Reid pulled Wisniewski off the heap last year late in the season and then he played in the Super Bowl for us and got a big contract somewhere else. Worst this does is delays his growth by a year. We'll be fine.

Cool, we get an extra year of cheap control if he turns out to be a talented OL. Enjoy quarantine, my guy.

you're literally the most reeruned high school graduate that iowa ever pooped out. jesus christ, you've gotten by with the 'omg he was from the first day of chiefsplanet! and he insults people!' schtick for decades literally.

you should be kinda sad, really. you're still iowanian from 7/31/2000.

bro, I've graduated high school, college, gotten a phd, gone through a childless divorce, gotten married, had two kids, and gotten a chiefs super bowl. this and many life events have shaped me since then. many personal beliefs and things have changed, I've evolved.

you're still you. the average person changes fundamentally every seven years or so data says. you're still mongoloid iowanian. god I feel so bad for brideiowanian. do you drag your knuckles when you walk still, all these two decades later? ever gotten a 23 and me? I suspect a lot of neanderthal DNA.

****ing evolve, man. life changes, you need to change with it otherwise you're just another boomer.

Good luck to him. Allows him to get more familiar with the offense and rest up that knee fully.

After seeing the mess the Marlins and Cardinals staff and players have gotten themselves into because of a couple of stupid selfish ****wads, don't blame a single person for opting out of that type of environment.

Not sure how he can get more familiar with the offense while having zero contact (even remote contact) with the team until April 2021.

The part I dont get is how college football has extra bye weeks built in with the expectation some shit will happen. The NFL hasnt made any adjustments. I just dont see how things will go smoothly 16 weeks in a row with no interruptions and when those happen then what? Are teams going to have to forfeit games?

Did they take away his playbook? His ability to talk to coaches?

He's now like Ryan Reynolds when he spent an entire movie in a coffin burried in the sand.

I don't recall asking for your resume' Anteachfa.

Your choice to be a fan.

He can't.

Anteachfa is a quality chirp tho

A bit unimaginative and par for the course, but it’s the one thing in life he didn’t bungle completely

Delaying a season just seems stupid for many reasons.

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Totally get LDT and Damien opting out. Damien because he wants to be there for his mother and LDT because of all the people who need help.

Don't get the decision by Niang one bit. Apparently protesting for BLM is okay but playing football is too dangerous in terms of catching covid. Not a good very sign of his love for the game, or maybe he's just not that bright. Very disappointing. He just pissed away the opportunity of a lifetime.

He went to protests?

:rolleyes:

I think you need to take a math lesson.

2,000,000 cases GLOBALLY not deaths.

More realistic that 20,000,000 had it and most recovered. Asymptomatic.

32,800 dead in NY
15,840 dead in NJ
9,800 dead in Cali
8,600 dead in Mass
7,700 dead in IL

Top 5 states with deaths and all heavily leaning Democratic voters. That's a good thing

Get this stupid **** out of the thread.

Apparently you don’t know the opt-out rules... the coaches/team can’t have any contact with an opted-out player. It’s similar to the lockout rules of no contact

side question

What is your phd in?

Some dumbshits actually want to delay/cancel the season over a 2% positive test rate to-date (all asymptomatic/mild symptoms) and 2% of players opting out.

What? He pissed away the opportunity of a lifetime? Is he perma-banned from the NFL now?

That's like choosing between cowshit and horseshit.

Genetics. Also a ton of infectious disease research peppered in.

So he’ll basically be a rookie next year with hopefully regularly schedule OTA’s and training camp.

He can learn the playbook like any other rookie. Not sure why this is such a big deal

The dude is from San Diego County so the answer is an unequivocal "Yes" to all of the above.

Two things to keep in mind regarding Niang:

1. He's coming off of a serious hip injury, so it's more likely than not that he wouldn't be ready to play Week 1 and maybe not even by Week 17.

2. His contract tolls to next year, so the Chiefs will have a little cap savings in 2020 that could be used on a veteran replacement.

3. His contract with the Chiefs will now expire the end of the 2024 season.

Personally, I see it as a Win-Win for the player and the organization. Niang will continue to rehab at home without the pressure of being forced on the field too soon, while the Chiefs will have him until the end of 2024, which wouldn't have happened had he chosen to play this Fall.

What a ****ing joke

Dude, WTF is wrong with you? People dying from a transmissible disease is never a good thing. Who cares what their political ideology is? I fall on the right side of the aisle too, but wow. :eek: Why would you care more about being right than having mass numbers of people die? :shake:

Let's review, professor.
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You're right though, I am consistent. Everyone in my life knows exactly what they can expect from me, dependability. Every friday that I'm available pick up a friend with Down Syndrome and do things like go for snacks, bring him to my office, let him drive my truck in a parking lot and treat him with respect. It's good to see character show itself, Professor Anteachfa.

If you're a tool, it's an off brand dollar store set made of chineseium.

He’s a worthless old **** that has to pay for sex because he’s so miserable that no one would want to be around him without getting money.

Done.

Thanks.

This is a fair response and I hadn't considered his injury. That said, I can't imagine coming to the team, being under their supervision and rehab wouldn't be a more productive solution.

Well, people flip put over something with a less than .001 death rate, so are you really surprised.

JFC, banned how many times and still can't wait to show his ass as being a vile human being.

I think it make a sense for Niang and the Chiefs.

He gets introduced to the Chiefs way during a messed up offseason, then gets all year to get prepared. If this was a first round pick I'd be a little pissed, but he's a third round guy and its not like Andy plays these guys right out of the gate anyway.

Haven’t you heard? His NFL career is doomed. DOOMED1!1!1!1!!1

No, but he had a starting position sitting there waiting for him and who knows if it will be there next season.

LMAO

No, he did not.

They have shutdown the airport and banned air travel in/out of San Diego?

San Diego airport traffic is down by 96%, so Damien Williams and his crew will have the airport mostly to themselves during the NFL season.

:rolleyes:

Appears that White isn't actually opting out now.

So that's unexpected.

"I'd sure love to play football for ya'll, but boy oh boy I'd hate to catch that nasty cold that's been goin round."
He should be online filing for the $600 a week like the rest of America. How much is this guy gonna make this year sitting on his fatass?? 150k? 200k?

Wait, I thought this was about White. I’m confused.

He doesn’t live in SD, right?

Yeah, apparently, I am, too.

Damien Williams lives in the San Diego area while Niang is in Connecticut. I don't know off the top of my head where White lives.

The deadline passed and luckily the NFL managed to avoid any huge names opting out.

College football isn't so lucky as Greg Rousseau and Micah Parsons opted out of the college season and they are top 10 level draft picks.

I’m sure that was very disappointing for you.

Damn I was hoping he would.

I was hoping you’d get hit by a truck for calling Damien Williams, our SB hero, a “pussy”.

Looks like we’re both disappointed.

We will have a better OL than we did last year, I think. Osemele, Williams, Remmers and getting Rankin back is really solid depth behind a mostly experienced OL. I’d surely have a guy like Allen on speed dial though.

HE LEAD THEM.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.kan...243304766.html

If it weren’t for him having the benefit of his hip having the year to heel, I’d be a little more interested in why he opted out.

Honestly, this is perfect for his long term career with us.

You always disappoint me.

Wasn't Rankin placed on the PUP list? I could be mistaken, but when Thornhill was placed on the PUP list, there was someone else added to that list too, and I was thinking it was Rankin.

Sounds like a load of trash if you ask me.

It's no worse than the past two years

Williams is an UDFA.
Remmers is the Cam Eriving of the right side of the OL. Which makes that a negative. Remmers can't stay with a team. He is a journeyman that is not much.
Osemele might be something if he is truly recovered and back to where he was in 2016.
Rankin was put on PUP.

Our OL is a ?.

Exactly. Last year we had huge question marks with Reiter and Wylie. And our starter at LG to begin the 2018 season was Cameron ****ing Erving.

Reid will find a combination that will at the very least tread water. At least until somebody gets injured and Veach nails a cheap midseason Wisniewski-type signing.

And besides that. Are we that much worse off at guard without Niang? Has he played inside on the OL at all in the past two years? Not saying he can't, but that would have inevitably been a tricky transition with limited offseason work and no preseason games.

IMO, 2021 NFL Draft KC will draft OL with ( 1st-3rd) draft capital to protect The Half Billion Dollar Man Patrick Mahomes

I'm not even sure why CPers were penciling in Niang at left guard when the guy's been a starting right tackle since his freshman year in college.

Wylie was more effective at Right Guard than Left Guard so while they may go through a few guys at LG, the other three positions will be the same as last year. Reiter, Wylie and Schwartz already have some serious chemistry from 2018, with Mahomes throwing for 50 TD's and Hunt on pace for 1,400 before being cut.

I think it just goes back to Chiefs fans always worrying about the offensive line, which is ridiculous considering that since Reid arrived, he's been plugging in JAG after JAG after JAG while winning 12 games a year and a Super Bowl.

Whatever man, I’m just here to watch this place eat itself

Wow yea that kind of makes him looks like he’s full of shit, but like you said it’s probably for the best anyways.

Everyone's OL is a ? outside of dallas. Everyone's Remmers is a Cam Erving, just as everyone's Erving is a Remmers. Just how many teams have starting caliber swing tackles laying around?

What's changed in the last 3 weeks to change that? When healthy, our OTs are still as good a pair as anyone has in the game. And one of them is ALWAYS healthy, the other had a pretty good little streak going until last year.

The IOL has been a revolving door for essentially Andy's entire tenure here.

What's changed? Especially in relation to everyone else in the game?

I wouldn't pencil is any rookies to start this year, outside of probably CEH out of necessity.

No offseason work was a crusher for rookies.

Our OL is not improved as he stated.
The loss of LDT and Niang is a huge hit to our depth at OL.

Final opt-out count... 66 out of 2,880 players opted out... barely 2% of total active players.

Gay will probably start out in sub packages

I wouldn't expect it. Not 0%, but I just wouldn't count on any rookies contributing much outside of CEH.

I sure hope your right. I’d rather not have a 330lb man come up the middle with a head of steam and **** up our football savior.

Well Spags sure did sound like he expects Gay to win one of the starting OLB jobs.

It’s not like there’s a lot of competition there either.

I hope these shitheels don't get a ring if we win the SB again.

Niang came out of college banged up. This is another year for him to heal. This is my only positive.

KurtCobain needs to get his ass in here and start repping his boy Yasir Durant

:bang: ****er

Veach said he was a guard.

He said they’d try him inside at guard but also run with the tackles and only if there was a full training camp.


The plan may be totally different next summer.

Anyone else really intrigued by Darryl Williams? I think that guy might stick, especially now with this opt out. He seems to have starter upside at guard or center.

Traditionally I'd say yes. I've always preferred C/G to be a little on the shorter side as I've felt like it helps w/ pad-level issues and leverage on the interior (where leverage is king).

But Andy doesn't seem to agree with me. He likes having tall guys even on the inside when he can. And with more guys like Jones plating DT at 6'6'', he's probably onto something. A 6 ft guy is gonna struggle like crazy to get a punch in on someone like Jones because he's just not going to have to reach to get to him before Jones has his hands in his chest and is driving him backwards.

With the way Andy's built his OL over the last several years, I think Williams will have an uphill climb outside of maybe making the roster as versatile interior depth.

Yeah, it's a loss of depth. But Niang was a huge question mark if only for health concerns. You can't pencil him in as any kind of clear upgrade, especially if Rankin manages to make it back in any kind of shape. And Osemele brings the same health issues that LDT did but with legitimate Pro Bowl upside that LDT didn't have.

Ultimately I just can't see any kind of support for the idea that the line is WORSE. We replaced LDT w/ a guy with the same floor and a higher ceiling. Niang was a wild card in his own right who would've essentially taken Wisniewki's roster spot. Okay, well we got Wiz off the street in week 6 - maybe that was more about the system than the player. The player himself was street free agent depth.

And if Fisher doesn't miss 9 weeks this year, the line will be HUGELY improved over last year, regardless of what else happens on the interior. Again - Cameron Erving took more snaps at LT last year than Eric Fisher did.

Yes, there's absolutely a path to this line being better than last year's line. All we need is a healthy Fisher and its essentially a lock. Losing a rookie (who had no camp and was coming off a serious injury) and a declining G doesn't change that.

Are these new CP buzzwords? I haven't logged on much lately. Anyways LMK!!

My best guess right now is:

Fisher - Osemele - Reiter - Wylie - Schwartz

Remmers is your swing tackle. Rankin and Allegretti are your interior backups.

And we’ll keep 10 OL...maybe more so you’ve got other guys in there as well.

Is it the best offensive line out there? No. But we’ve got great OTs and Reid has shown the ability to find at least average starters on the interior.