The Perfect Timing of Scott Pioli

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That wasn’t what the post was about. The post was about snatching the best available receiver when a lot of other teams are seeing their wideouts succumb to injury.
  

You need to reread.

Yes it would be great to have Tony… Thanks for stating the obvious!!! The whole point of this article is that after the Tony trade we needed a WR that can show our young guys how to be a PRO! Toomer is that guy. Come on he is 36 and had a pretty good year last year for a 3rd WR… NYG have a crapload of young guys that would never get to see the field if Toomer was still there. They chose to see the new guys rather than have Toomer who only has a couple of years left. If you don’t see you young guys, their contracts will be up and you wont know what they can bring to the table…

Another main point of the article was his Timing with the signing. They are dead on… Most of those guys have gone down in the last 4 days… They would have been calling Toomer right away!

Giants fan thought is was a good signing

Toomer isn’t stretching the field so much, these days. But Tony didn’t stretch the field, either. He was our post-up guy. When he lined up away from Bowe, there was some doubt in defenses’ minds about which way to roll the coverage, but they still didn’t need deep safety help.

Toomer doesn’t address the deep threat, but he may be instrumental in bringing along the younger, faster guys. Brilliant move? Nah. Sensible/smart move? Yeah.

We have a shot at stretching defenses, with some of the youth and speed on the roster. But just a shot.

there are actually several other banged up and bruised WR but that wasn’t the full point of the article. I just wanted to make my point and move on. However, you’re right on that count.

Short-term, the Chiefs can field sure-handed and smart WRs in more alignments. Long-term, maybe the younger players will show that kind of tough consistency to go with their younger legs. Giants may yet regret the total tear-down. But maybe they had some youth all ready to step up and wanted the roster room for some more. It may’ve been a cap move, too. As a returning vet, Toomer probably demanded more than a vet who’d been released. I dunno.

But I agree it’s not so much a genius move as a sensible one that says more about the existing dearth of consistency at WR.

We’ll see when they actually get into action.

The thing about Pioli that stands out to me is doing things that move the organization forward. Carl would’ve gone after Matt Jones or somebody like him to address the obvious need as aggressively as possible. Pioli’s not that aggressive, and not as likely to risk down-side, the way I see it. That was the main problem with Carl. He’d give anything to land a big name and sacrifice depth and team cohesion to do it. But that was the way teams like Dallas and San Francisco did it – mortgaging the future for a great present. They succeeded (and I think a few 9er execs paid some hefty fines), and the Chiefs fell short following that model, with King Carl dissin’ a lot of very good role players for the sake of a few stars.

Heck, Carl dissed some stars, too. Remember how Neil Smith couldn’t get what Denver offered? Remember James Hasty always having to scream to get a LITTLE respect?

This may not put a great Chiefs team on the field this year. They’ll be better and they’ll be in position to continue getting better, but until our WRs start lightin’ it up and our O-Line starts dominating at the point of attack, we really don’t know how competitive this team will be.

I LIKE the signing of Toomer, but it says that KC is in trouble at WR, and coaching alone wasn’t getting it done, and we’re pretty sure Toomer isn’t going to be a tremendous deep threat. He’s more the #3 guy who matches up with a #3 CB and makes a big play off the mismatch, or by finding the hole in the zone. His signing suggests to me that the faster guys the Chiefs do have just can’t be relied upon.