Trade Official: QB Alex Smith to #Chiefs confirmed

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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

I have no reason to believe he's not that guy, but I also think that guy isn't nearly what he appeared to be without the significant advantages afforded him by that defense.

That's why I think this team wins eight or nine games next year.

I also think the odds of the Chiefs moving off that pick are overly optimistic, but I do agree with you in this sense: the one thing that will keep them out of purgatory is whether or not they can trade down from 1.1 and turn that trade down into a 2014 first to pair with their own as ammunition.

This draft has about 5 or 6 blue chip players at the top and below that are a lot of players that are pretty even in terms of overall ability. One board I saw last week had 35+ players that could be picked anywhere from 10 thru 45. Consequently, unless a team feels it really needs one of those top 5 or 6 guys in order to get to the Super Bowl, they are unlikely to pay the price to get up that high.

I would grab Joekel and be set at LT for the next 10 years. Smith will have the outside pocket protection every QB needs and the running game would be even better.