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Originally Posted by GoChiefs
Pioli needs something GOOD to start happening with the players he selects.
Since his first draft was a bag of horrible shit, he damn well needs someone from his second class to live up to the bar set by other rookies just last year.
Maybe if Tyson Jackson was a badass and Colin Brown had turned into a competent right tackle we wouldn't demand so much from McCluster and Arenas.
But Pioli shit his bed, and now he has to lay in it.
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We're learning pretty quickly that the 2009 offseason was a season to forget. I don't agree at all that this means you use 2010 as a panic reaction to cover up for your previous mistakes. Nor does it mean that you set ridiculous standards for rookies. McCluster doesn't need to be Percy Harvin today. He needs to develop into a Percy Harvin within 2 years. I don't see why that makes him a bust because he scrounges up 500 yards, let's say, which is actually terrific production for a rookie. Especially a second rounder.
I just want this team to get better. And the young guys deserve time to get better. Pioli ****ed up big time in 2009. But if we continue to improve in 2010 and beyond, I'm wiping the slate clean. And I don't see how anyone can look at the preseason as any justification that we should be nervous about the 2010 draft class not contributing. Berry, McCluster, Arenas, Kendrick Lewis... probably Asamoah down the road. If you look at this as a single class and not as a class that's supposed to make us forget 2010, you'll realize that they have potential to be very solid contributors to this team within the next 2-3 years.