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Originally Posted by dirk digler
The bad thing is alot of those same people are probably Chief ST holders and while I blame the Hunt family for never ever drafting a 1st rd stud QB this fan base is also to blame. Why? Because there is a very large majority of this fan base that doesn't have the patience to watch a young QB develop and the Hunt family knows this. They would rather have Elvis Grbac, Steve Bono, Damon Huard, Matt Cassel, or Alex Smith's be the QB than watch a young QB develop.
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Ridiculous nonsense. The Hunts have nothing to do with not drafting a QB. In fact they drafted one pretty high in the 2nd round in the 90's.
That is fully on Peterson, Marty, Herm and Pioli. It was simply a matter of having a competitive team in the 90's and thinking they could win with defense and a run game.
When they hired DV Green knew the offense and was available. Not to mention he was never the issue with those teams. Herm took over they had Green and its when they thought they could develop Croyle.
Pioli took over when Cassel looked like a good bet and he knew him.
When we had the #1 pick there wasn't a QB worth a shit. You can bet your ass were it the year before they would have taken Luck.
I don't think Clark magically changed his stance on all this last year, it was all about timing.
Hindsight is 20/20 but frankly most of the issue was the Chiefs were never thinking they were in rebuild mode or when they were the timing didn't work out. Ever since the rookie wage scale drafting and signing a QB has been cheaper than a free agent one.