Doesn't make any sense. We traded up in 2008 go get Albert BECAUSE of Andy Reid and the Eagles. If we didn't grab him, they would have.

Hey Dane, you seem different this year than in previous years of big Chiefs change. Is it because you respect the Reid/Dorsey braintrust more than previous regimes or is it because you independently like what they're doing or am I just imagining it all?

So, signing a 28 year old WR and a 25 year old CB (whom the media seemed to think was the best CB available) is trying to win-now? It is about winning, which is nice and refreshing, but that is hardly mortgaging the future. Those contracts were not exorbitant.

Signing a 30 year old punter (damn good one BTW) does not mean win-now either. Feagles retired at age 44.

Bowe is 28, and this is only his second contract. You don't think he has 5-8 more good years?

Other than trading draft picks to acquire Smith, nothing has been win-now, mortgage the future type moves. And if the FO doesn't like the QBs at the top of the draft, than Smith was the best QB available, so I find it hard to complain too much.

@OmarKelly: When asked directly about OT Branden Albert, who signed his franchise tag today and can be trades, Jeff Ireland neither confirmed or denied.

wait... don't you understand? unless you draft a QB 1.1 and have a roster composed of homegrown players all under the age 25... you have no shot of winning a championship. none. you might as well not even field a team, seriously.

Sounds like confirmation to me! A wink is as good as a nod to a blind man....

Dumping Albert and replacing him with 1.1 would be dumber than anything Scott Pioli did in 4 years.

I'ld rather go winless the next couple seasons, in order to secure top draft picks in each round in order to secure that under age 25 team, which is (obviously) destined to win the Super Bowl. Don't win now.. win LAAHHTER!

I wonder why more teams don't have this sure-fire recipe for success down?

Once again you have no idea how Reid and Dorsey feel about Albert. They didn't draft him and not married to him.

Cable makes me madder than...

Hyperbole much?

I wouldn't go that far but it would be using our best pick in team history to tread water.

I hate the idea of creating a hole you don't have to and then using a high pick to fill it.

No, I don't believe so.

Pioli never had a pick that high, and never got nothing out of it.

You are missing the point entirely, besides the fact that with the new CBA, no team is going to mortgage their future on any position other than a QB.

Scott Pioli hired Romeo Crennel and kept Matt Cassel around with nothing behind him for four years while apparently forcing his coaches to keep playing him. I think the Chiefs could dump their entire offensive line and use their first five picks on offensive linemen and they wouldn't match Pioli's feats.