Kansas City is trading its first-round pick Thursday night, along with three other picks in the 2021 and 2022 drafts, to the Baltimore Ravens in exchange for Pro Bowl OT Orlando Brown and one pick in the 2021 draft and another in 2022, per sources.
The mindset they take is the same as Chris Ballard rolls out in Indy. It's what the Packers have been doing Aaron Rodgers whole career.
How has that worked out for them?
The Chiefs are in their window, now (and will be the entire time Mahomes is their QB). That means you're aggressive every year. If they can handle the LT position for the next decade by trading a 1st round pick, it makes perfect sense to do so. Even if you then pay the guy. OK, you lose 3 cheap years over taking someone like Spencer Brown or Walker Little or whatever.
But what happens... if that tackle you take at 31 is a bust?
Not all 1st round picks are equal. They really struggle with that concept. [Reply]
Fucking hate PFF. Hopefully sometime soon Next Gen Stats will come out with a player rating system. They're coming out with new interesting content and stats regularly. NGS would annihilate those know-nothing dipshits. [Reply]
Originally Posted by The Franchise:
Yet another blunder for the team who’s been to back to back Superbowls.
I mean this is just another Frank Clark trade. Overpaying for a guy that wins a superbowl. What a bunch of dummies. They're the favorite to go to a third superbowl next year BUT AT WHAT COST?? Won't somebody think of the owner's pocketbook [Reply]
Originally Posted by The Franchise:
He has to be 5 to 6 times better than a rookie LT? No he doesn’t.
A blunder would be taking a LT, throwing him to the wolves and hoping he doesn’t get your QB killed. All so you could save some money.
They were paying Fisher and Schwartz $25 million together. They can do the same thing with Brown and Niang.
He doesn't have to be 5 to 6 times better but the good news is that, based on the guys in this draft, he likely WILL be, at least for the first 2 years.
A guy like Walker Little might GROW to be better but nobody in this draft class was coming to KC to be as good as Brown in 2021. [Reply]