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Originally Posted by Coach
I understand your opinion, and I respect that. The right side of the O-line is "questionable" at best to midly put it. However, if we had a defense, like you mentioned, it is possible. No argument here on the defense.
Yet, at the same time, everybody knows that Herm doesn't play to win the game. The Chiefs never had trouble being the aggressers in the first half of the game. Yet after halftime, they couldn't score. How much of this is attributed to coaching philosophy changing/adjustment? If the Chiefs had a decent coach who could manage the game clock a bit better, and doesn't go to a shell in the 2nd half, who knows where the Chiefs would be as of this point.
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Again, I think it comes down to talent. It's true that the Chiefs scored 28 points in the first half and only 3 in the second. Put let's put aside the offense for a second. The defense has been pitiful. Giving up 38 points twice this season and not being able to hold leads. The Chiefs have tried since 2001 to rectify this defense with no success. The common denominator? Carl Peterson.
The Dick Vermeil/Al Saunders offense and the Chan Gailey offense has put the Chiefs in position to win more times than not. Yet, the defense never fails to hold. The offense has had just as much roster turnover (or more) during this decade yet the defense just won't improve.
If Herm's fate is to be fired, he's fired. But the bottom line is that the Chiefs need to acquire a playmaker on the defensive side of the ball AND hire coaches who create a scheme to make the current players more effective.
Otherwise, it won't matter who's the head coach. We'll still have the same results.