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Originally Posted by Cochise
Carl and Herm are long gone. Pioli and Haley and Romeo are long gone. That history is completely unrelated to the decision makers with the team today.
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I don't think you can really say anything about Dorsey because he has no prior history with regards to his current position, but I'm not sure there's a lot of reason to be particularly confident in or hopeful about Andy Reid. In his last ten seasons as head coach, he has two 11-win seasons, two 10-win seasons, two 9-win seasons, two .500 seasons and two seasons below .500. So while I wouldn't tie myself to the "4-12 is more likely than 10-6" comment I do consider 10 wins to be the lowest bar to set (meaning you should expect at least 10 wins/season from a successful franchise), and Reid just hasn't reached that level of success over the last decade. He certainly hasn't been anywhere close to what what he was with Philly from '99 to '04.
Maybe that'll change. Maybe it won't. I don't think the Chiefs are a bad team right now, but at the same time I also don't see a reason (yet) to believe they're even positioned to become the top team in the AFC West, much less one of the top teams in the AFC, poised to break the playoff drought.
But that's just one opinion, and it might change during camp.
(As far as OTW leaving, I almost never comment on that kind of stuff and won't now)