Trotter "almost a LOCK" to sign with the Chiefs!!!

[DaKCMan AP]

Mort just reported this on ESPNews when he mentioned that Trotter's in KC today.

[jspchief]

Originally Posted by Ghostof

If he does sign and we get Trotter, how much of an impact is he going to have? I just dont see how we are going to bounce back to the defense of the 90's by putting all the weight on one or two players during the offseason. What happens if these same players that we sign get hurt at the beginning of the season and are out for the year....then we'll be no better off then what we were last year.

So what is your solution to our defensive woes?

[keg in kc]

Originally Posted by Wile_E_Coyote

Chiefs on a Rolle

Chiefs Surtain to improve at corner

[DaKCMan AP]

Originally Posted by jspchief

So what is your solution to our defensive woes?

we're DOOOOOOOOMED

[Ultra Peanut]

Chiefs Atari Bigby in the chicken noodle soup!

[Kerberos]

Originally Posted by SideWinder

Well Mort's better than someone like Fred Edelstein (is he still out there somewhere?), but until there's a podium with Trotter, DickWad, Gun and Carl standing behind, anouncing that the ink is drying as they speak, I ain't gettin' excited.

Amen brotha.... Until I see the same thing and a jersey with his name on it I aint gonna hold my breath either!

[Wallcrawler]

Originally Posted by Ghostof

If he does sign and we get Trotter, how much of an impact is he going to have? I just dont see how we are going to bounce back to the defense of the 90's by putting all the weight on one or two players during the offseason. What happens if these same players that we sign get hurt at the beginning of the season and are out for the year....then we'll be no better off then what we were last year.

Did you not watch the Eagles?

Trotter is a monster in the Run support game, and can disrupt passing plays as well.

And we are not putting the weight of the defense on one or two players.

The players that we do get are going to allow the rest of the players on defense to play BETTER.

For example, a new cornerback will move Warfield to number two immediately. Warfield did fairly well against teams' number one receviers last season, so going against the number two guys will ease the pressure on him.

Kawika mitchell/Monty Beisel were all but ineffective in the middle. With a new middle linebacker present, our safeties and linebackers arent trying to make up for a huge hole in the middle of the field that is constantly being exploited.



As for the injury thing, yeah. By the same token we could lose Trent Green, and Tony Gonzalez for the year and revert back to the offense of the 90's and score 10 points per game and be screwed. Thats the chance you take.

[Ultra Peanut]

Originally Posted by Wile_E_Coyote

KC Star Headline for tomorrow, Chiefs Hot to Trotter

I don't know which kind of rep I owe you for that one.

[KC Kings]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

I'm not sure how likely that is, since Carl and Vermeil are in different parts of the country.

Wonder how the announcement would go if it did happen today? Thum do it, maybe, or Vermeil?

Thum does quite a bit of this, so it wouldn't be surprising at all.

The same topic came up last year. People were questioning Carl and Dick because Thum seemed to be the man in charge of talking to potential Chiefs.

[KC Kings]

Originally Posted by Ghostof

If he does sign and we get Trotter, how much of an impact is he going to have? I just dont see how we are going to bounce back to the defense of the 90's by putting all the weight on one or two players during the offseason. What happens if these same players that we sign get hurt at the beginning of the season and are out for the year....then we'll be no better off then what we were last year.

What would you suggest that we do? We can't replace the entire defense, so we have 2 options. Do nothing (didn't work last season), and sign some new players. Is Trotter signing worth orgasmic excitement? Not at all, but it is a hell of a lot better than going with what we have.

[KCTitus]

KC could have had him last year for the vet minimum...typical Carl, he's going to overpay.

[keg in kc]

I'm okay as long as we don't trade for Surtain. Guys like him are available for free every year.

[KCTitus]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

I'm okay as long as we don't trade for Surtain. Guys like him are available for free every year.

*chuckle* Sorry, I had a Packfan flashback...

[keg in kc]

This offseason is a perfect example of why the Chiefs haven't won a playoff game in eight years. Err, twelve years.

[KCTitus]

Seriously though...if Trotter plays like he did last year and not like he did the year before at Wash, this would anchor the defense. I believe it starts at MLB.

[DaWolf]

This could end up mirroring the offseason two years ago when we signed Barber out of the gate and signed McCleon not too much after, IIRC. Here we wanna get one of the LB's of our choice in the fold and then probably go hard after one of the corners of our choice.

It's also nice that we're letting Gun define his types of players and going hard after them, because Gun's scheme doesn't work unless he has his type of players. What Gun was doing last year just didn't even come close to fitting what our personnel could do. And it flies in the face of all those conspiracy people out there saying Gun has very little input into how to shape this defense...