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View Poll Results: With the No. 1 pick in the 1989 Draft, who do you think the Chiefs should take? | |||
Troy Aikman | 30 | 37.97% | |
Tony Mandarich | 4 | 5.06% | |
Barry Sanders | 12 | 15.19% | |
Derrick Thomas | 31 | 39.24% | |
Deion Sanders | 2 | 2.53% | |
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01-14-2013, 07:22 PM | #46 |
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01-14-2013, 07:26 PM | #47 |
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Uhhh Barry Sanders, but I'm biased because he's my fav player of all time.
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01-14-2013, 08:00 PM | #48 | |
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david klingler was taken from the run-n-shoot offense, which was crazier than the spread of its day. college scouting, especially of QBs, was MUCH less advanced. reading defenses wasn't as important. gaudy stats actually turned heads then as long as you had good size. hell, the hindsight choice isn't obvious either. a ****ing fullback went in the top ten? (touchdown tommy vardell) |
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01-14-2013, 08:02 PM | #49 |
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Okoye was overrated, so was Aikman. If you'd have given Sanders to Marty, he'd have spent a decade raping faces worse than Charles ever has. Meanwhile Marty would've turned Aikman into a dink and dunker. People forget how innovative Jimmy Johnson was. Aikman in virtually any other organization would've been forgettable, IMO. Whereas Sanders was in the absolute worst possible situation for him and still kicked ass. The 90s Chiefs with Marty and Sanders would've won a couple of titles. It was an era where you could win with a running game and a defense if you actually had an elite running game. We had the corpse of Allen and overrated video-game creations like Okoye.
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Troy Aikman went to UCLA. I'm a bit shocked that carl peterson didn't trade up for him, he had a boner for UCLA guys |
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01-14-2013, 08:09 PM | #53 |
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Barry Sanders and Okoye in the same backfield would have been pretty interesting, especially with the OL we had back in the 90's.
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(However, without the benefit of hindsight I'd still take Aikman in the #1 spot.)
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01-14-2013, 08:21 PM | #55 |
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I must say that I'm absolutely shocked that more people didn't respond, "DT all day, every day". I'd have taken Barry Sanders, too, under the parameters given but with the hindsight that's not actually allowed in this question I still wonder if the '90s defense becomes anything like it did without Thomas.
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And I'm sorry, Aikman wouldn't have done dick under Joe Pendry. |
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01-14-2013, 08:29 PM | #59 |
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Jimmy Johnson so believed in Troy Aikman that he used his 1990 first round pick on QB Steve Walsh.
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I'm just a sentimental old ****, I guess. I'm still picking DT. So much poundage of Elway.
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