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Originally Posted by The Bad Guy
I was also talking with someone on Tuesday that was in the Chiefs draft room in 2008. That person insisted that if Matt Ryan fell to 5, the Chiefs were taking him.
Ex Patriots ****ing us again.
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That might be true, and that might be revisionist history by whoever it is. Regardless, we were F'ed by the coin flip according to Wikipedia:
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A coin flip held at the NFL Scouting Combine determined the tie-breaker between the Chiefs, Falcons, and Raiders. The Chiefs had a league-high 13 selections heading into the draft.
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And we should also point out that if they really wanted Ryan, 13 picks is plenty of ammo to trade up, which they probably should have done considering we started the season with Croyle and Huard and ended it with Thigpen and Qunn Gray.
I also believe Carl was really looking to draft Joey Harrington the year that the Lions took him ahead of us, so yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if after all those years, Carl finally started warming to the idea of a QB in the first round. He just never ended up pulling the trigger...