Great post, stick around for a while!

Not at all. To use it as one example of many shows the point. Leaf is an easy example because he was recent, but I've given many examples from different teams. Furthermore, even San Diego's recovery took time and luck:

1-15
5-11
8-8
4-12
12-4
9-7

Even with the good fortune of getting Brees (IN ROUND 2), and then Rivers (+ picks), it took the Chargers 5 years to put it together.

I'm not sure why you're saying "exactly", but whatever works for you.

FWIW,

Since we took Blackledge, the following teams have not spent a first rounder on a QB:

New Orleans
St. Louis
Kansas City.

That's it.

Most of our fan base still doesn't understand the positional value of a LB being taken with a top 3 pick is like being raped in the ass with a steel pipe, but they will just gladly bend over and take it happily.

Except for the fact that his brother was only an adviser and he has a real sports agent, but don't let your lack of knowledge of the facts skew you from making a dumbass statement.

See, this is just another red herring. How many playoffs wins has Ryan Leaf guided the Chargers to? Few people dispute that the QB position is the most important position on a football team. That doesn't mean any particular QB is a good or bad pick at any point on a draft board.

I forgot about all the success we've had the last 40 ****ing years. Thanks.

Should I be nice to a guy who's trying to say Matt Ryan has a huge arm...I don't think so.

Actually I think you have that backwards, and the real agent is just advising and his brother is his agent, but I could be wrong.

And here you go again with your stupidity. I said it was a valid question. I never claimed that the responses on either side were right or wrong.

But being a complete idiot and jumping on innocuous statements made by others seems to be what you do best.

It took them 5 years to put it together. It's taken us SIXTEEN (if you want to count the Joe Montana AFC Championship game). Good lord man!

And I said "exactly" because you know deep down that the Ryan Sims debacle HAS EVERY BIT the impact on Chiefs fans as Ryan Leaf, if not more so. Ryan Sims was considered to be the "safest" DT in that draft - Haynesworth had character issues, Wendell Bryant was a pothead, and John Henderson had back problems. Ryan Sims is EXACTLY the kind of player that people are clamoring for when they say they want Curry - SAFE. Well, guess what? Even the "safe" picks aren't safe.

The Chiefs didn't draft Ryan Leaf. Furthmore, Ryan Leaf isn't eligible for this draft. What happened in 1998 has pretty much zero bearing on the present, unless you're willing to admit that Mecca and Hamas are right and you're just scared of a Ryan Leaf-like scenario.

Live a little. We got Pioli! We got a young coach that was just in the Super Bowl. This is the best Chiefs offseason EVER! There's no better time than now to take a flyer on a QB. If he busts, so be it. I've been a fan for thirty years - it's time to take some risks.

Holy hell, good to see you post again!

Talk about red herrings...

I'm not sure how to even respond. That just didn't make much sense, sorry.

I'd rather have to draft 2 QB's in a 5 year span to get it right than be so afraid of one that I never took one in 20 years.

If I personally picked Sanchez it would be out of desperation. Not because I thougt he was the best player. Is that the way to build a winner?

I'm in my mid 40's and have been a Chiefs fan for all of those senarios you guys speak of. But a knee jerk reaction is not the answer either. I've also seen how that works out.

I realize you think the guy will get it done in the long run. I don't. That's the difference.

You want to keep throwing up the history of the Chiefs in my face as a valid arguement of what not to do. However, you skate the same way of evaluating the player you want. If you look at history, Sanchez will bust.

Does that make it 100% absolute that it will happen? No. But there is no QB that has ever been taken that has succeeded under these circumstances.

Not drafting a player like that doesn't make you scared, it makes you dilligent.