Decastro Mania and Scott Pioli

and Martin is over rated. In fact I think Martin could easily bust.

So were not lost without hope :)

…………If DeCastro is available when The Chiefs are on the clock, IMHO it’s a no brainer. If he is off the board, you then have to look and see if any really good OT are still on the board. But I have a feeling they will not be. And even if they were I believe trading back and then reaching a bit for Konz is the next best option. I’d rather have the #1 ranked C in the draft then settling for the 2 or 3 best OT.

But as you said Ups; “the pooch could get it good” and without any lubricant.

I’m cautious about drinking the Kool-Aid, though. Watching Senior Bowl week into the wee hours, tonight. Wild card player I’m looking at, now, is that 237-pound LB, who runs a 4.4 40, Zach Brown. I know he’s a 4-3 projection, but a player like that, and maybe swapping out your SILB is your first move toward nickel. Makes your defense more versatile, and might be just the TE killer teams are looking for, these days.

You can go ahead and leave your bigs in the game, more, and be big enough AND fast enough to take on today’s double TE sets, where you RARELY see both TEs being very good blockers. It’s nice to have a guy big enough to not fear contact at the line against a significantly bigger TE, and at the same time have that guy have the jets to close on anything that TE can do. A guy like that can also take on a portion of Berry’s run-stuffing role, freeing him up to get in touch with his Ed Reed side, and maybe doing more pure cover stuff.

I usually don’t advocate for this kind of LB, but that 4.4 speed is a real draw. If he has a good head, I don’t care if he doesn’t mix it up with OLs much. In fact, I don’t want him to. Comparisons are made to Demorrio Williams, only this kid is way faster.

For a player compared to a future hall of famer

This is all ridiculous, no guard is being taken at #11.

and no 3-4 DE is being taken at #3, and no safety is going to be taken at #5.

I don’t know if DeCastro is Pioli’s guy. But if he is:

I think Pioli would try to trade down, since DeCastro should fall a little farther than 12.
If he can’t trade down, he has shown that he will take the guy at the top his board regardless of whether analysts call it a reach.

This is all ridiculous, no guard safety is being taken at #11 #5

we like you SO much that you get to ride for FREE!

yet you put in your post “So to me it’s trade up for RG3”… Is that your opinion or something you think Pioli would EVER actually consider? Dont forget he is a spread QB and Pioli thinks “All spread QB’s are Garbage!”

Cookies for DeCastro!

A finesse tackle who cant deal with the speed rush, and you want him over Glen? Srs?

Pioli thinks longterm so he would’ve seen guys like DeCastro and Konz coming

My thought is that the “immediate need” is more of a product of a “rebuilding team” which KC no longer is (IMHO)

good teams, including those Pioli helped make draft decisions for, draft for current/future need AND depth and value…

I think one could argue that KC now (for the first time in recent memory) has a solid starting lineup in place (with Richardson as the possible exception) and can draft role players, depth players and value picks more than “immediate needs”

Look at last year’s draft, I think WR was a need, but they had Bowe and Breaston coming in, so most were surprised they took Baldwin… but he’s a long term pick, and they weren’t worried about getting huge production from him in year one… same with Hudson… and Stanzi… and Powe…

Also, I think people forget that there is more than one round in the draft… just because he takes a stud like DeCastro or Konz in the first doesn’t mean he cant come back and address other “more urgent” needs in rounds 2-7, not to mention FA

finally, Pioli DID admit they need to improve the O Line, and that doesn’t JUST mean RT

on Carr, who’s developed into as good or better in coverage as Flowers, imo. Carr’s always had more long speed and size, and his technique has improved every year. Flowers is very very good, but I think he hit his ceiling sooner, and Carr’s ceiling is looking higher, to me, at this point. When he’s in the inside leverage and you try to beat him over the top, you’re rolling the dice on a pick, and Carr has mastered both

1. getting his head around and
2. fighting to high-point the ball.

A year ago, he learned to get his head around, and last year, he was actually locating the ball and making a play for it, rather than being just a blind body in perfect position, but no idea where the ball was. Bigger WRs would reach right past him for the ball, even though his feet had put him in perfect position. This last season, he turned the corner and got a pick or three in those same situations.

Ultimately, I’d like to see Flowers end up playing more FS-type stuff, but so far, he hasn’t shown he has the head (heart?) for it. I think eyeball-to-eyeball, you give up a little something if he’s your 1st line of defense, but I think his combo of ball skills and anticipation would make for a lot of x-ray interceptions. The hidden weakness in that inverted coverage I like to see is if the CB who switched to the back end doesn’t understand the situation or doesn’t have his head in the job description, back there.

no reason to try and get him to play a different position

IF KC takes him… plug him in at LG, and move on

We won the Denver game 7-3. Good luck with that offensive production week in week out. What do you want to address? ILB FS RB? We’re not at the luxury pick level yet,..close but not yet.

Line play is the first thing I look for. It’s the main reason I’m so quick to defend current skill players. it’s not that i like THEM so much, but that I hate seeing my team get the worst of it in the trenches. It’s hard for me to really make the call on the skill players, until I see them opening holes, and basically winning the surge.

Everyone talks about wanting a franchise QB, but bad O-Line can cause you to cast away the QB in the churn who COULD throw darts, on the right team, but you end up going for the 2nd-best passer, because you need his mobility. Nothing like dominant pass rush to remind us all that Manning and Brady were NEVER solo acts.