Originally Posted by SNR (Post 10456901)

My thing about keeping him is so we stop this rotating door of offensive line bodies. For once I'd like to see us keep the same starting offensive line from one year to the next. I'd also like to see all the guys not be rookies or broke dick veterans.

I'm also sick and ****ing tired of pissing away draft picks on the offensive line.

The offensive line is one area where I hope we spend money to keep guys together and build it up to be a strong unit. If Schwartz goes and Asamoah goes (who wasn't all that valuable anyway) we've got Rishaw ****ing Johnson on the roster who would take the starting spot.

We could go out and get a free agent guy, but why spend money on him but not Schwartz, who has already played for us and is familiar with the team?

People always bitch about the lack of chemistry on the offensive line, and they seem to be shocked every year that they don't play well. Yet in the offseason there's all this championing for replacing dudes as much as possible and not spending money on (what they claim to be important) positions like LT.

Originally Posted by -King- (Post 10457449)

We forget that Asamoah played really well in 2012 when we played ZBS. He only allowed 2 sacks that whole season.

Originally Posted by FringeNC (Post 10456789)

For anyone current on the rules, will we get a compensatory draft pick if Schwartz signs elsewhere?

Originally Posted by Direckshun (Post 10455028)

There's little question Winston was the alpha male on that OL when he was here.

Just a huge vacuum of guys willing to step up and be the man.

Doesn't help that we brought in a very low key, laissez faire QB.

Originally Posted by Chocolate Hog (Post 10458277)

The Chiefs aren't going to go into the season with Rashaw Johnson and the often injured Eric Fisher as the starters. Dorsey better sign or draft a right guard who can also play tackle.

The nice thing about Schwartz is he's a guy who takes up 1 roster spot but can play 2 positions.

Originally Posted by BossChief (Post 10458273)

Comp picks are awarded to teams that lost more "qualifying free agents" than they signed over the course of each offseason.

A "qualifying free agent" is a player that was on your roster the entire year and entered free agency due to his contract expiring.

So if we lose

Albert
Jackson
Abdullah
Schwartz
Asamoah
McCluster
Demps
Lewis

To free agency and sign no "qualifying free agents" to replace them with, we would get a comp pick for each of them.

The comp picks range from rounds 3-7 and the things that impact the quality of the comp pick awarded the most are playing time and contract amount.

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501 (Post 10458376)

We have plenty of options. You can easily bump Hudson, Allen, Rokevius Watkins, Rishaw Johnson. Hudson and Kush compete for Center. Now we just need depth at Tackle.

We can get both Guard and Tackle depth through the draft, the scrap pile, and cheap free agent pickups. To SNR's point... you don't have to use your first two rounds to get that either.

Originally Posted by htismaqe (Post 10458405)

You don't have to.

But they probably will.

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501 (Post 10458410)

If we truly believe what we've been saying for years that the team needs to build through the draft, then we shouldn't be panicking about a Guard leaving the team. I would rather put our money on playmakers.

Originally Posted by htismaqe (Post 10458413)

I'd rather put everything on playmakers.

I'm sick and ****ing tired of drafting linemen in the 1st round.