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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Well shit, if you want to dig that deep it's Pioli's fault for leaving exactly zero roster depth.
Dorsey's approach isn't exactly secret; horizontal roster building. He wants depth stacked deep across the roster (as opposed to Pioli's stars and scrubs rosters). So he's been using a ton of draft capital to build that depth.
The problem is that when the depth wasn't already there, if you miss on someone (and you will), it creates a hole that you can't backfill as easily as you'd like.
As for the Carr issue - really, if Dorsey didn't take Carr because he had Smith already, that's on Dorsey. Smith's extension was after the '14 draft - the Chiefs weren't married to Smith yet and Dorsey's the final say. Reid's position was wholly reasonable coming into the 2013 season - he's a guy that just got ****ing fired and is taking over a team that experienced a fan mutiny mere months ago. He couldn't go into the 2013 season with no friggen quarterback. So the Smith move had to be made - it just did. And bark and complain all you want, but 2 second rounders for a guy that's given you credible quarterback play for 5 years is actually a pittance. That trade worked out well.
Dorsey can't hide behind Reid here - if he wanted Carr, he should've taken Carr. At that point you don't extend Smith in August of '14 and his iffy '14 season is probably enough to spark the QB move.
You can't blame Reid for Dorsey passing on Carr. Dorsey had a similar roadmap in front of him to what he has now and he paid much more dearly to bring in Mahomes. Dorsey just didn't have the juevos to make the move at the time.
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I don't believe it had anything to do with juevos.
I think it had to do with trust.
Andy Reid believed he could get more out of Alex than he actually could.
Dorsey trusted that he would.