Should the Chiefs have made a pass at Jammal Brown?

But they can afford to be patient with him. And maybe smash-mouth is part of the longer-term plan.

that I was referring to. And it’s a good start and I hope Asamoah wins a starting job soon. From what I’ve seen of him on film and from what I’ve read, he packs more punch than Smokin’ Joe.

is that Albert does blossom into a Pro-Bowl caliber LT. That would of course free up the Chiefs brass to look at another position with the 1st pick in 2011. And Berry was needed to help with the Chiefs pass defense. But if Albert has a repeat of last year at LT, it’s time to put him at Guard and draft one of those guys.

Sounds like a good plan that you are suggesting, there :)

We have many possibilities instead of being painted into a corner

and listed 2nd on that list. I agree NT is a need. It depends on where the Chiefs are drafting as to whether they should go LT on Offense or NT on Defense.

As Steve_Chiefs has pointed out it might be silly to talk about next years draft, but then again, we are thinking in terms of the Chiefs going to the Super Bowl and winning it. I’d love for that to happen this year, BUT, I’m a realist and I really believe that teams like the Ravens, Colts, Jets, Patriots are too tough for the Chiefs right now. But if the Chiefs draft well, then that will change.

..and there never was any bandwagon of any kind. Albert was a standout Guard at Virgina and what I said was he is playing out of position. If you saw a guy in Albert who has everything you’d want in a LT, then you were obviously looking at a photograph and you weren’t watching the games. Go watch the Cleveland game and keep a close eye on the Browns LT Joe Thomas. It’s no comparison. Like it or not, Albert isn’t even remotely close to Thomas and playing LT simply isn’t working for Albert — and that’s not being down on him, that’s telling it like it is. Albert will probably bolt the Chiefs in a couple of years and become a standout Guard on some other teams O-Line.

BTW, do you ALWAYS piss on your own head and tell yourself it’s raining?

BULLSHIT !! You can’t be serious. If Detroit had taken him at #2, nobody would have questioned it. He was worth #5 to the Chiefs and if Berry had been taken in the top 4 ( which wasn’t likely because almost all the teams out there are too smart to take a Safety that high & notice that Cleveland didn’t try to trade up with Washington to take Berry ) then Okung would have been the pick at #5. I don’t believe for one minute that the Chiefs brass ever even remotely thought Russell Okung wasn’t worth the #5 pick.

and putting words in the mouth of others to try to validate your phony arguments — but they are still just that — phony arguments . As far as the O-Line being on pace to allow only 30 sacks , it was because Cassel was like a cat on a hot tin roof throwing the ball as soon as it was snapped to him. That’s why the sacks went down & the picks were thrown in a lot of cases. That does not constitute O-Line improvement — and most of the defenses they played against in the 2nd half of the season were ranked near the bottom of the league in run defense & much of the rushing yardage was due to Charles great running ability & if Charles had gotten hurt & hadn’t carried the ball in the 2nd half of the season, would they have made all those rushing yards? NO WAY !! And yet they still lost most of their games they played. That’s already been explained to you. I will grant you that Cassel made bad decisions, but he was a battered zombie who was lucky to survive. You keep pointing out those INT’s by Cassel, but I notice you didn’t make mention of the intentional grounding call in the game at SD. Was that all Cassel’s fault as well? No, he would have been sacked in the end zone — thanks to one of the biggest whiffs by the left side of this so-called “improved O-Line” that I’ve ever seen by any O-Line. And that wasn’t the only instance. They O-Line simply wasn’t very good — why is that so hard for you to swallow?

I never said that the offensive problems were all the O-Lines fault — you are making this up. I’m saying the O-Line was not very good throughout the course of the season. Why do you insist on pulling things out of your arse and insinuating this or that? Is that the best you can do to try to validate your arguments is to put words in the mouths of others? Pretty lame. I said that I don’t care what you or team management or veteran members say about O-Line improvement over the 2nd half of the season . It almost sounds like you & them are deluding yourselves and wanting to believe your own BS just to make yourselves feel better — I believe the disease is called “self-delusion”. It don’t change the fact that the O-line was nowhere close to being playoff caliber and overall the offensive improvements came when certain players entered the line-up ( Charles & Chambers ) and the O-Line play was virtually the same throughout the season.

And as far as Safeties go Polamalu wasn’t even drafted in the top 15 and since you are using him as an example — there’s the proof right there that a good Safety can be had later on in the draft and it isn’t necessary to spend a top 5 pick on one & at the expense of shoring up a very deficient O-Line. The Steelers had many other playmakers on their defense to support Polumalu when they won their 2 SB’s, BTW, and that certainly helps with them being able to use him in the manner that they do. Doesn’t mean that the Chiefs are going to be able to use Berry in the same way. That’s not to say that Berry isn’t a good prospect, he is, but in my judgement, he doesn’t address the most pressing need of shoring up the O-Line and the #5 pick is too steep a price for a Safety, as they could’ve traded down and picked up a Safety like Earl Thomas, who is faster than Berry & he’s stronger ( at least bench-press wise) and got extra picks or took Russel Okung at #5 & gotten a good safety in the 2nd round. Again, this is not saying that Berry isn’t a good prospect — I’m even buying a Berry jersey — it’s saying that there were better alternatives.

To answer your question, if the O-Line were on a pace to allow only 30 sacks ( it’s already been explained why the sack total went down ) and JC ran for 2000 yards over the course of the season, consider that 1/4 of that 1000 rushing yards ( 259 yards) that Charles gained came against a Denver defense that collapsed against the run down the stretch and in that game they tackled very poorly. That one game is inflating the numbers & you can’t expect what happened in Denver to occur every week, nor does it constitute any excuse for passing on a great LT prospect in Russell Okung — there were a lot of good Safety prospects available later in the draft. If Denver had flat out smothered the Chiefs offense in that last game — then what? Would you and others be crowing about O-Line improvement? I can’t put much stock in that game as it was the exception, not the rule. Your question is quite silly & do you really believe that pace is going to carry over to this season? It would be nice, but don’t hold your breath.

You also may be overlooking the fact that the Chiefs throughout the ’80’s had the best Secondary in football, but they also had a deficient front 7 and as a result they were constantly near the bottom of the league in total defense and points allowed — WHOOPS — THAT SOUNDS JUST LIKE THE CURRENT STATE OF THE CHIEFS DEFENSE and to think that people believe Eric Berry will make the Chiefs defense 10 times better all by himself ( not saying you said that — I’ve seen others post it ), and yet one of the best secondaries ever assembled wasn’t able to in the ’80’s. I agree that Berry is a playmaker, a worker, and has a strong desire to win, but guess what? So are a lot of other Safeties that were drafted. And Russell Okung, while not a playmaker, also is a hard worker & wants to win.

Drafting Russell Okung at #5 does not equate to “declaring a state of emergency and spending every high draft pick & giving away draft picks until the O-Line is fixed”? That’s absolute bullshit and nobody has even remotely suggested such a thing. No clue where you are deriving that from. In fact, it was pointed out that drafting Russell Okung and moving Albert to Guard or RT would give the line a 2-fold upgrade. Doesn’t sound like any panick going on there, it sounds like a great value with just one draft pick. Conversely, one could make the argument that drafting 2 DB’s in the top 50 — both who arguably could be considered reaches — could be just as easily considered “declaring a state of emergency” now couldn’t it? Do you think the 49ers and their fans are considering the drafting of OT Davis at #11 and G Iupati at #17 to be along the lines of pushing panic buttons? No way — they have two O-Lineman that they are just thrilled with & guess what — they got S Taylor Mays in the 2nd round, who just happens to be bigger and faster than Berry & long term may end up being the best Safety in this years draft, if he gets the right coaching. Your logic is flawed.

BTW, your preference of grooming 6th or 7th round picks for the O-Line is exactly what the Chiefs have been trying to do for the past decade & exactly the biggest reason they’ve won just 10 games in the last 3 years — IT DOESN’T WORK !!. But, like I said before, if you and the Chiefs brass want to go on undermining the need to shore up the O-Line and pass on chances to acquire blue chip prospects, you’ll have to be content with being at the bottom & always looking up.