Dane has Stockholm Syndrome.

LMAO

Due to too many years as a Chiefs fan.

Yeah, that's exactly what the ****ing dumb football people are saying.

I'd take any of these guys over Smith because each are capable of throwing the ball over 20 yards with accuracy and each of these is capable of mounting a 4th Quarter comeback when behind by more than a touchdown.

IMO Smith needs a lead in the score and an opposing defense that allows him to complete 5 yard passes regularly. Take either away and the game is in real jeopardy.

Look, I understand it. I don't endorse it. I've mentioned that several times.

I'd rather have Albert and Richardson or Austin or Jordan or whomever, rather than trading Albert and drafting his replacement.

But, it's completely out of my control.

**** no he wont. Alex will look like cassel here. His only hope is taking the game out of his hand.
Charles will need to go off. Defense will need to look like 49ers.

There is a reason why his stats are similar to cassels, they are both not starting caliber qbs. You should not have to have amazing supporting cast to put up those numbers.

Only thing good about alex is we did not extend him.

Albert has to say he is a lt since he was franchised. The dropoff from lt to any other spot on the o-line with the franchise tag is pretty steep. You work out a long term deal with lt money, and Albert, I bet, would play anywhere you want him to play. By franchising him, he has no other choice but to say he is a left tackle and will only play left tackle. It isn't about "me, me, me" necessarily; it is about the nature of the beast with the franchise tag.

Another team tried to franchise a player as a TE rather than a WR so they didn't have to pay him as much. He is listed on the roster as a TE, but lined up as a wide reciever most of the time and wanted to be compensated as such since that is the position he played. Albert is simply doing the same thing.

OK, that's a little more reasonable. My bad.

LOL. No worries, Dude!

:D

The prevailing wisdom-not just at 1 Arrowhead Drive, but around the league, by GM's and coaches who are paid well do evaluate these things, is that Geno Smith is the best of a mediocre class of draft-able quarterbacks.

The apparent thought process of not just KC but the league is that Geno is not measurably better than the pack, which would include your Barkley/Wilson/Nassib/Manuel/Bray/Dyserts. Reid may like one or more of them, or he may not, but the fact is that they don't like Geno more than. IF they did, then KC, Oakland, Buffalo, and Arizona probably wouldn't have taken vet QB's. The #1 pick would be the envy of the league, and we could collect a king's ransom for it if we didn't need a QB. Which of course, we do, so we'd be keeping it and drafting Geno Smith. However, it looks like we're not and we can't give the pick away which tells me that nobody else thinks he's all that great either. Bummer.

While I want a homegrown franchise QB as much or more than anyone, I don't agree that you take a guy just to take a guy. That is stupid. We have had the bad luck to have the #1 overall pick in a year where there is no damned QB worth it. You don't take a guy you don't believe in just to take 'a guy'.

As it's been said, Reid and Dorsey are not controlled by the ghosts of Chiefs front offices past; What Carl did is not on their radar. What ***** did is not influencing their decisions. Dorsey and Reid saw a gaping hole at QB and filled it with the best available QB on the market. This is true; whether you're an Alex Smith fan or not, there was no one available that is better. They feel he can operate Reid's offense, and we'll have to see about that. They apparently don't feel Geno's the guy, and it bums me out, but I figure Andy Reid probably knows more about it than I do-and if he thought Geno was his guy, he'd go get him no matter what anyone else says. He's done it before. Fear is not a motivating factor for him.

My suspicion is that he likes a couple of the rest of the pack guys just as much, and that he'll take one early.

The Albert trade is not part of the Alex Smith trade and to try to equivocate them together as some sort of net sum deal is dumb. If you're going to do that, then you must include ALL of the offseason signings and trades into one big net sum. So, yeah, minus Albert and pick 1.1 (that no team wants) goes to take #1 draft pick OT, plus Alex Smith, plus we get that #2 pick back, plus Donta Robinson, plus Sean Smith, plus etc., etc., etc.
When you look at the whole body of work this offseason, what you see is that they addressed each gaping hole with multiple proven NFL level players.

We enter the draft with one big hole (probably) at Left Tackle. That's a helluva lot better than we were three months ago.

I dont believe that is accurate.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Franchise_tag#Non-exclusive_franchise_player_costs_by_position

It appears as if offensive lineman are considered one group and a franchised player would get the average pay of the top 5 highest paid players in the "offensive lineman" group regardless what position he plays (RT, LT, C, G).

Thus the designation would have no bearing on Albert's franchise tag pay, but could have a bearing on a longterm contract (since a LT pay >RT>G>C).

The impending Albert trade and the Alex Smith trade both affect the Chiefs' options and movements in the draft's first two rounds. Only reason I consider both when looking at the Chiefs' movements regarding these players.

Alex Smith might help the Chiefs win 8-10 games this year and next, but really, what's the BFD about that? Barring a miraculous string of luck, or the Chiefs defense suddenly morphing into a historically awesome unit, it's not going to pay off in anything.

Filling the gaping hole at QB doesn't do much good, IMO, if you don't fill it with someone you can win long-term with.

If they truly are grading the QBs out as basically the same and are able to trade Albert for a pick that allows them to get one of those guys, a lot of my concerns will fade away.

Yeah, who cares? The Chiefs have had four winning seasons out of the last thirteen and Arrowhead is still the loudest stadium in the NFL.

:rolleyes:

Whoo! Bring back the 90s!

Who cares if we actually are on a path to win it all as long as we win 2-3 more than we lose, make the playoffs, fill up the stadium and have a great tailgating atmosphere!

Huzzah!

Right. It's not important, whatsoever, to put a respectable product on the field.

:spock: