Wouldn't that have been awesome?

Bottom line with cutting Flowers, the Chiefs got worse, period.

That's debatable.

I remember the good old days when Pioli had us $30 mill under the cap so we could sign some of the worst busts out there.

And the cornerbacks ahhhh Stanford Routt, Dunta Robinson, yep couldn't have used any of that money to extend Flowers and make his cap hit manageable. No sir.

Nope.

Why? The Chiefs could easily get someone to do what Flowers did last season. Be as good as Flowers in his prime? Probably not, but Flowers isn't in his prime anymore and doesn't fit in this defense. Team is no worse without him than they were last year.
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Pioli is the one who extended Flowers. And his cap hit would be manageable if he was still good.
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Until Parker, whose only real contributions were as a blitzer, or Owens, who was a jag on a bad defense, or Gaines steps up and replaces him, then this defense is worse without him.

That fact was illustrated in the playoff game.

Eh not really. Flowers played very well in the playoff game. But compared to the rest of the season, the good play was a fluke. Overall he was pretty terrible last year.
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Flowers struggles last year due to a balky knee, which should be fully healed and ready for this season.

He will, I'm sure, battle some other injury, but unless it's a knee or a leg injury, which affects his quickness, the strength of his game, then he should be much the same player he was 2 years ago.

Until, and unless, one of those guys steps up, this team is worse without him.

yea but you're putting all your eggs in a basket on an unknown rookie in Gaines, 1 year sample of Marcus Cooper, and Sean Smith who just got a DUI so he's going to be suspended at some point.

This is no different than what they did with the o-line. Tons of inexperience and unknowns. Where between what will be our three CBs playing the most snaps, they have a total of 6 years NFL experience. That's playing with fire.

The team is clearly counting on Ron Parker and Marcus Cooper as legit starters. They're great young depth guys with some real promising talents, but I'm nervous as **** entering the season with those two if Smith gets suspended.

If Flowers getting cut gives us the money to handle all of our extensions to players, then I guess we have to roll the dice a bit and make it happen. But I think this happened one year too early. I don't like it.

They aren't putting eggs in any basket. This baskets not going to market until Dorsey and Reid have the eggs they want worth the price they want. This teams in transformation mode. Get over it.

This team is in 100% dumping $$$ mode.

It's not improving talent.

It's not in a "win now" mode.

It's finding the most expensive players and replacing them.

And Dorsey is doing a VERY piss poor job...

Yeah, just be patient and we'll have a real contender here in 2016. Or 2018. Or 2020.

It's a process.