Chiefs at Chargers - Week 12 - Record: 3-8

Yet another blowout at the hands of the Chargers. Right now this is a team we just can't do squat against, amplified by the fact that every game we just seem to have a bunch of really stupid things happening to us that undercut our efforts even more. Today it was uncharacteristically bad shotgun snaps from our center, a fumble after a long run by our halfback, and Matt Cassel (who seems to be particularly cursed by the Chargers) throwing an interception off of a lineman's helmet and losing a ball he was about to pass right into the hands of a blitzing safety.

Let's face it, the Chargers have the offense we wish we could have. Taking nothing away from our up-and-coming guys like Cassel, the Chargers simply have better backs (LaDainian Tomlinson, one of the best ever), taller faster wide-outs (our small corners played their hearts out against these guys but still couldn't stop them), a more experienced savvy quarterback (one of the best in the league right now), and a line that--well, any line is better than ours. I mean, we should compare their O-line with our D-line, and it just wasn't even funny. They just shoved us all over the place.

To be honest, our soft defense is really concerning me. Yes, let's give Tyson Jackson another year. Okay, let's give Glenn Dorsey yet another year. I'm just afraid of how many years we have to give these guys. Our D-backs are holding their own especially since we lost Jarrad Page and Maurice Leggett for the year.

All I think about is how those past awful drafts of Carl Peterson has murdered us. I know I know I know it's all about Scott Pioli now, I know. I'm great with that. But the whole draft thing just highlights the stark contrast between a team like the Chargers and ours now. Do you know that we had only three guys that we drafted playing regularly in our offense today. Just three guys. Here they are, don't need much space to put 'em in: Branden Albert, Jamaal Charles, and Brad Cottam. And really, Albert is still very green, Charles is fast but still hasn't proven to me he's a go-to guy, and Cottam is not much more than a 3rd string guy.

Three guys.

That's pathetic. And, really, in that sense, it is a testament to how brilliant Pioli has been in putting any remotely decent NFL offense out on the field to begin with.

Oh, and yeah, I haven't mentioned Larry Johnson, but I can't refuse to point out that for Cincinnati today, he ran for over 100. Sorry all you Larry Johnson un-fans, but they guy is still a stud and was run outta town by a bunch of politically correct thugs who can't see what our offensive line is really like. Oh, and I caught this also, about another supposed former Chiefs miscreant. Jared Allen leads the league in sacks over there with Minnesota. He's got 11. The Chiefs I think had 10 all of last year.

I must say there were two terrific things about this game. One, our special teams are really playing well. Yes it is tiring to have to keep speaking about how great our punter is, but our kick coverage has also really been good in this year when so many kicks are being returned for TD's. It was nice to see our coverage guys stuff Darren Sproles. Kicker Ryan Succop only put through two conversions today, but this guy is solid and looks like he'll be here for a while, something we haven't been able to enjoy since Nick Lowery (with humble apologies to Pete Stoyanovich, but he was pretty much passing through).

And the second great thing is we weren't wearing those silly Texans helmets. I know it's all "AFL 50 Years" and all, but they already did the throwback uniforms back in the '94 season, and it was indeed wonderful then, for a year. After a while it just gets old. I have to say I'd be very very happy to never see the Texans thing again. And hey, the team is not even really wearing the old Texans uniforms.

But next week we get Denver. Again, if they've got those goofy horses on their heads, I could (if they absolutely must) tolerate another Texans helmet just to see that.
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