Ding, Dong… Chiefs Edition

In the words of my mother-in-law (a huge Chiefs fan):

"Ding Dong! The Witch is dead. Which old Witch? The Wicked Witch! Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead."

Carl Peterson resigned after Sunday's loss (the Chiefs are second worst in the NFL at 2-12; the 0-14 Lions also fired their GM). The reign of King Carl is over! This is exactly what I'd been wanting for years now: it appears that Carl Peterson will be gone but Herm Edwards may get one more chance. Perfect!

Why is Carl Peterson such a big deal? Gunther Cunningham found out he was fired as head coach by surfing the internet and seeing that Peterson had hired Dick Vermeil. Peterson personally ran off talented players like John Tait and Jared Allen, bumbled the exit of Trent Green, invested in the wrong players at the wrong times like Larry Johnson, Bam Morris, and Tamarick Vanover, and drafted horribly in recent years.

How poor a draft selector could Carl Peterson be when he selected the likes of Derrick Thomas and Tony Gonzalez? Of the six drafts between 2000 and 2005, which should be the veteran core of the team right now, there are precisely three players remaining. Larry Johnson, Derrick Johnson and the punter Dustin Colquitt. That's it. Larry is overpaid and oft-suspended, Derrick is under-achieving, and Colquitt is a punter!

In the end, no matter how well the Chiefs fared in the 90's (with no Super Bowls, mind you), the Chiefs are one of the worst teams in the NFL for two years running and have been seriously flawed for the better part of a decade. Someone has to be responsible for this. And the Hunt family has not held Carl Peterson to the same standards that every other GM in the NFL has been held to.

Yes, let the joyous news be spread, The wicked Old Witch at last is dead!