Enough of a stud that they'll decide we don't need a QB. We can do like the Vikings and take our monster RB and continue to win 4-6 games a season until he's done.

As much as I like Trent Richardson, RB is a position that can easily be found in the mid rounds to late.

Plus it's a position where your guy will likely be done in 5 years.

Can't invest a first in that.

Someone should look at SB RBs in the last 10 years and see how many were 1st round picks.

Dave Szott, Will Shields. Can't run if you can't block, but an excellent RB can make a big diff, as did Allen.

Richardson didn't impress me, until the TD dash. He had an excellent seal.

Wonder how Ingram will fare, in his healing up.

One thing about RB's: Allen was the exception to the rule, in his longevity.

The combine will tell us if Richardson will do well enough, that we can draft him.

There's that factor but that's less of a concern to me.

My big fear is not taking a RB in the 1st, it's the CHIEFS taking a RB in the 1st.

Clark is about my age. The "peak" of his fandom was Okoye and Word, Derrick Thomas and Neil Smith.

I can TOTALLY see them taking Richardson and thinking that we can get by with a guy like Cassel for another 3-5 years. Continue to strengthen the defense, get another tackle, and run the ball 50 times a game. It's a recipe for exactly what Clark wants, a full stadium. Win 9, 10, 11 games a season. But it's not a recipe for winning in the playoffs.

Here is what i'm hoping for:
Resign all our FA's, and Carl Nicks

Trade down into the second round and get a second rounder this year and a 1st next..

Draft:
a combination of Poe and Burfict/Hightower, whichever one is a better fit at this point... and go RT in round 3

if we aren't moving up for a QB, then moving down makes sense...

there is RB value all over the draft

needs:

QB
....huge gap
RT/NT
C/RB#2/TE#2
ILB/backup safety

So if there is no value for us when pick in the first, what team would see value to trade upto our pick. I just don't see us finding a viable trade partner.

How? We have given Cassel everything and yet he still sucks. If this team continues to be enamored with Cassel, we might as well make it so he has very little to actually do. If I felt this team actually valued the QB position or felt Cassel was garbage then I would be totally against the Richardson pick. Sadly though I think our horse is hitched with him, so we might as well make running it idiot proof for him. Getting Richardson does just that.

Super Bowl XLV - Rashard Mendenhall (1st round pick), James Starks (6th round pick) replaced injured starter Brandon Jackson (2nd round pick)

Super Bowl XLIV - Pierre Thomas (Undrafted), Michael Bush (1st round), Joseph Addai (1st round), Donald Brown (1st round)

Super Bowl XLIII - Willie Parker (undrafted), Edgerrin James (1st round)

Super Bowl XLII - Ahmad Bradshaw (7th round), Brandon Jacobs (4th round), Laurence Maroney (1st round), Kevin Faulk (2nd round)

Super Bowl XLI - Joseph Addai (1st round), Dominic Rhodes (undrafted), Thomas Jones (1st round), Cedric Benson (1st round)

There's the last 5.

So you're all in favor of putting lipstick on the pig?

We need Cassel to play as many snaps without a safety blanket as possible. Once the stadium is empty, he'll finally be gone.

So basically Bush, James, Jones, and Benson were picked in the top of the 1st round.

What in the past 40+ year history of this franchise makes you think that QB is a priority for this organization? Since the team never has valued the position, nor does it appear that they ever will as long as a Hunt is in charge, why not go out and draft a play maker and hope we win with a good defense, solid running game and average at best QB?

Reread what I wrote. I would be AGAINST the Richardson pick if I felt QB was a priority for this team. It is not. I have been one of the biggest supporters of dropping Cassel and doing whatever it takes to trade up for Luck or RGIII. I am also a realist, and 40+ years of Chiefs history tells me that they will not address the QB situation in the 1st. They will try to win with a career backup or washed up vet like they have always tried to do. If Cassel fails, he will be replaced with some other back up, like Flynn or something. At least give whomever we throw under center as many play makers as possible to offset their crappiness.

Hope in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up first.

If they can't see it, we need to do everything we can to MAKE him fail. His level of suck needs to slap Clark Hunt in the face and FORCE him to fire Pioli.

I'm tired of 8-8 years filled with heartbreak.

I'd rather lose 10 games a year for the next 10 if that's what it takes to push them to make the moves necessary.