I was fortunate enough to be enjoying a tasty burrito after church to have missed the abysmal first quarter-and-a-half of what passes for football in Kansas City these days. But when I got home, I had to endure the rest of a disheartening, embarrassing loss to a bunch of dudes in teal.

The worst part about the whole game was that Jacksonville came in with the EXACT same game plan Herm Edwards has been preaching since he got here — Run the football. Play good defense.

Well, at least Jacksonville got the memo. Edwards forgot the part where you have to have players that will block for your spoiled brat running back and you have to at least have a quarterback who can handle pressure and didn’t spend 95% of his 11-year career holding a clipboard. If you think I’m a bandwagon-jumper, you might be right, but I’ve been saying Huard didn’t deserve it from the very beginning.

But hey, at least we didn’t get shut out.

We might as well have. Maybe then people wouldn’t give Carl Peterson a pass and blame it all on the coaches. While Herm Edwards and Mike Solari certainly bear some amount of responsibility, the biggest thing wrong with the Chiefs is personnel. We have an electric rookie wide receiver and perhaps the greatest receiving tight end in the history of pro football, but no one to throw the ball to them. We have a top 3 running back, but we let him act like a moron and don’t put decent blockers in front of him. We have a pretty stout defense, but forget coverages at a moment’s notice and Still. Cannot. Cover. The. Bootleg.

I’m ready for rebuilding. Just don’t act like you’re going to try and win when you clearly don’t have a quality product on the field. That sort of thinking belongs on the OTHER side of the Truman Sports Complex parking lot.

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…this is not a trip update. I just haven’t had nearly the time I want to commit to giving a thorough overview of the trip and I’m still fighting with myself to get our pictures up on Flickr. I promise that trip updates are coming soon.

But not today.

We had a great weekend and just wanted to talk quickly about it. We spent Friday night at Community America Ballpark watching the T-Bones (from a suite, no less) as a celebration of Big Mike’s 31st birthday. It was fun hanging with all our friends and playing the “pass the cup” game that makes T-Bones games a lot more interesting. (It’s nothing sinister, I assure you.)

Saturday, I got a lot accomplished. I mowed our lawn for the first time since we got back into the country, which led to a small bout of dehydration. Have I ever mentioned how much I hate the summer? It is the most VILE of all seasons. Too HOT. After recovering, I tackled cleaning and scrubbing the kitchen while Alli went to the baby shower for my future niece, Ireland. In 7 short weeks, I’m going to be an uncle…how cool!

After Alli returned from the shower and I finally got IN the shower, we went to the movies for the first time since we saw Shrek the Third in a French theater just off the Champs-Elysées. We caught two movies that I’ve been dying to see - Live Free or Die Hard (AWESOME) and The Bourne Ultimatum (EVEN AWESOMER). We were shocked to see one of the biggest theaters at the Olathe 30 AMC completely packed for the 9:50 PM Bourne, but after seeing the weekend box office numbers (Bourne took in over $70 million), I guess it isn’t all that surprising. That movie ROCKED.

Then yesterday, we had an early Priesthood meeting and a great church service in which we got to sit with our buddy Reece, which is always fun. He and I had a good time playing motorcycle while I tried to pay attention to his dad’s sermon.

After church, we grabbed some Chipotle with Mom (an obvious Sunday lunch choice…and every other day for that matter), then headed home for a quick nap and then back out to Lee’s Summit to hang with Jake and Kelly. Watched Stomp the Yard (pretty good), some Iron Chef America and Entourage before heading home with the 7th Harry Potter book in hand (boy, do I love my future sister-in-law for hooking me up!). I read until about 2 A.M., getting through around 300 pages. I’m determined to finish in the next couple of days so I can finally start reading all about it on the interweb. Fortunately, I’ve been able to avoid spoilers up to this point. Needless to say, it was difficult waking up this morning.

Keep an eye out…I promise a trip update soon.

P.S. If there are any generous reader-types out there, I’m totally wanting this Harry Potter set that is going to come out in a month. I only have one of the 7 books and I want the whole set. If someone out there is interested in making this boy’s day…I’m just saying.

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