Chargers at Chiefs - Week 13 - Record: 4-8

At least we have a good punter. Really, Dustin Colquitt was booming kicks, even against the wind. Awesome.

Oh, and we have a really good defensive end who can make spectacular touchdown catches at the side of the end zone once every 47 games.

Other than that, this team is a mess. How 'bout if we just go over it, since we've got some blog space here and all. Let's start at the top.

Herm Edwards. My uncle emailed me the other day and mentioned something I hadn't thought of, and that is the offensive coordinator. As you may know I pay no attention to what's going on during the week, it always just generally depresses me. So I didn't even think the OC should be in the hot seat, but it makes sense.

Thing is, the OC is only an extension of the HC, and that's Herm. I'd always liked Herm and don't really dislike much at this point. But my uncle is fed up with him. He wants both out.

He's got a good point.

This offense just doesn't do anything imaginitive, novel, or even just mildly dynamic to keep the other team scrambling. Okay, so Jared Allen caught a touchdown pass. That was wonderful, it really was a kick to see that.

But this should be a complete embarrassment to the offense when the DE gets your team's only touchdown.

And this was with Tony Gonzalez having a spectacular game himself! But then, that's another thing. When your TE gets ten catches on the day, your offense has problems.

Yes, Dwayne Bowe has a great future ahead of him, but (a) he's still inexperienced and (b) he has so little around him to keep defenders off his back. Kennison is too old, Parker can't run routes, and Webb just looks like a body in a Chiefs uniform out there.

At QB we just have to wait for Croyle to develop. Sure that's promising, but it means nothing to us now. Because of Croyle's back injury, today we went back to Damon Huard, and he was mostly, well, Damon Huard.

Our running game looked like it could be carried for a bit by quick little Kolby Smith, but even he can't overcome the woeful awful wretched (steel your gag reflexes yet again) offensive line. Sure it suffered some injuries, but what difference would it have made? Sure we can't run the ball with that, now we can't pass either (our QB was sacked seven times, intercepted something like three or four times).

How about the defense? Eh. That's about what you could say about it. Once in the year I thought it would be pretty dang good, but now it's just "eh." At the beginning of the year they'd give up a bit in the first half then shut 'em down in the second. Seems now that's reversed. I think I saw a stat that said in the last five games we haven't allowed a TD in the first half. Guh?

But really now. Last week we couldn't tackle Justin Fargas. You think today we're going to tackle LaDainian Tomlinson? Gimme a break.

As it is, that's five straight losses (four of them home games!), something we haven't done since 1979, Marv Levy's tenure. Yeah. First time since then-- not even in the poor Mackovic or Ganz years did we do that.

So, yeah, maybe I should just appreciate Dustin Colquitt and hope he makes the Pro Bowl. At least for this year.

Ee-yack, how sad is that, that that is all we've got.

Wow. Look at that. Three "that"s in a row, in one sentence. How often does that happen? About as often as Jared Allen scores an offensive touchdown?