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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
A great GM builds a roster that can continually, year in and year out, contend for a Super Bowl Championship.
In 5 years of Free Agent and draft acquisitions, this team is no closer to a Super Bowl than it was when Dorsey arrived in 2013.
Furthermore, the Prime Years of guys like Tamba Hali, Eric Berry, Justin Houston and even Dontari Poe, all of whom were on the roster before Dorsey arrived, have been wasted.
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I think the failings of the Chiefs over Dorsey’s tenure can be explained by injuries, excessive contracts to players who should have been let go, and failure to find a franchise QB until too late. Tamba’s prime years were over before Dorsey got here. Berry lost a year to cancer. Houston got paid and then was MIA for the better part of two seasons. Poe hurt his back and was not the same. You can say what you want about depth, but the only teams that overcome injuries to key guys are teams with franchise, top QBs. Smith is a good QB, but we all agree he isn’t a put the team on your back and win no matter what scrubs are playing.
There’s a reason that we continually see many of the same teams in the post-season. The teams that make it stay healthy or have great QBs that can mask the effect of injuries. For the Chiefs to have faired better than we have over the last few years we needed to have more guys stay healthy or have Smith make up for it. We haven’t and Smith hasn’t quite been able to get it done. We have been surprisingly close, but just not quite there.