Gosselin: Chiefs see promise in rookie class
 

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06:15 PM CDT on Saturday, August 21, 2010

Column by RICK GOSSELIN / The Dallas Morning News
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Agreed. We needed to build an OL and improve our DL in the worst way but I think this was an awesome draft. Our first 3 picks are ALL playmakers. If Moeki can be healthy that may just make 4.

It just baffles. This is a draft that really soured me as a Chiefs fan. I will spend much of the next year trying to get over this draft.

huh? It looks like we may have 4 or 5 guys who can contribute right away......Its hard to complain about that.

I like the players, I hate the picks.

1. Berry -- zero complaints.

2a. McCluster -- reach. This is virtually the equivalent of taking McCluster with a first round pick. This is an embarrassment. Instead, I would have taken Clausen to provide us with some eventual hope at the most important position.

2b. Arenas -- reach. We drafted an iffy corner and a great returner with a second rounder. I mean, holy shit, the value's just not there. We could have picked up any number of nose tackles (Cody), passrushers (Worilds), wide receivers (Williams)...

3a. Asamoah -- decent value, but at a position we don't need. Who drafts a guard in the third round and doesn't start them? Are we reeruned? Why wouldn't we draft a great receiver from USC (Williams)?

3b. Moeaki -- two more picks for a tight end? Ugh. Mardy Gilyard was still available. Daryl Sharpton was available. Bruce Campbell was available. I mean, Christ.

5a. Lewis -- reach. Ed Wang was still around. Cam Thomas was still around.

5b. Sheffield -- no major complaints here.

What we basically did was reach all over the place for team captains. That's what we did. Which is no better than reaching all over the place for linebackers, or offensive linemen, or wide receivers.

This is my draft, if I knew how things would play out (I know):

1. SS Eric Berry, Tennessee
2. QB Jimmy Clausen, Notre Dame
2. NT Terrance Cody, Alabama
3. WR Damian Williams, USC
3. WR Mardy Gilyard, Cincinnati
5. OT Ed Wang, Virginia Tech
5. OLB Cam Sheffield, Troy

We don't reach for playmakers. If they had the word "raw, project, upside, etc" which was well known under the Peterson regime, then you'd have a argument.

However, all of those guys have produced, given a small sample size (Berry, Dex, and Arenas) during the pre-season game, and I, for once, cannot recall the last time I have been exicted about several guys that could contribute to the team. Hell, even Kendrick Lewis, looked fantastic, and hopefully, will mean the end of the John McGraw era.

Your assessment is way off. The only assessment that I would agree is the TE from Iowa. Other than that, I totally disagree with all of your other assessments. You say drafting a guard that is position we don't need? Apparently, you haven't seen the offensive line play by the first stringers, which is nothing short of brutal, for the most part. And Brian Water's play have dramatically decreased, that it was time to find a replacement one way or another.

we could contend in the west .. that said our defense has to step up .. think we have some playmakers with this draft .. we'll see ....

the ****ing thing about clausen is... There's your dude if you are looking to win it all. You ****ing need a dude throwing the ball first. Every year we don't address the lead amigo.

I've been fine and a fan of this draft class all along....That said there is a long way to go and a lot to prove for all of these guys, but it is nice seeing flashes....unlike our number 3 overall from a year ago.

How do you know if any of these guys will ever amount to anything? You cant make an honest judgement of a draft until a year or two down the road.

God I hate preseason articles, well OF COURSE they see promise with them. If they didn't, they wouldn't have ****ing drafted them.

i almost sh^t myself when clausen fell to our 2a, and when cody fell to our 2b. Lol, oh well..

with the mccluster pick and having nothing at QB im not convinced that Pioli and Haley havent talked to Bill Parcels about how the league is shifting to a no-qb-wildcat-only scheme in the near future hahaha

I read a lot of crazy stuff here, and this has to be one of the strangest.

If you said that about last years draft I could say I understand.

I love this argument. No, it's not the equivalent of taking him with a first round pick. The equivalent of taking him with a first round pick would be taking him in the first 32.

You let me know what play makers we have on this team besides Charles and then you can make the argument that playmakers are reaches. When it's 3rd and 4, and we throw the ball to this guy in the flat and watch him juke 3 defenders to get 5 yards, then you will be happy he's there and not Lance Long.

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2b. Arenas

You can think he's an iffy corner, but I really like his game and what he can turn into at this level. You need a stud nickel in this league now with most teams having 3 solid wideouts. Plus, I think a ton of people undervalue field position around here.

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3a. Asamoah

It's the end of the world that we aren't starting a guard when he's decent value? Right.

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3b. Moeaki

Mardy Gilyard can't even beat out Danny Amendola. He's hurt. He has a questionable attitude. I'm not a fan of the Moeaki pick, but come up with some better examples.

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5a. Lewis

Ed Wang is really lighting up Buffalo's camp. Lewis is the likely starter week 1, so I fail to see how you can reach on someone and have them be your starter. Cam Thomas would have been nice, but he's such a ****ing horrible interview and a stupid person that he likely spelled his name wrong on the wonderlic test.

I actually think he liked last year's draft if I remember correctly.

Baffling.

This.

Big plays aren't as difficult when you're playing vanilla offenses and defenses either...

No kidding, a blind chimp throwing darts at the draft board could have done better than Pioli in 2009.

I'm pretty excited for this year's rookie class. We have a lot of players in positions that can make an immediate impact on the field. I'm just hoping either Berry, McCluster or hell, maybe even Lewis or Arenas can take the bull by the horns and make a name for themself early on in their career. I can't recall any rookie the Chiefs have added that has made a real impact in Year One.

The only two picks I feel a bit iffy about is Moeaki (obvious injury concerns) and Asamoah. The latter only for the sole reason that, admittedly, I don't know much about him or how he's progressed thus far since being picked.

Are fugg'in high? You must be to think our draft was bad.

Some people would rather have an accurate mock than actually see the Chiefs get players that appear to be promising.

THey have a renovated stadium and need to sell tickets
the average ticket buyer wants the WOW factor
I wonder how tickets sales in the DV era vs the Marty era compare

Much tougher to get a ticket in the Marty era.

LMAO

I can't even imagine who you might be talking about...LMAO