2012 Offseason
 

Well I'm an optimist, so I am gonna go on a little rant here and make a bold statement.

The 2012 offseason will be the best offseason the Chiefs have had under Pioli. This will be the one that permanently makes us contenders for a good couple years. Here is whats going down.

Stanzi will turn out to be the guy. I have been watching alot of his old tape, he has the tools. He's gonna beat out Cassel in a training camp battle.

The 3 ACL guys will come back full strength. By the time the season rolls around they will have had a full year to recover. They will be fine.

The d will get a playmaker back. Pioli will bring in Paul Soliai from Miami to play NT with Poe and Gordon. In the second round of the draft Hightower will fall to us.

The offense, now having their quarterback, gets its playmaker back. We draft Richardson in the first round giving us a great combo of backs. We pick up a RT in the third round. We bring in an all pro in Carl Nicks from New Orleans who can't afford to pay him. We can.

We draft depth on both sides of the ball and bring in some solid backup free agents.

We resign Carr and Bowe.

This young team has it's quarterback and grows together, becoming a power in the AFC.

Sorry if this upsets anyone, but Pioli's finally gonna get it right.

Discuss.

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I'm just trying to stir up some convo. It's been a little slow tonight.

I got a good feeling about Stanzi too. It's a matter of him taking advantage of any opportunity he gets that impress the coaches and make a case during preseason to be the guy.

Still wish and hope we snag another QB in the draft but I have my doubts it would be a high rounder, but we still need to draft one for compitition sake.

Our defense is going be beast regardless of what the offense does so am exited for the return of Eric Berry the most.

Getting production out of Jamaal Charles again is going make us that much better & complimited with McCluster is going be fun to watch.

It still all starts with the play of the QB & I'm really hoping Stanzi or next QB from the draft gets major consideration for the start of the season. Out with Cassel ASAP.

I really think Stanzi could work out.

If this is the case - and it may be - then why wasn't he playing during the season? I can't think of a greater potential opportunity handed to any quarterback. All he had to do was beat out Tyler Palko.

Or were you talking about next preseason rather than last preseason?

Stay with me here.

It has been said that Haley was a Cassel guy. Maybe he didn't wanna play Stanzi as he thought he would create real controversy. He thought he would for sure be back next year and wanted Cassel to start?

It's also been said that Haley wasn't a Cassel guy and that that's where the break with Pioli originally developed.

You can cook up pretty much any conspiracy you want.

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Yeah I dunno what to think about that, I just think that their minds were made up that Stanzi wouldn't play this season at all. No matter what happened.

I think they wanted him to sit and learn for a year.

i hope stanzi is the answer, cuz i cant stand another mediocre year of cassel.

If everything happens that I stated above, Stanzi could ease into the starters role.

By the time the playoffs role around he'll be seasoned and ready to go.

What I have heard (and it's just rumor, so it's essentially baseless/worthless...) is that they actually gave him every opportunity to take the job during the latter half of the season. And that they were ultimately disappointed with his development in 2011.

But who knows. I'm surely not in the locker room.

the desperation is palpable.

I couldn't read your entire post. I'm struggling to get past this.