I disagree.

How about this: We actually wait to see the team, you know, play, on the field this year before deciding that every move the Chiefs made this year was wrong?

Not "every move" was wrong. But the overall philosophy has not changed in what feels like millenia and yet, some are expecting a different result?

Joe Montana did more the Chiefs franchise in his brief tenure than anyone in two decades. Their visibility was raised when Marty Schottenheimer took over but it's never been higher than it was in 1993.

If you consider the QB's available that year (Billie Joe Hobert, Trent Green in the 8th, etc. and so on) and the fact that Bledsoe and Mirer (Bust) went 1-2, I think it was most certainly worth the #25 overall pick, even with risk associated with Montana's back.

I was not in favor of the Trent Green trade. He was too old, coming off of major surgery and was unable to plant his foot properly and throw in 2001. I was a HUGE Drew Brees fan and wanted him at #12 overall. I even posted a thread (before polls) asking people if they wanted Duece McCallister and Trent Dilfer or Trent Green and Priest Holmes or Drew Brees and Priest Holmes (I was a huge fan of Priest as well, watching him rack up a 1,000 season in Baltimore two year prior).

The Green and Montana trades were not risk free. Montana was unable to play at the same level the following year of the trade and Trent Green, while leading the offense to the #1 overall spot for several years, was unable to lead the team to a playoff victory.

The Trent Green trade (and the subsequent draft choices given up for Vermeil) set this franchise back for a decade.

Oh, cmon.

Nobody is saying that. I actually liked a lot of the moves we made this year. Most of them were solid.

I hated seeing Dorsey walk to SF to play the 1 gap nose (the exact way I've said for YEARS he should have been used) when we could have used that. I don't like either of the corners we signed very much and would have liked to have seen us draft a quarterback to groom behind Alex Smith.

Other than that, I think we did a solid job of improving the roster.

Of course if Peterson had gotten his original target for quarterback ie #8 on the 49ers we might be having a totally different view of him and Marty.

SF wasn't ever gonna move Young.

Who knows? Maybe Alex is a late bloomer and we got a steal.

Wouldn't that be nice?

That would be one LATE blooming mother****er. He'll help win some regular season games, people will get excited, then the eventual shellacking in the postseason. This book has been written, adapted for screenplay, and shot on location several times already.

People are most definitely saying that, including the person I quoted and GoChiefs, among others.

Look, I'm not predicting that they're going to win a championship with this roster (although it would be nice!). But they've upgraded nearly every position nicely and added solid depth, which is something they've been lacking, in what seems like, forever.

Unlike Milkman, I'm positive that this coaching staff is the best we've seen seen Vermeil and it's likely to be the best since Marty's heyday. It won't take much to improve this defense and using an attacking scheme with the athletes on this roster should provide huge dividends.

This team had a 1,500 yard running back last year on a team that couldn't pass. The offensive line is a year older and the additions of Schwartz and Fisher should be serious upgrades (and if Stephenson or Allen beats out Schwartz, it's likely to help long term stability on the line).

The bottom line is that this team's roster has been upgraded and the coaching staff is a complete 180 in terms of past success. I believe in the old 10 year rule set by John Madden, so the only knock I have on Reid is that he stayed too long in Philly.

Rich Gannon
Steve Young
Trent Green

That's what we are hoping for. A guy that wasnt good until his late 20s...hopefully Alex continues to improve and gives us some fun years.

The plan of trading for a backup QB worked out well twice. Montana and Green were not failures.
Montana made us SB worthy. It was just bad luck that he got hurt. He was old though.

Trent was absolutely worth 2 1st round picks. Our offense was elite for a good 4 years with him. The reason the DV years were failures was because of King Carl and DV drafting horrible players most of the time.

Anyone remember the offseason when all we did was bring back Gunter and not sign any FA's to fix the defense? Enough said.

I know every single one of you would love it if Alex Smith turned out to be like Trent was in the early 2000's.

No

Do you mean the next Gunther in a negative or positive way?

Considering that 90% of what Milk posts these days is negative, I'd say negative.

In retrospect, Gunther was better than the last three coaches and IMO, by a wide margin.

Takes a chance on someone in the league, someone drafted high, or a free agent?

He was a disappointment but I still agree