Herm recounts how Carl created him, and why it's not his fault!

[bfett81]

http://www.montereyherald.com/sports/ci_11271084?nclick_check=1

I have known Carl Peterson since I was 17 years old. He recruited me out of Monterey High when he was an assistant coach at UCLA.

When I got out of college, he signed me as an undrafted free agent for the Eagles when he was in Philadelphia. We kept a strong relationship.

I remember telling him when I get out of this game as a player, I want to coach. He told me start in college. He gave me an internship the first year he got to Kansas City in 1988.

Then he gave me a scouting position the following year where I worked with Tony Dungy. Carl actually gave me my first head coaching interview before I went to the Jets a year later.

Then he got me out of New York five years later for a fourth round pick. He traded for me.

No doubt Carl was the face of the Chiefs. The season ticket base was only 30,000 when he arrived 20 some years ago. Now it's filled each week. He has had a tremendous run. He put the Chiefs back on the map.

His legacy is what he has done for Kansas City and the NFL, not that he could not build a team to get to the Super Bowl. I'll tell you what. He's not going to retire. He will pop up somewhere.

With a new general manager coming in, we'll have to wait and see what direction he wants to go. It'll be his team. It's another distraction.

We've now lost seven games by seven points or less. But last week was the hardest defeat. Everything that could go wrong for us did in the final five minutes of the game.

We had an 11-point lead and we can't make a first down. They go on a long drive and score. Then we fumble the onside kick. It was unbelievable. Then we missed a field goal at the end.

Of course, it never should have come to that. That's youth

[BP]

We've now lost seven games by seven points or less

Do you want a cookie? a ****ing loss is a loss you dumb ****!

He used to count close losses with the Jets like they had some meaning or something. like losing is acceptable as long as we don't get blow out. God I hate this dumb****.

[serphnx]

Do you want a cookie? a ****ing loss is a loss you dumb ****!

He used to count close losses with the Jets like they had some meaning or something. like losing is acceptable as long as we don't get blow out. God I hate this dumb****.

lol the man can talk a good game can't he? If you read that and didn't know anything about Herm and didn't know the records, you'd think he just had a team on an off year or something, with a brutal schedule. Haha but we know better.

He's done. And the NFL will quickly get him onto NFL Network as an analyst. To be quite honest, I hope he replaces Collinsworth, I think I hate him even more than Herm.

[ZachEY]

Do you want a cookie? a ****ing loss is a loss you dumb ****!

He used to count close losses with the Jets like they had some meaning or something. like losing is acceptable as long as we don't get blow out. God I hate this dumb****.

It's funny.

You never hear a coach talk about how they're not particularly good because they won 7 games by 6 or less.

[JMJ]

This is professional football. I remember reading a stat not too long ago that something like 70% of all NFL football games (I think the exact number was 68%) are decided by 7 points or less.

Just think about it. When you're looking at spreads and thinking about placing a bet on Sundays, how many games per week have spreads of 8 points or more? 2 or 3 per week?

Ok Herm, lets do the math:

You have 12 losses as a team. 7 of those 12 are by 7 points or less. That means that 58.3% of your losses are within the margin that 70% of all NFL football games are decided by.

Not impressed dummy.

Also, your team has played 14 games this year, 7 of your losses and 1 of your wins came by scores of 7 points or less. That makes 57% of your games decided by 7 points or less while the league average is closer to 70%. You know what that means? You aren't keeping enough of your games close enough to even be considered average dipsh*t!

[NJ]

Then he got me out of New York five years later for a fourth round pick. He traded for me.

This is like reading National Lampoon ... only I think it's supposed to be taken seriously.

[Bugg]

Carl was a sweet man. He enticed Herm with promises of a better life, a warm car on a cold, rainy night,a decent meal to a hungry young man.

Carl Peterson turned out Herman Edwards. He taught Edwards everything he knows. He's got a great line of sheet.

And Herman Edwards learned his tremendous line of pimp hand BS that he's been selling ever since. BLAH BLAH BLAH-STFU already. Too bad he went to school on that rather than how to coach a football team.

[124]

Three years and we are STILL wasting our time with Herm Edwards. Unbelieveable.

[Bugg]

Three years and we are STILL wasting our time with Herm Edwards. Unbelieveable.

It was the ultimate wasted opportunity in the history of this franchise. And other than it led to Mangini, it has nothing really to do with him. Mangini rises or falls on his own merits.

[bfett81]

Three years and we are STILL wasting our time with Herm Edwards. Unbelieveable.

We have to heal.

And yes, it is we. Chiefs and Jets fans now band together.

LET THE HEALING CONTINUE