I gave a C- for their first day. I was happy about the Chiefs' second day. But forget it.

Being an optimist doesn't always mean you're happy with what the team does. Being a pessimist doesn't always mean you're unhappy with what the team does.

Unlike you guys, I understand I literally have nothing to gain from being right, and nothing to gain from being wrong. I've been dead wrong on this Draft so far, but I do what you do. I put in my time reading and watching, I wager my best guesses, I try to stay consistent and organic with my preferences, and then hope the Chiefs are right.

I do it more openly than most (one year I had a running total of the top five players available throughout the entire mock), so I'm a lightning rod for the laziest kind of criticism. To mock me for that is ridiculous.

Damn ****ing straight.

If that's wrong, then as the expression goes, I don't want to be right.

I'm not giving anybody Special Olympics ribbons. For a guy who's claiming to be mischaracterized, you'd doing a truckload of it yourself.

Talk to the guys I debated with ALL OFFSEASON about how consistent that first day Draft grade was. Mecca, OTW, milkman -- we had tons of debates over it.

I really liked the Dorsey pick, but I would have preferred Sedrick Ellis. Which I said.

I really hated the Albert pick, because converting a guard to tackle, especially trading up for it, was such a risky proposition I wanted no part of it in a rebuilding year. Milkman and I went 100 rounds on it.

I was incredibly hesitant about the Flowers selection because of what I thought were character concerns. And I said so, Mecca criticized me for it.

My takes typically have always run counter to what a lot of people's, but I've worked for and earned a reputation for being as straightforward with my preferences as anybody here.

1) I don't claim to be mischaracterized
2) You can't bitch about people being pessimists who always gripe about stuff when on the occasions that the franchise does things they agree with, they praise it for it.
3) You can't categorize yourself as an optimist in a feeble and transparent attempt to martyr yourself and expect people to take you seriously.

FWIW, the height of irony is Dshun claiming that he's being mischaracterized when he's making the completely idiotic claim that people would rather the Chiefs do poorly and they be right then vice versa.

It's a piss poor derivative of the "you aren't working for X" claim. If you want WPI, where every move is celebrated, then ****ing go there. I was under the impression that the purpose of this forum was to state your opinion and back up those claims with evidence, and it hasn't exactly taken a spelunking expedition to find reasons for concern about this regime.

I spent an hour during the 2008 draft defending the selection of Jamaal Charles...yet I'm supposedly the most pessimistic "bad fan" around here.

There's a lot more foundation on this team from that lone draft than there is from any move Pioli has made so far, seems pretty easy to see why Pioli is heavily scrutinized for these moves he makes.

Unless of course you just want to praise everything and not look at anything with any kind of critical thinking.

I spent an hour during the 2008 draft defending the selection of Jamaal Charles...yet I'm supposedly the most pessimistic "bad fan" around here.

There's a lot more foundation on this team from that lone draft than there is from any move Pioli has made so far, seems pretty easy to see why Pioli is heavily scrutinized for these moves he makes.

Unless of course you just want to praise everything and not look at anything with any kind of critical thinking.

I can't wait until this year's draft rolls around and people start up the Pioli is executive of the decade call again.

After the abortion he had last year, no one should give him a pass on any pick this year. He better improve, or we're ****ed.

It's going to be just like it was last year....this mofo is going to get the longest grace period ever.