Put Dorsey's Head On The Chopping Block

[Direckshun]

It is very, very early in John Dorsey's tenure here, but unless the talent he's acquired magically turns it around by midpoint of the season, I believe we should be shopping for a new GM by the end of the season.

Now, this is a big deal (I would like to think), coming from me. I was among the last defenders on this site of Scott Pioli, and I still think his drafting record here was strong. I believe in the process, in giving GMs extreme leeway and time in shuffling the roster and building a team full of the kind of guys we want.

But Dorsey came in with a plum opportunity. He had the core of a team already built for him (minus the one critical position), the #1 pick in the draft, and a ridiculous amount of free agency cap room to spend, spend, spend.

With these incredible gifts given to him, gifts that any new GM would kill for (rather than the shit sandwich a new GM would get in 2015...), Dorsey took the absolute worst path.

He sacrificed the future of the franchise for a quick playoff run, completely overpaying in offseason talent, hamstringing our budget for 2014 and 2015 so that we let a full quarter of our team's starters walk, including two Pro Bowlers, with zero ability to replace any of the departing talent effectively (with the sole exception of replacing Kendrick Lewis with Husain Abdullah, but even that was a Plan B after Mr. Glass Commings is out for another year).

We were unable to retain Brandon Albert, Brandon Flowers, Ryan Succop, Tyson Jackson, Dexter McCulster, Jon Asamoah and Geoff Schwartz because we had to have Mike DeVito, Chase Daniel, Dunta Robinson, Sean Smith, Donnie Avery, and Anthony Fasano. That is a complete loss on every level, and again, it happened because Dorsey acted like a teenager after receiving his first paycheck rather than the patient, methodical personnel guru he was alleged to be.

The Alex Smith trade was defensible on its own terms, I believe. (We overpayed with the two 2nds, but we overpayed for Bowe and Colquitt, and both of those were defensible as well, as the team was seriously ****ed without the player in question.) But coupled with the Chase Daniel acquisition and this team's continued chickenshit behavior regarding the QB position in the draft, and it once again showed a complete lack of understanding of what it takes to win in a league being skewed further and further away from the Alex Smiths and Matt Cassels of the world. In a league that's continually changing, Dorsey, Reid and Alex Smith are keeping the team stagnant.

Well, less than stagnant, really. The biggest crime of the young John Dorsey era has been the drafting, which has been horrific. It's every bit as obsessed with 40 times and measurables and ignorant of on field performance as the Al Davis regime used to be. We burned the #1 overall pick on a likely bust at tackle. We burned our first this year on a passrusher that isn't helping us win. We burned our third this year on a corner that was worse than Vince Agnew this preseason. And none of our low-round picks are working out, up to and including our UDFAs, where GMs need to distinguish themselves. It's insane to think that Scott Pioli had a better record with UDFAs, which is saying something considering that Pioli only hit on one his entire time here.

I do a ton of mock drafts throughout the year, most of them terrible, but all of them viscerally enjoyable for me to postulate. It's lost a lot of its luster this year, even as we are entering a year with 11 draft picks, because projecting the projects and boom/likely-bust players that Dorsey falls in love with makes the exercise depressing. We end up with a super-young team full of talent that can't see the field, and likely rarely ever will.

I'm willing to change my tune, as I always am, if some of this plan looks to be solid for the future, and not just for the present, by the middle of the season. But it would have to be a dramatic shift for me to feel that way.

That said, we can still end up in a good position here. The Alex Smith contract, which ironically is the best contract Dorsey has signed here, makes Smith expendable if a new GM is brought in at the end of the year. If Andy Reid still wants Alex Smith after a 4-12 season, fire him too. If Andy Reid can't get along with the new GM, fire him. If Andy Reid can't call a winning gameplan in 2015, fire him.

This front office refused to utilize their patience when constructing this roster. In the process, they've lost mine.

[jd1020]

Originally Posted by milkman

When you are a team that has a ton of holes on your roster, drafting the BPA and for need aren't separate philosophies.

The 2013 draft was a shallow draft, so the top of the board should have been filled with a lot of names that could be viewed as BPA.

The Chiefs could have taken Sheldon Richardson to fill a need, and that could easily have been justified as BPA.

The same could be said for Dee Millner.

They instead chose to fill a future need, rather than address an immediate need.

In the 2014 draft, the Chiefs could have gone with Darquise Dennard, Jason Verret, Kelvin Benjamin, Jimmy Ward, Xavier Su'a Filo, hell 4 or 5 others that were taken in the next 10 picks, and easily could be seen as BPA, all of whom could have filled a huge gaping hole.

They chose instead to fil a future need.

At least our future is looking bright!

[Dinny Bossa Nova]

Originally Posted by Direckshun

It is very, very early in John Dorsey's tenure here, but unless the talent he's acquired magically turns it around by midpoint of the season, I believe we should be shopping for a new GM by the end of the season.

Now, this is a big deal (I would like to think), coming from me. I was among the last defenders on this site of Scott Pioli, and I still think his drafting record here was strong. I believe in the process, in giving GMs extreme leeway and time in shuffling the roster and building a team full of the kind of guys we want.

But Dorsey came in with a plum opportunity. He had the core of a team already built for him (minus the one critical position), the #1 pick in the draft, and a ridiculous amount of free agency cap room to spend, spend, spend.

With these incredible gifts given to him, gifts that any new GM would kill for (rather than the shit sandwich a new GM would get in 2015...), Dorsey took the absolute worst path.

He sacrificed the future of the franchise for a quick playoff run, completely overpaying in offseason talent, hamstringing our budget for 2014 and 2015 so that we let a full quarter of our team's starters walk, including two Pro Bowlers, with zero ability to replace any of the departing talent effectively (with the sole exception of replacing Kendrick Lewis with Husain Abdullah, but even that was a Plan B after Mr. Glass Commings is out for another year).

We were unable to retain Brandon Albert, Brandon Flowers, Ryan Succop, Tyson Jackson, Dexter McCulster, Jon Asamoah and Geoff Schwartz because we had to have Mike DeVito, Chase Daniel, Dunta Robinson, Sean Smith, Donnie Avery, and Anthony Fasano. That is a complete loss on every level, and again, it happened because Dorsey acted like a teenager after receiving his first paycheck rather than the patient, methodical personnel guru he was alleged to be.

The Alex Smith trade was defensible on its own terms, I believe. (We overpayed with the two 2nds, but we overpayed for Bowe and Colquitt, and both of those were defensible as well, as the team was seriously ****ed without the player in question.) But coupled with the Chase Daniel acquisition and this team's continued chickenshit behavior regarding the QB position in the draft, and it once again showed a complete lack of understanding of what it takes to win in a league being skewed further and further away from the Alex Smiths and Matt Cassels of the world. In a league that's continually changing, Dorsey, Reid and Alex Smith are keeping the team stagnant.

Well, less than stagnant, really. The biggest crime of the young John Dorsey era has been the drafting, which has been horrific. It's every bit as obsessed with 40 times and measurables and ignorant of on field performance as the Al Davis regime used to be. We burned the #1 overall pick on a likely bust at tackle. We burned our first this year on a passrusher that isn't helping us win. We burned our third this year on a corner that was worse than Vince Agnew this preseason. And none of our low-round picks are working out, up to and including our UDFAs, where GMs need to distinguish themselves. It's insane to think that Scott Pioli had a better record with UDFAs, which is saying something considering that Pioli only hit on one his entire time here.

I do a ton of mock drafts throughout the year, most of them terrible, but all of them viscerally enjoyable for me to postulate. It's lost a lot of its luster this year, even as we are entering a year with 11 draft picks, because projecting the projects and boom/likely-bust players that Dorsey falls in love with makes the exercise depressing. We end up with a super-young team full of talent that can't see the field, and likely rarely ever will.

I'm willing to change my tune, as I always am, if some of this plan looks to be solid for the future, and not just for the present, by the middle of the season. But it would have to be a dramatic shift for me to feel that way.

That said, we can still end up in a good position here. The Alex Smith contract, which ironically is the best contract Dorsey has signed here, makes Smith expendable if a new GM is brought in at the end of the year. If Andy Reid still wants Alex Smith after a 4-12 season, fire him too. If Andy Reid can't get along with the new GM, fire him. If Andy Reid can't call a winning gameplan in 2015, fire him.

This front office refused to utilize their patience when constructing this roster. In the process, they've lost mine.

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[Dinny Bossa Nova]

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[Dinny Bossa Nova]

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[Dinny Bossa Nova]

BURN HIM!!!!!!

[Chiefs Pantalones]

One "solid" starter out of Dorsey's two drafts so far. Granted it's early, but Dorsey is not off to a good start. If you're gonna build through the draft you gotta have more hits than misses.

[ILChief]

Originally Posted by Chiefs Pantalones

One "solid" starter out of Dorsey's two drafts so far. Granted it's early, but Dorsey is not off to a good start. If you're gonna build through the draft you gotta have more hits than misses.

His second draft has played one game

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

He whistles through his teeth.

Annoying.

[Chiefs Pantalones]

Originally Posted by ILChief

His second draft has played one game

Hence the "granted it's early" part in there.

I hope everything works out but given our choice at QB, this regime isn't lasting beyond four years. I hope I'm wrong.

[The Franchise]

Alex Smith (QB)-Kansas City Chiefs

Contract Value: $68 million/4 years ($17 million per year average)
Contract Guarantees: $45 million
Fully Guaranteed At Signing: $30 million
3-Year Cash Flow: $45.2 million
Earliest Realistic Exit Point: 2017
Smith signing a contract with a much more player friendly structure than Dalton or Kaepernick isn't a surprise. The five-year, $56 million deal the Chiefs gave Dwayne Bowe in 2012 contains $20 million fully guaranteed at signing. Smith is virtually assured of being in Kansas City until 2017 because $11 million of his $11.9 million 2015 base salary is fully guaranteed at signing and his $14.1 million 2016 base salary becomes fully guaranteed on the third day of the 2015 league year.

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

Originally Posted by Pestilence

Alex Smith (QB)-Kansas City Chiefs

Contract Value: $68 million/4 years ($17 million per year average)
Contract Guarantees: $45 million
Fully Guaranteed At Signing: $30 million
3-Year Cash Flow: $45.2 million
Earliest Realistic Exit Point: 2017
Smith signing a contract with a much more player friendly structure than Dalton or Kaepernick isn't a surprise. The five-year, $56 million deal the Chiefs gave Dwayne Bowe in 2012 contains $20 million fully guaranteed at signing. Smith is virtually assured of being in Kansas City until 2017 because $11 million of his $11.9 million 2015 base salary is fully guaranteed at signing and his $14.1 million 2016 base salary becomes fully guaranteed on the third day of the 2015 league year.

[Sandy Vagina]

Originally Posted by 505 Chief

I like when you suffer.

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

Originally Posted by Sandy Cheeks

I like when you suffer.

Oh, I'm not the one doing the suffering. I haven't spent a dime on KC since 2010.

[Frosty]

Originally Posted by Pestilence

Alex Smith (QB)-Kansas City Chiefs

Contract Value: $68 million/4 years ($17 million per year average)
Contract Guarantees: $45 million
Fully Guaranteed At Signing: $30 million
3-Year Cash Flow: $45.2 million
Earliest Realistic Exit Point: 2017
Smith signing a contract with a much more player friendly structure than Dalton or Kaepernick isn't a surprise. The five-year, $56 million deal the Chiefs gave Dwayne Bowe in 2012 contains $20 million fully guaranteed at signing. Smith is virtually assured of being in Kansas City until 2017 because $11 million of his $11.9 million 2015 base salary is fully guaranteed at signing and his $14.1 million 2016 base salary becomes fully guaranteed on the third day of the 2015 league year.

Where is this from? Everything else I've seen says the 2015 and 2016 salaries aren't guaranteed unless Smith is on the roster March 3, 2015, not "at signing". While that's a virtual certainty, it isn't guaranteed.

[RealSNR]

The Seahawks and 49ers aren't beyond using their 1st round draft picks as immediate starters.

Why does Dorsey think he is with a squad 10x shittier than either of those two?