Originally Posted by Chris Meck
The prevailing wisdom-not just at 1 Arrowhead Drive, but around the league, by GM's and coaches who are paid well do evaluate these things, is that Geno Smith is the best of a mediocre class of draft-able quarterbacks.
The apparent thought process of not just KC but the league is that Geno is not measurably better than the pack, which would include your Barkley/Wilson/Nassib/Manuel/Bray/Dyserts. Reid may like one or more of them, or he may not, but the fact is that they don't like Geno more than. IF they did, then KC, Oakland, Buffalo, and Arizona probably wouldn't have taken vet QB's. The #1 pick would be the envy of the league, and we could collect a king's ransom for it if we didn't need a QB. Which of course, we do, so we'd be keeping it and drafting Geno Smith. However, it looks like we're not and we can't give the pick away which tells me that nobody else thinks he's all that great either. Bummer.
While I want a homegrown franchise QB as much or more than anyone, I don't agree that you take a guy just to take a guy. That is stupid. We have had the bad luck to have the #1 overall pick in a year where there is no damned QB worth it. You don't take a guy you don't believe in just to take 'a guy'.
As it's been said, Reid and Dorsey are not controlled by the ghosts of Chiefs front offices past; What Carl did is not on their radar. What ***** did is not influencing their decisions. Dorsey and Reid saw a gaping hole at QB and filled it with the best available QB on the market. This is true; whether you're an Alex Smith fan or not, there was no one available that is better. They feel he can operate Reid's offense, and we'll have to see about that. They apparently don't feel Geno's the guy, and it bums me out, but I figure Andy Reid probably knows more about it than I do-and if he thought Geno was his guy, he'd go get him no matter what anyone else says. He's done it before. Fear is not a motivating factor for him.
My suspicion is that he likes a couple of the rest of the pack guys just as much, and that he'll take one early.
The Albert trade is not part of the Alex Smith trade and to try to equivocate them together as some sort of net sum deal is dumb. If you're going to do that, then you must include ALL of the offseason signings and trades into one big net sum. So, yeah, minus Albert and pick 1.1 (that no team wants) goes to take #1 draft pick OT, plus Alex Smith, plus we get that #2 pick back, plus Donta Robinson, plus Sean Smith, plus etc., etc., etc.
When you look at the whole body of work this offseason, what you see is that they addressed each gaping hole with multiple proven NFL level players.
We enter the draft with one big hole (probably) at Left Tackle. That's a helluva lot better than we were three months ago.
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