By the way, how do you pass on Crosby and pick Medlock.

It’s easy when our jackass GM has a UCLA fetish that makes him pop wood whenever a Bruin (like Medlock) pops up on the draft board. Nice job, Carl.

The ironic thing is that Medlock was picked with the 5th rounder we got from St. Louis for Dante Hall. Medlock eventually ended up on St. Louis’ practice squad. So basically we gave away Dante Hall to St. Louis so that we could draft a kicker for them and spend a season watching Eddie Drummond botch returns. Absolutely brilliant maneuvering there.

I think Medlock was a better kicker, he just got a mental block, and a mental block is the worse thing for an athlete.

All I know was that Medlock couldn’t even hit his kicks in practice. Kickers have got one basic job…putting the ball where they need it to go. If they can’t do that, they’re as useless as you or I would be to the team. And if he developed a mental block that precludes him from hitting his marks in practice, what do you think would happen if you stuck him in a game where it really mattered? He’d be crapping little green apples.

I think we’re going to have to agree to disagree on McIntosh…I saw him give up on too many plays for me to think that he’s going to be anything better than an average reserve that you’d never want to start. I suspect that’s why Miami let him go.

As for Allan, I think draft projections are kind of pointless (actually, I think the draft itself is kind of pointless, but that’s another conversation). Production is what matters. It’s probably not fair to judge Allan’s future prospects right now, mainly because he’s young and this was his first year and he was fourth on the depth chart (behind Tony G, Dunn, and Wilson, sort of). But I think that the fact the team basically relegated him to the practice squad after one game and only put him in three games, despite the fact that Dunn was washed up and Wilson sucks indicates that at his current talent level, the 7th round was about where he deserved to be drafted. He might turn out to be better this year, given a bit more opportunity. Or he might turn out to be fit only for the practice squad. I just don’t think we can classify him as either a steal or a scrub until we see more of him (because you can’t really judge any draft class accurately until about three or four years later).

Ill agree with all those things you said with two exceptions.

First, when I think of McIntosh, I think of a right tackle. Im assuming, were gona pick up a solid left offensive tackle in the draft. I agree, that McIntosh is overwelemd at left OT, but I think he would be solid at right OT. I still could be wrong, but thats what I think when I think of McIntosh’s future.

Second, when I say steal for Michael Allen, I was kinda quoting stuff from the 2007 Walter Football 5th round draft predections. Walter Football predicted that Allen would go in the middle of the 5th to such and such team. They said that he was a “steal” in the 5th. I guess they thought he should go in the 4th or even 3rd. We got him at 7th, so thats where I get the “steal” language. They even said “steal”. Again, alot of this is based on reading, not sitting in front of Michael Allen with a stop watch.

Whoa, whoa, whoa…you can scratch McIntosh and Napolean Harris from that “starter/solid” list right off. Last year they were anything but. We brought in DeMorrio Williams this year because Harris wasn’t solid. And McIntosh was a terrible tackle on the worst o-line in the NFL last year…the only reason he kept his job was because he was competing against Turley, Terry and Svitek. For your free agents, Boone was good last year but he’s on the wrong side of 30 and was somewhat injury-prone…same with Donnie Edwards.

For the draftees, the jury’s still out on Pollard and Page. They are promising but they’ve still got holes in their games and need to show development. Kolby Smith may be good enough to start, or he may not. Same with Tank and Turk. As for Michael Allan, I don’t know what classifies a guy who played three games and got zero receptions as a “steal”. For all the people who want to point out the last couple of years as being indicative of a more productive drafting strategy for the Chiefs, keep in mind that four of our five draft picks last year could accurately be classified as “not good enough to start for a 4-12 team” and our QB of the future couldn’t outperform a really banged-up Damon Huard. The question is, how many of these guys would be good enough to make the roster of NFL teams that went .500 or better?

When evaluating Peterson’s drafting strategy, a better approach is to take into account his record over his entire 19 year career. We crunched the numbers over on a thread on the KC Star and it came out to something like a 27% success rate at finding decent players in the draft…and his record wasn’t really all that stellar in the good years for the Chiefs and it dropped off a lot after Whitey Dovell died in 1991.

http://www.databasefootball.com/draft/draftteam.htm?tm=KAN&lg=NFL