I think most of us would agree that the seasons between Trent Green (48-42) and Alex Smith (51-30) were dark years for Chiefs fans. The almost sucked the fandom out of me. This is also the time between Head Coaches Vermeil and Reid. Probably go hand in hand.
As we praise our respective deities for delivering us Patrick Mahomes II, let us take a moment to reflect upon the hard road we traveled before he came to ease our journey.
Which of these QBs were the most disappointing? (Poll to follow) [Reply]
Originally Posted by AdolfOliverBush:
Montana was great in SF, but the version the Chiefs got couldn't hold Mahomes' jock.
Honestly, neither could the SF version.
I gotcha. I misread what you had stated. Hard to have any QB ever that can compete with Mahomes. While the KC version of Montana might not have been the SF version, he was still the best QB KC had post Dawson until Mahomes. The Niners Montana is still a top 5 all time QB in my book. What he did in the era he played in is just unbelieveable. [Reply]
Originally Posted by RealSNR:
Some of you are looking at data and nothing else.
Tyler Palko shouldn’t have ever been on an NFL roster. Haley thought he was a genius and thought his Pitt connection was all he needed to resurrect this chunk of shit from the sewer. He legit thought this guy was good enough to be the backup.
It’s Palko. Brodie wasn’t good, but he didn’t look as inept out there as this fucking amateur.
Yeah, I still remember him struggling to make routine passes... pretty sure I can throw harder. [Reply]
I am really surprised that QB Matt Cassel is not leading in this poll.
Matt Cassel is so intertwined with the sadness and dysfunction of General Manager Scott Pioli and Head Coach Todd Haley, it is really hard to not cringe when you think of that time period for the Kansas City Chiefs. [Reply]
For me, both Palko and Thigpen made the Chiefs seem like a complete joke. I can still see Thigpen trying to connect with a receiver out of the backfield in the flat and (with no pressure on either of them) miss him by 10 feet. Cassel was bad, but sporadically looked competent for a series. ( please do not think I am defending him at all - he was bad)
But that is a 6-8 year stretch of highly paid incompetence. [Reply]
1 - Matt Cassel. I was looking up his stats and forgot he threw 27 TDs with only 9 interceptions in 2010 so that year he was an above average NFL starting qb. The rest of the years he was a bottom 5 starting NFL quarterback. Probably a guy that someone like Andy Reid could win some games with in the short term as a backup but not NFL starting qb material.
2 - Kyle Orton
3 - Damon Huard
4 - Tyler Thigpen
5 - Brady Quinn
6 - Brodie Croyle
7 - Tyler Palko - Hey, he made it further in his athletic career than probably all of us on this board, but he was easily the worst of that era. The only qb I could think of that was worse all time for the Chiefs was when they brought in 40 year old Warren Moon to start against the Chargers in 2000. [Reply]