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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
I mean the guy's not a typical 1.1 caliber player.
A typical 1.1 caliber player (Bosa) pretty routinely abused him in the SB. But in typical Pre-Mahomes Chiefs fashion, the year we got 1.1 there was just dick at the position. There wasn't a typical 1.1 caliber prospect in that draft.
So he'd disappointing by default. He's not a 'premier' left-tackle in this league in that truly excellent DEs can beat him with some regularity. But he's not a liability and that's...fine. It's better than what many teams have.
And he's just athletic enough at his size that Andy feels comfortable leaving him on an island, which (just as is the case with Schwartz) opens up the playbook quite a bit.
Would you like to see the only first overall pick in franchise history be a HoF caliber player? Especially when it's at such a thankless position? Of course, but there just wasn't an Orlando Pace guy to be had. So among guys that were legitimate considerations for 1.1 (lets say anyone taken in the top 20 of that weird-ass draft), you've got Fisher, Lane Johnson and...what? Ansah?
It was just an ass draft, but the Chiefs probably got it as right as they could have.
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Luke Joeckel!!!!!!111
Man, where's that Jags fan who trolled us constantly about taking Joeckel all offseason, only for us to pass on him and for his sad shitsack franchise to be saddled with that bust?