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Life is changing..
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: NW Missouri
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Chiefs hire Steve Spagnuolo as new defensive coordinator
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#1636 |
SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS
Join Date: Aug 2013
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No one will trade for Watkins’ $21M cap hit next year
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#1637 |
MVP
Join Date: May 2001
Location: midtown KC
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#1638 |
MVP
Join Date: May 2001
Location: midtown KC
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We need to do the Pats' thing. Reclamation projects on the cheap, solid but aging vets with a little left in the tank to fill spots as stopgaps, and draft solid. No more big contracts unless it's homegrown guys at premium positions that you think you can't replace.
By the way-I think Jones and Hill qualify. |
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#1639 | |
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Join Date: Feb 2010
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#1640 | |
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: midtown KC
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Don't bank on those guys, but you sign them and throw them into the mix and see if they sink or swim. But say, how about a Chris Long for DE? Proven leader, still had 7 sacks last year, and then pair him with a Jaylon Ferguson in the first? Long's salary was just shy of $3 million last year and ain't going up at 34. THAT is a Patriots style move. Know what I'm sayin? |
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#1641 | |
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Join Date: Feb 2010
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Had they platooned Amerson with a 2nd or 3rd round CB it might not be so bad. If they platoon Speaks or Kpass with a Chris Long you have all your options covered. |
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#1642 | |
'Tis my eye!
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Chiefsplanet
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The deadline is July 15th. There have been a TON of tag offers signed on the 14th and 15th over the years. |
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#1643 |
MVP
Join Date: May 2001
Location: midtown KC
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of course, I say that but still like Landon Collins on a long term deal. But he's 25 and a great player with ties to Spagnuolo.
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#1644 | |
'Tis my eye!
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Chiefsplanet
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He never rushed the passer "without his hand in the dirt". I never said he was a poor pass rusher. I said he'd never played standing up before. The Chiefs were asking him to do things he'd really never done before. |
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#1645 |
MVP
Join Date: May 2001
Location: midtown KC
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EXACTLY. In this way, you're less likely to get caught with your pants down if an injury hits, or an aging vet just hits the wall.
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#1646 | |
'Tis my eye!
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Chiefsplanet
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Good teams make the Amerson and Scandrick moves. Some of them actually work out, even for the Chiefs. The problem is that can't be your ONLY strategy. It has to be multi-faceted. Like Chris said, you can't bank on it. You bank on the draft. Signing guys like that is more like buying penny stocks. |
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#1647 |
Colorado Chief Fan
Join Date: Feb 2006
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If the Chiefs intend to tag and trade Ford, they are already talking to teams who may be interested. I suspect they will have a deal in place before the new league year officially opens for business.
Pass rushers of Fords caliber and age rarely become available. I think we will be surprised at what a team will be willing to give up to get him. Think about it, we picked Dee in the first round and it took him five years to get to this level. So, a team could use its first rounder on an edge rusher and may have to wait years for this kind of production, OR use it on Ford and have him step in immediately!! I think we will know in early March how this is going to go. |
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#1648 | |
MVP
Join Date: May 2001
Location: midtown KC
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this what the Patriots have done for YEARS, with the Rodney Harrison's and Junior Seau types. Once great players with a little left in the tank, plug them in, but draft their replacements at the same time; the kids learn how the legends go about their business and take over when they're ready. |
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#1649 | |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Oct 2007
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Also, you fail to acknowledge that we upgraded from Amerson, to Scandrick, to Ward, who played as well as anybody we could’ve signed or drafted those last 3 weeks. It clearly wasn’t lost on Veach that we had a hole at corner, hence us trying to sign Kyle Fuller also. It’s easy to sit there and say they should’ve signed or drafted somebody. Last years free agent and rookie corner classes simply were not very good at all. |
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#1650 | |
'Tis my eye!
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Chiefsplanet
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It isn't his fault that Sutton wouldn't get Lucas on the field. |
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