I wanted him or Pickens over Moore, but Karlaftis felt like a no-brainer where we took him.

And yeah, that's no bueno for a guy with some character flags on his resume.

Jermaine Johnson was another popular draft forum guy.

2.5 sacks last year.

Yeah, a couple folks wanted us to deal this year's 1st to move up into the top 8(ish) to secure Johnson.

I never saw that at all.

He's an all time "Draftnik Bullshit" guy, IMO. That's a guy the Bruglers/McShay/Kiper/Jeremiah crowd just kept pushing up their boards and when the draft was over you have NFL GM's saying "Man, I don't know what they were talking about. Nobody had him that high..."

And this year they took the mask off altogether with some guys drafting Hendon Hooker to Kansas City or some random 3rd rounder in the 1st because "I wanted to start a conversation about this guy..." (Translation: I got something from his agent).

The Draft Gurus are universally full of shit at this point.

Yup.

I was really happy with this pick I expect a lot of growth with a year in the weight and meeting rooms.

I don’t think Brugler generally falls in that category. But the others definitely do and suck.

Oh he absolutely does

And working with Tamba in the offseason. The kid wants to succeed. I have no doubt he will!

As a bit of a DE junkie, I’m even more excited for Felix. I hope this is our Houston /Hali combo for the next few years.

No doubt. They both have totally different skill sets, and that’s perfect. Spags will dial up some magic! These guys gonna eat!!

Time to shine Purwho boy

Good game. 1.5 sacks today. I'd love to see him finish with 8+ this year.

He's on his way to the ring of honor.

I liked both the Karlaftis pick and the FAU pick. Great value end of the 1st in both cases.

Pretty sure Felix picked up a 1/2 sack today.

Hell with that, he's going double digits

I'm all in on this guy, all he does is get better, and Better, and BETTER

He actually looked very bendy today, he is a genuine student expanding his repertoire... that jiu-jitsu is paying off

This...he looked damn good today.

He was also solid against the run.

Hence "8+" ;)

If Karlaftis can be a 10 sack guy, and FAU keeps developing, this D-line could get real scary with Jones, Omenehue and Danna. And we know Spags knows what to do with scary D-lines.

minimum since he is a 1st rounder - I would like to see 12 to justify the pick.;)

The pick is already justified. He might be be a double digit sack guy, but 6-8 sacks a year is damn ****ing good at 31.

If his current trajectory holds, he's definitely good for that

8 sacks in his last 12 games.

Pretty damn good

One of my favorite players on the roster

A lot of people were down on Karlaftis in his draft year because he wasn't a prototype #1.

So what? He's still going to be very useful.

Absolutely correct. Folks don't tend to appreciate it, but he was outstanding all around today.

He’s really good

The whole line looked great today. Seems like something changed

Assuming they stay healthy, using combos of Karlaftis/Jones/Danna/Omenihu/Felix across the line is going to be fun

Can’t wait to get Omenihu on the field with George and Chris!

Holthus called him The Prime Minister of Greece today.

WTF?

Joe Cullen + young talent and Chris Jones.

If that's your only criteria for justifying this pick then you don't understand what this kid does for the defense. He's proved his worth already.

Like Frank Clark isn't on it?

Mark Schlereth is the Minister of Grease

Danna has really been a nice late round pick up. Sneaky good draft find by Veach.

Karlaftis was relentless today. Probably best game as a Chief. Even Felix looked very solid. This defensive line could be special as the season goes on.
Clark should give Joe Cullen a liftetime contract.

Karlaftis just kicks the ass of whoever is in front of him. He reminded me of the players the Bengals had collected on DL in his draft year.

We were missing that in prior years and now added Omenihu, Karlaftis, and FAU...

#CHIEFENSE

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Last year&#39;s version of George Karlaftis didn&#39;t show the capability of winning like this. He wins up the arc and bends the corner at 8 yards to get the sack.<br><br>The growth and improvement he has shown is a major testament to his work ethic. <a href="https://t.co/vscSCqMEXX">pic.twitter.com/vscSCqMEXX</a></p>&mdash; Zack Eisen (@zackeisen21) <a href="https://twitter.com/zackeisen21/status/1704320973863047365?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Again, Bert is once again ahead of the curve in going after cheap, talented DEs.

CHRIS JONES was NOT EVEN ON THE FIELD on that play LMAO

Let's also be fair here - it was a TE he was roasting.

Thats relevant even when talking about bend because those guys aren't gonna put a massive punch in your chest if you open it to turn. Just makes it a little easier.

But yes, he's looked awfully good.

what's interesting to me is how fast he transitions to pass rush on a play action pass

how did he know?

It really feels great to have young homegrown drafted pass rushers on the team again.

**** Frank Clark. I can't wait until one of these guys gets a non-coverage sack or two in the postseason so I can completely forget that mother****er was ever on this team in the first place.

A lot of times the lineman will tip it. It isn't typically that difficult for a DL to sniff those out.

It's the LBs and secondary that aren't keying on a DL and his step to decide what to do.

I would expect DEs to notice that sort of thing pretty quickly.

Is there anyone we're seriously at risk of doing this with at this point?

The Skyy support got real tepid, real fast. He's gonna get pretty fair treatment going forward. He'll be defended exactly as much as he earns.

Maybe Taylor? But he doesn't have fanboys. If anyone is a Taylor fanboy it's probably me. And I just think he'll be what he's always been - real nice pass protector who's okay in the running game.

I think our long national nightmare of being gaslighted by a weirdly large and shockingly vocal pile of ball washers may be over. I just don't see any candidates for it.

I still support Taylor. Hell, I support moving him to LT next year and letting Smith walk. Whenever the Eagles next play on SNF, I'm going to try to tune in so I can listen to Chris Collinsworth conveniently not talk about how he's lined up or how he's always the first guy out of his stance on the OL. I actually watched that Lions game at a sports bar with no audio feed into the restaurant, and I was super confused how and why I was looking at this much up-close Jawaan Taylor footage. When I figured out what they were showing, I was pretty pissed off. And of course it only got worse the rest of the game.

Everybody hates CEH, so I don't think anybody is going to try to find the hidden positives when there really aren't any. Veach is going to have to whiff on a big trade + expensive contract again in order to see a return of the Frank Clark phenomenon on this forum.

Just keep O.Shitty the hell away from our front office and we should be fine.

This profile pic thing with staylor is EXTEMELY confusing btw

Musta ate alot of gyros and winstrol because he looks damn good so far this year.

I’d bet on this guy over any pats fan in a fight to the death.

To be fair a TE was blocking him on that play.

*runs out of the thread, closes and locks door behind him

He has looked good. The defense looks elite. I don’t think our offense is going to need to be elite this year. We should be able to lean on our defense

Are they recreating the photo of planting the flag on Mount Suribachi, with Lawrence portraying the flag?

we planted our flag - IN HIS ASS!

On a side note, the Internet is great for communicating and learning and stuff, but the single best thing that the Internet has done is to give me the ability to replay a Chiefs play numerous times to watch every single player in detail. I love doing that.

Look how close Karlaftis came to another sack.

And this was 5 blocking 3. ��

Chiefs pass rush is headed to some scary places.

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This team is going to go 18-1, isn’t it?

If Veach is able to keep Jones in the middle these next few years while Felix and Karl develop into the monsters they have the potential to be….

That constantly frees up these linebackers….speeds up coverages…

How do you beat us?

17-2

the reidian run starts after we lose to Miami or something stupid

Watching the All-22 right now and i'm liking it when they rush Karlaftis and Chenal together.

I got a great nickname for that rush combo: White Power.

Get it? Cuz they're both white and like....powerful? HA

Chenal's closing speed is sick.

What happens when they get Thompson up to speed and get Omenihu back?

They’re going to be able to vaporize good OTs…

I’d go with “RockFest”

Karl and Chris instantly beat 4 OL and the only reason they didn’t get a sack is because they almost fell over each other.

Chris is at LE, making your analysis even scarier.

Turk Wharton getting going? LOL

Spags has more toys right now than he has EVER had, including on the 2007 Giants.

We will pitch at least two shutouts this year.

I mean…Jesus.

3 of those linemen had no clue where Turk or Karl went.

I know Jacksonvilles OL is trash, but they got depantsed.

Yeah well...I like White Power. It's both offensive and funny...and accurate. A throwback, if you will, to the limp bizkit era of comedy.

we've been watching our 3-man rush get SWALLOWED by any old OL for years

a storm is coming

i think the momentum has carried over from allowing only 37 points in two playoff games and 11 in the second half of the SB

go look at that 1st jones sack again

karlaftis got in the passing lane and forced trevor to hold the ball...he had kirk wide open

https://i.imgur.com/TRrZD4d.png

https://i.imgur.com/NmQBVs5.png

Woooow, they had George doubled and Jones singled up? LMAO

Not to mention getting in the passing lane. (I wondered what happened when he pulled it down.)

Those two are going to have so much fun together this year.

Noticed Karlaftis has an edge both physically and mentally he didn't have last year. He looks so much quicker and confident using his moves. Him next to Jones is going to be crazy.

That rep, to me, looks like an argument for DJ's point re Karlaftis maybe transitioning at some point to DT. His bend does look better, but guards REALLY can't deal with his get off. Omenihu, FAU and Karlaftis with Jones lined up over whoever the weak link on a line is. Pretty enticing

FAU is the hammer and Karlaftis is the anvil


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Jettio is coming for your ass, buddy.

Only slightly less subtle than Stormfront.

Chenal had 8 pass rush snaps...and 4 pressures.

When we can get pressure with 4, then bring a badass like Chenal or Gay too…

Man, I wish Brady was still playing.

FAU is Axe
Karlaftis is Smash

They're Demolition
Walking Disaster

That means Jones is Crush