Quinton Nelson

[Chiefswinitall 60]

IS a bulldozer.  He could have won us a few games if we had him.

[sith13 1,746]

Definitely a beast. We need to add linemen like him in the next draft. 

[Chiefsfan1963 1,101]

Problem is, you never have everything. The Chiefs had a great line with the Willie's but no D. They had the D with DT and Neil but not a constant big time O. Unfortunately in today's NFL you either build up one side of the ball or the other or you have mediocrity on both. Pick your poison because there is not enough $$$ to go around.

[Mloe68 1,521]

49 minutes ago, Chiefsfan1963 said:

Problem is, you never have everything. The Chiefs had a great line with the Willie's but no D. They had the D with DT and Neil but not a constant big time O. Unfortunately in today's NFL you either build up one side of the ball or the other or you have mediocrity on both. Pick your poison because there is not enough $$$ to go around.

Absolutely right. The key is recognizing you can’t be good everywhere but you want to avoid being bad anywhere. 

[Chiefsfan1963 1,101]

19 minutes ago, Mloe68 said:

Absolutely right. The key is recognizing you can’t be good everywhere but you want to avoid being bad anywhere. 

Every team has a weak spot. Protecting or exploiting it is the name of the game.

[Mloe68 1,521]

1 hour ago, Chiefsfan1963 said:

Every team has a weak spot. Protecting or exploiting it is the name of the game.

I don't know. A lot of Super Bowl champions are complete teams. 

[Chiefsfan1963 1,101]

40 minutes ago, Mloe68 said:

I don't know. A lot of Super Bowl champions are complete teams. 

Complete or just hot at the right time? Complete or great on one side which overcomes the other?

[Mloe68 1,521]

1 hour ago, Chiefsfan1963 said:

Complete or just hot at the right time? Complete or great on one side which overcomes the other?

Hot at the right time always helps. But generally speaking if you look at most Super Bowl champions they don't have any real positional weaknesses. They certainly aren't all strengths, but there's no historically bad defense or train wreck LBs or offensive lines that can't block. That type of stuff. For the Chiefs this year we really don't have major weaknesses except on the oline (and that could be helped a lot if Fisher can truly come back strong) and covering LBs and RBs. Veach managed to put together a band aid group of corners who aren't bad. As such if we can get hot, we can still get this thing done. 

[sith13 1,746]

On 11/22/2019 at 8:39 PM, Chiefsfan1963 said:

Problem is, you never have everything. The Chiefs had a great line with the Willie's but no D. They had the D with DT and Neil but not a constant big time O. Unfortunately in today's NFL you either build up one side of the ball or the other or you have mediocrity on both. Pick your poison because there is not enough $$$ to go around.

You don't need to spend a lot of money on all positions to be complete, there are a few key ones but the rest can be handled rather easily if the priorities are set correctly. 

[Chiefsfan1963 1,101]

Just now, sith13 said:

You don't need to spend a lot of money on all positions to be complete, there are a few key ones but the rest can be handled rather easily if the priorities are set correctly. 

Problem is, everytime you turn around priorities change. In here that is on a minute to minute basis.

[sith13 1,746]

Just now, Chiefsfan1963 said:

Problem is, everytime you turn around priorities change. In here that is on a minute to minute basis.

The key is keeping up with those priorities and taking better calculated risks. Some teams simply try to imitate what other successful ones do or did in the past but that doesn't always work. Some GMs definitely know how to analyze situations whereas quite a bit of them are simply GMs because they come from a football background while not being smart enough to succeed on their own. There are also some basics that rarely change but some GMs are more focused on selling tickets than winning the big one.