1 game and chiefs fans are already calling for herms head

That is great news. Herm sucks and KC will be his last coaching job.

 

Haha!!!!!!

 

I love it, this will show how bad of a coach he is.

 

While Jason Whitlock is a dweeb, he had a pretty damning article about Herm today @ www.kansascity.com

Let the record show that Chiefs fans booed coach Herm Edwards on Kansas City’s second offensive possession of the 2006 season.

On third and 5 at the Cincinnati 11, Edwards’ offensive unit slammed running back Larry Johnson into the heart of the Bengals’ defense for the fifth straight time. Bengals middle linebacker Brian Simmons stoned Johnson at the line of scrimmage, forcing the Chiefs to settle for a field goal.

A massive flock of boo birds took flight inside Arrowhead Stadium, spelling out just how short Edwards’ honeymoon period will be in Kansas City.

Edwards didn’t even get to unpack his bags.

The conservative, play-for-three-points reputation he built in New York has Chiefs fans ready to pounce. The punchless offensive attack that contributed to the Chiefs’ disappointing 23-10 loss to the Bengals will certainly have Kansas City football fans openly questioning Edwards’ competence.

We haven’t seen a debut this bad since the maker of the Titanic shouted, “full steam ahead.”

Bengals defensive end Robert Geathers might go down as the iceberg that sank the 2006 Chiefs. His illegal-but-unpenalized, third-quarter hit on Trent Green could ruin Kansas City’s football season.

But they don’t make movies about icebergs. Hollywood loves to tell the stories behind the stories. And Edwards was the story on Sunday — not Green’s concussion or whether Geathers was pushed into his flying collision with a hook-sliding Green.

For a day, at least, Edwards stripped KC’s offense of the attacking nature that made the unit celebrated, decorated and overcompensated for five years under Dick Vermeil. The Chiefs scored 10 points against one of the league’s mediocre defenses.

You could see the poor performance coming when the Chiefs turned ultraconservative in the red zone on their second possession. The third-and-5 call foreshadowed a miserable day.

“Missed communication on the call,” Edwards said when I asked about the play call. “I’ll leave it at that.”

So I asked Tony Gonzalez what the “missed communication” was.

“Mike Solari came in at halftime and said he messed up,” Gonzalez said. “He thought it was third and 2.”
Another member of the Chiefs said Solari — who left the locker room without talking with reporters — thought it was second down.

Wow. Solari, Kansas City’s first-year, first-time offensive coordinator, thought the Chiefs needed just 2 yards or he thought it was second down. Was anybody else confused? I wasn’t.

That’s really bad coaching. And it reflects poorly on Edwards. He’s known as a bad game manager, a poor clock manager. He needed to call a timeout in that situation. Edwards needs to create an environment in which his veteran QB feels comfortable enough to call a timeout when a play call that bad gets signaled into his helmet.

Solari’s mistake wasn’t the lone Kansas City coaching error.

 

Week 2 doesn't look very promising for the Cheifs either @DEN.

 

Herm will have to get bigger pom poms..ra ra ra

 

The Chiefs gave up I believe 6 sacks and Larry Johnson was held to under 100 yards. To top it off they lost their qb to a pretty vicious injury. I wish Herm the best of luck unless he is playing the green & white. Those stats are a direct result of the chiefs losing their best Olinemen to retirement. This is not the same team that Vermiel was coaching, because while he was there they had the best offensive line in football, and they may have one of the weaker offensive lines this year.

 

From PFT...

There's also criticism of the new Chiefs coaching staff, which figures only to intensify in the wake of inconsistent excuses offered up for a misguided run call on a key third-and-five play when the Chiefs were in the Bengals' red zone on the second possession of the game. Tony Gonzalez says that first-time offensive coordinator Mike Solari thought that only two yards were needed; another player said that Solari thought it was second down.

One of the realities of the proliferation of the Madden game is that casual fans will have less and less tolerance of coaches who can't master simple aspects of the game like knowing the down and the distance. The fact that Chiefs chief Herm Edwards needed in New York an assistant for the sole purposes of helping with clock management makes the overall perception even worse, since most 10-year-olds have developed via Xbox and/or PS2 an innate sense of when to call a time out, and when to let the play clock run down to :01


That's about the only positive to come out of the Chiefs' season debut.

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