Bearcat |
04-29-2013 09:43 AM |
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Originally Posted by SNR
(Post 9643283)
"The Buffalo Bills gave a huge contract to Ryan Fitzpatrick. They don't know QBs."
God, the excuses in this thread. People don't realize that once you actually HIT on a QB, unless the surrounding team is complete garbage, your team no longer sucks ass.
People may as well be saying:
"The Ravens reached on Joe Flacco? Yeah, that's because they're shit with QBs."
"The Redskins gave up that much for RGIII? Yeah, that's because they're shit with QBs."
"The Dolphins reached on Tannehill?"
Etc.
The Chiefs will always be one of those teams who is shit with QBs until they grow a pair and draft one.
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Yep... given a first round OT that will make the Pro Bowl for the next 10+ seasons, or striking out on a first round QB or two before finding the next elite QB, the Chiefs and a lot of fans prefer the OT. It might have made more sense 20 or 30 years ago, but it certainly doesn't any more.
And I'm pretty sure at least some of the people who love to use the lines "trust the coaches/GM, they've been doing this a long time"/"they have a plan"/etc, would go ballistic if the Chiefs had the balls to stretch and draft a QB a round or two early or used a couple of picks to trade up to get one, especially if it didn't work out. It's always been "if (insert skill position player) slides down, we'll take him" (well, no shit), and this year that guy had to slide completely out of the draft.
It's insane enough that it took the past two years to really put a dent into Arrowhead attendance, but then to run out and buy season tickets like it's 2009 again because they cleaned up their mistakes, just to see the new guys make the same mistakes, then rationalize just like it like it's been rationalized for the past 3 decades... holy crap.
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