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Originally Posted by O.city
Someone brought this up on twitter, made a lot of sense to me. Here in KC, we haven't ever drafted really well, we as fans focus a lot of the problem being based on scouting etc.
However, very few guys come into the league and dominate from day 1, or even consistently play well. Seems we should be more focused on development of said players.
Which brings me to my point, I don't think we've ever had the right setup for sustained success in acquisition and development of players.
Marty's staff were good/great developers, Carl wasn't very good in the draft. Same wth vermeil.
I don't know what was going on with pioli, likely neither.
We can hope this front office and coaching staff can successfully match up. I think te coaching staff has proven to be able to develop players, don't know about the acquisition part yet.
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Thought this was a great comment:
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REID: “Listen, I’m not a huge free agency guy. I don’t think you build a team that way. I think you build it through a draft. There are so many elements that go into a player actually fitting into your program and being successful, that if you get them right when they’re peaking in that system and then you disrupt that and move them on to another system, that can be tough. So, the percentage has dropped, the success rate has dropped. I think you spot a guy here or there. Then you have the other element that it has the chance to disrupt your locker room. This guy has been with me for ten years and is making X amount and then all of the sudden you bring in a free agent who might be as good, but maybe not as good, and you’re paying him way up here and all of the sudden you have this whiff that goes on in the locker room. I think you have to be real, real careful on who you bring in and how you do it.”
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It adds some really interesting color to what the Chiefs did last year. Maybe last year's big push had a lot to do with Reid wanting to get his locker room right. After all, the entire locker room was new to him, so maybe he wanted to make sure he had a lot more of his guys in there. It would explain why he got rid of Eric Winston and Cassel really, really quickly.
So it goes back to your post, which was great by the way. We know Andy can develop talent. We know this approach works, because it worked in Green Bay and Seattle. Some of us, myself included, are worried about Andy making the right coaching decisions to win us big game. Many of us justifiably worry that Dorsey's lukewarm first offseason is a sign of things to come. But I think what's becoming extremely obvious is that this offseason says a lot more about how Reid and Dorsey want to do things than last season.