Comments on: Is Herm Upset With Other Teams? http://arrowheadaddict.com/2008/03/25/is-herm-upset-with-other-teams/ A Kansas City Chiefs Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and more Thu, 24 May 2012 17:41:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: g.l. http://arrowheadaddict.com/2008/03/25/is-herm-upset-with-other-teams/#comment-12171 g.l. Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:59:46 +0000 http://arrowheadaddict.com/2008/03/25/is-herm-upset-with-other-teams/#comment-12171 By the way, that should read "players" in the above post. By the way, that should read “players” in the above post.

]]> By: g.l. http://arrowheadaddict.com/2008/03/25/is-herm-upset-with-other-teams/#comment-12170 g.l. Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:58:20 +0000 http://arrowheadaddict.com/2008/03/25/is-herm-upset-with-other-teams/#comment-12170 So, Herm is upset that the naughty Bucs and Rams signed a couple of payers. Ahem...........If I may be so bold as to paraphrase Coach Edwards, "This is the NFL. That kind of thing happens all the time. Get over it." For someone who is so big into "toughness" griping about the Bucs and Rams sounds suspiciously "wimpy" to me. So, Herm is upset that the naughty Bucs and Rams signed a couple of payers. Ahem………..If I may be so bold as to paraphrase Coach Edwards, “This is the NFL. That kind of thing happens all the time. Get over it.” For someone who is so big into “toughness” griping about the Bucs and Rams sounds suspiciously “wimpy” to me.

]]> By: Adam http://arrowheadaddict.com/2008/03/25/is-herm-upset-with-other-teams/#comment-12169 Adam Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:22:50 +0000 http://arrowheadaddict.com/2008/03/25/is-herm-upset-with-other-teams/#comment-12169 Jon/Dave, all valid points there for sure. I do disagree, however, with Demorrio Williams being on our "C" list. He was at least on our "B" list, because we brought in and signed him during the opening weekend of free agency. I think he might have actually been one of the guys on our "A" list, along with Brown and Faine. Demorrio is no Tickle Me Delmo. Of course I agree that we've otherwise totally blown free agency, though. Olive Hoyte is a Delmo, while Devard Darling is a good signing, but not a revelation by any means. Jon/Dave, all valid points there for sure. I do disagree, however, with Demorrio Williams being on our “C” list. He was at least on our “B” list, because we brought in and signed him during the opening weekend of free agency. I think he might have actually been one of the guys on our “A” list, along with Brown and Faine. Demorrio is no Tickle Me Delmo.

Of course I agree that we’ve otherwise totally blown free agency, though. Olive Hoyte is a Delmo, while Devard Darling is a good signing, but not a revelation by any means.

]]> By: UCrawford http://arrowheadaddict.com/2008/03/25/is-herm-upset-with-other-teams/#comment-12168 UCrawford Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:49:33 +0000 http://arrowheadaddict.com/2008/03/25/is-herm-upset-with-other-teams/#comment-12168 Jon Y, All a transition tag does is give the other team the right of first refusal on any contract offered by another team and accepted by the player. We don't have to offer a compensatory draft pick for him if we sign him. Considering that Pittsburgh reportedly had little cap room left (even before the draft) I don't think it would be a problem to snag him relatively cheap (two or three million). He's not a great tackle, true...but he's young, so there's still room to develop, and moving him to guard is not out of the question either (and, last I checked, we still needed guards...and $2-3 million is not too much to pay for that position). Given that most of our draft picks are going to be in the rounds where you're lucky to find players who aren't immediate roster cuts, we could do a lot worse than adding Starks as a starter somewhere until either a) he pans out or b) we find somebody capable of replacing him. Frankly, I don't look forward to the prospect of having any of the line spots manned by a seventh-round draft pick who's not a legitimate starter just to save a few bucks and so that Herm and Carl can claim that they're great at finding good football players in the late rounds. Whether you like the guy or not, that'll insure that Croyle never has a chance to become the QB of the future because he'll get killed...and then we're back to square one on drafting and developing a QB. Jon Y,

All a transition tag does is give the other team the right of first refusal on any contract offered by another team and accepted by the player. We don’t have to offer a compensatory draft pick for him if we sign him. Considering that Pittsburgh reportedly had little cap room left (even before the draft) I don’t think it would be a problem to snag him relatively cheap (two or three million).

He’s not a great tackle, true…but he’s young, so there’s still room to develop, and moving him to guard is not out of the question either (and, last I checked, we still needed guards…and $2-3 million is not too much to pay for that position). Given that most of our draft picks are going to be in the rounds where you’re lucky to find players who aren’t immediate roster cuts, we could do a lot worse than adding Starks as a starter somewhere until either a) he pans out or b) we find somebody capable of replacing him. Frankly, I don’t look forward to the prospect of having any of the line spots manned by a seventh-round draft pick who’s not a legitimate starter just to save a few bucks and so that Herm and Carl can claim that they’re great at finding good football players in the late rounds. Whether you like the guy or not, that’ll insure that Croyle never has a chance to become the QB of the future because he’ll get killed…and then we’re back to square one on drafting and developing a QB.

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