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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
31 of 32 franchises didn't have a 5-10% success rate in the NFL draft from 1999-2005.
31 of 32 franchises weren't deemed to be the oldest team in the NFL before they were forced to rebuild.
31 of 32 franchises didn't have a GM who has a long history of repatching teams instead of rebuilding
Most of the 31 of 32 franchises get top 5 draft picks. In 2005 and 2006, when the Chiefs should have blown the team up and rebuilt, the Chiefs ended up with picks #20 and #22--two picks that have a considerably lower success rate, especially once you get to the second round and beyond
We keep comparing the Chiefs to 31 of 32 other teams, but the situation the Chiefs were put in was far worse than anything I've seen any team encounter since the Titans faced it about 5 years ago. This was a team that during the Vermeil era let the entire roster get to 30+ years of age, whiffed on almost every free agent pickup, drafted at about a 5% success rate, and let the cap balloon close to the limit. Those indicators made failure a given. And worse, the GM held back every effort to blow the team up and start over again.
That's not typical. That is an extremely high level of dysfunction from the front office that is finally being dealt with now.
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I'd recommend that you stop trying to point out the obvious to Reerun.
He only sees one thing when evaluating the Chiefs: W/L.
Nothing else matters, so you're wasting your time.