Chiefs v Panthers game day discussion thread...

official word is it's a foot injury.

 

coach Ron Rivera on his future: "I'll keep soldiering and keep working until whatever happens, happens."

Person tweet

 

don't think you can expect anything else of him.

 

Yup

 

Uh, the Chiefs had one penalty in this game. And that was for delay of game, which came late in the fourth when it was meaningless.

One penalty. Don't think I've ever seen that. I'm no conspiracy theorist, but you can't open holes like that for Jamaal Charles and keep Brady Quinn sackless without doing some MAJOR holding. The zebras might have gotten too much into the moment, I say.

And I think you guys are letting the players too much off the hook. Rivera rightly deserves to be criticized for his inexperience. He is getting out-coached. But players make plays...or don't make plays.

 

didn't think of it that way, but certainly possible. For various things to suddenly not work in the outside rush, for all the deep balls that were tightly covered and no one was ever held, I can see that.

And absolutely. A lot of these players will be here next year, and there'll hopefully be a turnaround. But some of these guys are complicit in this, too. Really, as a team, even if you excelled, your team failed so you failed. That doesn't eternally damn them - even some guys that quit on 2001 were major players in 2002-03.

 

players do make plays & all of that... but what I am seeing on the field is the players are not prepared to play. This falls entirely on the coaching staff.

 

Yes coaching staff is responsible period. Rivera is dumbfounded out there every Sunday. He has absolutely no vision or control in any of our games this year. The only wins this year he's lucked into an opponent with inferior coaching or vs. Bad play callers, players are only giving up at this point because they know of his incomptence and can no longer believe in him/rally around him. Shitty hire all the way around, no matter how you look at it. Harbaugh was the answer just sitting there, fuck, even Perry Fewell or perhaps even Meeks would've been more successful here, although Meeks may be stretching it a bit far but how the hell could he have really turned out worse then this? Theres just not really an answer at this point, besides Hurney's consistent moronic decision-making

 

Clock management has stunk all year. Yes, players should have realized there were 12 on the field, but get that one time out back and being inside the ten on Smitty's hail mary and you might do something. Of course the LaFell drop was huge in hindsight, but to blame just Cam or just LaFell - the Chiefs scored well above their entire season average - niether Cam or LaFell are to blame for that. Pointing fingers at one or two players is deluding yourself at least for yesterday.