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Originally Posted by SNR
If Dorsey decided not to sign all those shit ****ers, is that "purposeful tanking"?
It was a mistake to make a push for the playoffs so goddamn soon. ****, it's hard to even believe Dorsey had playoffs on the brain after taking over a 2-14 team. In most circumstances the team would have improved to 8-8 or so, which seemed to be Dorsey's goal given the parameters of the Alex Smith trade.
So he wanted to **** over our salary cap for one year of 8-8 and then fade into the distance with a cap-strapped team and very little in terms of star players?
That was pure dumbassery.
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Same situation as what Herm Edwards inherited. Only Herm sledgehammered the team, Dorsey is trying to make the rebuild less painful. The fault is of the previous regimes to fill the team up with young talent. Maybe we forgot that Dorsey has pretty much ridded the team of most of Pioli's players. He gutted almost half of the roster.
I guess the Chiefs could have chosen to not replace those guys and tanked… a year after "save our chiefs" I don't see that happening. Or they could have just held on to Pioli's guys and gradually let them go. If we drafted Geno last year, that would have been a 3-year process too. No matter what scenario you present, there was only one scenario where we're competitive in 2014. That's a scenario where we spent 2 years spending out our ass in a "win now" strategy. I don't want to see that. If this offseason is how we're going to start running things, I'm much more pleased with that direction.