Kansas City Chiefs Ranked as 20th Best Organization

by Joel Thorman on May 31, 2009 4:46 PM CDT in 2009 Offseason Comment 5 comments

Adam Schein of FOXSports.com recently ranked all 32 NFL teams. This isn't a power rankings by any means instead focusing on the organizations themselves. Specifically, Schein used the following criteria to grade all 32 organizations:

Criteria	Chiefs Rank
Owner	?
Front Office	9
Head Coach	6.5
Coaching Staff	6.5
Quarterback	?
Offense	?
Defense	3
Intangibles	?

The report didn't list all the grades. What we do know is listed above. The question marks are the grades we don't know. It's based on a 1-10 scale with 1 being the worst and 10 being the best.

We do know that the Kansas City Chiefs scored a 53 total. The above rankings that are given total 25. That means there are 28 points available between owner, quarterback, offense and intangibles.

Schein cites the "tremendous fanbase" in his reasoning behind the Chiefs ranking.

Kansas City scored very high for front office (9) with the great Scott Pioli running the show. I like Todd Haley (6.5) and his new staff (6.5). And the Chiefs have a tremendous fan base and, according to several players we talked to, the best home field advantage in football. KC scored a 3 for defense.

I would guess the owner and the intangibles ranked very high considering the league-wide perception of Clark Hunt. The quarterback and offense ranking is a crapshoot considering the change that's taken place.

With Pioli on board, I'm not surprised the Chiefs front office would rank so high. His perception around the league as a personnel evaluator is outstanding.

I can't say I disagree too much on the Chiefs ranking. Of course, I would like to see them higher but with the key word being "change" around Kansas City these days attempting to rank them is a guess at best.

I would expect our ranking to go up in the next few years because Clark Hunt has shown an ability to run this team as a business unlike his father. Clark is a former market analyst and I can see that history in his moves with the Chiefs. His decisions appear to be done with a calculated purpose which is necessary in the ever growing "business" of the NFL.

The Patriots, Steelers and Eagles were in the top three while the Raiders, Browns and Lions rounded out the bottom three. The Chargers were ranked 9th.

The best ranking, in my opinion, landed on Denver at 28th. Here's what Schein had to say about the Broncos:

What happens when you trade a franchise quarterback, sink morale in an organization, screw up a draft and chase out valued front-office staffers? You become a coach on the hot seat before your first ever game. Josh McDaniels has ruined this organization. Denver has lost a lot of excellent talent at quarterback, head coach and on their public relations staff in the last 365 days.

Couldn't have said it better.

Here's a link to the video of Schein explaining the Chiefs ranking. Here's a link to a listing of the video for every team's ranking.

H/T to woodman212 in the FanShots yesterday

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I think it’s dumb that they ranked Pioli but not Hunt. In fact, I don’t think either should’ve been rated. Pioli hasn’t done anything on his own except one partial off-season, so he deserves an “incomplete,” just like Hunt does.

by burntorangehorn on May 31, 2009 7:23 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

If you actually pay attention to Pioli’s past, he is responsible for initiating trades and evaluating players “on his own” for more than ten years. Just because he worked alongside Belechick, in which working together is actually something that is a very important part of anything in the league, doesn’t mean that he is not responsible for much that he has accomplished. Do you think that NFL teams would hire Directors of Personnel for no reason, just so they can do what the coach wants? No, it’s so the Coach can focus on the team at hand while the Personnel pro scounts for new or possibly availiable talent. No successful nfl executive works on their own. Clard Hunts legacy is in fact too new to be decided. So yes, an incomplete is right for Clark Hunt. Where did you pull this stupid comment from? I can guess…………

by whakkers on Jun 1, 2009 3:54 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

You might want to change “Rank” in the table to “Points” or something like that… the idea of the Chiefs having the third best defense in the NFL (while that would be awesome) made me giggle a little bit.

/don’t mean to nitpick, great article and post otherwise

by cvigz on May 31, 2009 9:27 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs