Edwards = PLAYOFFS- only coach franchise history to do so his very first season. 3 yrs KC, 1 year in post season (33%) / W-L 0-1 (0%)

Stram = PLAYOFFS – 15 yrs DALL/KC, 5 years in the post season (33%) / W-L 5-3 (63%)
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Schottenheimer – 10 yrs, 7 in post season (70%)
W-L 3-8 (27%)

Mackovic = 4 yrs KC, 1 post season (25%) /W-L 0-1 (0%)

Vermeil = 5 yrs in KC, 1 year in post season (20%)
W-L 0-1 (0%)

Well golly, & SHAZAM! The evidence be clear that the BEST Head Coach franchise history for making
post season quickest be – HERM EDWARDS – 100%.

Most successful once there HANK STRAM – 63%.

Most dates left standing at the football altar of failure MARTY SCHOTTENMEHIMER – 27%.

The rest? Also rans an even greater lack, names they to include: Wiggin, Bettis, Levy, Mackovic, Gansz, Cunningham & Vermeil…zeros all of them.
Come 2009, shall addest the name ‘check’ to that sad collection of “wouldas, couldas & shouulds”.

heh heh heh!

Thanks for a great read to start off the week Bob!

I’d forgotten how wacky the spring and summer of ‘76 were.

Denver made a nice run at it with the recent housecleaning, but they need some more weird stuff to climb into contention with the current off season.

“To Rin”

- how wonderful…but I didn’t get anything for you.

“I await”

- as patience is a virtue, Rin shall give you virtuousness.

“your thoughts on the Hunts.”

- not near as good as Heinz…

“No mention of the past”

- past being prologue, Heinz 57 varieties makes said a moot point…

“GMs why not?”

- the foreigners produce a better product, more quality for the price…

“Blame”

- the fat cat American automakers…

“seems to me you should spread it around.”

- no, Detroit is the place, American ingenuity gone to waste…

For chiefs fans, this truly is a happy independence day!
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http://www.arrowheadpride.com/2009/7/4/937853/a-look-back-herm-years
First we had to give up a draft pick for him, what team would give up their coach if they thought he was good. In the 2006 playoff game it was the first time a team was held without a first down in the first half of a playoff game since the merger.

In the first game of the 2007 season they lost to the Texans 20-3. It was the first time since 1970 the Chiefs lost by 17 or more points on opening day, also the first time in the decade they were held to 3 points or less on opening day. The Chiefs ended the year with a 9 game losing streak that tied the franchise record but don’t worry Herm got the record by losing 3 more games to start off the next season so now the record is 12 games in a row.

In one game the Chiefs only had 127 total yards that is the worst output in 22 years.Set a NFL record of 10 sacks in a season, 11 individual players had more.Team record of allowing 332 yards rushing in a game by the Tennessee Titans. Surrendered a 21 point lead to Tampa Bay for another team record. The Buffalo Bills scored 54 points on the Chiefs for another team record. And the big one had the worse season in team history.

http://www.arrowheadpride.com/2009/7/4/938069/steve-mcnair-is-dead-at-36

Told you all so – 2, 3, 4 ad nauseam…

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2,3, 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGJMYxEJDn8

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As English Leather, France’s Cioran devotee I say – ALL read Rin, or they’ve read no one at all.

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- Rin Tin Tin – auteur (courtesy inspiration Herm Edwards dog)

Auditions for pyrotechnician, best boy, gaffer & grip Rin’s “Take Us Back To Football Past Tour” must have their applications postmarked no later than January 15, 1967…

“you are backing up the wrong tree. Make that barking.”

- well, if you’re not certain…

Anonymous starts out slow but little by little- he dies out completely.

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- Rin Tin Tin – auteur (courtesy inspiration George Bernard Shaw)

Auditions for pyrotechnician, best boy, gaffer & grip Rin’s “Take Us Back To Football Past Tour” must have their applications postmarked no later than January 15, 1967…

Thanks for clarifying your view. I did state in my post that the I agree regarding the bottom line. I also agree that I hope CH will spend the money necessary to field a championship team and if he doesn’t then nobody can blame the fans for not turning out and spending money for a bad product. Time will tell but I do think they’re headed in the right direction at this point. What’s that you say Rin? Herm and Al Davis have fallen in a well and you have to go rescue them? woof! woof! woof!

I feel as though Jr (I was the first to dub him with this, not that idiot that adopts many of my words) is taking advantage of the passion of KC’ns. It’s as though he can throw any thing on the field and the people of KC will tolerate it, wait, NOT tolerate, but pay him for it, not only by continuing to buy tickets only, oh hell no! We pay him with tax dollars too! For What?! I don’t even want to start talking about the lack of respect raising the price of tickets and parking exhibits.

I was going into my Freshman year in HS in the summer of 76, I do remember the turmoil of that year. (didn’t know about the OD) I don’t know if it’s because I was younger and paying a lot more attention to girls in tight jeans or what, but it seems far worse now than then, to me. Don’t get me wrong I like the moves the Chiefs have made, but if Jr is either too greedy, or too poor to fund the team properly, it’s all for naught!

I hope the Chiefs win a ton of games this season, but I also hope the seats remain empty. Until Jr “Show’s Me” he’s here to win Championships, not just to sell tickets.

Rin recalls the weight loss / conditioning story regarding the Chiefs & ‘check’ claiming the team was ‘out of shape’ –

This quote from the Chicago Tribune June 20:

“Haley identified the problem and set out to fix it. In the process, he shed some serious pounds himself, going from 217 to 192.”

- oh? Et tu, ‘check’? Kettle, meet teapot. Maybe ‘check’ was hanging around with John Daly afore.

- kettle calling the teapot black, John; to wit -

“hired THE coach that was being touted as the up and coming head coach prospect.”

- really? If one does a review it appears clear – crystal – that Josh McDaniels was more THE than ‘check’ was thee – and Steve Spagnuolo at least ‘the’ if not THE.

“Everybody’s entitled to their opinion”

- and to Rin’s…

“but”

- John’s wife is calling so he must go now lend her his other area expertise: compliance.

- yes, Rin knew…but revisiting the past always be preferable to living in a present morass that fails to satisfy same.

* Jimbo Elrod – aka ‘Elbow Jimrod’ as Lanier anointed him thence…

* Otis Taylor actually played not even ‘a’ game in ‘75 (injured during the very first offensive series of that season opening game v DEN as Rin recalls – 3rd play?) Otis still had some speed as he caught a 40 yd. pass exhibition season of 1976 with HOU…but then it was over.

* “They don’t care how they do it as long as the pictures of the dead presidents keep rolling in,” Stram said. “The whole approach is a slot-machine approach.”

- you tell em Hank! Alas some things never change whether year of our Benjamin$ 1976, or same 2009. Nod toward Linda Ellerbee, “and so it goes.”

* John Matuszak, football player… though he was an actor off the field (too) wasn’t it in essence the ‘Tooz’ former KC DE/later actor Pete Koch was playing as Swede Johanson in Eastwood’s ‘86 movie “Heartbreak Ridge”?

Only upon the big screen could someone whup him; only in death would John prove he was not larger than life itself.

Got you single game tickets, yet?

“You can get bruised when you cruise with the Tuze”

You cannot make this stuff up! Excellent montage of stories, Bob.