In order to prevent us wasting precious years of Patrick Mahomes' career, Veach needs to work some magic this offseason. What's your advice for him? [Reply]
Originally Posted by Superturtle:
Exactly. If. Assuming he'll be the exact same after an operation on his hip seems crazy to me, especially given the circumstances of his opt out and not being able to bring him into the building.
At this point what do we have other than "if"?
A draftee would be unproven.
Fisher is hurt and his future is uncertain.
Remmers is awful.
Seriously, what do you want to do at this point that's a "sure thing"? Because there isn't one that I can see. [Reply]
Originally Posted by htismaqe:
At this point what do we have other than "if"?
A draftee would be unproven.
Fisher is hurt and his future is uncertain.
Remmers is awful.
Seriously, what do you want to do at this point that's a "sure thing"? Because there isn't one that I can see.
Already said it multiple times. Trade up for one of the best T prospects in the draft. It'd be a hell of a lot closer to a sure thing in my eyes than pencilling in Niang who was a RT in college and coming off an operation to his hip. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Superturtle:
Exactly. If. Assuming he'll be the exact same after an operation on his hip seems crazy to me, especially given the circumstances of his opt out and not being able to bring him into the building.
Again. Even with the injury (which he played with and performed at an elite level) he was great. After the surgery and a full year to heal, he will be at peak ability. He’s also had a year to study the playbook and absorb responsibilities and concepts.
There is no reason to not think he can perform at a high level at either OT spot.
Have you read what players like Chase Young said about him? [Reply]
Originally Posted by Superturtle:
Already said it multiple times. Trade up for one of the best T prospects in the draft. It'd be a hell of a lot closer to a sure thing in my eyes than pencilling in Niang who was a RT in college and coming off an operation to his hip.
So you're giving away multiple picks, probably 1st round picks, to get another "if".
Sorry, but that's just not a solid plan. It's a whole lot of wishful thinking and that's about it. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BossChief:
Again. Even with the injury (which he played with and performed at an elite level) he was great. After the surgery and a full year to heal, he will be at peak ability. He’s also had a year to study the playbook and absorb responsibilities and concepts.
There is no reason to not think he can perform at a high level at either OT spot.
Have you read what players like Chase Young said about him?
Yeah, I've seen plenty of players come back with lessened abilities after a surgery, especially since we haven't actually had him in the building to evaluate, but let's just drop it. Agree to disagree here. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Superturtle:
Already said it multiple times. Trade up for one of the best T prospects in the draft. It'd be a hell of a lot closer to a sure thing in my eyes than pencilling in Niang who was a RT in college and coming off an operation to his hip.
In no way shape or form should KC trade up to draft a LT.
There's likely to be a plug and play starting OT available at #31. There's no need to trade up if you really want a starting OT.
The simple fact is that draft picks don't always pan out, regardless of where they were picked. The guy picked right after Eric Fisher isn't even in the league anymore.
There's no such thing as a sure thing so all of this talk is kind of silly.
There's no way to address the situation that isn't riddled with question marks. [Reply]
This is going to be a draft where elite front offices like ours are going to kill the draft. There’s not as much film to watch from this last year of college and I expect some “Ldarius Sneed” situations to come to fruition based off 2 year old data from Veach.
In no way do I want to see us move picks in the mid rounds AND a future premium pick to move up for a position we probably have covered in house or at most can be filled through a stop gap FA option. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Superturtle:
Uhh, why not? By most accounts Schwartz is done and Fisher just ruptured his achilles in December.
Because you can likely have just as good a chance at getting a starting LT at 31 as you could by trading up. This is a very good OT class and there's no reason to throw away picks when you're not guaranteed anything. [Reply]