They finally finished a record season. The Chiefs set new team bests in losses (14, beating 1977 and 1978's 12) and losing percentage (they lost 87.5% of their games beating 1977's 85.7%). This season matched their futility mark on number of wins as they tied the 1977 team with two wins. Good show.
At least they didn't get shut-out against the bungles, er, Bengals. (Sorry about that 'Natti fan.)
The Chefs (intentional spelling) had a tough year; lots of injuries, lots of upheaval, lots of drama. Of course, as for one of the pieces of drama, they should have traded future Hall of Famer Tony Gonzalez at the end of last year. I even emailed Jason Whitlock of the KC Star to get the ball rolling on this.
Tony deserved to go to a winner and get away from what promised to be a bad year. (This is without even imagining it would be historically bad.) So TG finally tried to demand a trade. When the team was not able to pull the trigger Tony was still the best player on the team. He didn't phone it in, he didn't try to play not to get hurt. He still went over the middle, he still took the tough routes, and he became the prime target of the Chiefs 3rd-string quarterback.
And that 3rd-stringer came out of the season looking like quite a stud too.
Will Head Coach Herm get fired? There's a part of me that surely hopes he will. Yet, if they blew up the team knowing it would be bad, everyone delivered. On epic levels, but they delivered.
Still Herm blew some calls that lost games that no player could have changed. I draw your attention to the Chiefs use of time outs in the second half of the Charger game in December. Of course if the defense could have held its water Herm's time-out strategy would have been immaterial.
2008 Chiefs, I am not so sorry to see you go.
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