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Originally Posted by SNR
That's a horseshit excuse.
There were plenty of good players in that draft. It's Dorsey's job to find the ones that aren't huge fat pussies that suck.
He failed.
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I think he tries like all get out to find the best players for what he believes the team should do.
The Chiefs under Dorsey employ a very large scouting staff and they purportedly do some serious leg work on a lot of players. Then they input all that into advanced computer generated metrics that account for a veritable shit ton of stuff. (Chiefs are only NFL team using the Decision Lens system currently if I remember correctly.)
That's a combination of old school football accumen and modern analytics that is, at it's very minimum, impressive in it's scope and breadth.
However, his last two drafts have been what one could term "head scratchers" from a personnel perspective, especially the 2014 draft.
One could argue that the Fisher pick was based more on need than BPA, but there seemed to be a general consensus that he was a top three/five type of player in that draft. I do feel that he'll end up being a solid pro, barring injury, and he was progressing as the 2013 season wore on.
I believe that the standard mantra of "give him three years" should apply to Dorsey. His methodology is definitely different than the standard NFL GM and we'll see how it plays out. In fact, I'm happy to give him a five year window simply based on the Peterson/Herm + Pioli tenures. At least there is an improvement in culture and attitude at 1 Arrowhead Drive.