It's taken Herm Edwards a few games to figure things out, but maybe just playing the cellar-dwelling Chargers has that effect on every team, and we shouldn't make too much of Kansas City's win last Sunday.
Or maybe not. Despite all the head-scratching decisions (or non-decisions, as it were), the Chiefs are in a three-way tie for first place in the division, and Edwards thinks he knows why:
In all four games they've played this year, his Kansas City Chiefs have fallen immediately behind. The last two -- against Minnesota and San Diego -- they faced double-digit deficits at halftime only to rally in the third and fourth quarters and pull out a win.The solution: quit giving pregame speeches. Or, maybe improve the special teams, which has been abysmal during the first month of the season.
"We're minus-27 in points scored in the first half," Edwards said Tuesday. "And in the second half we're plus-27. So obviously, my pregame speech going out is not very good. My halftime speech is probably a little bit better."
Kansas City traded Dante Hall to the Rams, and hoped Eddie Drummond could pick up the slack. So far, no go, but Edwards isn't going to make a change. The problem is the 10 guys in front of Drummond -- they're not really blocking anybody. "Every time I turned around, it seemed like San Diego was hitting us on the 15-yard line. You've got to get more than that," Edwards told the AP.
I've given Edwards the business for some of his questionable coaching decisions, but you have to give the guy credit: Kansas City is 2-2 and has yet to really get things going on offense and special teams. Just imagine how good this team would be if they were average in two of the three phases of the game.
