Why not? Seems as long as you’re breathing you’re invited. Does anyone else find it a bit asinine that 6-6 teams get to participate in post-season bowls? Just add this to the list of what’s wrong with college football now.

I love college football, but this is just asinine! Not only to .500 teams get to keep playing like it matters, we now have the following as some of the bowl games:

• magicJack St. Petersburg Bowl
• R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl
• San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl
• Papajohns.com Bowl
• Roady’s Humanitarian Bowl
• Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl
• Brut Sun Bowl
• Konica Minolta Gator Bowl

I realize these are paying sponsors, and in today’s world if you can get a sponsorship (a.k.a. someone else to pay for it), then have at it, but seriously? I wouldn’t be so jaded about it if the bowl committees took a page from the Rose Bowl committee and kept the legacy of their bowl name …
Rose Bowl Game Presented by Citi

Just turn around those bowl names and they don’t sound so corny

• St. Petersburg Bowl presented by magicJack
• New Orleans Bowl presented by R+L Carriers
• Poinsettia Bowl presented by San Diego County Credit Union
• Humanitarian Bowl presented by Roady’s
• Armed Forces Bowl presented by Bell Helicopter
• Sun Bowl presented by Brut
• Gator Bowl presented by Konica Minolta

That coupled with the monster schedule the Chiefs have this season … wow, we could be in for a long, long, long season that ends quickly.

My heart would like to say 10-6 … my head says more like 7-9 … my realist says 4-12 …

09/07/08 at New England Patriots (L)
09/14/08 Oakland Raiders (W)
09/21/08 at Atlanta Falcons (L)
09/28/08 Denver Broncos (L)
10/05/08 at Carolina Panthers (L)
10/12/08 Bye
10/19/08 Tennessee Titans (L)
10/26/08 at New York Jets (W)
11/02/08 Tampa Bay Buccaneers (L)
11/09/08 at San Diego Chargers (L)
11/16/08 New Orleans Saints (L)
11/23/08 Buffalo Bills (W)
11/30/08 at Oakland Raiders (L)
12/07/08 at Denver Broncos (L)
12/14/08 San Diego Chargers (L)
12/21/08 Miami Dolphins (W)
12/28/08 at Cincinnati Bengals (L)

Right now the Chiefs have one quarterback on their roster who can win an NFL game … and it ain’t Brodie Croyle or Tyler Wishbone. It’s Damon Huard, the human fire extinguisher. – Jason Whitlock

Well, I think I’m heading down the road of agreeing with Whitlock on this one.

I know, I know Herm’s grand plan is to get younger … but (to me) the QB spot is where you want your #1 leader, right? And how is a guy who just threw for 38 yards against a mediocre defense (Arizona) with a long pass of 7 yards considered your main man? Aside from not throwing interceptions off his back foot like in the last preseason, Brodie Croyle hasn’t shown that he’s any better than he was last year and that’s troubling … since he’s already been dubbed the next Chiefs QB. At year 3 in the league, and a starting nod on the way – he needs to start performing like an NFL-level QB soon.

There are at least two guys on the street right now who have proven success in the NFL … and I have no idea why NO ONE is going after them:

• Daunte Culpepper
• Byron Leftwich

If they do decide to stick with Croyle, he at least has the cushion of the Chiefs’ conservative gameplans. The Chiefs run a conservative offense. That means they run plays that have a high percentage chance of being complete. We do have other playmakers all over the field. Croyle’s job is then to get the ball to the playmakers and let them make the play.

On the other side (defense), we are apt to look monstrous this season. We have the chance to be very in-your-face and aggressive … and that can only help the offense.

GO CHIEFS!

My heart says 10-6 … my head says 7-9 … my realist says 4-12 … you say?