THERE IT IS!!!! Spending big $$$ does not mean winning. Winning needs quality management and a TEAM. Not just a bunch of good players. Over the years there have been many teams that had lots of big name stars and just flat out SUCKED.

The Chiefs have good management, good young players, some scattered high quality vets and they are coming together as a TEAM.

Being from New England and being a Chiefs FAN I HATE the Splats with an undying passion but truth is that in the not too distant future its going to be the Chiefs or the Splats representing the AFC in the Super Bowl…..EVERY SINGLE YEAR!

WOW! Now thats entertainment. Can’t believe I slept though that.

The moral of the story is: We have to (carry on) and get some knowledge (n) and spent more money to get Canada a beer button and he will bring us a super bowl ring. Did I miss anything?

We first got bad because we quit signing free agents we have been one of the cheapest teams in the last few years and our record shows it. What has been our record the last few years? We get a schedule where we have three teams with winning records and we do good so you proclaim that proves we don’t need to spend money and can keep going the cheap route and success will come. I disagree. Sorry you feel otherwise.

chiefsrule;231532 wrote:

I wonder how long I can keep this thread going?

Good job of waking up the Crowd. Just took an end to the lockout, and a little bit of an opposing view from the majority to get things rolling.

I am too tired to run a bunch of numbers, but I would be shocked to find that, over the course of multiple seasons, the higher salaried teams don’t perform better, on average, than the low salaried teams.

Sure, there are plenty of situations where some expensive player doesn’t work out as planned.

But I have to believe that bringing in upgrades in the form of proven players that demand a high salary, is generally a step in the right direction.

And teams that are stuck at the bottom and continually over-spending on their own poor draft choices, (Keep in mind that every round brings a player who will demand more than a player selected later in that round.) tend to pay a lot due to those insane rookie contracts, year, after year, after year.

I suspect that would be a major player in coloring high spending teams as not too astonishingly successful.

I am sure that we all realize that we don’t specifically want The Chiefs to stay at the bottom of the league in salary, as our own FAs will steadily demand more, and more.

But, if they continue to produce with less pay going out, then it will be pretty hard to complain.

I am just here to keep Canada in line.

But I am rather lazy.

Yes. Please try to refrain from doing so in the future.

Canada just services most of the Mods for leniency…. and beer.

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106-150 (41.4 winning percentage) was the record of our opponents (counting teams we played twice, twice) from the 2010 regular season.

Only three games were played against teams with a winning record for the year. We went 1-2 in those games.And we went 1-2 against teams with a .500 record. That makes us 2-4 against teams without a losing record, and 8-2 against sub .500 teams.

I don’t think anybody can deny that we did have an easy schedule last year.

And I am also pretty sure that we all know that it helped that we had an easy schedule.

We played very well in 2010. And beating the teams you should beat is a requirement for all successful teams.

But the point being made that we feasted on weaker teams is extremely valid.

I definitely worry about how we will do this season.

As of right now, I will need to see something more happening in the FA market before I will be able to say that I am confident in The Chiefs for 2011.

However, considering the success of last season, and it was a tremendous success, considering the expectations, The whole organization is going to get a far lighter judgement out of me, than what I have handed down in the recent past.
Whereas, when we were terrible my outlook was somewhat of a “prove you can do something right”, I am now in more of a “prove you are not doing this right” mode.

Hard to grip how someone can be down on this team right now.

But pretty easy to see why someone might not be overly confident too.

This is not an easy task.

If you just want to look at last year alone your point is valid but if you look at what these teams have done for the last couple of years it averages out. We have stunk for so long because we only relied on the draft alone basically to bring in talent and are continuing to do so. The point I am trying to make is Clark’s main priority is to save money and if we happen to do good then that is fantastic. If we go 4-12 again then he just fires the coach blames it on him and we start all over again. We did have a good team last year but not as good at the 10-6 record. If we played a schedule like we are going to this year we will be lucky to hit .500 unless some big move is made and Clark opens up his wallet.

I have read the argument that we are a small market team but that never stopped his dad from trying to bring in good players and there are other small market teams that will get good free agents. What we have done lately is overspend on draft picks. Tyson Jackson there was a lot of money wasted there for someone who never even showed they could play in the NFL. And when you draft players that high you have to pay them what the other players got drafted around them you have no choice.

As long as Clark sees fans will support this team and buy tickets no matter what he does why should he change? Just keep them believing that what he is doing is building for a championship even if it never comes 10 years later.

Why do people fault us for having a easy schedule. Perhaps you were all unaware, but to a 4-12 team there is no such thing as an easy schedule. We used to be part of the easy schedule. How about the face that we went 7-1 at home? The Arrowhead advantage is back and the Chiefs made the strides necessary to A. Win the division (which no one thought we would do)and B. Make the playoffs (which no one thought we would do) So sure we lost to some better teams but if my memory serves me… We lost to the Colts (in a game we almost won on the road) We lost to the Chargers with Brokie Croyle while our starting QB was out, We lost to Houston on a bullsh!t PI call against Flowers. Even though we lost to the better teams, we hung around in most of them. We werent that far off being 12-4. Easy schedule or not, this is the NFL and we played NFL calibur teams. We will be tested this year but I dont have anywhere near the dismal outlook some people have.

Chiefsrule agreed with a post stating that we might not win a game until Week 6. We play Buffalo Week 1….do you really think the B-lls are better than the Chiefs….seems like an uninformed comment to me.

How was your last trip????