Personally, I think we are all over-reacting a bit. Myself included. We’re all frustrated as hell. Not surprising either. Something has gone HORRIBLY WRONG this season but honestly I don’t think any of us know what it is. I sure don’t. For 4 years Sutton ran some of the best Defenses in the NFL. This year not so much. But some people want to fire Sutton. For 4 years Reid had the best won-loss percentage of any Chiefs coach in history. At the end of this year he may still. But some people want to fire Reid. For 4 years Toub had one of the best Special Teams in the NFL. This year not so much. Some people want to fire Toub. Others want Alex’s head. Still others want the head of Peters and Kelce. Maybe we should fire Butker too. After all he missed a kick against the Jets. I’ve even seen suggestions on the ChiefsCrowd FB page that all would be fine if we hadn’t given up next year’s first round pick to get Mahomes. This from people that 6 months ago thought getting Mahomes was the greatest pick we had ever made.

Do you see where I am going with this? We’re all frustrated and angry. We all want to find a scapegoat and have him PUBLICLY EXECUTED! Preferably with lots of blood and humiliation. OK…I understand that. It’s a natural reaction because we are all very passionate about our Chiefs. But I think we all need to take a deep breath, perhaps a stiff drink and ask ourselves if we are really reacting rationally? When you have an employee who for 4 years has been one of the best you have ever had at his position do you fire him because he goes into a slump? Smart business owners don’t. Smart managers don’t. Yes…our season is going down the toilet. None of us expects us to make the playoffs. Most of us doubt we’ll have a winning record. Some of us doubt we can even go 8-8. I’m starting to doubt that myself. And yeah…I WANT TO PUNISH SOMEONE FOR THAT! But I just don’t think any of us really knows who it is that needs to be punished.

On a slightly more humorous note….I think we’d all agree that Len Dawson was one of the best QBs we have ever had. I looked up his passing stats….In his years with the Chiefs he had a completion rate of 57.1%. Pretty poor by today’s standards. His average yards per passing attempt was 7.67. His average passing yards per game was 136. PATHETIC. Maybe we should retroactively fire him and remove him from the HOF? Yes…I know the game has changed since the Dawson days. Just trying to inject a little humor into the situation. Sometimes it’s better to laugh than cry.

All-in-all, for the rest of the season I think we need to cheer for our Chiefs when we can and try to suppress our desire for revenge when there is not much to cheer about. At least for the rest of this year. Then our coaches and players will have to figure out what went wrong and try to correct it. Will the day come when “Heads must roll”? Maybe. But now is not the time. It’s simply too early. We have a bright, shiny new QB waiting in the wings who certainly plays a very different style of football than Alex and with our cap situation and Alex’s cap hit next year that new QB is almost certain to be our starter next year. So I guess what I am saying is that we need to adopt the attitude SSG Hickman taught me in the Army…F.I.D.O. FUDGE IT! DRIVE ON!

MOST IMPORTANTLY….. I hope nobody here will take this as a criticism of themselves or as me “calling them out”. THAT IS NOT ?what I am doing. I’m just trying to put my emotions aside and look at this mess logically instead of emotionally.

Final thought….This is RAIDER WEEK. I know most of you despise the Broncos more than the Raiders, but for me the Raiders are, always have been and always will be PUBLIC ENEMY #1. ?GO CHIEFS!!!

Matt….Sorry I’m taking so long to reply. My computer is having some problems with this page.

Thank you. I just didn’t want anyone misinterpreting my post…

Your points regarding Reid’s history are valid. His playcalling and clock management are sometimes enough to drive a tea-total to drunkenness.

Again, I can not refute your statement. But I ask you honestly…Is it really fair to compare Reid and his Eagles and Chiefs teams with Belichick? Do we kick him to the curb because in 5 years he hasn’t matched Belichick?

Thank you. If I read you right, you are pretty much saying Reid has “Marty Disease”. And you may be right. That said, I go back to my point which is that based on the last 4 years I believe he has earned the right to at least 2 years with his handpicked new QB–Mahomes. He took us from the catastrophe of 2012 to 4 winning records. I think that Reid has realized that his offensive schemes are outdated and pushed for the Mahomes selection because he realized his offensive schemes were no longer “good enough”. In a way, Reid is a victim of his own success. Using his Offensive schemes that were tailored for Alex, we did so well that he (Reid) thought he could use it to get to the Super Bowl. But I think he realized that wasn’t the case and so pushed for a new style of QB that he could use new schemes with. In short, I think Reid wants to change his playcalling dramatically and went and got a QB who would work with his new ideas. Guess what I am saying is that I think an old dog can learn new tricks. And I think Reid has earned the opportunity to prove it.

You ask how much longer do I think we should give Reid. Naturally, there are too many variables to give a fixed answer. Questions like….What coaches are available on the market? I don’t think we want to dump Reid for Buddy Ryan do we? What does Reid do with his Offensive scheme once Mahomes goes in (next year I presume)? But all in all, I think Reid should be given 2 years with Mahomes as the starter (naturally subject to review based on how we do in 2018) with a “Fish or cut bait” date of the end of the 2019 to get us to the AFC Championship game (or at least SUPER CLOSE). I guess my summary is Mahomes is Reid’s baby and he deserves a year or two to show that he knows how to use him.

This a shortened version of my original but then shorter is probably better. I’ve been known to get a bit long-winded.

@matthewschiefs 338913 wrote:

My point isn’t so much to compare the teams more to compare the traits of championship level coaches and Reid. They don’t have many dips and Reid’s teams seem to have some every year. This team has far too much talent to be a .500 team. They beat The Pats and eagles who are both 10-2. They started 5-0 against competition with a record of 35-25 a full 10 games over .500. Yet we see losses to the 2 win Giants. That is not a common trait of a championship level coach. IMO. It would be one thing if we could look and say hey this is a bad year (stuff happens) but when you look and see this has been the norm for Reid coached teams it’s alarming.

To your point about Mahomes, I can not sit here and deny that Reid and Mahomes just find something. But I don’t think that is very likely. I think we’ll see what we have always seen from Reid teams. They just find a way to do something just baffling to lose. If that’s an insane play call that ends up with your TE throwing an INT. Or if that’s poor clock management they always find a way to lose. It’s a trait Reid teams have always had. I just can’t say that I see that changing.

You may well be right and I may have my head stuffed up my ash. Being honest, it wouldn’t be the first time I was 100% WRONG. But do you agree that we don’t fire Reid unless there is CLEARLY a better head coach candidate on the market. If there is a coach available who is CLEARLY better than Reid then I can accept his being fired. But to be honest, if we were to fire Reid at the end of this year and hire some crippled toad I’d probably have an aneurysm with blood spurting out of my eyes, ears, mouth, nose and other parts of my body that don’t need to be mentioned. You may be right in suggesting that Reid is Marty 2.0, though of course only time will tell. But do you want to trade Marty 2.0 for a few years of 4-12 or 8-8?

You say Reid has to go. OK…so who do we replace him with?