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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
After having some time to brood on it, this is what I think this trade is:
1) I think Reid and Dorsey are trying to do two things simultaneously: One is win right now to win over a disgruntled fanbase. If they get to 8-8 next year 90% of people will see them as gods.
2) I think this buys them time (in their mind) to find a developmental QB somewhere in the middle of this draft or the next one. Since they'll likely finish with a middling record, they wont' be in position for an elite prospect.
It's an abysmal strategy with an absolutely awful success rate.
They are hoping for a 1/50 chance and immediate dividends rather than a 1/3 chance and growing pains.
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I think they are refusing to invest in a quarterback they don't think can pan out for them. They've watched the tapes on these guys, they've interviewed them, there's something about them that wasn't appealing. I don't know what it was, but it's something. For the universal opinion among talent evaluators in the NFL to be this consistent, it's something just about everyone on CP isn't seeing.
I don't think this is showing they are adverse to a young QB because they've both shown in their previous stops they will invest high picks in them.
I think it's them surveying what's available at this moment and saying we aren't tying the Chiefs to that for 4-5 years.
I don't think trading for Alex Smith stops them at all from investing a 1 in a QB in 2014.
I think they have also examined the talent on this team and the window is now before guys like DJ, Hali, Flowers, Charles, Bowe are long in the tooth.