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.
Originally Posted by duncan_idaho:
These PFF guys. These PFF guys.
No. Just no.
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.
PFF is kind of like Prison Bitch when it comes to baseball. The whole thing isn't always analytical. [Reply]
Orlando Brown film review is here. I charted four games against different types of pass rushers to try and figure out what the Chiefs have in their new left tackle.
Originally Posted by Rasputin:
I still love Eric Fisher and wish him the best but even without the injury this is an upgrade over a healthy Eric Fisher.
What an embarrassment. I hope someone sends that back to them next February when Orlando Brown is on the Super Bowl stage hoisting the Lombardi trophy in his Chiefs’ jersey. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Kiimosabi:
In all seriousness they listed OBJ so low because they feel that Lamar Jackson was a integral part of it because he's so elusive.
Two things: Pat is elusive as well.
OBJ is 24 and going to get better
Veach and his pro personnel guys all watched Brown play last year. I think just about everybody on planet earth would take their player analysis over the doofuses at PFF. [Reply]
The Chiefs have an opportunity to win a championship, but were without a starting LT due to injury. So they are a supposed to write off a chance at a championship run so they can still build through the draft? That's insane. And OBJ only cost 3.3M next year. I mean come on no. Its a win for the Chiefs in the short term, and if they found a long term solution to the position moving forward that's a win too. [Reply]
Originally Posted by T-post Tom:
What an embarrassment. I hope someone sends that back to them next February when Orlando Brown is on the Super Bowl stage hoisting the Lombardi trophy in his Chiefs’ jersey.
that is the most insanely stupid take I think I've ever heard.
Clark hasn't produced to his contract, but you absolutely cannot argue that we win SB 54 without him; and that he was a HUGE part of the defensive culture change that happened in that season.
It wasn't a dumb move; it may have not quite worked out how we expected, but it was a risk worth taking.
And these ****ing guys want us to draft a LT at #31 to protect Mahomes as a rookie when we're SB favorites? That's somehow smarter than taking a two time pro bowler who is 24 ****ing years old? Because we'll have to pay him eventually? STUPID.
The plan is for Orlando Brown to play out the last year of his rookie deal. He and the Chiefs will talk about an extension next offseason, once he has a full season at left tackle and the cap goes up.
Franchise tag expected to be about $16.5 million next year.
The Chiefs have the leverage, too. They could franchise him twice. Of course they won't but that fact gives them leverage in contract negotiations.
It's also nice that the best case scenario for everyone, the fans, the front office, the team, the player, the family, the agent is that OBJ is a probowl left tackle and gets a huge contract from the Chiefs and protects Mahomes for the next ten years. [Reply]
The Chiefs have an opportunity to win a championship, but were without a starting LT due to injury. So they are a supposed to write off a chance at a championship run so they can still build through the draft? That's insane. And OBJ only cost 3.3M next year. I mean come on no. Its a win for the Chiefs in the short term, and if they found a long term solution to the position moving forward that's a win too.
Exactly.
The goal isn't to maximize every cent of value out of your roster and salary cap. It's to maximize your ability to hit your ceiling as a team and win at the highest level.
It would be one thing if Fisher was healthy and the Chiefs weren't facing a gaping hole at LT. Then, drafting a developmental guy who CAN be your LT of the future makes total sense. (See: Niang and Schwartz). But once Fisher was lost for the year, the whole thing changes. [Reply]
If you're on a boat with a hole in it in the middle of the ocean and some other boat sells you a patch kit for a hundred dollars PFF would say man what an overpay the smart thing is to wait for a better deal [Reply]
Its pretty surprising that they didn't sign an extension as part of the trade. The last team to do that was Houston and they aren't exactly a model franchise. Could end up costing KC a few extra dollars. [Reply]
