Let's draft someone who will make an impact... RIGHT NOW!!

…..and others who think Berry is the best thing sliced sliced bread (and what was the best thing BEFORE sliced bread? hmm!)

When you pre-slice it it immediately begins to dry out and get hard. Knives have been around for a long time, and as long as you have a serrated blade around that you keep good and sharp you don’t really need sliced bread.

That being said, the best thing before sliced bread, and after for that matter, is oral sex. Now, if you said Berry was the best thing since oral sex I’d agrue vehemently against you until the end of time. =P

The great majority of the time people tend to fall in love with one guy or another. They talk them up and explain all the reasons we should take them from their perspective. (Like you do with Okung, or I did with Curry last season). That doens’t mean that they think that guy is the savior of the team. NO ONE GUY in ANY position is ever going to be the savior of the team. Anyone that tells you different you should ignore, because they are obviously clinicly insane, or just plain stupid. Football is a team sport, and there’s not one single player ever to play the game that can turn a bunch of losers incapable of running a scheme and turn them into champions (yes, that includes Peyton Manning).

We talk about team needs, and best fit for our system, and chance to make an impact, and value at the draft slot they are taken, and money they will have to be paid etc etc.

I don’t think a single Chiefs fan in the world would tell you they DONT wish we had an O-Line like the one anchored by Roaf. I cdertainly wouldn’t. But you are going to get a lot of people that would argue that Okung isn’t Roaf and never will be; or that we should be filling a glaring NEED with out #5 pick and OT doesn’t fit that bill; or that a SMART film studying machine of a playcaller would make the biggest impact on the D with the #5; or that Safety would vastly improve our pass defense which would in turn give our pass rushers more time to get to the Qb; or..or…or…

(that said, I’ll disagree that a top-level OT wouldn’t be an impact player … look what Roaf did for the OLine on the Vermeil teams)

And look what happens when you build a team around the O and scoring points instead of a solid defense. I’m really glad you aren’t on the WR with the #5 bandwagon, I’d have to replace my stick with a shotgun.

You’ve got to have balance in all 3 phases of the game. I’m biased because was and am a sucker for a dominating D that punishes teh other team. But, it will always be my contention that a GREAT D and a mediocre offense will take you farther than a GREAT offense and a mediocre defense. Cassel may or may not prove to be the franchise QB that we all hope he can turn into (well, all of us except the damn Brokie Croyle appologists), but he’s the QB of the offense. he makes the calls on the field and provides the leadership on that side of the ball. He’s the guy that everyone is going to turn to for the answers on the field. Who’s that guy on our defense? We don’t have one. We do not have ‘that guy’ in the middle acting as teh field general for our D.

THAT’S why I would go after a NT in FA and McClain in the draft. THAT’S why I was calling for Curry last year. THAT’S why I still think it’s the biggest missing piece of our defense. We will NEVER build a dominating defense without ‘that guy’ in the middle that can LEAD the men into battle. McClain is a leader of men by all accounts from Saban. We need a leader of men to develop into a general on the field. – it’s because I think he’s teh best thing since oral sex. it’s becase I think you build a team that can stop the other guy, and that the leader on the D is JUST as important as the leader on the O.

Sure, we might get a guy later in teh draft that becomes that guy, but I think it’s far more likely that we would find a C/G later in the draft than a true leader of men.

http://www.arrowheadpride.com/2010/1/20/1261952/kipers-first-mock-draft-chiefs#29229165

if the link doesn’t work …

Dude, it’s hard to argue on general principles against landing the best tackle in a given draft.

And yeah, you put your BEST guys at the two tackle spots, and make no apologies about it.

Strange how some people think Okung-with-Albert-to-LG and some people doubt that Okung is even an upgrade over Albert. I think it looks like Albert’s going to be fine against most 3-4 OLBs. But I’d like to see him again against the better 4-3 DEs, who run closer to 300 than Dumerville’s measly 250ish.

Hard to gauge, with my limited memory, a memory which tells me that it wasn’t until the 2nd half of the season that KC had enough talent and timing on the field to keep defenses from beating the strong side of KC’s o-line head-to-head and just ganging up on Albert and Waters on the weak side.

Prediction for ‘09: Chiefs are looking like a .500 team, especially considering Denver’s inattention to D-Line, Chokeland’s disarray, and a San Diego team that looks like it’s on the decline. With a weak schedule, Chiefs steal a few and win between 7 and 9 games, and if .500 or better, will contend for supremacy in a weak division.

by hmills110 on Jan 20, 2010 10:29 PM MST

Buck, love ya man but I disagree that Berry is “it” … Tex says McClain, some say Suh, others say swap down and grab Cody … still others say grab Wilfork … me, I like Okung for a long-term answer at OLine

maybe we’re all full of beans … who knows