3 "Top 10 Teams"

[TopekaRoy]

According to ESPN's Week 4 Power Rankings The Lions are ranked 4th, the Bills are ranked 6th and the Chargers are ranked 9th. All 3 of our losses have come against top 10 teams. The Lions were ranked 18th in preseason and the Bills were ranked 31st! You can't tell how hard the schedule is going to be based on the previous season.

The Good news is our next two games are against the Vikings (28th) and the Colts (30th) who started out the season ranked 8th. If the Chiefs are going to turn their season around, NOW is the time to do it.

I don't put a lot of faith in power rankings, especially this early in the season, but the point is that you can't always tell how good teams are going to be until they play some games. Maybe by the time we get to the "tough" part of the schedule some of those teams will have fallen a few notches (like the Eagles, Falcons and Bears have done already.)

[TopekaRoy]

We're 0-3 right now. The glass isn't half-empty. It's completely empty. We're just hoping someone comes around and puts some water in it soon.

After the first 2 games I would've agreed with you, but the Chiefs played the Chargers close and had a chance to win it (or tie) at the end. To me that was progress, but not enough progress.

That's why I picked that graphic. To me the glass is half full and that's not nearly full enough.

side note: I never saw the glass analogy as an optimist/pessimist thing, anyway. If you fill the glass half way and stop, It's half full. If you are drinking from it and stop in the same place, it's half empty. Whether the glass is half full or half empty has nothing to do with your perspective. It has to do with what happened just before that point and which way the water is flowing.

[Vandelay]

We Should never be blown out by 40 points by anybody, let alone twice.
My opinion, the bills are a wildcard team, the Lions will realize they are the Lions and be mediocre, and the Chargers are the same overhyped team that the media *** kisses every year.

[jmlamerson]

I dont understand this mentality, the past year every team we played that was good we lost/got blown out to with the exception of that week 1 game whereSD dominated us in yards, I seriously cant figure out to this day how we won that game. We are 1-7 I believe dating back from last year against good teams.

Ill break it down for you. We aren't good and we weren't good last year.

Bad teams don't go 10-6. We were, at worst, above average. We got lucky in that we didn't play many serious pass rushes, but we also played well across the board. Keeping Haley away from the playcalling didn't hurt matters either.

[dietsch]

Too bad later in the season we face a stretch of new england, pittsburgh, chicago, the jets, & green bay right in a row. we may have a stretch of 2-3 weeks of an "easier schedule", but overall the rest of our schedule is looking pretty brutal. wins are going to be hard to come by this season IMO, which is why we needed to get off to a strong start to even sniff the playoffs this year, which unfortunately did not happen.

[2010chiefs]

I don't care about the teams they lost to. Green bay or New England should not blow us out by 40. I'm more concerned with the way we lost, preperation, the way this team faces adversity and how bad the play calling has been.

[tornadospotter]

I for one Chief's fan, feel better knowing that the Bills and Lions are 3-0, just saying!

[DMN]

I dont understand this mentality, the past year every team we played that was good we lost/got blown out to with the exception of that week 1 game whereSD dominated us in yards, I seriously cant figure out to this day how we won that game. We are 1-7 I believe dating back from last year against good teams.

Ill break it down for you. We aren't good and we weren't good last year.

OK since you have absolutely not idea what you are talking about I will break it down for you... The worst loss we had was a 31-0 loss to San Diego. With Croyle starting. You said every good team we played we lost/got blown out by. Well the good team that blew us out we also beat.

Other two oakland (31-10) week 17 where we already had the division on lock and the starters saw limited action.... oh and Denver(49-29) who finished 4-12... really good team there.

The next worst loss was indy by 10 points at indy.

Last season we didn't even come close to suffering as a losses as the first two games this season let alone back to back.

My question is if you hate it so much and are so pessimistic why associate yourself?.... you seem like a miserable person.

Oh but quality post though... well thought out with good facts to back it up.

[chief31]

We Should never be blown out by 40 points by anybody, let alone twice.
My opinion, the bills are a wildcard team, the Lions will realize they are the Lions and be mediocre, and the Chargers are the same overhyped team that the media *** kisses every year.

The Lions have won seven straight, including one against The Packers, Two in Tampa, and their first victory in Minnesota since 1997.

Rather they fall back to mediocrity, or not, this is a very hot football team.

And The chargers haven't had a losing season since 2003. Seven straight years.

You are entitled to your opinions. But, right now, the facts are peeing all over those opinions.

You seem to believe, because The Chiefs played two horrible games, that that is proof that they are a horrible team, while three great games for The Lions and Bills, and seven seasons for The Chargers is misleading evidence.

Do you just use the immediate evidence when it feels good, and deny it when you want to?

[iratefan]

i really think its funny half of us are glad that the amazing 3-0 teams were the ones that beat us.

if we won our games, they would be 2-1, and SD would be 1-2. think about that one.

Also i find it amusing how bills/lions have blasted off in the power rankings, yet chiefs 3-0 record last season couldnt get us in the single digits.

[doobs_05]

So what does it mean IF we do lose to Minn. and Indy?