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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
Given their draft positions over the year, who should they have drafted and who would have made a difference?
The posts are long gone but back in 2001, I was heavily in favor of Drew Brees with the #12 overall pick. I have a good friend that played D-I football as a CB that was at Purdue at the time working towards his MBA and we'd talk about Brees frequently. He thought he was going to be a stellar NFL QB, and apparently, he was right.
But other than Brees, I can't remember wanting a QB during most of Carl's tenure. I was happy with DeBerg, Montana, Bono, Grbac and Gannon before Green came to town. I didn't like Dave Krieg and apparently, Carl & Marty didn't, either.
All of those guys were good enough to win a Super Bowl at that time but unfortunately, the Chiefs lacked the major component necessary in the 90's: A great or Hall of Fame running back.
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Draft position is irrelevant. In eight years not ONE SINGLE QB was drafted. Not just first or second rounders. Not a single QB. Not one. It's almost like we acquired Trent Green and then Carl Peterson said, "Well, there's our QB for the next 5 years at least! Guess we don't have to do shit about the position until then!"
Most of the blame for that rests on Gunther Cunningham, I think, who not only said, "We'll stick with Grbac over Gannon, thank you very much" but then didn't bother with shit, believing that Elvis Grbac was totally adequate and good enough to lead his team. Remember, the season before Marty benched Grbac for sucking too much ass. That would be like the Chiefs getting a new coach who said, "Yeah... let's just tweak the roster a bit and roll with Matt. He's good enough to protect the football and win us a few games."
1999 was Gunther's first year, and that was also the supposed "year of the QB". The Chiefs missed out on the first four guys, but you can't tell me they didn't have an extremely glaring need at the position. A trade up from the 14th to the 10th pick or something like that would have been absolutely feasible to nab Daunte Culpepper. Instead, we got John ****ing Tait.
That kind of complacency is ****ing inexcusable.