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Originally Posted by Just Passin' By
I was using your post as a jumping off point, and not as a direct response to you. I should have made that clearer. Sorry.
The whole "Chiefs suck because they didn't draft a QB in round 1" argument has just gotten very stale to me, and I'm trying to kill it (forlorn hope, I know). Too many people around here confuse "best odds" with "only way", either directly or indirectly. It leads to having seemingly every football thread becoming an anti-Chiefs QB thread, and really lessens the football talk around here.
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I think the confusion goes both ways. There's so much hyperbole, black and white arguments, cherry picking, focusing on agendas, and plain idiocy to really see what people are saying... and those who do have good points and aren't just pushing an agenda get lost in all of it and lumped in with one side or the other.
All I know for sure is what the Chiefs have been doing since I was old enough to remember (and several years prior, apparently) hasn't worked, and I'd like for them to try something else.
It's obviously more complicated than saying hey, draft a QB in the first round (or 2nd, or 3rd). You don't just don't pick a year to do it, especially when you're changing coaches/systems every few years. However, those complications don't hold for
thirty years.
That said, you can't sit around for another Peyton Manning or Andrew Luck, either. You do still have to try, somewhere in between "for the sake of trying" and "sucking for Luck". Finding an excuse every year and looking back over
two decades to see that you've only tried once in the first three rounds is bullshit.