I wholeheartedly agree!!! The fans of KC deserve an owner/GM like Snyder.

So let me get this straight. It's OK to not win the Superbowl if your fans are interested and your franchise is worth the most? We are halfway there. Chiefs fans are definitly interested.

Seriously, I think you're giving Snyder a pass you'd never give Carl.

Heard the same arguement when Vermiel started remaking the offense. It was a dumb arguement then and still is now.

Yep, that's always the one example. Or you can look at the Jets, who signed Barret, Barton, and Tongue and should've been in the AFC Championship game despite Hackett's ineptness.

Getting back to Snyder.....yeah, he's an ass, but he gives their fans hope by making an effort, no matter how misplaced it is. As opposed to Hunt, who's teams win as many playoff games as Snyder's, yet offer Chiefs' fans little hope.

I'll be rooting for the Redskins in 2005 to win it all, so Rufus and the rest of the apologists can shove it up their ass. With Ramsey at QB and Gibbs offensive scheme, and Williams directing their defense, they have as good a shot as anyone else in the NFC to make it. Actually, I hope they go trade for Randy Moss and then win the Super Bowl so the "win only by drafting well" crowd can all fug off.

I never said teams don't need or shouldn't use free agency. Dillon was aquired in a trade. Duce Staley was a free agent but didn't play most of the last half of the season and Terrell Owens was technically a trade too. The Eagles wouldn't have gotten Owens had he not thrown a fit when he was traded to Baltimore and they sure wouldn't be where they are now without him. We can say Kearse was a good signing now but what about next year if he gets hurt and misses most of the season which has been part of his history?

No no no, just pointing out that the guy, like CP, has envigorated the fan base and turned the franchise into a cash cow. No one can argue that CP isn't a damn fine President and CEO - he excels in that capacity.

Where the two differ is Snyder actively pursues improvement. He is not afraid to add free agents at ANY position. If they don't work out, so be it - they part ways. And you notice, all without wrecking their 'cap'.

So now it's OK to not win the Superbowl if the team offers hope and gives an effort?
I'd argue that the Chiefs did give an effort last offseason as well as the previous offseason. Whether or not that effort worked is the debatable point.

What if Kearse gets hurt next year? Who the fuck cares? They signed him to help them get to the Super Bowl, and they made it.

Another player JSP could've named is James Farrior (came in 2nd for NFL Defensive Player of the Year). Wow, you mean the Steelers actually signed an UFA? Oh, I thought they drafted all of their players. Jeff Hartings, their Pro Bowl center? Another UFA.

You're saying that Peterson doesn't actively pursue improvement? You can't be serious about that. You can't tell me, objectively, that Peterson doesn't try to improve the Chiefs.
The thing is, you don't agree with the way Peterson trys to improve the team. The only difference between Peterson and Snyder is that Peterson is a football guy and Snyder is a fan.

None of that sh*t matters. Rufus' point was "here are 3 teams that get it done without spending in FA". That's simply not true. Trading fits into the same category, it's just spending draft picks instead of money.

And if FA is so unneccessary to winning, why did the Superbowl champions go out and get a FA? Why did the team that made the NFC championship game 3 years straight go out and get two huge name guys?

I'm not arguing whether it's the proper method to build a team or not. I'm simply saying that Dawes gave examples that contradicted his theory, rather than support it.

FA is like the draft, sometimes it will work out and sometimes it won't. But how can we not try? We must upgrade our defense with some accomplished players. Will it make us SB champs? No. But it certainly will not hurt at all.

Yes, it will hurt. Hunt's pocketbook. And that's all that really counts.

Read the first sentence of my post again. I never said teams shouldn't use free agency and I never said teams aren't successful in free agency. That would be an idiotic arguement considering the best player on our team was a free agent.
I would care about Kearse if I was a member of the Eagles staff. If he gets hurt next season, they'll be wasting a lot of money on him. Yeah, they made it to the Superbowl this year but there will be other NFL seasons and they'll still have to manage their salary cap.

And "insight" is not blind homerism for everything Kingless and the Chiefs do....

Another issue with him .... why does he repeat Gretz's work. Some of us read or had to suffer through it when it was published on the Chiefs site. Can't he write something on his own.

Sounds to me that all the writers on the Chiefs sites are all quoting the "talking points" that Kingless puts out ... kinda like the guy does for FOX news channel. Except for Rand they all sound the same. Got to where I seldom read it.

The Planet is a much better read and more factual... Some of you guys have good insight!!!!

And that 'football guy' has done so much better than that 'fan'. :rolleyes:

Peterson makes token efforts.