Pioli offers an excuse

[DaWolf]

Originally Posted by GoChiefs

I'm not even talking about overall record.

There were a shit ton of teams last year who got more contribution from their rookie class than Ryan Succop the wonder leg.

Sitting here and saying "eh, the rookies didn't do much, but give them time" is being SOFT. We need to hold our front officers to a MUCH higher standard.

Just for comparison's sake, the Oakland Raiders had a shitty year and a fairly shitty draft. They still got decent production (35 catches, 4 TD) out of Louis Murphy and got 4 sacks out of Matt Shaughnessy.

Meanwhile the Chiefs draft guys like Donald Washington and Quinten Lawrence who are lucky to play in a game.

No one is going to argue that anyone outside of the kicker made much of an impact last year. For impact in 2009, it was a bad draft. Do Jackson and Magee make an impact here in the next couple of years? They better. Linemen take longer to mature and I'm still not sure why the hell Krumrie was coaching these guys last year. That still doesn't mean there won't be production in the future from some of these guys. There better be.

If this becomes a recurring pattern, IE the 2009 draft is a bust and the 2010 draft provides nothing, then absolutely, a pattern will have been seen and there's really no way around it. He's gotta do better on this draft. If I recall, AJ Smith and the Chargers had a pretty bad draft in 2003, but have been pretty good from that point on, and Drew Brees went from being a bad QB to an all pro, sort of like Jamaal Charles went from being a fumbling 3rd down back to a dynamic force. Sometimes it takes a while for the light to come on with these guys.

But it still appears that 2009 was a bad year for whatever reason to have a quick turnaround with any team in the NFL...