Is Cassel/Pioli/Haley going make the Chiefs relevant on the National level?

then we can for damn sure win 2. We are rebuilding for success over years to come, not just one Lombardi. You cannot deny the Patriots, the steelers, and the OLD Jimmy johnson Cowboys. Multiple Super bowl winners.

will probably continue to linger in anonymity because of the dilemma they find themselves in. They don’t have enough talent to win games so this makes it impossible to attract star quality FA’s.

They also do not have a proven head coach, Haley’s volatility is probably a concern to potential FA’s. This leaves the draft as the only vehicle to build their team. The draft only comes once a year, so they are looking at two or three years minimum and since the draft is a hit or miss gamble, it could take longer.

  Unless Hunt can hire a superstar head coach who can attract FA’s we will have to be patient and hope Pioli can come up with the right 53 and start winning. I’m a little concerned that he (Pioli) didn’t address the O line in his first draft. I thought everyone in football was aware of KC,s O line problem.

  Pioli has staked his reputation on Matt Cassel. So he (Cassel) has to succeed, so this could be another mistake the Chiefs are saddled with, unless the problem is the O line. I would like to see another QB in there to find out.
    I don’t see the Chiefs being relevant on any national level soon, barring a miracle or the greatest draft in 2010 and the greatest coaching spectacle ever in the NFL.

  I hope I’m wrong and I probably am.

via photo shoots in GQ and other, similar men’s fashion magazines most likely….

I kid, I kid,

In all honesty, I have been less than impressed with cassel. His accuracy is poor, timing is bad, he holds the ball to long, He can’t throw downfield, and he seems to get frustrated during games. He panics in the pocket ans scatters rather than stepping up and making a throw, almost running into the d at times. I guess what I’m trying to say is, it’s time to take colt mccoy in the first round…

You just have to pay for ‘em, like Chokeland and Washington do. Seymour did it pretty much against his will. Ellis worked out in a number of places. Chokeland prob’ly hired him for reasonable. They picked up Seymour, virtually against his will, for a season. And Washington mortgaged the homestead for Haynesworth.

There’s no question, though, that you build your team thru the draft. It’s not so much attracting the best FAs, though, it’s more a question of not needing many! Sure, the best thing to do, sometimes, is to add a FA to top off the tank, but it’s very easy to go wrong.

The standard rule of thumb appears to be that the more you need a FA to turn things around, the less likely a FA is going to turn things around. But when you’re a team on the up-tick, like Atlanta, a Tony G pickup can make a lotta sense. The trick is to be smart enough on how you do things so that you’re in position to pick up the guys you need as they come available.

…is spend every pfennig he had to make the team as strong as he possibly could. Even if some of it were totally wasted, at least he’d’ve have had a serious look at more guys than he did in an effort that netted 1 win in 6 outings.

By that measure, not impressed at all. But if we see him tearin’ up contracts and rewarding players with NOW money in November/December – guys that came in at or near the minimum, but earned significant minutes. If they are immediately rewarded, and Pioli doesn’t punk them, for instance, Belcher and Mays, even if the intention is to pursue an upgrade in the offseason, the guys gettin’ the minutes should see better money sooner, rather than later. That sort of thing builds good will.

One of the keys to runnin’ a good meritocracy is inspiring the guys on the bottom, workin’ their way up. If they all try harder, you see more of those guys emerging as stars.

Like you’re sayin’ up above, Steve. If we see true Enlightened Self-Interest demonstrated by Pioli, dicey situations that could fall either way, tend to fall in your favor. Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand at work. Interesting to note along the Dimitroff/Blank lines, that, while it appears to be good value for a 2nd, it’s actually a much sharper deal than Peterson admitted he was able to get. Peterson said the other day he’d’ve been run outta town for only landin’ a 3rd-rounder for a younger Tony G, and that was the best value he could find!

I can’t put my finger on a single deal, Steve, where Carl squeezed when he had his fingers around another GM’s throat, but judging by how he overpaid a few and kept his foot on the necks of others, I’d expect Carl made some GM’s pay through the nose whenever he had ’em over a barrel. Tank Tyler for a 5th was not a very greedy deal by Pioli, especially if he thrives in Carolina, and I suspect the newness of the team switch and the tough training he went through in the offseason, will find Tyler to be a nice pickup for the Panthers.

Hope to see you in other threads, 2nite.