possibly get any worse? We're standing at the threshold of hell!"

Get rid of Carl = get rid of Rufus.....

The widespread depression among ticket holders and, really, all fans of a community caused by losses

I just like the seperation here, between real fans and the rest of us

It appears that they have the rating system set so that it will not fall below 2.5 stars.

Why is that not a surprise?

That's what I was thinking. Maybe they think if they tell us that enough times, that we'll be dumb enough to believe. I see this as year 2 1/2. Herm has had three drafts. I guess they think since they completely bombed the 06 draft IMO, that it doesn't count.

The Kansas City Chiefs - TOTAL commitment to mediocrity, even if it means bending the rules.

Would not look so bad if this team had any direction or improvement to show we are going down the right path .Herm Edwards never has done shit as a head Coach , from what I see he never will:shake:

the problem is IT's NOT FUNNY anymore....

gone way beyond it when we are the laughing stocks of NFL.

being mentioned with Lions, Bungles, Lambs as NFL's worst bottom feeders...
the perannual loser Lions geez....

I wonder how many set of knee pads old Rufus goes through a year lurking under Carl's desk? The predictable clown has to be the biggest hack "reporter" (and I use the term loosely) in the business.

That's a very well thought out, informative article. I applaud Rufus for telling it how it is and not sugar coating it.

That is it in a nutshell, they have been trying to sell this 1st year shit, to us fans.
This is not Herm's first year on the rebuild, he has been gutting this team since he got here. Did he do it all at once? No. But he started cutting the head off the DV snake immediately. Then he kept cutting until he finally got all the way to the tail, this year.
**** Herm Edwards, he is not very smart, and he sure as hell isn't a leader of men.

Down to two stars now. :D

"less than a year into this new approach"

Wow. Herm Edwards is 14-23 in his time here. His last approach didn't work and his new approach looks awfully familiar, worse, actually. Herm is a special kind of leader of men- the kind that makes ProBowl players want the **** off his team.

Does anyone else laugh when they get to the end of the article and read the disclaimer?

I feel better after writing the Chiefs and telling them how pathetic the organization has become. They won't do shit about it, but...

I'm starting to hate the organization-they've zapped the fun out of it for me. Carl is a first-class douche.

Well, one thing you can say about Rufus, he is consistent.

And, he really puts the scorch marks or the ol' Thesaurus.

He reminds me of the Freshman in College who tries to use really big words to punch up his essay. How else can he prove he be mo' edumicated than those unwashed masses?

Quick: Use these words in a sentence:
arch-types
leavened
reeruned
perspicacity
dysfunctional

How Bout:
"Dysfunctional arch-types are leavened towards reeruned perspicacity?"

Take that, Rufus.

Pttttttttfth!!!!

Done

This guy fails to look at the real picture.

It results that matter.

Changing coaches or general managers isn't going to solve the problem? huh?

lol..well how long have the Chiefs kept Carl? And what has Carl done? Has he won anything? Has he put together a team thats capable of winning a bowl? All of these questions answer the word "Zero".

We've kept Herm long enough, and all that is happening is the results of the Chiefs getting worse.

changing coaches mean changing philosophy. well, he is right there. And the Chiefs plan and philosophy is really bad..lol

*I hope this article doesn't imply that the Chiefs are intent on keeping Carl and Herm?

This guy seems like a dufus for real. He has absolutely no focus on the reality what is going on with the Chiefs. The fact is, they don't make changes and it had lead to being a bad thing rather then good. Im wondering how much longer Carl and Herm have to keep there jobs?

The "dufus" is Carl. He wrote it. Or one of his cronies.

[herm]Bob Dole can't comment on this article until he has a chance to listen to the audio version.[/herm]

Same here!

Translation: "If man-on-man homosexual prison rape is inevitable, bend over and enjoy it."

So we traded away our best D player who was 26 yrs old.

Now we are trading our sure fire HOFer on offense.

They BOTH wanted the **** out. This franchise is ridiculous.

:spock:

Jared only wanted out after Carl made it perfectly clear that he wasn't going to make him the highest paid defensive player in history. Jared got butthurt that Carl called him "a young man at risk."

Which, in fact, he is.

And Carl is being vindicated right now, because Allen got his paycheck, and is loafing through the season. He's surrounded by talent, and at this point, he may not surpass his rookie stats.

Tony wants out for selfish reasons, but I'm cool with that. It's not like he's the first player to ask to be traded for hopes of a ring.

But at the same time, Tony sure didn't have a problem cashing that $17M signing bonus check...

:spock:

Uh yeah, sans the same GM that over paid for a washed out cry baby running back in LJ....

or the same guy that sold the "true fans" that Huard was our best chance to win now option....

JA wanted out because Carl is a tool, granted he got paid and is lazy now just like 99% of all the other NFL players act when they get "PAID" See LJ...

Nope Tony knows what he is doing and he is doing it well.

I'm too lazy to look this up so please someone correct me if I'm wrong but haven't the Redskins and Dolphins had a few coaches over the last few years and haven't those teams gone on the road this year with new coaches and all but manhandled some fairly decent division rivals?

Head shot.


its not the losing that pisses me off. I've accepted(documented) that I was ready for a rebuild. I'm not ready to accept the lack of continuity in things the coach says and does, the BS being blown up our collective arses, a week after I've watched the single worst performance of this team in my recollection. I want only to see improvement, youthful energy..a reason to hope for the future.

This isn't the GM's first year....Its not even his first effing decade.


don't sell me a youth movement, and stick Sackintosh on the field, when you're saying "players can't get better without playing".

Eff Ewe Rufus.

You mean like Rufus Dawes?

Rufus Dawes isn't real. It's a fabricated author.

"Prodigiously well-researched, informative and opinionated, Rufus Dawes examines media coverage of the Chiefs occasionally throughout the year."

:Lin:

nope it is at 2.5 again. :shake: