Greatest Sports Opinion Ever?

Neal Jones and Marty Wall host a three and-a-half hour sports talk radio show on KCSP 610 AM, Monday-Friday here in Kansas City. (Editor's Note: It's wittily titled "Neal and Marty.")Today, as they do on many days, they spent some time talking about the Chiefs and what to expect from the 2008 season, and Neal Jones said something intelligent. This is not to imply that he usually doesn't, more so to emphasize what so many Chiefs fans seem to have forgotten of late. The hosts also touched on a few points regarding last season, many of which I agree with, and have said so here in the House. Some brief tidbits after the jump...

In 2007, the Kansas City Chiefs finished 32nd out of 32 teams in the NFL in rushing yards. Their passing game was better-than-decent on at least two Sundays out of the 16, so they had that goin' for them, which was nice. I believe they also finished 31st (again, 32 total) in offense, which means that only one team was worse than them when trying to show its O-face. (Note: Today's an odd day, where math comes easy.) They also finished with a win/loss record of 4-12. That means they won four times, lost 12. With me still? That record netted them a tie with Oakland Raiders for last in the AFC West, and deservedly ranked them in the "Damn, you guys really blow" category.

Some would say the flip side is the homerun of a draft they put together in April. To those some, I say please down a can of Ajax with a Lysol back, and crawl to the corner of your backyard to die a wretched poisonous death.

What? I know. We need youth and development, and all that other shit. I get it. Four and fucking 12, though? There are fucking Canadian teams that didn't even come close to qualifying for the Grey Cup laughing at your bitch asses. That is a really horrible team attempting to play American football.

And what, pray tell, did everyone have to say about it in the off-season?

"Brodie Croyle lost all nine games (or whatever fucking number it was) as a starter for the Kansas City Chiefs last year."

To every sad sac one of you pieces of cornhole rash that said that, please make your way to the front of the Ajax shot line now. I've got Cayenney battery acid I plan on shoving in your nostrils while your guts eat themselves, and it's goin' quick.

Let me ask you this: Do you ever hear a bunch of Broncos fans saying "John Elway lost three Super Bowls before he got his two wins?" No, fucksticks. You don't. Why? Because Elway didn't lose those games. The Broncos did. Very badly I might add. They were good teams that had bad days. And last year, the Chiefs were a bad team that had a few good days. Key word there is team.

Almost nobody mentions those team stats that I listed above. Nobody mentions the lack of Larry Johnson's running game. All they talked about was his foot injury and his massive contract. Everybody talked about how awesome Dwayne Bowe was last year. Nobody talked about how there was nobody else to throw the fucking ball to (besides the greatest tight end of all time, of course), and nobody talked about how last year's offensive line was an improvement over the last three years, the tailwinds of the Dick Vermeil/Al Saunders/Willie Roaf/Will Shields glory-days offense. Yeah. Last year's offensive line was an improvement, and they were still really fucking terrible.

So, like I've said before, there's next to nobody to throw to, no time to get a throw off, and no running game to balance your attack, so blame it all on the quarterback who got thrown into this mess five or six games into the season. That's ingenius. You fucking shitdicks. Onto what Jones said on the air today, though:

"By the end of the season -- will it be after the playoffs? (Note: Playoffs?!?) Probably not. But right after the season's over -- we should know if Brodie Croyle is our guy. It's kinda like Tony Pena, Jr. and the Royals. By the mid-point of the season, we should know if (TPJ)'s bat will constitute to keep him on the roster because of his abilities at shortstop."

Thank you, Mr. Jones. Give the guy a chance. Give him the season, and compare season-ending notes with your notes from early September, and figure it out. Not a minute before.