DaWolf
11-29-2004, 04:14 AM
Next year everyone on offense save Blaylock is still under contract and will be back and healthy. Welbourne will have a year under his belt and his knee should be back. Offense should still score points, and we'll probably do everything possible this time around to upgrade the WR's since the pass dropping problem is still extremely evident as is the inability to move the ball in crunch time. Kris Wilson will be healthy and ready to apparently do what they expected from him this year. And as we can see from the rule changes, TE's are having a much bigger impact on the game now, so he could help out a lot teamed up with Gonzo, assuming he is everything the Chiefs claim he is. And Gonzo will get that surgery on his foot to fix the pain there and will be primed for another huge year, especially now with a rival TE in Gates in San Diego threatening his Pro Bowl spot.
The defense is bound to have plenty of new faces on it. Yes I think Gunther has taken a bad defense and made it worse through some poor coaching decisions and ego this offseason, but at least now he's had a firsthand look at what he has in front of him and like GRob before, can go into draft day and influence the type of defenders we draft, which will probably be the bigger and more physical type defenders than the smaller quicker ones GRob preferred.
The Chiefs, barring a case of this team becoming good again when it matters the least, will have a top 5-6 draft pick, which means the ability to draft an immediate impact player for your ballclub, not some project. We don't really need a QBOTF quite yet, as Green still probably has 2-3 more years in him. And we are set at RB. So that takes away two of the toughest positions to accurately evaluate in the draft. Unless Carl is an utter moron, and I don't think he is, we will draft someone who will start for us. Hopefully they make more of an impact than Ryan Sims, but if treated right we could get an impact player there. Add to that the fact that our 2nd rounder will be a very high 2nd rounder, and we theoretically should have a shot at two guys who can add a significant amount to this team next year.
We should have a next to last or last place schedule, and have I believe the NFC Least on the schedule. San Diego will have to start Phillip Rivers who has yet to play plus teams are less likely to take them lightly, the Donx will be the Donx and probably be good enough to hang around the divisional race all year but not good enough to do anything after that, and the Raiders have a bunch of crap they need to do to fix that team too, hopefully Turner will be back for another year.
Carl, the last time he had an inactive offseason that backfired on him following a 13-3 year (1996) followed it up with a busy offseason aimed at fixing what was wrong with the team, and we had 11 new starters on offense and defense in 1997 and went 13-3 again. So I expect once again a busy offseason. And in the NFL, it just takes one offseason to fix things.
If we can get a few playmakers on D, improve the recievers, and go into next year reducing the number of turnover we make, play smarter in the red zone, reduce mental mistakes and dumb penalties, and play fundamentally sound football which will reduce the amount of points we give up and increase the amount of points we score, we'll be right back where we expected to be this year before it all began. The trend is that teams who usually lose a bunch of close games one year find ways to win them the next year, and vice versa. It all comes down to coaching. This year, every decision that could go wrong has, and every bounce that could go against us has. Last year, the opposite.
So it can be done. We have been, if nothing else, fiscally responsible during the Vermeil era and our cap room should be fine in the upcoming year. Anything that needs to be done can be done by good bookkeeping. This season has been real disappointing and has pissed me and most of you off royally, but the good news is that the offseason will present a tremendous opportunity to the coaches and front office. They will have ample opportunity to make the right moves and get this thing back on track. It's been done before by other teams. Why not us? Yeah I know, I am dubious of this front office's ability to draft right and sign the right guys. But this ain't an election, there is no choice, those are the guys in charge, they have to get it done.
And if Carl and Dick can't get it done, well, if memory serves their contracts are both up after 2005...
The defense is bound to have plenty of new faces on it. Yes I think Gunther has taken a bad defense and made it worse through some poor coaching decisions and ego this offseason, but at least now he's had a firsthand look at what he has in front of him and like GRob before, can go into draft day and influence the type of defenders we draft, which will probably be the bigger and more physical type defenders than the smaller quicker ones GRob preferred.
The Chiefs, barring a case of this team becoming good again when it matters the least, will have a top 5-6 draft pick, which means the ability to draft an immediate impact player for your ballclub, not some project. We don't really need a QBOTF quite yet, as Green still probably has 2-3 more years in him. And we are set at RB. So that takes away two of the toughest positions to accurately evaluate in the draft. Unless Carl is an utter moron, and I don't think he is, we will draft someone who will start for us. Hopefully they make more of an impact than Ryan Sims, but if treated right we could get an impact player there. Add to that the fact that our 2nd rounder will be a very high 2nd rounder, and we theoretically should have a shot at two guys who can add a significant amount to this team next year.
We should have a next to last or last place schedule, and have I believe the NFC Least on the schedule. San Diego will have to start Phillip Rivers who has yet to play plus teams are less likely to take them lightly, the Donx will be the Donx and probably be good enough to hang around the divisional race all year but not good enough to do anything after that, and the Raiders have a bunch of crap they need to do to fix that team too, hopefully Turner will be back for another year.
Carl, the last time he had an inactive offseason that backfired on him following a 13-3 year (1996) followed it up with a busy offseason aimed at fixing what was wrong with the team, and we had 11 new starters on offense and defense in 1997 and went 13-3 again. So I expect once again a busy offseason. And in the NFL, it just takes one offseason to fix things.
If we can get a few playmakers on D, improve the recievers, and go into next year reducing the number of turnover we make, play smarter in the red zone, reduce mental mistakes and dumb penalties, and play fundamentally sound football which will reduce the amount of points we give up and increase the amount of points we score, we'll be right back where we expected to be this year before it all began. The trend is that teams who usually lose a bunch of close games one year find ways to win them the next year, and vice versa. It all comes down to coaching. This year, every decision that could go wrong has, and every bounce that could go against us has. Last year, the opposite.
So it can be done. We have been, if nothing else, fiscally responsible during the Vermeil era and our cap room should be fine in the upcoming year. Anything that needs to be done can be done by good bookkeeping. This season has been real disappointing and has pissed me and most of you off royally, but the good news is that the offseason will present a tremendous opportunity to the coaches and front office. They will have ample opportunity to make the right moves and get this thing back on track. It's been done before by other teams. Why not us? Yeah I know, I am dubious of this front office's ability to draft right and sign the right guys. But this ain't an election, there is no choice, those are the guys in charge, they have to get it done.
And if Carl and Dick can't get it done, well, if memory serves their contracts are both up after 2005...