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07/30/2011 at 8:25 pm #970459
With the success we had last season I didn’t want people to think my post was out of frustration that we weren’t more active in FA… I am drinking the Pioli Koolaid. I just wanted to shed some light as to the fact that we aren’t required to spend the money this year.
Washington buys everybody and are terrible…
When it comes down to brass tacks I know our front office will spend the money when they think the guy is worth it.07/30/2011 at 10:04 pm #970463chiefsrule;231326 wrote:Drew Brees Uses 2009 Chiefs As Example Of Low-Spending Teams – Arrowhead PrideWhen is the right time to sign free agents? 10 years from now? the right time is when you have a good nucleus which we have and you fill in with good free agents. These holes you talk about will always be there just relying on the draft alone and signing cheap free agents. You keep using Haynesworth as an example. I can give you more examples of expensive free agents that helped their team. New england is known for constantly bringing in good players and lets see how ocho cinco and Haynesworth do now on a well coached team.
Drew Brees used the worst possible year to use when he made that statement. In 09 we were undergoing a 100% redo of our front office and coaching staff. We were not going to be a competive team no matter who we spent money on. Last year WE DID sign a couple of key free agents. This year so far we have brought in a couple of free agents in Braston and Gregg. WE ARE NOT ONLY useing the draft. They may not be huge names but we tried that for a number of years. We went out and traded for Joe Montana we brought in Andre Rison who at the time was one of the more hyped WRs in the NFL. We tried that game and it didn’t get us anywhere.
You refer to the Pats being well known for bringing in some of the best players. They haven’t won a super bowl since they started doing that. When they won there super bowls they were key about who they got but mostly used there own players who they drafted. (tom Brady richard seymore troy brown ty law(anther name we have brought in) guys like that were the keys to there super bowl wins. And when Brady went down in 08 boom they had cassel right there to replace him. They are in a diffrent spot then this team is right now. We can one day get to that spot but at this point we can’t go around acting like we are the pats. We have to catch up with them first. And this team is A LOT closer to them then we were two years ago.
07/30/2011 at 10:41 pm #970466matthewschiefs;231332 wrote:Drew Brees used the worst possible year to use when he made that statement. In 09 we were undergoing a 100% redo of our front office and coaching staff. We were not going to be a competive team no matter who we spent money on. Last year WE DID sign a couple of key free agents. This year so far we have brought in a couple of free agents in Braston and Gregg. WE ARE NOT ONLY useing the draft. They may not be huge names but we tried that for a number of years. We went out and traded for Joe Montana we brought in Andre Rison who at the time was one of the more hyped WRs in the NFL. We tried that game and it didn’t get us anywhere.You refer to the Pats being well known for bringing in some of the best players. They haven’t won a super bowl since they started doing that. When they won there super bowls they were key about who they got but mostly used there own players who they drafted. (tom Brady richard seymore troy brown ty law(anther name we have brought in) guys like that were the keys to there super bowl wins. And when Brady went down in 08 boom they had cassel right there to replace him. They are in a diffrent spot then this team is right now. We can one day get to that spot but at this point we can’t go around acting like we are the pats. We have to catch up with them first. And this team is A LOT closer to them then we were two years ago.
2010 wasn’t much better and we are way under that now. I know we have Hali to sign but still will be one of the cheapest teams in the NFL. Last year we signed a couple of key free agents??? It has been years since we have gone after anyone good and if you have to go clear back to Joe Montana (who we traded for) and Rison then we haven’t done too bad. At least Carl and Clark’s dad tried to bring us a championship and not sit around while other teams pound on us. The rebuilding excuse is OLD now. If people can’t see that Clark is more worried about saving money then building a championship team again then they are very guilible. I hope I am wrong and we still sign some good free agents this year. We have the nucleus built. New England I hate to say is still far better than us and they keep bringing in talent to stay that way.
07/31/2011 at 12:03 am #970468chiefsrule;231336 wrote:2010 wasn’t much better and we are way under that now. I know we have Hali to sign but still will be one of the cheapest teams in the NFL. Last year we signed a couple of key free agents??? It has been years since we have gone after anyone good and if you have to go clear back to Joe Montana (who we traded for) and Rison then we haven’t done too bad. At least Carl and Clark’s dad tried to bring us a championship and not sit around while other teams pound on us. The rebuilding excuse is OLD now. If people can’t see that Clark is more worried about saving money then building a championship team again then they are very guilible. I hope I am wrong and we still sign some good free agents this year. We have the nucleus built. New England I hate to say is still far better than us and they keep bringing in talent to stay that way.Last year we brought back Chris Chambers who had a good run in 09
We signed free agents Thomas Jones, Ryan Lilja, Casey Wigemen all 3 were a reason the Chiefs won the AFC west.
We also Locked in Jamal Charles for I think it was a 5 year deal.
This year in the first day we signed Steve Breaston and kelly Gregg. We ARE bringing in free agents. We are just picking ones that are right for this team. Give a little time for some bigger names we are not even in day 2 yet.07/31/2011 at 12:13 am #970470matthewschiefs;231338 wrote:Last year we brought back Chris Chambers who had a good run in 09
We signed free agents Thomas Jones, Ryan Lilja, Casey Wigemen all 3 were a reason the Chiefs won the AFC west.
We also Locked in Jamal Charles for I think it was a 5 year deal.
This year in the first day we signed Steve Breaston and kelly Gregg. We ARE bringing in free agents. We are just picking ones that are right for this team. Give a little time for some bigger names we are not even in day 2 yet.Thomas Jones is our backup running back, Wigeman is almost 40, Charles is our own player and was already on the team. I will give you Lilja but don’t view him as a superstar player but he is above average. Gregg is 34 and only a one year contract again old and cheap. Breaston could be good depending on if his knee holds up…he couldn’t stay on the field because of it but then we let Waters walk so we gain a good player and lose a good player. Not sure why we didn’t at least try to get a draft pick for Waters everyone is scratching their heads over that one. Well at least the experts, not the Chief fan who claims he knew it all along it would happen. LOL!!! Anyhow Clark didn’t spend any more money by doing that.
07/31/2011 at 12:20 am #970471You may be better off jumping on the Eagles bandwagon, they seem to be on the same page as you.
07/31/2011 at 12:22 am #970472#58ChiefsFan;231341 wrote:You may be better off jumping on the Eagles bandwagon, they seem to be on the same page as you.LOL. True!
07/31/2011 at 12:29 am #970473Seems like theyre stacking some draft picks up too. It will be interesting to see how that all turns out for them.
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