Trade Official: QB Alex Smith to #Chiefs confirmed

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

I don't believe it's a flawed strategy when a team has had ten losing seasons out of the past fifteen and no playoff wins in 20 years.

The Chiefs are not in a position to just say "Super Bowl or Bust". They've lost the trust of the fans, the fans that fill the stadium, and if HUGE changes weren't made, they were looking at not only an empty stadium but blackouts.

This situation isn't just any simple ordinary situation. This franchise has basically been a gigantic cluster**** since 1971. Sure, the Marty years were "nice" but anything since then has been an illusion.

They're back to Square One, which is to try to put a team on the field that isn't embarrassing to the fans or the city.

It sucks but it is what it is.

Super Bowl or Bust was the 2005 strategy.

If you have a young QB and you hit, you gradually improve. Even in the years you don't win a SB you are almost always competitive. That removes the embarrassment factor.

Look at the Colts with Manning, the Patriots with Brady, Packers with Rodgers, and so on.

The QB alone will make any team competitive if he's worth his salt. You don't have to hand out Daniel Snyder contracts; you can take a slow, measured approach and still improve markedly with a viable young signal caller: just like the Colts, Redskins, Seahawks, and Bengals have done.

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

Super Bowl or Bust was the 2005 strategy.

I thought that was 2001, which is why they passed on Brees in favor of Green.

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

If you have a young QB and you hit, you gradually improve.

If if you don't hit immediately, you're asking an already weary fan base that's tired of losing to be more patient.

It appears that Clark Hunt pulled that option from the table and I can't say that I disagree with him.

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

The QB alone will make any team competitive if he's worth his salt.

I completely understand that but this isn't 2008 or 2009. Chiefs fans back then were just a few years removed from the Trent Green era. It's 2013 and most fans haven't had any hope of a playoff win in a decade.

While I don't disagree with you philosophically, I disagree with the Chiefs best course of action, considering the utter failure of this team to win and win consistently for the better part of 17 years.