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Chiefs beaten down into soggy turf by Chargers 37-7
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The Chiefs wore 1960 Texans uniforms on Sunday. They played like they were 50 years old too.
There’s really not much you can say about the Chiefs latest loss Sunday to the San Diego Chargers except, “Bleech!”
It’s hard to believe, but this loss may have been worse than the beat-down administered by the Philadelphia Eagles earlier this season. As my late father, Dave Rose, would have said, "Well, that was a [butt]-whipping of epic proportions!"
If you want to ruin your next few hours, you can go over the statistics to the game here. I really can’t stomach them anymore. All I would point to is the final score. When you lose by 30 to a division rival at home, you know that pretty much anything that could go wrong, did go wrong for the Chiefs.
Part of my sadness (and frankly, disgust) was the fact that Sunday was a day when the Chiefs honored our military folks. They didn’t call it their Veteran’s Day celebration, but it was. The Chiefs have a bye week next week and will be on the road for the next two weeks after that, so this was the closest home game to Veteran’s Day (November 11). As someone with close family ties to the military going back to World War II and all the way up to the war in Iraq, nobody appreciates that sacrifice more than I do.
But, as I sat there watching the final quarter play out on a miserable and soggy day, the life-long Chiefs fan in me thought back to the late linebacker Derrick Thomas, and how he would raise his play to absurd levels on Veteran's Day celebration games. Thomas played like a Hall-of-Famer on most Sundays, but he was virtually unstoppable when the military would “fly over” the stadium during pre-game introductions.
I wondered what Derrick must have been thinking if he was watching that game. As I glanced towards the heavens, I thought that the rain that pelted the field was probably him crying uncontrollably watching Chargers QB, Philip Rivers, stand unmolested in the pocket all day long. On his second touchdown pass of the day, Rivers took 7 seconds to stand in the pocket and could have stood there longer if he had wanted. Brandon Flowers kept his coverage tight on Chargers receiver Vincent Jackson for as long as he could, but eventually Jackson broke free. Did any quarterback ever have seven seconds to stand there when Derrick was playing?
Then it started raining harder and I figured that the late Buck Buchanan and Jerry Mays, two defensive superstars from the Chiefs glory years, must have joined Derrick in lamenting the Chiefs play. Heck, as badly as the Chiefs were playing, I’m pretty sure Lamar Hunt and Hank Stram were the ones throwing lightning bolts across the sky.
In my preview of the Chargers game Sunday, I quoted Woody Harrelson’s character in the movie, “Zombieland”. His recurring phrase was, “Nut up or shut up”. For one more Sunday, at least, the Chiefs shut up because they sure as heck didn’t nut up. Thank goodness for bye weeks.
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