We're so spoiled, we're defending a Lombardi and have people getting bent out of shape about the roster two years out.

It's a good time to be a Chiefs fan. We should revel in that.

Sorry if Q, but I was listening to Time's Out this morning and Nate Taylor said the base salary for Smith was 4mm-ish with playing time incentives that bring it up to 9mm (similar to the way JJSS structured his contract last year).

He said he spoke with 3 people in the building on what role Smith would have:
Person 1: He's our LT and is better than OBJ
Person 2: He may be our LT
Person 3: There may be a competition at LT

I wonder if person 2 and 3 are really high on Morris? I find it hard to believe Niang is going to be in the mix.

Can never have enough solid lineman. Id Keep niang for depth

Biggest x-factor for me is how much did Smith's injuries last season hamper his play. Bucs o-line was decimated by injuries last season and Smith gutted it out. We'll find out quickly if Smith can bounce back or if they'll have to pivot and go with Niang or Morris and flip Taylor.

excellent fodder for the twatter

Idk how smith is athletic. He’s 338 and was touted as a power guy in his scouting reports

compared to OBJ he's willie ****ing roaf

Blows my mind seeing people get nervous that this guy will **** everything up. If his arm is healed he should be competent.

I don’t think people realize just how bad Orlando was last year. The Chiefs did not trust that man to be on an island at the end of the season until the SB. And I think they realized the field gave them that advantage.

Said it in another thread. Watch the Bengals championship game again. They had McKinnon/Pacheco chipping for him most of the time and if they didn’t, we had designed screens and other misdirections/rollouts away from Orlando to protect him.

They had training wheels on that guy bc they didn’t trust him

Watch him play. He can get out in space and pull. He's more athletic than Orlando Brown and Wylie.

He's not a dancing bear OT, but he's god solid movement skills.

Uhh, it's not just the arm. It's the fact that this will be a much more demanding assignment trying to accommodate Mahomes and his tendencies relative to what he did for Brady in TB. It's the self admitted mental issues affecting his play. It's the exorbitant amount of penalties he draws.


We can all hope for the best for this guy but I really don't see how we just pencil him in as the guy, especially this far out. There's plenty of reasons he was available for what is essentially a 1 year 4 million deal in an OT starved league. Even the Chiefs won't know what they actually have with this guy until we're almost ready to start firing live rounds.

The guy had Jamies Winston as his Qb for years before Tom LMAO

You think he doesn’t have tons of experience with a QB extending plays?

He was ****ing horrendous during those years as well. 54, 57, 42, and 49 are the pressures he gave up during that time span. Averaged 700 pass block snaps. By comparison, the apparently absolutely horrible Brown just allowed 47 pressures on 769 pass block snaps.

So yeah let's not be pointing to those years as any sort of indicator he'll be hunky dory here. The numbers say the opposite is true.

Just for comparisons sake, the numbers absolutely plummet once Brady arrives. The pass blocking snaps remain the same but his pressures plummet to 35, 30, and 31. Because Brady makes the job of his OL easy with the cerebral quick pass offense he typically runs.

You realize Reid said he watched his film and he wanted to bring him in, right? I mean that's more than enough for me to believe he can do the job, because I think Andy Reid has seen a football game or two in his lifetime.