Titans at Chiefs - Week 15 - Record: 4-10

Would you believe it. The Chiefs finish 2-6 at home. Never in the 16-game schedule has that ever happened to a Chiefs team. (Back when it was 14 the Chiefs actually had three 1-6 seasons at home, can you believe it? And one of them, the 1974 one, was coached by Hank Stram!)

I don't need to write more about how bad this team is. Brodie Croyle got another learning experience today. He's got skill, but no discipline or experience. A decent drive in the second half was marred by three holding calls-- that tells you how bad our blocking is. Sure we don't have Larry Johnson, but so what. He didn't do squat when he was around because no one was there to open things up for him. But this is a tired story.

The defense-- earlier in the year I took pride in thinking of them as Transformers. Back then they did decently at figuring out the opponent's offense then stopping them cold. Now they're just getting it from the other team, who is transforming their offense to take it to us later in the game. We actually had the Titans at the half, up 14-10. Then we give up that typical big play touchdown pass, they add a few FG's, our offense sputters (ho-hum) and that's it.

So as we lose our seventh straight we're in a better position to get a nice draft pick. And we'd better get the best damn offensive tackle there is. This can't be a "Trezelle Jenkins-whupps-that-didn't-work-out-oh-darn" pick. It must be a Jonathan Ogden-type pick. If our new left tackle isn't that kind of guy, you can kiss any chance of even remotely looking at a Super Bowl any time in the next ten years a very heartfelt goodbye.

Oh, and just to add, last time the team lost seven straight within a single regular season? Do you know when that was? Good, you have a good memory because

It never happened.

Just so you know, we lost eight straight from '75 (four losses to close that season) to '76 (four to open it).

So yeah, hang your hats on that one Chiefs fans. First time with seven straight losses - single season. That counts all the abjectly horrific 70's and 80's years.

I wonder how many more hanged-in-effigy Carl Peterson figures there will be this week? How many will it take for Chiefs ownership get a clue?