The Chiefs (and their dumbass defenders on this message board) attempt to portray their cheap, ultra-conservative approach in a free agency doesn't add up when you look at the numbers... 10 combined wins the past 3 years, a below .500 record since 2000, no playoff wins since 1994, etc.

You can't suggest something is a successful strategy when it produces those results.

since the Chiefs being a losing, cheap ass franchise, is only a "perception" of ignorant, poor, fans they should sell the following t-shirt:


front of shirt:

THE CHIEFS SUCK
[insert large smiling photo of Clark]


back of shirt:

BUT ONLY IN YOUR MIND




It would be their biggest selling item, i bet

No, but the Chiefs SHOULD have done more via FA over the past few seasons (especially on the OL) instead of signing the retreads we did. Now is where the always popular responses of "Name them" or your "How do you know the Chiefs didn't try?" come in. I've already answered # 2, and # 1 has been answered and discussed at great length over the years. My point that IMO, the Chiefs have not been as aggressive as they should have been via FA the past few seasons, regardless of the state of teh team.

ROFL Post of the year thus far!

What? It's only a perception problem. Ask the ballwashers who wrote this article

Exactly. If they don't want Teir 1 guys, than an occasional Teir 2 type would be nice instead of the Teir Has-Been types...

Oh I thought you were talking about just this season. But yeah, this team has been ****ing up the previous seasons in FA.
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You can even take it one further. Any salary that used to be paid to the players has been eliminated from the payroll. Like Tony G, Jared Allen and the like. Even LJ, which was understandable considering the circumstances. But TG? I mean we had infinate salary cap room but gave him up for a pick the next year. Anything that we gained by letting him lose a year early, I would have glady given up instead of going through what we went through on offense last year. Especially from a recieving standpoint. We may never regain confidense after that on offense. JMO

Good article.

Good article!

There are two factors that many people on this board and elsewhere don't take in account when it comes to the FA market. It isn't about dishing out the money... it is about IF so and so players WANTS to come to KC and if their is compensation involved?

We can throw all the money in the world at players, but some guys will refuse to play in KC. Take for example we have a offer on the table for Ryan Clark (Safety out of Pittsburgh), but the Chiefs are one of the teams he doesn't want to play for it seems.

Then you have the compensation problem. Sounds like the Chiefs went hard after Bolden, but there is one problem. The Ravens overpaid for Bolden out of desperation for him to be the missing piece for a Super Bowl. They were willing to give up two draft picks. The Chiefs were willing to give up only one pick. I know, I know here comes the calls of being cheap. The issue is the Chiefs want to build through the Draft. By giving up a 3rd and a 4th rounder for Bolden is a killer come Draft time. We would be willing to part with a 3rd (the round we are very likely to take a WR anyways) and spend whatever the money needed for Bolden.

There are many reasons why Pioli and company don't sign so and so. Sadly there are just so many on here and everywhere else in Chiefs Nation that want the Chiefs to overspend without looking at the big picture. Again not every FA WANTS to come to KC either.

I think everyone here understands that Mojo. That isn't the entire problem either. It is a mix of factors.

No I don't think most people do know. They complain about the littlest things when it comes to the Chiefs money. Most people think they know everything and would do a better job then majority of the Front Offices in the NFL. We have to many damn Daniel Snyder's on this board. To spend money to just make the natives happy is freaking STUPID!

While you are very correct in most ways, if people buy a bunch of merchandise and tickets, they are entitled to something. Look at all the people who are wavering over their season tickets on this board alone given the economy, etc. Only one team can win the Superbowl every year, but to have some hope and entertainment out of it would be nice also.

No, because he's miserable, ****ing, turd in the punchbowl bastard who can't figure out what the **** he really believes.

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Sorry for the confusion. I was talking about prior seasons as well. I also don't
want or expect the Chiefs to go on a FA spending spree to "make up" for wasted years. I just want them to add some quality FA's rather than what we have been used to lately.