Shane Life

Herm Edwards’ is not a good coach. I’ve said it since last December…he should not be the Chiefs coach. His theory on the game is antiquated and frankly, just doesn’t work.

His strategy is based upon having a good enough defense to keep the team in games, but the problem is that the way that he and Mike Solari call plays, the Chiefs have to have the league’s #1 defense, which at last check was 13.2 points allowed per game by the Pittsburgh Steelers. That’s right…that’s the ONLY scenario that works for the Chiefs, who are averaging a 3rd-from-last in the league 14.9 points per game on offense.

Herm and Carl Peterson continue to find washed-up kickers to blame for the Chiefs’ problems, but they never look in a mirror and think to themselves, “Maybe I’m the one doing something wrong.” I’ll give props to Mike Solari who at least took some of the blame this week for the abysmal offensive performance. I’ve got good money that says that he was put up to that by Edwards and Peterson, who cannot take blame themselves.

Herm Edwards is a mediocre coach at best.  He has taken teams built by other coaches to the playoffs, but his regular season record speaks for itself - 52 wins, 55 losses. When you play to win games by 3 points, that’s what your record will be. And when you hire a coach that believes you can go to the playoffs winning games by 3 points, the General Manager should be held responsible for breaking the streak of home sellouts at 147 games, which probably will happen before the end of the season.

Clark Hunt needs to do what his dad couldn’t - fire Carl Peterson. Shake things up. If Chiefs ownership was really committed to winning instead of making money, they would have done it 10 years ago (3 years after his initial “5-year plan”). Loyalty is good to an extent, but when it loyalty is more important than on-the-field success, there’s a problem. Here’s hoping the Chiefs fix that problem. And soon.