Originally Posted by
brdempsey69
Try both.
People's Exhibit A:
2009 draft. Pioli uses the 3rd overall pick to draft a 4-3 D-Lineman to put into a 3-4 defense. Meanwhile, Thompson uses his top draft pick to take a true 3-4 NT that fits a 3-4 scheme and then trades up into the lower part of the 1st round to get an attack OLB to further enhance the 3-4 scheme. Try telling me that Jackson has panned out better than Raji or Matthews -- FORGET IT!!
People's Exhibit B:
Pioli's decision to draft 2 situational players in the 2nd round of the 2010 draft, instead of trying to land starters for both, the O-Line and Defensive Front 7 even though there were players available to help in both areas. By contrast, Thompson got his situational player with last selection of the 2nd round round in 2011, in Randall Cobb. Cobb is a far superior talent compared to Dex and Arenas and was regarded as by many as the best player on the board when the Packers took him. Dex and Arenas were NOT regarded as the BPA when the Chiefs selected them, they were major reaches.
BTW, what is the likelihood that Thompson would have traded a 2nd round pick for Cassel & paid him the huge contract that Pioli did, if Thompson were the Chiefs GM at the time......NONE!!!!
I'll give him a pass on Houston, Baldwin, Powe, Hudson, & Lewis. Succop was just luck, not talent evaluation. The others that you mentioned are all reaches and have provided very little impact.
You also forgot to mention that the best players on the Chiefs roster such as Hali, Flowers, Charles, DJ, Bowe, weren't drafted by Pioli and do you really believe that the guys Pioli drafted could take up the slack if Hali, Flowers, Charles, DJ, Bowe weren't on the roster? Fat chance.
Sorry, but that ain't good enough. They weren't a playoff caliber team in either 2010 or 2011, as evidenced by the fact that they did not beat a single team with a winning record in 2010 and the 4 blowout losses to the AFC East in 2011. By contrast, Carl and Marty had the Chiefs competing with the big boys by 1990, their 2nd year. Pioli is in year 4 and this team has shown no progress as far as contending with the NFL's top teams.
That is no excuse. All other teams had to endure the lockout. The 2010 Packers and 2011 Giants had to deal with even more injury casualties & they still wound up winning Super Bowls. Charles loss was significant, Berry and Moeaki, not so much.
Where is it etched in stone that it takes 3-5 years to turn things around? Carl and Marty had this team in the postseason in 2 years and that 1990 squad was good enough to compete with the big boys in the NFL at that time. We are talking year 4 for Pioli and this team is getting blown out on a weekly basis in 2012. What the fans want to see is their team making progress towards becoming a contender each year & Potato Head hasn't gotten it done in his 4 years & mostly because his drafts have consisted of mostly reaches and misfires.
So what? There isn't anything to lose at this point after 4 years of very little progress since Pioli took over. Roster changes happen with every team, every year, and coaching changes have already been like a revolving door for the Chiefs under Pioli. So what would be the difference? Other than a new GM who knows how to draft properly & is willing to try to get a franchise QB on this team, which Pioli has done neither.
Never heard of such a thing regarding GM's & I can't even think of any remote examples. Pioli has had 4 years to right the ship & yet the ship only appears to be sunken. He seems more like a politician than a GM, anyway.
From where? Gutting it out of a box of Cracker Jacks? He certainly hasn't done it in the draft or at the QB position & there's been a revolving door of OC's in the coaching ranks. It's come to head and taken its toll in 2012, and anybody looking at it with any sense of diplomacy can easily see that the Chiefs aren't going to have long term contention with Pioli as GM.
That's already happened with the easy schedule that they had in 2010, and luck regarding injuries that they had in 2010. Here we are 2 years later & what are fans demanding? Pioli be replaced, of course.
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