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Originally Posted by 2bikemike
(Post 10900159)
Yep, but this spastic fan base has no room for error. Immediate results or off with your head!
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Again, I don't expect immediate results.
I just expect to see a logical plan for personnel development evident in the kinds of moves that the new GM makes.
If Dorsey's goal, as he says, is to "build through the draft", then ****ING DO IT. That's a logical plan to have. He and many other fans could sense an oncoming problem with the salary cap as a crap ton of KC's good players were owed lucrative salaries in the oncoming years, and many of them needed new contracts.
So how did he "build through the draft" to fix this salary cap problem? He aggravated it. He spent tons of money on veterans who aren't even that good. He took away a large part of our personnel development by using TWO 2nd round picks on the QB. He used both of his first rounders on players to plug the future holes in the roster that will be formed due to HIS salary cap managing decisions.
He's NOT building through the draft. He's stagnating through the draft. In his mind, Eric Fisher and Dee Ford were both drafted to maintain the same level of play that we had with Albert and Hali. And I'm not even bringing up the fact that both of them are DOWNGRADES to the previous players on the roster. Again, Dorsey isn't building a team, he's using his draft stock to SAVE MONEY ON THE SALARY CAP.
If he wanted to take a different approach, I'd also be fine with that. He could get busy renegotiating this player, paying this guy now, cutting this guy, and doing all kinds of book cooking to legitimately add free agent talent to this roster while hoping to hit on a fair portion of draft picks. It's risky as hell, and it's often a bad strategy, but at least it's a ****ing PLAN.
He doesn't have a plan right now. He appears to have a clear idea of the pitfalls this team will encounter in future offseasons, and then determines a player's fate in advance without new data or context to the rest of the team. Branden Albert's fate was pre-determined. Then he had to decide what to do with Hali, so he drafted Dee Ford and consigned Hali to getting cut next year. That's not a plan. That's just making shit up as you go along. A real "build through the draft" plan would be to take the best players in the draft that best line up team need with talent and potential. It would seek to use draft picks to make the team BETTER.
And it would seek to conserve and acquire as much draft stock as possible each year. But that's not what he's done in two drafts. Not even close. Thus far Dorsey has never traded down at ANY spot in the draft. He has yet to make deals to acquire more picks, either because he ****ing sucks at it or because he's clueless. He has traded up ONCE, and that was the Edgar Jones + 7th for the Cowboys 6th deal he did last offseason. Not exactly ****ing spectacular.
As I said before, he claims his plan is to "build through the draft" but that's just more hot air garbage that he picked up from the Packers and is now passing on in his current GM job. What his REAL personnel development strategy has been in "make shit up as you go along, and combine the worst elements of different strategies into one giant Frankenstein's monster of awful football decisions."
I don't care if his talent evaluation is something we're overlooking or not giving him enough time to prove himself by. It doesn't matter if Eric Fisher and Dee Ford end up being good players. By using such ridiculously high draft stock in selecting them, he's not making the team better... he's only trying to prolong the success that they have. And the success that they currently have isn't good enough to win a playoff game.
That's why it doesn't matter that he's only been given 1.5 NFL cycles before being pronounced a failure.
