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Originally Posted by The Bad Guy
I think the Chiefs have a bright future based on the people in charge, not the talent they have. I would also love for you to find fans outside of the Chiefs to name 8 good young players they have on the roster. I'll guarantee to you that they couldn't do it.
The Falcons took several years to rebuild? Since freaking when? Their rebuild started last year. Were they rebuilding with Chris Redmon? Matt Ryan the final piece? They hired a new GM, new HC and were insanely smart with all their personel decisions. That rebuild took exactly one year. They got a LT, QB, RB, MLB all in one draft. Teams rebuild all the time in the NFL. They show progress. The Chiefs regressed during their rebuild. They got worse as games went on, and the coaching mistakes were just awful.
You again are putting words in my mouth. I said the Chiefs have 3 really good players from Herm. That doesn't mean I'm gutting the entire roster. I'm also not giving out the really good label because the way you talk, this team should have been a lot better than it is if it has all these "pieces". You know who that reflects on then? Herm.
We should not cut all the players that aren't Pro Bowlers. We also shouldn't sit here and put on rose colored glasses and truly think that players like Mike Cox have established themselves as being "really good".
Ridiculous standards? Maybe you should stop lowering yours to suit your arguments.
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I can understand your point on Mike Cox--I personally think he's good, but fine... that's up for debate. Apart from that, what do you disagree with? There are a lot of good young players on the Chiefs (about 20) with less than 3 years of experience who have a LOT of upside. That's what building a good young foundation is about. A few of them are already there. A lot of them flashed potential and have the upside to be real good starters, maybe in 1-2 years. And a lot of them are going to have the potential to be very good backups, which is an extremely important part of building a strong team foundation.
And I never said all the pieces are there right now. I said there is a good base with potential to be there very quickly. The Chiefs are already a huge step in the right direction. Good teams build through youth, and then use veterans to fill in the gaps. You paint the roster left behind as being a useless mess, and yet with little veteran presence and in spite of numerous gameday coaching mistakes, the Chiefs could have and arguably should have won at least half of the games in the second half of the season. Maybe our youth isn't as bad and ill-prepared as you might think.