Draft Philosophy?
 

I got to thinking that we could, potentially, drastically improve one side of the ball in this draft by focusing our first 2 rds on one side, as opposed to mix and match improving each side just slightly. Im not sure which boat I am in (I think either would be great) but with a deep defensive draft we could always focus on that in the later rounds and offense in the first two.

Examples:

Offense- Clausen/Tate/OL

Defense- Berry/Spikes/Cody

These are just examples but hopefully you get the idea. I don't recall ever discussing it and I did not use the search feature so if repost....Sorry. What say the masses?

BPA

D .. is needed badly .. OL has to improve .. but the whole it is D .. we played first half games then couldn't adjust at half to finish .. only bout 4 games were we blown out from the start ...

This. And in this draft, that will probably be a lot of defense.

PUT THIS IN DRAFTPLANET, ASSHOLE.

True, but being a defense heavy draft we could still focus the later rounds on that. Im not advocating ignoring one side completely, just maybe doing so in the first two rounds.

LMAO

I'm not really qualified to opine on the subject, but I think that the Chiefs will attempt to get the best players they can for their respective positions.

Some folks don't keep up on their cross-thread humor.

*Tisk-tisk*

Dude, we all know you haven't broke down any game tape. Save us the ill-informed opinion, please.

K.Thnx.Bye.

This.

You don't focus on a side of the ball, or a specific position, you take the best player available, and where there's players that are close in terms of talent, you take the best player that fills the bigger hole.

This draft has alot of good D players who will be available in the first two rounds. If we are going to build one side then the other I go D first. 3 out of the 1st four picks on D.


PhilFree:arrow:

As much as I agree about BPA I think it's almost a myth. All teams draft for need.

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Teams almost never intentionally focus on a given side of the ball, at least they wouldn't admit to it even if their picks went that way, but it happens.

That said, given what we have done so far this offseason and the way that I think the draft will play out, I wouldn't be shocked and it wouldn't bother me one bit to go defense with our first 4 picks.
I'd do backflips if we got:
1 Eric Berry, FS
2a Jerry Hughes, OLB
2b Cam Thomas, NT
3 Kam Chancellor, SS

I realize some of those guys could very well be gone by those picks; just saying "if they are there".

The wide receivers that are likely to be available and projected to be worth the pick, in the first few rounds aren't that strong or have injury issues (Demaryius Thomas) so I don't see us really falling in love with any of them.

Then they could shift the focus to the offense or BAA.

4 Eric Olsen, C - I don't see Charlie passing on him and Weigmann isn't a long term solution.

Then in the 5th they could go any number of ways
Add a RT like: Ed Wang, Sam Young, Chris Scott
followed by TE Clay Harbor, I really want him to be a Chief and he could go in the 4th
Then a WR like: Freddie Barnes, Alexander or David Gettis

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