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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Any upgrade at ILB will be marginalized if we have no NT. To quantify it, lets say that Belcher is an 80 ILB and Hawk is a 90, gaining you 10 points. Well the fact that we still don't have a damn NT is going to drag Hawk down to production levels far closer to those achieved by an 80 LB than he would've.
In other words - you're simply patching a hole in the dike and you're doing so fairly ineffectively. In the process, you're eliminating the possibility that Belcher could continue to develop and be one of those guys. If you don't have a true NT in place, the difference in production from Belcher to Hawk is going to be marginal.
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No, I think it's ridiculous that anyone thinks that NT's like Ngata or Raji grow on trees and that at this point in time, the Chiefs need to upgrade the interior of their defense any way they possibly can.
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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
If anything, Bart Scott perfectly exemplifies why we shouldn't be so eager to 'upgrade' from Belcher until we truly know what we have in him. There's absolutely nothing, not a single thing, in his performance to date or his physical skill set that would preclude him from becoming exactly the player you have cited as someone that should replace him.
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If there's an opportunity to upgrade any position on the Chiefs roster, they should absolutely perform their due diligence and make that move. Behind Belcher and DJ there's no one that can step in and play at a high level.
As I said earlier, I find it unlikely the Chiefs will find a player the caliber of Ngata or Raji this offseason, and
something has to be done to greatly improve the interior of the front seven.