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Originally Posted by RunKC
Idk why some posters are so conflicted by a game where we had 4 backups with multiple guys playing out of position.
The Chiefs drafted Niang who was a player with first rd talent but a hip injury. Now he’s coming back. They will almost assuredly draft a C in the 2nd rd IMO.
And by all means Eric Fisher will be back by Thanksgiving at the latest unless rare complications occur.
But apparently we need to spend all of our cap money and use all early picks on the OL.
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well since you quoted my post I'm guessing you're not including me in that, and I would say that I agree with you largely speaking.
We're not spending a bunch of cap money on FA's on the line. I'll be REALLY surprised if we do that. Bargain bin shopping on crusty old vets that maybe have something left in the tank will be about it.
I'd love Fisher to be back by Thanksgiving; but I think it unwise to bank on it.
I'd like ONE early pick on the OL, specifically on an OT.
IF the team doctors have determined that the tear maybe wasn't that bad, and are pretty positive he'll be fine and will indeed be back by Thanksgiving then I'm cool with skipping OT early in the draft (and early means maybe up to a 2nd which is my preference) and maybe we sign old man Peters to hold the fort until Fisher gets back and then Peters becomes your swing tackle/super sub.
Basically, there won't be ANY big money sure-fire free agent pick-ups. We don't have money for that. We've kicked the can down the road about all we can. Veach is kind of a wizard and maybe he finds a way, but I expect a lot of guys nobody ever heard of on cheap deals. IF there's a bigger FA signing it'll probably be a Sammy Watkins replacement.
and bringing back our own guys coming off injury, like Charlton, maybe Osemele, guys like that. Justin Britt maybe. Old man Peters. Stuff like that.
And we'll need to draft guys for those spots too, because those guys are old and won't last long and we don't want to be looking at those same spots next year.
But that's just my opinion. I'd rather fix it for now; hedge your bet on the future and figure one of the two works out.