Hard Knocks: The Subtext

HBO's Hard Knocks is inexplicably following the Kansas City Chiefs, a team that has had its head up its ass since Marty Schottenheimer left (Although, Marty pioneered the head up the ass style of football.) But it does raise an interesting question: How the hell does Gunther Cunningham still have a job? Cunningham made his rep on the back of the Derrick Thomas / Neil Smith / Dale Carter defenses of the mid-90s.
But over the last 9 years, the Chiefs haven't had a defense. But they still keep their longtime DC Gunther Cunningham around, I guess because he yells good.


Since he was hired back by the Chiefs in 2004, his defenses have been ranked 31, 25, and 16, respectively. During his 2 year tenure as head coach in 1999 and 2000, the Chiefs finished 14th and 18th.

I guess the story that the Chiefs didn't even tell him he got fired as head coach is true, because I don't know what else besides a sense of guilt that would keep him around.