In the event that you’ve been hiding under a boulder for the last few weeks, let me be the one to catch you up to the Chiefs world: draft weekend can’t arrive any faster. Almost every day, one of the many NFL-flavored blogs throws out mock drafts that leave us thrilled, angry, or simply confused. On blogs like Arrowhead Addict, the message boards and comment boxes are filled with arguments regarding who Kansas City should select with its #5 pick. Do we go with an offensive lineman? Do we secure ourselves with a franchise quarterback? Do we reach for a player at a position we need to be solid? Do we select the best athlete on the board? And hey, what about trading down?
Like any other fan, I’ve struggled with which player I’d select if I were asked to pick. Of course, I’d love to have a guy like Jake Long more than anyone else, but what if he’s off the board? Who’s my guy then? Who would be my second choice (assuming that Long was off the board)? What about if that player was picked? Who would be my third most-desired player?
With respect to Dwayne Wade, Charles Barkley, and T-Mobile, I throw out a solution: Chiefs fans, select your “Fave 5″ in order of who you’d choose in a perfect scenario. Just pretend that Miami decides that, in recognition of our city’s superior barbecue scene, it will trade us its #1 pick for out #5 pick, free of charge. Everyone’s on the board–who’s it gonna be?
The only rule: you may only select each of your Fave 5s only once each. For instance, I know Adam’s in the midst of a love affair with Matt Ryan, but that doesn’t mean he can vote for him 5 times. Once you’ve selected a player with a pick, you must select different players from then on. No cheating.
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I will bet anyone that J Long won’t be there when we pick. 5 bucks. Sign up here.
Crane:
“We” are not saying J Long “will” be there. We recognize the possibility. Now if you are saying there is absolutely no way, then you would offer odds on your challenge. Say 3:1?
I already made that bet
Go back and read it, I said there is NO WAY he will be at 5.
Here is my 5:
1. Jake Long
2. Sedrick Ellis
3. Glenn Dorsey
4. Matt Ryan
5. RUN DMC
Just forget it. Obviously a few of you would rather throw down your “Whatever the Eff I think” list rather than do what I suggested when I wrote this article, and that’s cool. I guess for those of you who understood my point, you got a little something out of this–an idea of an actual draft board/strategy a team might use. You are fans that understand that miracles do happen (YES to whoever mentioned DJ a few years back). To those who listed Jake Long or Darren McFadden or Matt Ryan as the player they’d take over all, despite where they will actually go, are smart fellows.
For those of you who’d rather bitch over if a player will be available or not (or, better yet, make rhetorical judgments of clearly-written sentences), I congratulate you on showing your true colors. Way to be.
-cw *annoyed*
Jesus H. CW take it easy. I didn’t fuck your girlfriend. I misunderstood with the whole Jake Long lead in okay? I would take Jake with our pick, that’s why he was mentioned first in my list but I’m not getting my hopes up…don’t take my mistake as a slight to your article. I have all three of your smart fellows on my list. So now what am I?
By the way, just because you suggested taking a top 5, I don’t see how that is a new idea that the smart guys “got something out of” around here considering we’ve been doing this mock draft thing for months.
I also don’t see what good throwing me under the bus does for you CWebb. I think you’re overreacting.
Also, MerlinJ- way to do exactly what you called me out for on your analysis on #34 , Then I assume its ok if you put a disclaimer on it? (that was a rhetorical question CWebb.)
Man, we all are getting a little touchy, myself definitely included. Methinks the draft is right around the corner and we are
stressed, make that scared, about what’s going to go down. Deep breaths and baby steps…and go take your frustration out on Rams fans over on the forums. That’s always fun. That’s what I’ve been doing.I know dude. I call for a truce as well. We are all gonna be ok until draft day when the Chiefs do something completely stupid…then we’ll have something to bitch about!
Is the little brother going to have to come in here and whip some ass?
So what your saying Mr. Crane is that you would take a questionable quarterback over trading and getting an extra pick? Personally I think Brohm is a better QB than Ryan. Brohm has been good his whole career not just one season. Brodie has all the tools to be a decent QB, look at Peyton last year. The o-line wasn’t as strong and he struggled. My feeling is give Croyle one more year and if he stinks up the place we pick high again and we can pick up the best Qb in college football Mr. Teebow. So instead this year use your picks to build around the quarterback and then we can really find out how good or bad he is.
oh and another thing why don’t you compare BC and Damon’s numbers Mr. Crane… go to espn.com and maybe you’ll learn a thing or two about football.
I wouldn’t mind seeing anyone you guys have mentioned, on our team. But in order of preference, I’d like to see:
1. Jake Long (at either tackle position, we need help)
2. Brandon Albert (slated as a guard, but could play tackle or guard, and shore us up anywhere on the line)
3. Sedrick Ellis (we need another solid presence in the middle of our line, and Sedrick jumps out at me. Glenn Dorsey also is a stud, but the injury concerns scare me, I think Dorsey will be a Kris Jenkins type, pro-bowler a couple times, but injured and a non-factor the rest. I’d rather have a ‘great’ player be there for me consistently than an ‘outstanding’ player slowed by injuries or out of the game period)
4. Vernon Gholston (an explosive player who would follow the likes of DeMarcus Ware and Jason Taylor, you don’t know where he’s coming from or what he’s gonna do. Our D is solid, and constantly improving, but we don’t have the ‘x-factor’, for lack of a better term. He provides that.
5. A trading-down scenario, since we need quite a few starters, and good late round starters are hard to come by right off the bat..
Not only do the Chiefs have a recent trend of drafting great talent in the later part of the first round (Larry and Derrick Johnson, Tamba Hali, and D-Bowe) they also havn’t done too shabby in the 2nd and 3rd rounds. But we need at least one more corner to pair up with Brackinridge/Patterson, while Surtain plays the nickel (Hey, knock the idea if you will, but Ty Law alone let more people blow past him/got juked out of his pants, more than any rookie DB I’ve seen in a long, long, oh so long, time. And the rookie would have upside, not age-problems.) It’ll be a shaky secondary for awhile, but eventually our 4 young players (Pollard, Page, and the 2 corners, whomever they may be) will gel, and in a few years, should be one of the better secondaries in the league, especially behind our solid front seven. And we can pick up a helluva corner in the late first to early second rounds. Talib, DRC, Flowers, McKelvin, just to name a few, and SOMEONE will be left out of that group.
Anthony Crane, Brohm is not better than Ryan and did not enjoy the better career. Ryan actually posted a better record as a starter with less talent, not to mention the fact that he delivered as a senior, with the pressure on. Brohm completely choked last year. 6-6 when they came in at No. 5 in the country? That’s the guy you want to lead your franchise. I’d rather spend a first on Ryan than a second or even a third on Brohm, personally. The guy is a system QB and a choker. Matt Ryan is the better QB and leader, and I’m confident history will prove me right.
And while I like Branden Albert I’m a little discouraged that we are giving so much thought to drafting the guy fifth when before the April showers hit he wasn’t even in the first round of most expert’s mocks. Holy reach, Batman! Yikes!
D. Huard – 2007 4 WINS QB Rating 76.9 COMP 62.0 TD 11
B. Croyle 2007 0 WINS QB Rating 69.9 COMP 56.9 TD 6
HUARD G 11 AVG 6.8
CROYLE G 9 AVG 5.6
Anthony Crane, since your name is Crane I was going to be extra nice to you but I never said I’d take a QB instead of trading. You should read my comment again. I said if we are not going to help our line, I’d rather see us draft Brohm late than say a Matt Ryan early because they won’t have a fair shake. What is it with Crane’s and misreading around here. Effing Crane’s huh…what morons.
Crane: Thank you for not fornicating with anyone connected to me. I understand you might have misunderstood; however, making a top 5 wish list is different than a Mock Draft–entirely different. I am not throwing you or anyone else under the bus; I just put this up with a specific purpose, and making the point about Jake Long being available isn’t pertinent. That’s it. We cool.
Adam: I heard the same thing on Albert on “Mike and Mike.” They brought up a good point–there are really 6 or 7 upper-tier players this year, and Albert (while his draft position and rating is improving) isn’t one of those guys. Now, I’m all for drafting for need–I thought, more than anything,we need to focus on the line. That’s my whole justification behind Long over Ryan. However, am I the only one who feels that the “opportunity” to draft 5th would be wasted on a guy who’s not going to go regularly until further-on down the round? It worked w/ Buffalo with their Safety choice a year or two ago, but I don’t know. This is my reasoning for my #2 being “trade down”; this way, we could get Albert for a more appropriate price and possibly pick up another quality starter.
xxxlp: Hey, just asking because I honestly don’t know, but on the same “Mike and Mike” program, they talked about Vernon being more of a 3-4 defense type of guy, ala Merriman. Do you see him fitting in well w/ us, and in what capacity?
Love, peace, and chicken grease.
-cw
1. Jake long
2. Glenn Dorsey
3. Branden Albert
4. Mike Jenkins
5. Sedrick Ellis
1. Branden Albert
2. Glenn Dorsey
3. Darren McFadden
4. Jake Long
5. Chris Long
Branden Albert has played some LT and looked phenomenal and has a great attitude and good upside, Dorsey is unstoppable in the middle, McFadden is merely an addition to help our O and keep LJ from taking so many carries, Long is going to be a RT soon and who takes a RT with the 5th pick, and Chris Long makes Jared Allen expendable, which is sad but helps us get more picks for better players.
In terms of Darren McFadden, LJ’s best season was 3 years ago when he and Priest split the beginning part of the seaso’s carries then he exploded out of the gate when Priest fell to injury.
Like the list, but everyone needs to slow their roll when it comes to the Branden Albert parade. Don’t believe the hype! He isn’t a top five player.
CW, I saw that episode of Mike and Mike (listen/watch it regularly) and while I think Vernon would indeed be a better fit in a 3-4 defense, I think he would be an awesome pick-up for any of the 32 teams. The man is a physical freak, has explosiveness that have made some of the best do a double take, and he just plain knows how to rush the passer. We’ve already got Jared and Tamba, both badass, or solid, in their own right, Boone even gets push up the middle. But we could both use Vernon to spell Donnie or one of the other ‘backers, or have Tamba slide inside (a Justin Tuck type-thing, where a DE is playing DT) and use Gholston outside. Our corner position is sadly lacking, although I have a man-crush on Tyron Brackenridge (never know how to spell that damn name), but in a cover 2, and with rushers coming from all over the place, and the other team never know exactly where from, we don’t need great corners. We can have speedy little guys who can just stick with that WR for 2 seconds, enough for our rush to get there. The only downside I see to taking Gholston is that we’d be paying him humungous dollars for the first few years to essentially rotate, because unless we move Donnie to MLB like I want, Napoleon will still be in the middle, with DJ and Donnie Edwards on the outside backers, and Gholston won’t beat out either of those 2, presumably. He might give Tamba a run for his money at the DE position at well, but I think Tamba will improve a little again this year, so I doubt that as well. I’d still go Ellis or work on the O-line first, to get a starter, rather than an alternate, but if we happen to pick up the Gholstonater, I’ll be excited at the things Gun-Cunningham will cook up with that physical specimen on board.
On a side note: I read you guys think that Brandon Albert wasn’t high on draft boards even a month ago, so you think we shouldn’t pick him. By those means, Matt Ryan shouldn’t be picked as well. For the longest time all the experts said that there were no good-great QB’s in this draft, and then not too long ago, Matt Ryan makes a miraculous transformation into a 12 year pro-bowl franchise quarterback? Either-or, Matt Ryan is in consideration as well as BA, or MR-BA are both out of the convo, can’t have the cake and eat it too people.
haha okay Crane you got me on that one, i knew his touchdown to interception ratio was better, but I’ll give you the nod in this argument.As for the one that argued that Ryan had better stats than Brohm you better check again, Brohm 71 TD’s to 24 Ints while your boy Ryan had 56 TDs to to 37 Ints and threw more interceptions in 2 years than Brohm did in four. You don’t even want to know the difference in their QB ratings
I didn’t say jack about Brohm or Ryan’s stats….that was Adam. I think Ryan is probably better in the clutch, but I really don’t want either one that bad. My vote says we take DMC and get a QB next year.
If miami doesn’t take Jake Long St.Louis Will….so he he is gone either way….. that being said lets just say that miami takes Chris Long and st.louis will take JAke Long, and then hopefully Atlanta takes MAtt Ryan, then Oakland could take Mcfadden or either one of the DT and it would leave us with the choice in the top two DT or one of the above and the choice at the best running back……either way it goes down i really don’t see us taking the wrong player….
except Matt Ryan….i think that even though BRodie may suck we need to build a line before we get either one of them killed
Ian Brennan, thanks for following that up. You said you don’t see us taking the wrong player in that situation… unless its Matt Ryan. Thank you sir, you’re hitting the point on the head. Let’s assume that Matt Ryan is a God, and will be a hall of famer. Behind our line, he will get nothing but hospital visits and severe headaches and paranoia after he retires. We need a little stability before we throw our multi-million gaurantee’d money QB behind center and let him prove himself. He ain’t gonna prove jack diddly squat unless we can block. It’ll be better than last year’s line, that’s for sure, but how much? We have to wait and see.
Everyone wants to trade LJ and draft DMC but you dont realize the amount of money it would cost us to trade him, plus the fact that he is a better back than DMC, everyone was all hyped about Bush when he came out and we found out he wasnt worth taking that high in the first round. LJ is the man whether he has a bad attitude or not, i would prefer he have an attitude because he is a better player when he does. So it should go…
1. Sedrick Ellis-No need to reach for Clady
2. Sam Baker-A guy that can play G or T
3. Jordy Nelson-Would be a steal in the 3rd Round
Anthony Crane – most people don’t want to draft DMC and trade LJ.
They want to have both
Dave, between Fox Sports, AA, Warpath and every other website that I read every day I have seen enough to know what I am talking about. Yes some people want both, but I think that would dig us in an even deeper hole.
I am sorry but anyone that says to trade LJ has no idea what they are talking about.
It isn’t even plausible with his contract at this point. Maybe down the road, but not now.