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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch
Dorsey bungled the salary cap and so he's gone. Not much more to the story. He can draft and find steals from the UDFA pool and cut lists, but you can't keep screwing the pooch on your big contracts.
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Not only did D. screw up the salary cap he put us at a severe disadvantage against our two biggest rivals within the division.
We had to watch the Donks outbid us on Sanders and put together a team of Allstars on defense, paying Manning a huge paycheck and still having plenty of room under the cap. They used the cap to buy a Championship.
The Faders just handed out the largest contract in NFL to a guy that has never won a playoff game, they have been outbidding everyone on marginal talent and are still in great cap shape to pull a Denver the next few years and load up for a run to the Superbowl.
Meanwhile under Dorsey..
The Chiefs did not even have enough money to sign their rookies to contracts.
That is a HUGE disadvantage and worthy of being terminated just for these reasons alone.
Dorsey let Poe walk without even giving him a contract to sniff at and then overpaid for Logan, who most on here agreed was not worth that kind of money. Did not even try to renegotiate the albatross contract signed by Maclin and did the chicken shit thing of leaving a message to tell him to hit the bricks.
Dorsey did not really address the middle linebacker position besides bringing in a couple of guys we could not afford. The secondary still has big question marks especially with a brittle guy like Gaines expected to contribute. Dorsey also passed up on many great players in the draft that could have helped this year but chose mostly dark horses that he squandered multiple late picks on.
When you add up the all the missteps in big contracts, Dorsey looks pretty inept at running a football team. Even signing the Canadian Doctor to a mega contract brought howls of displeasure on here. It could end up a bargain in the long run, but burns up valuable cap space that could have been used to plug glaring holes in the defense.
Dorsey will always be remembered fondly for finding diamonds in the scrap heap, he has a great nose for undeveloped talent and churning the bottom ten or so of the roster. But it is the top of the roster and managing the cap wisely as proven by the Pats and Donks in recent history- that wins Championships. In that area he failed miserably.