Bills at Chiefs - Week 12 - Record: 6-5

This season is very much looking like 1998. That was the year we started out really well, then started to tank. We tanked so badly that I simply stopped watching anything sports cold turkey. I did resume watching Chiefs games in 2003. That was the year we actually had a nice offensive line.

This year.

Kinda like 1998.

Such disappointment.

I have actually been so disgusted with this team, really, mostly its offensive line and offensive quarterback (see last post), that I didn't even watch the first half of the game. I was spending more time in church this morning, but sure enough when church ended, instead of seeing us up 28-0 at the half we were down 10-3. The only reason it'd be worth it was to see us up 28-0. Then I'd know we were doing what we should be doing -- okay, we're back to playing well.

Not.

Our quarterback isn't good enough.

Our offensive line is miles from being good, and with all this we may be finding it is even worse than any of us thought.

Sure everyone will say we're still at 6-5 and holding on to 1st place. We don't deserve to be there, that's for sure. Sure we could look at this like a bump in the road, but you simply don't lose games like these. Last week the hapless injury-riddled Bills gave up 54 points to the Chargers. Today they held us to 10. Last week we lost to a hapless injury-riddled Giants team who lost to an 0-9 team the week before.

What happened to that 5-0 team that was scorching the NFL? We had even done that against the best teams in the league? Here's what happened.

We played Pittsburgh, that's what happened. That's the killer of the whole season, just that one game right there. This team knows precisely how to play our team. Every time we play the Steelers they have a game plan that makes it look like they have 14 guys on the field and we have 9, every time. Has Andy Reid been so dense as to not figure this out by now? (Yeah, I'm thinking of putting in a "The Exasperating Reid, Episode LXVIII" post later this week. I don't know if I'll be up to it the way I'm feeling now, but I can't say there'd be any observant Chiefs fan who wouldn't know exactly what it would be about...)

We then played Oakland on primetime television, and the NFL simply could not allow the Chiefs to dominate so the officials gave the Raiders a thriller win with several ridiculously horrific calls against us.

We then got a break against Denver when their quarterback made so many mistakes a team of my grandmothers could have beaten them. Still the Broncos ran up and down the field against our Eric-Berry-less defense, a definite portend of things to come.

We then played Dallas, just one of the teams to watch tape of what Pittsburgh did to us -- now everyone is doing it. Eight guys in the box to stuff our running game, and blitzing just enough to keep Alex Smith off his game -- this weak offensive line and terrible quarterback simply cannot cope with that kind of pressure defense. By the way I'd heard that since that game Dallas has lost all three games and hasn't even scored ten points in any of them. Another portend. We made Dallas look waaay better than it was.

We then played New York and couldn't score a touchdown. The Giants dropped pass after pass after pass, and they didn't score a single touchdown either, but that didn't matter -- all they had to do was employ the Pittsburgh philosophy against us and they had us.

We then played Buffalo, at home no less, a team they said had one of the worst defenses in the league. We get 10 points against them. Just do what Pittsburgh did, that's all.

So yeah, this depressing turn of events is not a whole lot different from 1998. But there was a good thing about that year. With the purpose of this year's blog effort to look at the best things, here goes. Yeah I could say I like this guy or that guy -- none of that much matters with our QB and O-line keeping anyone from being good. I could say we're still in first place -- ::whimper:: And I could say I will always hope no matter what that this will all change -- but I'm so sick of saying that I want to throw up.

But here's the good thing -- about 1998?...

2003 was on its way.

Remember that? Priest Holmes, Dante Hall, Trent Green, Will Shields Willie Roaf and that phenomenal offensive line.

::Ahhhh...::

And sure enough, 2022 is not that far away. That's the year we'll have Pat Mahomes in there slingin' it downfield for will-shattering drives ending in back-breaking touchdowns, and over the previous few years we'll have picked up some offensive linemen who'll get Kareem Hunt untracked, and we'll have picked up someone ferocious to occupy the middle of the defense, someone who shatters the will of opponent offenses and wins us playoff games.

2022.

::Ahhhhhhh...::
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