With Will Shields retiring, last year's starting left tackle gone, and Trent Green on the trading block I wonder to myself what the hell the Chiefs are doing? I'd guess they're rebuilding and trying to free up space, but then they just gave a big reward contract to Tony Gonzalez(17.75 m in guarantees to a 32 year old tight end?). Also, I found this funny: SS Sammy Knight CB- Patrick Surtain LB- Donnie Edwards LB- Kendrell Bell CB- Ty Law OT- Chris Terry OT- Kyle Turley This has the makings of a five year old Pro Bowl roster. Damon Huard as the starter? Sure he had a nice run last year, but at the end of the day he's still Damon Huard. I suppose Larry Johnson is going to run it six hundred times this year. Poor Brodie Croyle, injury prone as he is, has to be wondering what he's done to deserve this fate. It sure will be nice to be hosting the Chiefs later this year. -X-
Second team in a row to collapse on his watch. It's gonna get very ugly. If Larry Johnson gets hurt the Chiefs will go 3-13 and it will be a bloodbath.
I can't imagine LJ having anything left past week 10 even if he stays "healthy" 10 weeks of Herm at the helm and LJ will probably be another 250 carries deep looking at that offensive roster. By the end of the season they'll be carting him to and from the field, hopefully he can still hold a football.
Look - Herm sucks and the team is getting old. But get off of this "LJ is gonna get hurt" trip. Yeah, he led the league in carries last year. I didn't see a drop-off in ability. The guy wants the carries. And he is an amazing RB. Why not keep giving him the ball? He's just as likely to get injured as anyone else. I don't know why everyone is banking on him going down. I think you guys need to focus more on the rest of the Chiefs getting worse and Herm's lack of ability.
i think croyle will win that starting job...if he sucks then they suck considering the entire o-line hates LJ it may be for the best to start their replacement i didnt consider the chiefs a playoff team b4....
Because history shows that a back who gets the amount of carries that Johnson did last year will not be nearly the same player for very long.
Curtis wanted the ball, too. And now he has a debilitating bone-on-bone knee injury as a result. Johnson may not see injury immediately, but Herm's effect has been seen in the past...
So Herm will have a down year this year. He'll throw somebody under the bus and next year, with the easy schedule, he'll slip into the play-offs again, then have another down year, (somebody else takes the blame) then back up and almost get to the play-offs. It will be the same pattern that he set here and by year 5, the fans and the press (most of them, though many will still buy into his used car pitch) will finally be tired of his B.S. and be ready to move on. In a way, I kinda feel sorry for those poor bastards. They are so screwed and they don't realize it yet.
Herm has always had an uncanny way of finding his way into the playoffs. I wouldn't be surprised to see him do it again. This matchup with the Chiefs could be pretty interesting depending on where the 2 teams are record wise in the playoff hunt.
Curtis was nearing the end of his career when Herm came to town. It's stupid to blame Herm for the end of Curtis's career. Did Herm make it happen maybe a month or two before it would have happened otherwise? Maybe. Does it matter? Absolutely not. C-Mart went out for the year during Herm's infamous last season. LJ, on the other hand, is young and hungry for carries.
Guy, he's not that young. He's 28 and coming off of two high workload seasons. And while lots of folks will say that he's "fresh" because he didn't have many carries before that, history tells us that most backs who hit their career high in carries go on to suffer injuries or fall off. -X-
But doesn't every young back (yes, I'm going to call LJ a young back because he's only started for 2 years) have a record high carries the season they start for a full year?
