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Old 09-20-2008, 04:53 PM   #44
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Originally Posted by LOCOChief View Post
I'd say most drafted rookies are about peaked if not "maxed" physically in their first 1st-5th seasons. Where they are not "maxed" is in terms of their skill level which as we know can only come from experience,

To me, I think Hali is a poser who pretty much rationalized failure in a interview a couple of weeks ago, in which he acknowledged his inability to get to the passer and remind us that he can't replace Allen ("as if we didn't already know that" -palin} Either way he doesn't sound nasty enough to me.
There is a huge difference in being physically maxed out with no upside, and having a sky is the limit upside with room to grow and improve...

The Chiefs drafted Hali who was a polished player who had tapped all of his potential already he wasn't getting any better.

It wasn't like drafting a physical freak manchild who had every athletic skill you could ask for and then teaching him technique, you can teach technique and make a athletic freak better, you can't teach a guy who knows technique to have more natural talent.
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