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one of the worse in the entire league ... that's why we suck so bad. |
Who was it that use to argue that the Chiefs draft history was on par with most of the rest of the league?
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Teams that consistently draft well also consistently WIN. Baltimore, Pittsburgh, NY Giants, Indianapolis, San Diego, Philadelphia and Green Bay consistently draft well and don't reach. The result is year after year after year in the playoffs with the occasional Super Bowl appearance and win. The Cardinals are another example of a franchise that has consistently drafted well but didn't hire the right coach until 2006. That team is LOADED with talent. |
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http://www.pro-football-reference.co...er-passing.htm my hope is cassel is a stop gap and we finally draft a qb that plays more than 3 years |
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Mike Livingston was prob the best qb ever drafted. Kenney played more but livingston contrbited to the only ring. He did the job when we needed it.
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Aaron Rodgers is a big reason I wanted Orakpo in the draft.
Let me explain. Back in 2005, I wanted no part of Rodgers because he was a cal QB and because of the fact Kyle Boller failed so badly coming out of Cal, I thought Aaron would follow that model and not be prepared enough to play in the NFL and we could help the team better in going in a different direction. Mainly by taking the highest rated defender on the board. I loved the DJ pick like everyone else. Boy was I wrong. Crow has been served long ago on the topic. I think many people didn't want to draft Orakpo because of the school he came out of and the fact that Vernon Gholsten had just been taken that high and looked to be a huge bust. Orakpo had the production, the elite measureables and other indicators that he is more than a workout warrior, that he could truly be a elite pass rusher at the next level but doubt remained none the less. doubt = risk risk = possible loss Im more of a gambler than Pioli is obviously. I could see how much a difference a elite pass rusher could make by the difference in the teams defensive quality overall with and without Jared, so to me it was worth the risk. |
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Does that mean that Stafford will pan out? No. But I don't believe you should reach for a QB that high simply because he's the best in an otherwise bad class. Though I thought that Rogers was the best in that badd class that Smith came out in. |
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Vince Young might have been one of the top 2 QBs in that class, but I don't touch him with a 10-foot pole. Kids with poor mechanics or coming from spread offenses should almost immediately be crossed off the list, barring extenuating reasons (see: athletic freak of nature). |
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That post doesn't make much sense, explain how Texas has had SO MANY guys fail then?
Texas players are a risk just because of that program they come from. |
Look at it this way: Rodgers spent three years learning under statistically the greatest QB in NFL history. And Favre didn't go out of his way to make things easy; he said when Rodgers was drafted 'I'm not here to babysit Aaron Rodgers'. He made #12 work for his respect, and over the course of three years, it was earned. He received excellent coaching during those three years when he only played a handful of snaps, and wasn't rushed into a situation he wasn't ready for.
Who was he going to learn from in KC? Nobody. He was going to be thrown into the fire at the first available opportunity without the coaching staff correcting the mechanical issues he had coming out of Cal. And then he'd be just as big a disappointment as Alex Smith, if not more so. |
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If anything, Rodgers is proof that those kind of stereotypes aren't always right. |
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