Stanford Routt Will Visit Chiefs Today

[Dante84]

Routt's visit

Veteran cornerback Stanford Routt, released last week by the Raiders, is visiting with the Chiefs. The Chiefs don’t need a cornerback unless they lose Brandon Carr to free agency. It’s difficult to know now whether the Chiefs are indeed serious about signing Routt or whether they’re merely trying to send a negotiating message to Carr.

The Chiefs can protect either wide receiver Dwayne Bowe or Carr with the franchise tag, a move that would effectively keep one or the other off the free agent market. Carr seems to be the easier one to replace. While losing him would be a hit to the Chiefs, they can find a Routt or another skilled cornerback. Finding a receiver who can give the Chiefs what Bowe has the past couple of years would nearly be impossible.

The Chiefs could always re-sign either Bowe or Carr before free agency begins next month and then place the franchise tag on the other. But here’s the thing to remember with that: The Chiefs prefer to re-sign young veterans who are prospective free agents the season before their contracts expire. The Chiefs have done this with several players, most notably Derrick Johnson, Jamaal Charles, Brandon Flowers and Ryan Succop.

The fact the Chiefs couldn’t get those deals done with Carr and Bowe would indicate they aren’t optimistic about re-signing them before free agency starts. So they may have to make a choice between the two with regard to the franchise tag and Routt’s visit could be a sign they’ve made that decision.

http://chiefsblog.kansascity.com/?q=node/1953

[cdcox]

meltdown

[Dante84]

I'll cry if we lose Carr.

Romeo must know that we need him.

[Dante84]

Clay, How did Routt do this past season a la PFF?

[BossChief]

Routt had a down year as the Raiders #1 corner, but iirc the year before last he was pretty damn good as a #2 corner.

[FAX]

I thought Carr was outplaying Flowers, actually. It will be a shame to see him go and, if he does, it will boil down to an austerity move on behalf of Dr. Evil.

He's been here 3 years. It's about time to sit back and watch him tear this thing apart. Belichick has testes of steel when it comes to that sort of thing. I can only imagine that Dr. Evil would love to emulate him in this respect.

This promises to be a long, drawn-out screwing, so prepare yourselves.

FAX

[cdcox]

I understood when we let go of Albert Lewis at age 33. But Carr is 25.

You could sort of see why they would trade Allen. He had some legal baggage and we got some value in return.

Have we ever let such a talented, young guy walk away for nothing?

[Three7s]

This franchise is a joke. A team with this much cap room, but can't sign two of their best players?

[BigMeatballDave]

So long, Carr.

Eat a bag of maggot and Aids infested dicks, Scott.

[ChiefsCountry]

Sounds like a negioation ploy on the Chiefs part. Bring in some one of equal or less value and the price will go down more than likely.

[Rasputin]

Originally Posted by ChiefsCountry

Sounds like a negioation ploy on the Chiefs part. Bring in some one of equal or less value and the price will go down more than likely.

Not really, there is still a market for him to go else where. Just stupid on Chiefs part.

[RustShack]

There's other teams going after Routt so obviously we would have to spend a lot of coin on him. This is just a power move by Pioli trying to get Carr to lower the price a little. Carr wants to stay in KC and play for Crennel.

[Mr. Flopnuts]

Originally Posted by RustShack

There's other teams going after Routt so obviously we would have to spend a lot of coin on him. This is just a power move by Pioli trying to get Carr to lower the price a little. Carr wants to stay in KC and play for Crennel.

Link?

[Titty Meat]

Would you guys rather re-sign Carr or would you take Landry + Routt?

[R8RFAN]

Wonder when Carr will visit Oakland