I doubt you’ll sway many away from making their mock draft fan posts though.:) I think they’re fun to read. It’s a good indicator for what the perceived holes on this team are.

I do like your approach here. I’d say yous is as good a prediction of what carries over to next years roster and what holes will remain. I believe we’ll see more of the what we got this year though. One or two mid-high impact acquisitions and a whole lot of solid vanilla guys brought in. My big hope for player acquisition is that we land that one serious immediate impact stud on defense with our first round pick. I anticipate a fair amount of head scratching just like this year. While you can see why they brought some guy in, you can’t understand why they didn’t address a more pressing need elsewhere with other available prospects. I think we’ll be playing next year with some remaining gaps and we’ll all be pretty pissed about them screaming “FAIL” at Pioli. But overall, we should be better.

I believe the biggest team improvements for the Chiefs next year will come by way of coaching staff improvements. A new OC and DC and a QB coach will be a great start.

I think Vrabel is getting old. His pass rush skills have demnished greatly, and Mays is a god SP player, and backup ILB. That being said, heres a couple pieces I’d like to see the Chiefs bring in.

-Romeo Crennel as Defensive Cordinator
-Bring in a solid QB Coach
-At all cost, Sign Wilfork to anchor our 3-4
-Trade Dorsey for a 2nd (I like dorsey, but if we can get a high pick I’d be pleased)
-Draft Suh, Spikes, and Fox

I think these moves will help get the Chiefs going in the right direction

If we started DJ. That would bring it down to 10 spots. I think we may also have some potentials on the team at filling the holes you suggested.
RB: Maybe Smith or Savage works out
FS: Maybe Page works out. He did pretty well the last couple of years. But h seems to be on the outs with the current regime
Nickleback; Hopefully Washington starts showing something. He definitely has the measureables to be an excellent CB in the league.

Everything else I agree with. I think we could address SS (Berry), C, and RG, with our first three draft picks.
I really do think if we use our two second round picks on interior O-linemen we could go from having one of the weakest lines in the league to one of the strongest.
Albert Waters DP DP O’Callaghan
Could be a very good line and with the exception of Waters would be very young.

may be gone. i think i read somewhere he will be a FA..

then again he is getting old. might not be much of a market for him.

Studabaker

D Morgan

Magee

They could be big parts of the puzzle

I’ll make sure I clear the subject matter of future posts to make sure they meet your standard for relevance.

You left off Morgan he’ll be starting next year and so will Page. Expect both of those guys to start next year at their resepective positions on defense. Along with Magee and Studebaker. Offensively expect us to keep Battle good speical teamer and showed good signs of being a good running back. Kolby and Salvage also at the running back position expect all guys to be back next year.

…I like Edds of Iowa. He is not a sackmaster but he can cover and tackle and somebody has to have those skills. He reminds me of Futija.

…and I think he hired an agent so he and get an extension with no personality clash or tension.

hired an agent for what? to resign? oh, and so he doesnt have to deal with the ego’s….right. the 22 guys off the street thing.

personally, I’d have to take Carr off the list. I’m not remotely impressed with his development. I also think O’Callaghan has a lot left to prove, but I’m hopeful.

Don’t see them sticking around

As far as coordinators go, I think it makes sense to think Romeo Crennel will be our DC. also, if Charlie Weiss is fired by the Irish, is there any doubt Scott Pioli would have Coach Haley step down? Imagine the strides at those two key spots on the staff. Not too far fetched either.

Defense —4 new starters and 2 new backups.
Need a dominating DT. Edwards is the backup.
Dorsey and Jackson are your DEs. With Gillberry and Magee as backups.
Varbel and Hali are the OLBs but need 2 new backups.
Mays and Johnson are the ILB with Williams and Belcher as your backups.
Carr and Flowers are the CBs with Washington and Leggett as backups.
Need 2 new starting safeties with McGraw and Page as backups.
Need a new starting nickel with Morgan as the backup.

Offense: 4 new starters and 2 new backups
Need a new starting LT, Move Albert to LG, Move Waters to center, need a new starting RG and RT.
C Brown, W Smith, R Niswanger, Ndukwe, and O’Callaghan are your reserve backups for next year.
Chambers and Bowe are your starting WRs. Need a new starting slot reciever. Bradley and TBD are the backups WR.
Wade is your backup slot reciever
QBs are set w/ Cassel, Croyle, Gutierrez. RBs are Smith, Charles, and Savage with a TBD 4th and 5th back. Any of the 5 could be the starter. Ryan and Pope are the TEs with a 3rd to TBD. Any of the 3 could be the starter.