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Originally Posted by TFG
It is all about "opportunity cost." Granted, Pioli and Haley were handed a pretty sorry roster. The biggest "beefs" are
1. Why the "urgent need" to switch to 3-4 when most of the DLs and LBs on the roster were much better suited for 4-3? Hilariously enough, Oracle Bill has the Pats fiddling with a 4-3, precisely because Mayo is the ultimate 4-3 MLB (and Tedy was letting it be known he may decide to not play this year). I particularly question why it was necessary to not offer Jason Babin even a one year minimum deal to stay. Babin had clearly "failed" as a 3-4 OLB. In the final two or three games last year, Babin's light seemed to go from total darkness to flicker. Because the existing DLs were more 4-3 than 3-4, that appears to have "forced" the pick of T-Jax (and perhaps Magee). OPPORTUNITY COST - Eugene Monroe.
2. The trade for Cassel and getting the "young QB of the future" before the OL was fixed.
3. The picks after Magee in the Draft are, in my opinion, particularly disappointing. The best player the Chiefs landed this offseason after Magee was Darryl Harris, and that was pure luck, as the GM assumes "try out players" are not even worthy of camp fodder status. This Draft had some serious players late and undrafted besides Harris, and I think Pioli really whiffed on all of them (exclude Lawrence, as I have not watched him).
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What's so interesting about Pioli's decision to move to a 3-4, is that despite putting almost all of our resources into a 3-4, we haven't even committed to it. The only guy who I think would not fit into a 3-4 on our current roster is Mike Vrabel. Most of the other guys can play either/or and most of them are better off in a 4-3. You could argue that asking Hali to play a few pounds lighter made him more of a 3-4 guy, but he could easily add those lbs. back next year.