Chiefs K Succop Getting Some Attention

getting his named called more and more lately. doesn’t help that hes playing behind dorsey who has really stepped up this season. washington is still on the fence but he doesn’t get that much playing time either. brown has injured so we don’t know about him, and williams, lawrence, oconnell are projects but they were all late rounds so you can’t expect much from them. so when you add in jackson and succop that’s 1 awesome pick, 2 looking like they will be good to great down the line, and 5 question marks as only one of them plays and he not all that much. all in all i wouldn’t say it’s a great draft but it wasn’t bad that’s for sure. have to at least give it another year to see if some of the later rounders don’t pan out.

Scott Pioli was only in KC’s offices for a little over three months at draft time, and was working with Carl Peterson’s scouting department and administration. Most of our current group of administrators and scouts weren’t even on board yet. So a lot of the eval’s and player decisions were started before he even came on the scene.

The same thing happened in NE in 2000—-he relied on ex GM Bobby Grier’s old scouts for his first draft, then cleaned house afterward and from ‘01 on ran things his way. Not a whole lot of those 2000 players stuck around the NFL—but a lot of the ’01-’08 players have.

I’m not writing this draft class off, but I am suggesting that next year’s class will tell me a whole lot more about Pioli (and Haley’s) vision for this team.

then they were fired/replaced after the draft if i remember correctly. But before we can blame/credit the old staff or Piolis staff Id guess that Pioli was doing some serious scouting in NE and i would also guess that he didn’t just forgot all those players that he spent months scouting.

Succop was apparently scouted by Steve Hoffman after we hired him to be our ST Coordinator. If I remember correctly, during the workout Succop credited him with making some change to his technique that made a huge difference. Hoffman loved his potential and the rest is history…

the roster needed (and still needs) DEPTH everywhere. Even if he drafted a total stud that produced immediately, what if he tore an ACL? Or what happens if Dorsey or Jackson gets hurt? A major key to any consistent, winning team is depth at ALL positions. Also, it’s this off-season that will be critical in assembling this roster. I think we’ll see players like Williams. Brown, Lawrence & O Connell play major roles next season……..big picture : )

If Dorsey plays lights-out and signs with some other team, we’ve got an in-house replacement. Or maybe something happens to Jackson (ACL? Shoulder?), and we’ve got a talented stand in.
Besides, how do you think depth is built? By drafting talent, and stockpiling it, and replacing the “dead wood” with fresh talent as time goes on.

No, a defensive lineman wasn’t what I expected last spring but in the long run I have no problem with the pick. I liked what I saw of McGee on Sunday and evidently, so did the coaches (judging from his PT).

that it’s his job to get the players that will work with the coach and be good for the team. So it’s not all on Haley, Pioli I’m sure has the final say-so on whoever gets taken at any spot at any time.

The “rec” was to Satchmo BTW. lol

if there isn’t a probowl/bluechip interior lineman or 2 acquired via the draft / FA. Good pt about the 08 draft. Dorsey, Albert, Flowers are cornerstones, Carr is OK, Leggett needs to get healthy, Cottam & Richardson need to show me more.

Again I will shoot my tv if they dont either draft or acquire some seroius interior o line help, and safety help. I think we’ll see some more competition at LB, there will probably be a true NT brought in too. a lot of holes are at least getting patchworked together making this upcoming offseason crucial, but there won’t be quite so many areas of need.