Seriously?

After last week, Todd Haley said, "What you're seeing out of our guys, and what's an exciting thing to me as a head coach is we have a lot of guys who really care". Well it didn't look like they gave much of a shit today, did it Todd?

A few questions I'm thinking about right now:

Did the Chiefs, who could have basically wrapped up the AFC Division title with a win, seriously get shut out by the Chargers?

Did they seriously strip down the playbook so much that Croyle only amassed 40 yards passing?

Did the Offensive Line seriously decide not to block ANYONE to give Croyle even 3 seconds to find an open receiver? And Barry Richardson, seriously man, learn how to fucking block without holding someone. It's not that hard. You're 6'6" 320. You should be able to push someone for 5 seconds without him flying past you and sacking the QB.

It looked to me like the entire team, sans Eric Berry and Tamba Hali, decided that they didn't want to show up to play at all today. It seemed like they decided they had no chance without Cassel and threw in the towel before the game even started. PATHETIC. I've seen high school players who haven't won a game all season put forth more effort than what the Chiefs gave today. I understand losing your QB the Wednesday before the game might damper your enthusiasm some, but come on. Getting SHUT OUT in the biggest game of the year is fucking terrible.

Most of my hatred here is being directed at the Offensive Line. Mostly Brandon Albert and Barry Richardson. Neither one of them could keep San Diego's pass rushers out of the backfield for more than 2 seconds giving Brodie zero time to find someone open. Not even Peyton Manning could have done much out there with that piss poor protection. But still, 40 yards passing Brodie? What the fuck?

The team I saw out there today wasn't the team that beat the shit out of San Fransisco or Jacksonville. Or the team that fought to beat Denver last week. This was the team I saw all of 2008 and most of 2009. The team that just shows up and doesn't care.

-ACF