Wherefore art though, Romeo?

oh, and p.s. cassel really sucked on that final drive. baby steps.

When it comes to the end of close games i like having Vrabel out there because experience counts most at those times. I am starting to see what you guys have been saying about the student baker. Sadly could only catch the 4th quarter...that was a heartbreaking quarter of football. happy to've since seen we played a good game. the image of flowers standing solitary on the sideline after just jawing the refs, very emotional, will be with me forever.

i've been hatin on ward for a couple years now, because i think he's so boring. it was really disappointing seeing him get some big gains. copper's been killing it on special teams, but it's sure weird seeing him as a #2 wr. i think we'll have to accept the fact that vrabel will start every game as long as he's healthy, but why not rotate and keep the legs fresh? i have a wild theory that they're trying to wear him out to prevent things from getting awkward. i just don't believe they think vrabel is the more effect olb. did you see baker's one-handed jersey tackle?

BigMatt, love your posts btw. Keep up the great work! Your pic on this post reminded me of why I almost peed my pants at the Monday night game. Durning warm-ups, Earl stood at the 50 yard line, by himself, with his arms crossed, no facial expression.....and stared down the opposing team. He might be the only coach in the league that studies the opposing offense during warm-ups. If not he is certainly the most intimidating. Glad he's on our side!

Have you ever watched what James Earl Jones does before each game?

chiefsfanatic your wrong about the jags game, we'll win 31-10. I live here in jacksonville and watch and often go to the games. The jags defense is probably the worst in the league, we'll straight torch their defense. My prediction 250 yds on the ground 200 yds passing

calchiefsfan i loved that brandon flowers got pissed, he should hav it was a horrible call, if you've played sports and your team gets a horrible call u better let the refs kno about it, its called playin with emotion. GOT TO PLAY WITH EMOTION especially in football. And haley was right in doing so what he did, not letting flowers get under the refs skin and him letting the ref kno what he thought about the worst interference call ever

wait til tyson jackson gets back in the lineup

i think the game was hard on all of us here and i do agree what happened to are great D we have had where did they go in the 4th i think if they showed up we could have won

What a tough loss. Our offense played the best game so far overall. The defense played well for 3 quarters, and then had a bad 4th quarter. The officiating was killing us. I had felt prior to the game that if Matt had a good day we won. Normally we would have. Despite the temptation, I won't focus on the many bad or non-calls in the game. It's like the weather, it does you no good to complain. OK, I admit to cussing, what the heck. It does not change it, but made me feel better. Those who commented on Flowers jawboning at the official after his bad call as “immature”, I just can't agree with that. He played his heart out all game, and was screwed. I'd have done the same thing. Notice he did not get a flag for it either, I think the refs knew he was right. OK, hrumph, back to not focusing on the horrendous, incompetent officiating. What did I like about the game? Our offense for the first time this season sustained drives and got in the end zone. Matt Cassel played well. Our running game was great. We were fighting hard. Faults on the field? We needed a pass rush in the second half. We needed to stop Andre Johnson. As much as I like the overall coaching we have, I'm not going to lay this loss on any players, offense or defense. I lay it on coaching decisions. Specifically, Todd Haley. The Todster is showing a proclivity to do things in games that are costing us. I don't mind his aggressiveness in going on 4th downs. In fact, I think we should have gone for it the last time when we had 4th and short when we punted, and a first down would have won the game. My beef is the odd ball stuff, when it's just not necessary. We gave the Colts great field possession to start the game last week with an onside kick. Why put your defense under the gun right from the start against a potent offense. There is a reason teams don't do it. It's just not smart. The same goes for the two “mortar” kicks against Houston in the second half. Why in the world when you have a lead and need to run time off, and have played great kick coverage all year, do you suddenly resort to gimmick kicks that gave them half field starting positions. Again, there are reasons teams don't do that and we saw why. It gave them easy drives and two touchdowns with minimal time expended. If we had just played those as usual, the odds are at least one of those drives would have failed or the time taken would have made the difference in the game. It was just not smart. I want us to make aggressive calls, but not dumb aggressive calls. Take your risks on offense and defense when it's appropriate situationally. Maybe Haley thinks he needs to make an impact on the sideline. He would be better served limiting his calls to things like observing when a player is gassed, or picking up on something that is missed and intervening. Sometimes you can get overly enamored with “thinking outside the box”. By doing things that are needlessly putting the defense in bad positions, we are going to lose some winnable games. This was one of them. Let's hope next week we rely on our fundamentally well coached offense, defense, and special teams and rely on that to win.

It's been an unpredictable year for alot of teams. I don't really see a part of our schedule I would call "easy". I believe we will be in the playoffs though.

While the Chiefs are a week removed from horrible WR play, D-Bowe came back to prove himself while looking around for his 2nd threat. Unfortunately he was in STL catching 4 balls for 70+ yards and a TD in the only game he has been active on an NFL roster. Copper? Horne? Are these the reasons Pioli "wasn't interested"? Anyway, despite the loss, the Chiefs were in position to win and couldn't quite walk away with it. Whether it be poor front 7 defensive play in the 4th quarter, a bad PI call, bad 3rd down offensive play calling, or bad special teams doesn't really matter to me. There were a collection of things you could point to if you are looking for excuses. I'm not. The Chiefs hung with a good Texans team on the road a week after they did the same to a good Colts teams. If we can just beat the teams we are supposed to, this team still has the potential to do some damage in the postseason. Just take care of business, Chiefs!

I like the article I wonder when someone is going to write up something about how suspect Eric Berry's play has become. I hope this isn't a new trend cause he was a non factor in Indy and Houstons Andre the giant torched him. I want him to do well but other than make a few sound tackles he has done nothing spectacular. Instead he is suspect if I am the other team.

What makes this especially painful is we had that game won, up 10 points with only 5 minutes to go. All we had to do was what we had done pretty much all year, shut them down, drag it out,make the yards tough. Our D got smoked. I still think we're on the right track. No doubt about it. We'll come home to Arrowhead and yes the Jags will be tough but we should beat them at home. Then Buffalo at home and the Raiders in Oakland. All winnable games. We could very possibly be 6-2 at the half way point. Not bad. I really didn't like the Flowers outburst. It showed he needs more maturity. Yes it was a bad call, it happens and sometimes it costs you games. The call was made, no changing it,live with it and move on. I thought Haley's outburst to Flowers outburst was not the way to handle it either. He should have been the voice of reason, not another screaming, out of control guy validating that kind of behavior. All that being said, I still think we're headed to the playoffs, weaknesses and all. The Chiefs are a good team, just not elite yet.

Man I am excited about this team. If you take the Chief's offense from this game and the SF game, and combine that with how our D normally plays, you have one dirty team. It is just a matter of time fellas. On another note, is anybody else a little worried about the broncos? They have been playing pretty good despite their record. I feel confident playing them at home, but when we play them away...there are no guarantees.

The special teams and defense looked like they were playing for the very first time ever. the missouri tigers could of scored on the chiefs yesterday. Jacksonville wont be easy as people thinks.

We just have to all show up as a team. offense. defense. special teams. defensively it was a tough game and yes they have an amazing offense but the opportunities were there. offensively, i believe cassel came out and showed us all what he is capable of. he looked like he knew what he was doing. we may hear a lot about that third down pass to moeaki, but what else could he do. moeaki was supposed to slip out the back door with no defender following. and cassel couldn't take the sack. i just hope that that pass didn't leave a sour taste in our fans mouths. he played a heck of a game. and on the last drive he struggled but alberts and richardson were both getting beat and cassel had no chance. how about special teams where for art thou?? i know our coverage unit is pretty awesome although they didn't have a spectacular game yesterday, where the heck is our return unit??? where are all those awesome returns we saw in the preseason. where are the gaping holes provided by our blockers. we need to step it up. we definitely have potential. just think if all three of these groups decided to show up on the same day at the same stadium at the same game?? fire power. pure fire power. we couldn't be stopped. if the offense of yesterday, the defense of the 49ers game, and the special teams of the chargers game all showed up to one game we would have no problem beating any team in the NFL period.

"Horney"...really?

IMO Matt: The defense forgot how to tackle. Derick Ward is not even that big. Arian Foster is but that is no excuse. TACKLE! By the way, our special teams are not looking so special anymore. What gives? Maybe SD's special teams were so bad we thought we were great.

oh, and p.s.

cassel really sucked on that final drive.

baby steps.

When it comes to the end of close games i like having Vrabel out there because experience counts most at those times. I am starting to see what you guys have been saying about the student baker. Sadly could only catch the 4th quarter...that was a heartbreaking quarter of football. happy to've since seen we played a good game.

the image of flowers standing solitary on the sideline after just jawing the refs, very emotional, will be with me forever.

i've been hatin on ward for a couple years now, because i think he's so boring. it was really disappointing seeing him get some big gains.

copper's been killing it on special teams, but it's sure weird seeing him as a #2 wr.

i think we'll have to accept the fact that vrabel will start every game as long as he's healthy, but why not rotate and keep the legs fresh? i have a wild theory that they're trying to wear him out to prevent things from getting awkward. i just don't believe they think vrabel is the more effect olb. did you see baker's one-handed jersey tackle?

BigMatt, love your posts btw. Keep up the great work! Your pic on this post reminded me of why I almost peed my pants at the Monday night game. Durning warm-ups, Earl stood at the 50 yard line, by himself, with his arms crossed, no facial expression.....and stared down the opposing team. He might be the only coach in the league that studies the opposing offense during warm-ups. If not he is certainly the most intimidating. Glad he's on our side!

Have you ever watched what James Earl Jones does before each game?

chiefsfanatic your wrong about the jags game, we'll win 31-10. I live here in jacksonville and watch and often go to the games. The jags defense is probably the worst in the league, we'll straight torch their defense. My prediction 250 yds on the ground 200 yds passing

calchiefsfan i loved that brandon flowers got pissed, he should hav it was a horrible call, if you've played sports and your team gets a horrible call u better let the refs kno about it, its called playin with emotion. GOT TO PLAY WITH EMOTION especially in football. And haley was right in doing so what he did, not letting flowers get under the refs skin and him letting the ref kno what he thought about the worst interference call ever

wait til tyson jackson gets back in the lineup

i think the game was hard on all of us here and i do agree what happened to are great D we have had where did they go in the 4th i think if they showed up we could have won

What a tough loss. Our offense played the best game so far overall. The defense played well for 3 quarters, and then had a bad 4th quarter. The officiating was killing us. I had felt prior to the game that if Matt had a good day we won. Normally we would have.

Despite the temptation, I won't focus on the many bad or non-calls in the game. It's like the weather, it does you no good to complain. OK, I admit to cussing, what the heck. It does not change it, but made me feel better. Those who commented on Flowers jawboning at the official after his bad call as “immature”, I just can't agree with that. He played his heart out all game, and was screwed. I'd have done the same thing. Notice he did not get a flag for it either, I think the refs knew he was right. OK, hrumph, back to not focusing on the horrendous, incompetent officiating.

What did I like about the game? Our offense for the first time this season sustained drives and got in the end zone. Matt Cassel played well. Our running game was great. We were fighting hard.

Faults on the field? We needed a pass rush in the second half. We needed to stop Andre Johnson.

As much as I like the overall coaching we have, I'm not going to lay this loss on any players, offense or defense. I lay it on coaching decisions. Specifically, Todd Haley. The Todster is showing a proclivity to do things in games that are costing us. I don't mind his aggressiveness in going on 4th downs. In fact, I think we should have gone for it the last time when we had 4th and short when we punted, and a first down would have won the game.

My beef is the odd ball stuff, when it's just not necessary. We gave the Colts great field possession to start the game last week with an onside kick. Why put your defense under the gun right from the start against a potent offense. There is a reason teams don't do it. It's just not smart.

The same goes for the two “mortar” kicks against Houston in the second half. Why in the world when you have a lead and need to run time off, and have played great kick coverage all year, do you suddenly resort to gimmick kicks that gave them half field starting positions. Again, there are reasons teams don't do that and we saw why. It gave them easy drives and two touchdowns with minimal time expended. If we had just played those as usual, the odds are at least one of those drives would have failed or the time taken would have made the difference in the game. It was just not smart.

I want us to make aggressive calls, but not dumb aggressive calls. Take your risks on offense and defense when it's appropriate situationally. Maybe Haley thinks he needs to make an impact on the sideline. He would be better served limiting his calls to things like observing when a player is gassed, or picking up on something that is missed and intervening.

Sometimes you can get overly enamored with “thinking outside the box”. By doing things that are needlessly putting the defense in bad positions, we are going to lose some winnable games. This was one of them.

Let's hope next week we rely on our fundamentally well coached offense, defense, and special teams and rely on that to win.

It's been an unpredictable year for alot of teams. I don't really see a part of our schedule I would call "easy". I believe we will be in the playoffs though.

While the Chiefs are a week removed from horrible WR play, D-Bowe came back to prove himself while looking around for his 2nd threat. Unfortunately he was in STL catching 4 balls for 70+ yards and a TD in the only game he has been active on an NFL roster. Copper? Horne? Are these the reasons Pioli "wasn't interested"?

Anyway, despite the loss, the Chiefs were in position to win and couldn't quite walk away with it. Whether it be poor front 7 defensive play in the 4th quarter, a bad PI call, bad 3rd down offensive play calling, or bad special teams doesn't really matter to me. There were a collection of things you could point to if you are looking for excuses. I'm not. The Chiefs hung with a good Texans team on the road a week after they did the same to a good Colts teams. If we can just beat the teams we are supposed to, this team still has the potential to do some damage in the postseason. Just take care of business, Chiefs!

I like the article I wonder when someone is going to write up something about how suspect Eric Berry's play has become. I hope this isn't a new trend cause he was a non factor in Indy and Houstons Andre the giant torched him. I want him to do well but other than make a few sound tackles he has done nothing spectacular. Instead he is suspect if I am the other team.

What makes this especially painful is we had that game won, up 10 points with only 5 minutes to go. All we had to do was what we had done pretty much all year, shut them down, drag it out,make the yards tough. Our D got smoked.

I still think we're on the right track. No doubt about it. We'll come home to Arrowhead and yes the Jags will be tough but we should beat them at home. Then Buffalo at home and the Raiders in Oakland. All winnable games. We could very possibly be 6-2 at the half way point. Not bad.

I really didn't like the Flowers outburst. It showed he needs more maturity. Yes it was a bad call, it happens and sometimes it costs you games. The call was made, no changing it,live with it and move on. I thought Haley's outburst to Flowers outburst was not the way to handle it either. He should have been the voice of reason, not another screaming, out of control guy validating that kind of behavior.

All that being said, I still think we're headed to the playoffs, weaknesses and all. The Chiefs are a good team, just not elite yet.