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texaschief;132814 wrote:So, this is zero sum to you? Edwards, in YOUR mind, wouldn’t have added ANY free agents or drafted ANY players whatsoever?
That’s bull.
Herm would have done what he did the previous three years. He would have signed bad free agents and he would have drafted badly. We didn’t have any in-their-prime Pro Bowlers to trade off, so he probably would had eight draft picks (one through six and two sevenths).
texaschief;132814 wrote:We know we would’ve had:DL:
Hali, Dorsey, Tank, ?LB:
DJ, ?, CurryDB:
Flowers, Pollard, ?, CarrOL:
Albert, Waters, Niswanger, ?, ?, GonzalezRB:
?, Charles, Smith, SavageQB:
Thigpen, Croyle, ?WR:
Bowe, Bradley, ?, ?I agree. That would have been our base roster. Our terrible, terrible base roster that won two games in 2008. Except that Herm would have kept Franklin and Webb as our WRs.
texaschief;132814 wrote:The way I see it, the Chiefs have signed 4 impact free agents. Of the 8 question marks that the Chiefs would’ve had in their starting rotation, at least 4 of those would’ve been filled by free agents. Then, we also wouldn’t have had to replace so many players in the draft or reach so high to get the guys we wanted.The Chiefs have signed the following starters as FAs/trades under Pioli:
Cassel
Vrabel
Zach Thomas
Engram
GoffWe also signed numerous FAs to help with our special teams/depth, like Copper, Daniels, and Beisel. We drafted starters at LDE, RDE, RT, K, and KR/PR. We drafted depth at CB, RB, and TE.
Who, exactly, would Herm have signed? Isn’t it a whole lot more likely that he would have kept with the “youth movement” and sought to fix those problems in the draft or hope that his existing players improve? And assuming our first pick was for Curry at MLB, would we really have found starters at DE, OLB, RG, RT, FS, and HB in the 2nd thorugh 7th rounds? How could anyone really still believe that we could plug low round picks into the lineup and let Herm coach them into starters?
And whole ‘nother year of the Cover 2 defense would have been about as effective as it had been in 2008.
Hoping Washington impresses early and often at training camp. Kiper said before that Donald has one of the best grades at the film review portion of the combine. Donald made a mistake in college, everyone makes mistakes. He has admitted to them and he has changed his way of life. I played high school football with Donald and remain a close friend to him, and has told me all the time he has his head on straight now. He can also fill in and play nickel back. I wasn’t a chiefs fan before yesterday but you better believe they are now my favorite team in the NFL along with the Colts. Donald will open some eyes his rookie year. He was always under the radar, and didn’t any of you see all the espn analysts saying if Donald would have stayed for his senior year he would have been a 1st rounder next year. GO CHIEFS!!!
jmlamerson, I’m not trying to trash you ole buddy, in fact I agree with most of what you’re saying except. We have not drafted a starting RT. Brown is a project. All I remember is Chase Daniels run ning for his life. He is a project, hopefully he can remain on the practice squad.
:bananen_smilies046: :11:pbatrucker;132834 wrote:jmlamerson, I’m not trying to trash you ole buddy, in fact I agree with most of what you’re saying except. We have not drafted a starting RT. Brown is a project. All I remember is Chase Daniels run ning for his life. He is a project, hopefully he can remain on the practice squad.
:bananen_smilies046: :11:Fair enough. He wasn’t on my radar pre-draft, and I didn’t know much about him other than he’s big and apparently a good run blocker.
What will it take for us to draft some real OL?!
pbatrucker;132834 wrote:jmlamerson, I’m not trying to trash you ole buddy, in fact I agree with most of what you’re saying except. We have not drafted a starting RT. Brown is a project. All I remember is Chase Daniels run ning for his life. He is a project, hopefully he can remain on the practice squad.
:bananen_smilies046: :11:yeah I don’t remember that line being particularly good.. Daniel had to get rid of the ball quickly most of the time.
pbatrucker;132834 wrote:jmlamerson, I’m not trying to trash you ole buddy, in fact I agree with most of what you’re saying except. We have not drafted a starting RT. Brown is a project. All I remember is Chase Daniels run ning for his life. He is a project, hopefully he can remain on the practice squad.
:bananen_smilies046: :11:1st team all big 12 + 6’7″ 335 + 5th round pick.
He’ll be competing for a starting spot.Bike;132839 wrote:1st team all big 12 + 6’7″ 335 + 5th round pick.
He’ll be competing for a starting spot.:bananen_smilies046: He was the 30th rated OT in the draft, I don’t believe he was invited to the combine. scouts inc. had no stats. He’s a PROJECT. 6’7″ and 335# mean nothing if he’s a stationary object.
pbatrucker;132843 wrote::bananen_smilies046: He was the 30th rated OT in the draft, I don’t believe he was invited to the combine. scouts inc. had no stats. He’s a PROJECT. 6’7″ and 335# mean nothing if he’s a stationary object.I’m saying he’ll be starting next to Rudy on the right side of the line..
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