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Here's my personal view on things:
I hope Mark Sanchez does well in life. He seems like a decent person. But the bottom line is that he's an asset, an expendable asset. But if he could have helped the *team* of the Kansas City Chiefs win and compete for championships, and he does that elsewhere, and the guy we picked over him doesn't, I'll be upset about that.
Ultimately, Mark Sanchez's success, or lack thereof, is an important piece of data, because it, along with Cassel's success or failure, marks Pioli's ability to assemble a championship team.
If we aren't asking questions of the team with the fewest wins in the NFL over the last three years, and we aren't critical of decisions that concern us, then why have an opinion at all? It's not because I, or anyone else, wants the team to fail, it's because we want them to succeed. I'd gladly take being wrong about players that I didn't like. I hope Tyson Jackson has 10 sacks next game. But that doesn't mean that I shouldn't be both critical and skeptical of the moves of this team.*
*Notice I didn't say cynical*
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"When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”--Abraham Lincoln
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