Updates:
September 29, 2009 - Tyler Thigpen gets traded: 11:42
November 17, 2009 - Dwayne Bowe gets suspended: 11:51
December 06, 2009 - Matt Cassel gets benched: 11:52
December 13, 2009 - Matt Cassel throws quatro intercepto after benching: 11:53
There's way too much panic here for a situation where we've got new management and a new coach coming in. We've only had three games in our first season of the new regime.
To better guide people on when to panic, I'm proposing a Chiefs' variant of the Doomsday Clock that's run at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.
If the clock hits noon, then it's time to panic. The closer it is to noon, the more you should worry. If it's 15 minutes off, then we're relatively safe in the big scheme of things.
Okay, you ready?
The Chiefsplanet Doomsday Clock is currently at:
11:58
With a new regime in place and a new coaching staff in place, and with three games played under the new system, there is no cause for panic. In fact, this is the furthest from high noon that this clock has been since the end of the 1997 regular season.
I'll update this periodically unless I forget about it.
Past clock settings:
Prior to kickoff, 1960 season: 11:30
Prior to kickoff, 1965 season: 11:35
Prior to kickoff, 1970 season: 11:30
Prior to kickoff, 1975 season: 11:44
Prior to kickoff, 1980 season: 11:51
Prior to kickoff, 1985 season: 11:58
Prior to kickoff, 1990 season: 11:55
Prior to kickoff, 1995 season: 11:47
Prior to kickoff, 2000 season: 11:52
Prior to kickoff, 2005 season: 11:53
Prior to kickoff, 2010 season: 11:57
Prior to kickoff, 2015 season: 11:50
2016 postseason: 11:42
End of regular season, 2017: 6:00 p.m.
Prior to kickoff, 2018 season: 2:00 p.m.
January 16, 2019: Clock has been dismantled and reassembled into a music box that plays Rock and Roll Part 2.
August 14, 2020: Clock parts were melted down and reformed into a nice stand to hold the Lombardi Trophy.
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Originally Posted by EyePod:
And I'd say we're a little closer... we're not better off than we were in 95-96 season... god damn the kicker who must not be named... I like the idea, but I'd say we're at 11:50, or that 95-96 must be lower than right now.
My theory is that this is a countdown to implosion. Right now, I don't think we're close to implosion because we've had a bunch of change and relatively few people are in implosion mode. In 1995-1996 we had a pretty strong team with 2 13-3 records in the past three years, but with a couple of punishing playoff losses, so I think we weren't close to implosion, but there was some frustration starting to bubble.
This is all open to debate, of course.
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