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Originally Posted by Wallcrawler
It starts with playcalling. Reid said he's the one calling the plays, so someone needs to yank those duties from him if he cannot commit to getting our best player the football.
Now, you must have an O-line to do anything on offense. You cant just say that the Chiefs had the best line in football for years and it did nothing. It was the driving force behind the most powerful offense in Chiefs history.
As for Roaf, he was a ****ing monstrous beast of a left tackle. I remember him going out for a few games with a hamstring and our offense literally crumbled. I don't care how good that "pretty good LG" in Brian Waters was, when Roaf left the lineup, that offense was pathetic. Ive NEVER seen such a huge drop in production because of the loss of one player up front. Roaf was amazing.
This line is the worst Ive seen in the entire time Ive been watching the Chiefs. QB under intense pressure at his second step of a dropback, backs being met 3-4 yards behind the line of scrimmage, blitzers running absolutely free and untouched regularly, I mean this is a ****ing disaster.
O-line is never popular with people watching the draft, but if you think that KC can just ignore the O-line with those 11 picks, then you're dead wrong. Wide receiver definitely needs to be addressed, and then O-line. Our guards are the worst in football.
Maybe getting Jeff Allen back after the bicep injury can alleviate some of that, but we've got to get guys in here that can play. Fisher is staying because of the price we paid in that 1st overall pick. Every effort must be exhausted to get this guy serviceable. Hudson absolutely must be retained as he's the best offensive lineman we have.
At this point, Im good with blowing up the team. I really wanted Tamba to stay, but he's lost more than a step. Watching him sprint after Manning, the slowest QB in the league, and not be able to get to him cast a spotlight on a very ugly truth that Tamba just isn't what he used to be. Cant pay that huge number for a guy that gets outrun on a rollout by a quarterback on the doorstep of 40 years old.
Houston's good, but he's not JJ Watt money good. One sack against the biggest rival we have? Pay him for his pass rushing talent, sure. But don't pay him like he's the total package. Hell, Eric Hicks got 14 sacks in 13 games one year. Doesn't mean we should've dropped 100 mil in his ****ing lap.
This team is so far from where it needs to be right now that its really quite sobering. Winning masks a lot of shit. There needs to be changes from the top down. Coaches AND players.
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So far from where it needs to be?
Add two linemen, which good gms should be able to find on the cheap, and add a #1 receiver. Use the draft to find improvements everywhere else.
Lol at people who think we need to blow this team up. We have 11 draft picks next year and a lot of guys coming back from injury. I have a lot of fear about Reid and Smith being the guys to take us to the next level, but as long as they're our guys, it's ridiculous to suggest we should blow this thing up