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Originally Posted by Superturtle
Meh. We went from the literal worst team in the league to the playoffs in the first year of Reid/Smith. I know it doesn't appeal to anyone here, but the team needed to appeal to the crowd that just wanted to see a competent football team again. Shit was ****ing dire the last 2 or so years of the Pioli era.
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They could have accomplished that with a lot of dudes, less expensive dudes. The team Andy Reid inherited was very talented, just needed competent coaching and organization and a non-fuqstiq QB who was being forced on the coach.
Instead of locking up Smith after 2013, they could have instead locked up Justin Houston and saved a good dose of money from extending him after his awesome 2014.
If there's anything our easily satisfied, low expectation fanbase has proven, it's that people will flock out for a team that scrapes into the playoffs and has no shot at playoff success.
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Originally Posted by Hoover
WTF?
Dude, good luck finding a QB that will suit up and be healthy for almost five years. Seriously. It's like you all forgot about the Haurd, Thigpen, Croyel, Brady Quinn, Orton, Cassel shit show years.
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Just because those guys were garbage doesn't mean I'm going to be satisfied with a guy who steadily lived between "average" NFL starter and "bottom third" NFL starter.
Yay, he protected the football and didn't get hurt. Whoop de ****ing do.
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Originally Posted by jjchieffan
Tell me who was available in 2013 that could have provided equivalent play and been a steady placeholder until we found Mahomes.
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I think you could have found a lot of guys who would have given KC 80-90 percent of what Alex Smith did for most of his tenure.
Shit, one of them was on the roster (Daniel). Smith didn't do anything you wouldn't expect a good backup QB to pull off.
Carson Palmer would have been a better option.
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Originally Posted by Mother****erJones
Didn’t know trading up 17 spots for a QB is “lucky” good to know. Lol at his use of lucky. How did we get so lucky STaylor26? Sometimes you have to ignore the idiots man.
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Originally Posted by staylor26
What an awful take. It couldn’t have worked out any better for us and to chalk it up as getting “lucky” when we aggressively made a move to go get our guy is beyond ****ing reeruned.
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My point with the "luck" factor is ... even finding a willing partner who would make the trade is a stroke of luck. Good evaluation, but the cookie had to crumble just right for KC to make that trade.
It could have worked out better in not completely wasting five years of time.
The Chiefs are in good shape now, but could be in even better shape had one of those second-round picks been turned into a good young player. Maybe it's a LB. Maybe it's a pass rusher. I don't care.
But give me some pairing of Palmer/Daniel/Moore/etc with those two picks instead of Alex Smith, as well as the saved salary from 2014+, and I'm certain I come out no worse and possibly better.