For the Ship with No Port, No Wind is Favorable

your dang right the ship is steering that way!

One should never quote or think is funny a slappy like that goof. The rest of the article I’m cool with.

Your post made me somewhat queasy though.
If our youngest starting players are actually no better talent wise than our
oldest players that will be gone in a year or two…..

Question are those charts based on 2009 play or actually draft type bios?

Port BERRY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the reliance on Waters and Wiegemann, too, given their advancing age. That said, I think you will see some additions to grow via the draft. I think the Wiegemann, Lilja, Smith, and Jones signings have simply relieved the pressure of this year from Pioli for this draft. I think we’re in a good position to accumulate potential and depth from this draft. So, in long, I think Pioli clearly has a plan.

This isnt Madden people. This is real life. Life in the trenches is bunches of trained automatic reactionary responses to stimuli from DLs and playcalls. Moving from the left side to the right side flips everything around and you have to retrain your brain to flip everything around. A move to LG would be more logical because many of the first step movements will be the exact same as well as many of the pass rushing technniques. If you can’t find a spot for him on the left side, you might as well trade him.

And for the other Rednecks out there, its spelled “Git” in the Cable Guy phrase. Not that us rednecks really care.

Hell yeah Pioli has a plan.

His port is multiple Super Bowls.

This off season is the one that most of us were hoping for last year. I’m glad that through it all I stood strong in my opinion of him and repeatedly made rationalizations towards what we went through last year. “It’s only his first year.”… “He just took over a catastrophe of a team, give him time”… “He couldn’t fix it all at once”… “He’s using this year to clean house, he’s figuring out what he has”.

It’s obvious he’s got this under control. I don’t see how he could make anyone upset at this point. He’d have to some how find a way to fuck up in a very deep draft class. Chiefs Nation is flying high right now because we’re watching the plan that was promised in action. We’re watching the Chiefs steadily build their team while the “Rest of the West” seems to be stuck in neutral (with the possible exception of DEN).

What a lot of people refuse to understand is our o-line was not really that bad last year. It was the change that Haley made with O C that put our o-line behind . our Defense sucked that is where we need to build this year . we can pick up some guys for offense in latter rounds . we still have 2011 Draft before we become a force in the A F C .

It takes time to turn the Titanic (i.e., sinking ship) around. It’s a massive floating structure…when the icebergs are looming you can bet that one or two will hit the hull before you can get it turned and moving in the right direction…

Ok enough of the metaphores…
Everyone knows Pioli is a brilliant football mind, as are our 3 primary coaches now. The result of having that many minds who know how to think alike and in concert means that the results of their FA moves, draft choices, player evaluations and training of the players we have are all actions that reflect that there is a clear plan/destination in mind. There is absolutely no question in my mind about this.

The fans are the lucky ones. Maybe fortunate is a better word. Mr Hunt has found the best mining apparatus to mine for gold. And just because he has, doesn’t mean he stops before he strikes it rich. And once he strikes it rich, he’s not the type to stop mining. (oops…I used another metaphor…sorry)

Pioli said at the Combine that he’s been given all financial authority to do whatever he deems appropriate to make proper choices concerning what players he acquires to fit into the team that will help him fulfill his plan. Yesterday I was struggling to find my faith in him…but today I have it back. Yay!

about Williams? Not following ya there. Why did you choose to use him as an example?

I enjoyed the post. Although I’m very high right now. I was reading comments along the way and it took me awhile to get to the bottom of the comments, (good for you) yah anyway I"m high and I can’t remember what it was about.

I’m pretty sure I thought it was excellent because I remember smiling.

No, it was just really good man. THanks for always putting like a major amount of work and care into your posts. I think once in awhile they get taken for granted. Not usually tho. Rec’d. I have never not rec’d one of your posts since I started reading them.
(as far as i can remember, which ain’t long, you know cuz…I’M HIGH)

I know this is an O-line post Bewsaf but?

If the NT draws a Double team…
if the LDE draws a Double team….
if the RDE draws a Double team….

The OLB’s have to beat a RB/FB/second TE to sack the QB

I am high on a Mizzou win so

You do contradict yourself, to a degree, by talking about sensible behavior and husbanding your picks, and then spewing a sudden flurry of “Spend Draft Picks in FA trades!” remarks.

But I think any open-minded person in an expository setting is going to say contradictory things, because there are so many countervailing factors, when it comes down to the specific. So far, Pioli’s traded a 2nd for Cassel and Vrabel, and spent a ?6? on Ndukwe and Alleman, of whom only Ndukwe remains. If those are the kinds of risks he’s taking, I’m OK with that, but I don’t like giving up the picks, generally.

My knee-jerk reaction to “Get a pass-rusher!” is to start talking, like stagdsp did above, about the team concept for pass rush. I’m all about getting one more lineman who will eat up one more blocker on an every-down basis, or one more DB who can single up the next higher tier of WRs in the league. You instantly upgrade your LBs that way, without doing anything directly at LB. Their assignments and their reads are more clear-cut, which makes the entire LB corps faster, because they’re not wasting time processing.

All of this being said, I think there are some very good Brandon Graham types, who could be fine run-stuffing and pass-rushing OLBs, if you weren’t hoping for a true DE or expecting a LB to play like the S you wish you had, but don’t. I do think that would have a profound impact on the base D, and I do NOT think Vrabel’s a dominant pass rusher off the edge.

As for Waters-Lilja talk, who’s to say what the plan is for Waters? Does he even want to be a Chief in ‘10? I really don’t think Lilja, at 290, was brought in to play RG, and I’m not at ALL sure who’d be starting at LG and C after the dust settled. I can even see Lilja at C, before it’s all over.

Unlike a lotta commenters, above, I don’t necessarily see Albert being pushed out of the LT spot, even if Okung is drafted, and if he is, I don’t see RT as all that likely for Albert. To me, LT is pretty much off the radar, until later on, and I’m leaning towards the kinds of college LTs who size up like NFL RTs or Gs, like Ducasse, and those kinds of guys aren’t (imo) going all that high in this draft.

And finally, Bewsaf, don’t kid yourself about OL. I EXPECT to see OL in this draft, but it doesn’t mean that’s what I’ll see, until late, and might see little or none of on the field, beyond the guys we already have on the roster.

did you do those graphs yourself based on information? Or are those somebody elses you brought over to your post?

the plan? like WE have a clue?

my hope is that yes, Pioli DOES get more OLine this year … Okung? Davis? Walton? Pouncey? whover and whenever will be up to Pioli … so far so good, I agree we DO need more OLine for the FUTURE … no question of that in my mind

Berry? Williams? Spoon? McClain? you betcha we need Defense … again, whoever and whenever … what The Plan is, well, that’s Pioli’s job … last year I had NO idea, but so far this year, good moves, I’m on board … love the graphics, you ROCK!

use the later rounds for shoring up the defense. (Although I am intrigued by Berry, just because of all the hype surrounding him)