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Originally Posted by mcaj22
What reasons did they have to assume Berry was going to be 100 percent healthy based on his injury and health history. How is his resume NOT a red flag that screams: better have a contingency plan. Especially when staring safeties sat on the market for cheap. They ended up having to circle the wagons in desperation by signing Ron Parker in the 11th hour. How is that not oversight?
And Kareem Hunt? If youre telling me their good reason to believe nothing was wrong was to take his word at face value as gospel in todays climate and not being able to see the video wasnt a red flag then I dont know. Agree to disagree. They struck gold on a good player there anyway so its moot
Amerson is the biggest joker though. You know you cant win that one. Signed in February. Did nothing in FA or the draft. August rolls around, camp breaks, preseason starts...and its oh this guy is really terrible we cant go into the season like this lets bring in a slighlty just as bad bum in Scandrick cause theres nothing left. That position was a liability all year until it took Ward 4 months to learn Suttons complex playbook of a defense that gets beat like a drum.
They didnt have to end up with Scandrick and Parker but they did. They could have easily avoided that.
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Hey, I agree. It was possible we weren't going to have Hunt and Berry. It was also possible they could get ACL'd. Or a nagging hamstring. Or cancer.
At that point you may as well treat it as, "Why didn't we have good depth behind Starter X, because when he got injured we started sucking!"
Because the NFL, that's why. If it were easy to have backup plans and cheap superstars all over the field that we could pencil in and count on being great from the moment they were acquired, then the Chiefs would have a Super Bowl by now.
Some of them you can prepare for better than others. The safety position had a shit ton of money put into it and we did draft dudes in the 3rd and 4th round. And at RB we had some players we've had success with in the past like Ware, and we also had a platoon of random dudes from other teams fighting it out in camp.
NOT the same thing as acquiring Amerson and then waiting until the 6th round to draft a corner.