KC Star: Clark looks forward to next season
Clark excited about an aggressive special teams that can win games and more:
http://www.kansascity.com/2013/02/01...s-forward.html Chiefs chairman Hunt looks forward to next season By RANDY COVITZ The Kansas City Star Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt is understandably pleased with the hirings of new head coach Andy Reid and general manager John Dorsey. After all, Hunt selected them. But Hunt is equally excited with another new addition to the Chiefs coaching staff — special-teams coordinator Dave Toub. “I think we really have a chance to take a step forward in special teams,” Hunt said Friday upon arriving in New Orleans for Super Bowl XLVII. “I grew up with the Chiefs during a period of time in the 1980s when Frank Gansz was the special-teams coach … widely regarded as one of the best in the league at that time and maybe one of the best ever. “You can think back to some of those seasons in the ’80s, when we won a lot of games with special teams. Well, that’s the mentality that the team is going to have with the new leadership. It’s something Andy believes in. Instead of trying not to make mistakes, we’re going to go out on special teams and try to win football games.” The Chiefs have not returned a kickoff for a touchdown since the 2009 season or a punt for a touchdown since the 2010 season opener. Toub was a very well-regarded special-teams coach during his nine seasons with the Chicago Bears. Chicago’s Devin Hester became the NFL’s all-time leader in kick-return touchdowns with 18, including a record 12 punt returns. After returning from the Senior Bowl last week, Reid, Dorsey and the new assistants have been poring over tapes of the Chiefs’ 2-14 season. “Andy has been very consistent,” Hunt said. “He thinks we have a lot of talent on the football team. He clearly understands there are things that have to be fixed. We have to be better offensively. That’s going to start with the quarterback position. He has to have better play from the quarterback. That’s one of his main focuses right now and will be through the spring.” When he was hired, Reid said he wanted to fully evaluate quarterbacks on the roster — Matt Cassel and Ricky Stanzi — before deciding on his next plan of action. “He’s not made a decision on those guys,” Hunt said of Cassel, who lost his starting job to Brady Quinn last year, and Stanzi, who has yet to play in a game in two years. “He’ll have a chance later this spring to see them in person. He’s had a chance to look at them on tape. I know he’s spent a lot of time focused on the young quarterbacks who will come out in the draft as well as thinking about other possibilities as to how we can improve ourselves at that position.” The Chiefs could take a quarterback with the first overall pick in the draft if they believe the right player is there. “It’s exciting to have the No. 1 pick,” Hunt said. “We don’t ever want to have it again because of the season you have to have to get there. It creates a lot of possibilities for us. There’s probably not that franchise quarterback who will be sitting there like there was last year, but still, with that No. 1 pick, you have a lot of options in terms of trades or just taking a player who can really help you upgrade.” Hunt, who lives in Dallas, said he pays more attention to the Chiefs than many people think. “The last four or five years after my father passed away, I do spend a lot of my time, in that case speaking with the general manager … thinking through the strategy of who do we need to re-sign, how can we get better at this position?” he said. Now, with both Reid and Dorsey reporting directly to him, Hunt plans to keep an even stronger pulse on the organization. “With the change in our reporting structure,” Hunt said, “it will probably be more so because I’m having those conversations with both John and Andy. I want our fans to understand I care. There was a feeling in (Kansas City) that I didn’t care. Nothing could be further from the truth.” |
Reading btl, Reid is getting a Qb in the draft. Geno? Who knows, but Reid is taking a QB in the first two rounds. He knows he has shit at Qb right now
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Alex Smith is also a QB.
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Thanks for firing ***** and saving our Chiefs. Now back the **** off and let the men talk. Go play with your family fortune. We have work to do. |
the deal is done.
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I'm looking forward to next season too! |
Yes, Clark. Please let us relive the 80s. Those were the glory days. I am now convinced the Chiefs are going to fail to draft a QB #1. Which basically makes all of this a waste of ****ing time.
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Chiefs are going to try like hell to trade out of that pick and select Tyler Wilson
And all of the Geno knob slobbers are going to meltdown on CP. |
In before meltdown.
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Dear Chiefs fans --
We will are going to take someone's cast off QB yet again. We think he is "good enough". We know how disappointed that must make all of you. So to make up for it, we're going to have really good special teams. Isn't that special! Sincerely, Clark |
We suck again!
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Also Clark seems more excited about the prospects of an aggressive special teams compared to the prospects of finally drafting a franchise QB with the #1 overall draft pick. |
This reminds me of when I was a kid and every other kid on the block was getting a brand new bicycle. My parents told me that I couldn't have one. They tried console me with a bowl of oatmeal and reminisced about how they survived during the depression by eating this stuff.
Actually my childhood was nothing like that, but if it was, I imagine this is how it would have felt. |
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Can we hire Tara Lipinski to take out Joeckel's knee before the draft?
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Thanks Clark. You're the best.
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I am drunk. |
Michelle Kwan
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Oh now I remember...It was Kerri Strug clubbing Apollo Anton Ono.
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Man, my mom used to be obsessed with that shit. |
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Wait... wait... wait a minute Clark also said that he was disappointed that Geno wasn't at the Senior Bowl, thus QB evaluations are still incomplete.
Chill, my babies. |
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JFC.
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I think your right!!!
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LMAO whiny bunch of little bitches....
We know so much more than Reid, Dorsey and Clark:doh!: |
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ChUNT still has nice hair.
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Hmmm....i read that as Chiefs snag Mike Vick and draft Joeckel.
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Reid hasn't yet noticed matty c can't hit the broad side of a barn & that ricki america holds the football until its safe to throw it to a defender. great news.
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Hate to say it, but Dorsey and Hunt have been consistently trying to prepare us for passing on a qb with the top pick.
Not sure if I should be just a little mad, or full blown pissed off. |
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But your post reeks of arrogance and self-delusion. You aren't part of a group of "men" who can tell Clark Hunt to back the ****. You don't have any work to do. I want the Chiefs to draft Geno Smith. But I think Clark Hunt has done a hell of a job the last month of purging the cancer from the organization and hiring great people. Give him a little ****ing credit and don't act like a total douche if the Chiefs decide to pass on Geno Smith. I swear, I haven't seen a goup of posters so ****ing obsessed with a college quarterback since Mecca and the other drafturbaters swore up and down that the Chiefs were total ****ing morons for not drafting Mark Sanchez. I forget, how is Sanchez working out again? Geno Smith obviously has much better credentials and a much better skillset than Sanchez did. But he's not a sure thing. Lots of guys look like absolute studs running the spread offense in college, yet turn out to be busts. Now go ahead and say you were simply speaking rhetorically and you don't personally believe that you as an individual are part of that group of men you referred to. That's obvious. I just get a little tired of the negativity around here sometimes. 100% negativity towards Scott "Team Killer" Polio is fine. He earned it. But Clark Hunt is busting his ass trying to do the right things, and he deserves better. |
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**** you Andrew Luck, for making all QB prospects appear worthless in comparison.
Sooooo tired of the no QB available bullshit when their are better prospects this year than in years past that included teams getting "franchise" guys in round 1. |
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Of course our opinions are strong. What is the definition of insanity again? Apply that to how this team has acquired QB's. Sanchez didn't work, but acquiring Cassel was an embarrasment the day the deal was made. |
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All last years draft class did is prove you can find success early on and turn things around quickly that way. |
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Taking a QB with the first shows conviction and trust with that pick. Taking one later shows doubt and be lucky to get the guy rather than taking a bold stance that this is our guy.
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everyone in the Chiefs organization just needs to such the **** up until we actually win a game and don't look like shit.
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he's been pouting for awhile now ... he wants a QB in the first round NO MATTER WHAT. If Matt Cassel was coming out in this years draft he would be demanding that we draft him RIGHT NOW!! It's what happens when people lose their minds to senility |
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I've wanted this opportunity to pick #1 and get us the BQBA from the draft for over 20 years. So yes this is that opportunity to do so and I'm going be sourly disapointed if we don't. |
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Twice? It's an idiotic argument. |
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Let's move a Top 5-8 LT to guard so we can draft another LT who is far from an Ogden/Pace/Thomas type prospect. Or better yet, lets spend ANOTHER high pick on the defensive line. A 1st, a 3rd, a 5th and an 11th in 6 years. Sounds delightful. And in the meanwhile, continue on with one of the worst QB situations in the league. |
More SB winning qbs have come from the first round than any other place combined. But let's try and win the lotto with a 2nd rounder.
I'd say based on what Clark said we absolutely aren't taking a qb early. Looks like the more things change the more they stay the same. (And with this statement, true fans attack) |
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I only care what happens on draft day. And if they **** this up, my ST's will be up for sale on Ebay/CL within seconds. |
Well is get ready for that cause I'd say Alex smith is our starting qb in 2013
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Drafting Jekyll would be equal or greater of a travesty than T-Jack
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What a pitiful franchise.
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I'm still embarrased I tried to excuse and rationalize the Cassel/T-Jack abortion. My initial reaction was anger and despair, but I just had to try and find the bright side. Won't make that mistake again.
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Are we possibly overanalyzing what Clark said and all he means is that they don't think anyone in this class is as good as RG3 or Luck, but that we might take a qb that..." or just taking a player who can really help you upgrade.”
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I looked at this a couple years ago and the odds of finding a franchise QB are about equal if you
a) draft a QB in the first round or b) use all you picks in rounds 2 through 7 on QBs. Rain Man did an analysis a few weeks ago about how often the first QB taken in the draft turns out to be the best QB in the draft. More often than not, it does. That means General managers possess some level of skill in judging which QB is the best. Since we have the first pick, we are in the unique position of having our choice of QBs. If we wait, or trade down, the chances are we will miss out on the best QB in this year's crop. I mean exactly what is the brain trust's plan to get a franchise QB if they don't take one first overall this year? Will that plan give the Chiefs better odds of getting a franchise QB than simply doing the obvious thing of taking one with the first overall pick? |
It's one thing to sign an Alex Smith in free agency.
I don't like that move but that move alone won't have me jumping ship. You use the most important 1st round draft pick (arguably) in the history of the franchise on a LT or ****ing D lineman and you might as well paint billboards that ****ing day that say "NEXT YEAR." |
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