What happened to your patience preaching? Remember it usually takes what? 40 some-odd starts to properly judge a QB? You haven’t backed off on that yet have you? This article kind of makes me think you have. You know fans are like mice following the pied-piper. You entice them with prospects then that is what they will expect. Croyle hasn’t lost you already has he? Just less than a game later!?! Yeah, he got hurt. AGAIN! But what if he comes back and plays lights out for the rest of the season? Will we be QB hunting then? Practice what you preach, mister. You don’t want to be thought of as fan chasing do you? Giving them what you think they want to hear. No, surely not you Mr. Gretz, the one who grumbles about newspaper reporters.

Gun hasn’t forgot how to Coach a Defense, I have to ask the question again, WHO is really making most of the personal decisions on D?
Who made the decision to keep Tim Krumrie as D-Line Coach? (imo that’s where we are having our biggest struggle on D) also that’s where there has been a substantial investment made recently.
Who is keeping this Defense from being an attacking, aggressive style D? (Like Gun’s history has shown)
I don’t pretend to know, but I have my suspects.
These are some questions that I would like to see Bob address.
He knows, or he has a very good idea of the inner workings of the Chiefs, maybe not as much as some suspect but more than a lot of folks know.
I LOVE BOBGRETZ.COM but if his hands are tied and he can’t share some of the more sublime information, than it’s really not much different than picking up a news paper and reading it.
I wouldn’t expect him to say anything (and in fact would be pissed if he did) that hurts the team by giving up information that could be used to game plan against us.
I just don’t see where who is making these decisions would be damaging to any thing other than some peoples egos.
Again I want to say I love Bob’s writing style, the way he dedicates his efforts to the history of the game and his respect for Coaches and players a-like, and I can also see his dilemma, if he does report things that embarrass the powers that be, he would no longer be exposed to such inside info.
So, you know how Bob does “Herm Speak”, I try to do “Bob Speak”, but not knowing Bob personally, I can only speculate on trying to read between the lines.
I also like the way Bob is willing to listen to suggestions on how to make his blog better,I certainly am no expert, (just outside looking in) I have sent him a couple of E-Mails with suggestions,
nothing big, just small visual things I thought he could change, and by gosh the next week the change was made.

But I do wish we could know who is really doing what, and who’s hands are tied on certain decisions.

Any way that was along way around very little for me. LOL
I just don’t want to see the Chiefs lose a Guy (Gun) just because he is not able to make some or most of his own decisions, if he is “The Man” than he needs to be evaluated the same as anyone else is.

I’m not sure if you can do this because of your internal ties to the organization but here’s what I would like to see – a series about head coach and GM possibilities.

I don’t have a true hatred for Carl, but I think I’d like to see a change there just for the sake of change. It’s time for the Chiefs to go in a new direction.

As far as Herm – I love his drafts, but I’m losing confidence in his ability to evaluate current players and prepare for games. He just doesn’t seem to be willing/able to make the adjustments that seem so obvious to us (McIntosh for one).

I wouldn’t mind either one staying with the organization in some capacity. I think that Carl could still be useful in one of his many roles (President possibly) but I would like to see a change at GM. I honestly wonder if the man just doesn’t have too much on his plate, covering essentially three person’s jobs.

I would be fine with keeping Herm as a draft scout or secondary coach, but his decisions as a head coach are questionable to me. I totally agree with his youth movement, but he seems unwilling to make essential changes to better the team. If he’s still around next year I expect there are a lot of moves he’ll make in the offseason, but it seems that there are so many things he could have done already and could be doing now with the bye week that he just ignores.

Back to the subject, I’d like to delve into the the topic of GM’s and coaches. Particularly, the widespread call for Marty and Cowher. I don’t know that either of those moves would really get us anywhere. Who else is on the horizon?

Also, what are your evaluations of the assistant coaching staff? A lot of people have been calling for Gun’s head, but I still like him as DC. I attribute the defense’s problems more to lack of help from the offense, lack of talent at MLB, and foolish strategy with the DE’s (Move Hali back!).

Special Teams seem to be improving somewhat, but offense is another story. I’m not ready to throw Chan under the bus yet, but I wonder if he could use a major improvement at QB and O-line coaching.

As usual keep up the great work!

GO CHIEFS!

I like Bradford, but I want to know more about him, such as:
1. can he make all the throws?
2. are his #s inflated because he is throwing short (high percentage passes) to rb etc?
3. behind that offensive line he doesnt face much pressure. How does he look under pressure?