Rick Burkholder probably said he is good to go, like he did fisher this year, Justin Houston in the playoffs when he retore his acl, Eric Berry, or any other guy who has had an injury with us that we haven't taken seriously.

Ya Ballard is the guy we missed on big time. He has brought in legit ****ing talent and they still have a massive amount of cap space because he doesn't let it burn a hole in his pocket.

Yeah I think Ballard is the guy that should've been our GM.

He 100% should've been and all logic would say that's what they were grooming him for but he was never going to be a yes man so there you go....

Yupp. Sure hope sending Ballard to Indy and keeping veach isn’t our modern day version of keeping Grbac over rich gannon

Look at the big ass brace in that picture above. AND he ran off the field in pain, clutching it on one occasion.

It’s definitely still an issue.

And as I've mentioned before; the issue with his D picks was mostly one of priority. It was that he simply didn't put a lot of capital at the defense, not that he often swung and missed.

He had one true 'miss' in the 1st or 2nd round (K-Pass) on defensive players. And a couple rough 3rd rounders (Russell and to a lesser extent Gaines, but injury ruined that pick more than potential).

He has Ford, Jones, Peters and Nelson (who yes, was a very good pick) on his ledger. In 5 years running the show he missed on a single 2nd round defensive player and a 3rd rounder, with something of an INC for Gaines, who looked good until he got injured and somehow is still in the NFL (so how bad could that pick really be?).

Dorsey was revered 'round these parts until he got fired, then all of the sudden people forgot about how instrumental he was in building this team. If Veach does HALF of what Dorsey did, we'd win multiple championships. I suspect he won't.

At this point, if Veach went the Pioli route and only drafted college team captains with high floors at every position, we'd be in okay shape.

That's not how you build a real championship contender for most teams, but if you're the Chiefs with a QB like Mahomes, having a defense of nothing but those kind of guys with a lucky hit or two here and there might just be enough.

If Dorsey was still here our defense would still be trash.

Why did our defense start getting bad? Bc Poe left, bc DJ started having major injuries, bc Tamba had run his course and his body was finished, bc Houston got injured.

Dorsey does not get credit for Marcus Peters being such a tool bag that even Andy couldn’t deal with him anymore.

He chose to pass on Bradley Chubb, who had 12 sacks as a rookie, for a corner who has done dick. He passed on Chubb bc he had Ogbah. But wait! Ogbah got traded for Eric Murray. Veach flat out raped Dorsey on that.

Now compare this to what Ballard has done and it’s night and day from what Veach and Dorsey have done combined.

And yes I truly believe that Ballard played a huge part in our success before he left.

The Playground Spazzout. Spin and flail your arms in all directions as you otherwise nestle softly into the tackles arms.

The Hysterical Woman. Pound your fists against the tackle's chest as you slowly lose consciousness and slump to the ground.

To be fair - Clark seems to be trying a lot harder than Haynesworth did. However in some ways that makes it worse. There's no hope right now.

If he goes after him Watson just makes a move and runs by. Clark knew he was hosed either way and just hoping for help to arrive. Which it didn't because it never does with our D.

I don't know why you keep ****ing this 'Bradley Chubb' chicken.

Corner is the hardest commodity on the market to get right now. Instead of taking a DE (when he has Garrett), Dorsey went and snagged a CB who made the pro bowl as a rookie.

You ALWAYS ignore that. You always say he took some skinny corner without saying "who had one of the better seasons by a rookie CB in recent memory". Instead you flat out ****ing lie and say he's 'done dick'.

And I know it's intentional because I've pointed this out to you on several occasions yet you just keep acting like Ward was a scrub. He wasn't - dude was an elite CB last season and I suspect many, if not most, GMs would rather have him than Chubb.

As for the rest, you're just picking and choosing to fit your narrative. You're giving Ballard credit for any good defensive pick we make and blaming Dorsey for any bad one. Based on what, I do not know. Then again, you don't either so I guess we're even. 'K-Pass was clearly a Dorsey pick as was Peters, but you know Jones and Nelson were Ballard picks...."

Sure we do, sport. Sure we do.

Look - if Dorsey was a pile of wet garbage, we're in a LOT more trouble than I realized. Veach isn't half the GM Dorsey was.

Is it just me, or could Ragland cleaned up Watson before getting into the end zone?

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