Herm Edwards

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Herm Edwards was born to an African American father and a German mother on April 27, 1954. While I'm sure he had a glorious childhood, let's fast forward to his football career.

During college, he played for the Univerity of California, Monterey Peninsula Junior College, back to the University of California, and then San Diego State for his senior year.

During his years playing in the NFL, 1977-1986 to be precise, he had 33 career interceptions as a cornerback for the Philadelphia Eagles, where he never missed a game. One of these interceptions happened on November 19, 1978 against the New York Giants. Instead of taking a knee, NYG quarterback, Joe Pisarcik, fumbled the ball when attempting to hand it off in the last seconds of the game. Herm scooped up the ball and returned it for a touchdown. The Eagles won the game, 19-17. Philadelphia refers to this as The Miracle at the Meadowlands, whereas New York refers to it as The Fumble.

Before announcing his retirement as a player, Herm playing briefly for the then Los Angeles Rams and Atlanta Falcons.

He began his career in coaching as the defensive assistant coach at San Jose State University from 1987 to 1989.

From 1990 to 1995, Herm served as an NFL scout and defensive backs coach for the Kansas City Chiefs before going on to work underneath Tony Dungy in Tampa Bay as the defensive backs coach and assistant head coach until 2000. This is when he decided to try his hand in being the head coach for the New York Jets.

During his tenure as head coach for the Jets, Herm had an overall record of 39-41, including a 2-3 playoff record and going 5-15 during his last 20 games. After a controversial move made in 2006, he went back to the Kansas City Chiefs.

This time in Kansas City, Herm is playing the role of head coach. In his first year, he led the team to a 9-7 season and a berth into the postseason, where they lost to the Indianapolis Colts in the Wild Card game. Last year, his team won a dismal 4 games. So far for this year, the Chiefs are off to an 0-2 start. The organization has not won a season opener under Herm Edwards. In fact, the last time the Chiefs did win a season opener, they did so against the New York Jets while Herm was still there.

Overall, Herm has a regular season winning percentage of .456 with a post season record of .333. How does this compare to his time back in Kansas City? In the last 35 games, including one postseason, the Chiefs have a winning percentage of .382 and .000.

Why would the Chiefs give up a fourth round draft pick for a coach who hasn't won half of his games? Maybe some of you expert fans can answer that one for me.

Having worked in production, if my productivity rate was under 50%, I would no longer have a job. Maybe he has good quality? In this business, your productivity rate is based highly upon your quality of work. In other words, under 50% as well. You're asking about customer service? Well, I don't think there's any room for doubt on that, either.

I had started to wonder how Herm was able to keep his job before deciding to dig up a few facts. Now, I'm wondering why he was hired to begin with. Perhaps Carl Peterson believes Herm can pull out another miracle 30 years later. After all, "you play to win the game", right?