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Originally Posted by OnTheWarpath58
Strawman much?
I mean, it's not like there weren't playmakers at positions of greater need available.
But you knew that. It's just easier for you to mis-represent the facts.
In all honesty, I'm sick of the argument. I'm just going to enjoy the wins until the problems we didn't address rear their heads.
In a perfect world, it never happens.
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It's not much of a strawman. When asked whether to draft Eric Berry or CJ Spiller over Russel Okung or Rolando McClain, the argument was that we needed playmakers a lot more than we needed positional players. I really don't see how drafting Spiller (when we have a guy like Charles) is a whole lot different--that was purely a decision about drafting a playmaker over drafting a full-time player at a position of need.
The truth is, we were willing to draft a low-risk guy at a low positional value in a position of need (Daryl Washington, etc...) or draft a high-risk guy at a high positional value in a position of need (Cody, Kindle, Misi). The former are technicians, not playmakers. The latter are playmakers IF you're lucky. The Chiefs instead drafted a playmaker like Spiller who does not fit a position of need, but most certainly fits a role we can use and that we didn't have.