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Originally Posted by Megatron96
It depends on what your definition of "worked out" really is. If you're criteria is "we won a SB with that guy" then the list is pretty short. But that's an unfair metric IMO, because even just getting to a SB is an extremely rare and difficult thing to do, and it requires an entire team to get that done. Much less win one.
On the other hand, if your parameters are statistical production, leadership, etc. then the list is significantly larger.
Take Alex Smith for example. Alex signed a 4-year extension, including 45 million guaranteed, IIRC back in 2014 to be the Chiefs starting QB. Now despite the fact that he ultimately couldn't get the Chiefs to the big game, he was in fact well worth his contract. He took over a team that in the previous season went 2-14 or whatever it was, and led the Chiefs to five consecutive winning seasons, four of which totaled at least ten wins, two consecutive AFC-W championships, and four playoff appearances.
Except between 1990-95, the Chiefs had never experienced a such a period of consistent success in franchise history.
And in reference to your "gambling" scenario, the fact that the Chiefs ultimately lost on Houston and Berry actually tells us that the Chiefs should gamble on Jones, mathematically speaking. The law of averages says that gambling on Jones should work out positively for the Chiefs because those two gambles didn't work out.
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I dont recall Alex making insane top qb money, but sure. So, one guy then?
As for your take on gambling, that because Houston and Berrys contracts flopped, and ****ed us for 15 million dead money this year, and 8 million next, your answer is go ahead and gamble another 100 million alongside the 100 mil you already have riding on Clark, who has already in his first year battled numerous injuries for no other reason than "Hey, we are due for one of these things to work out eventually." ?
I'll just say I disagree and leave it at that because i cannot begin to put into words how completely ridiculous a mindset like that is.