Who is he going to throw the ball too? Serious?

Try D-Bo and Tony-G. Duh! I know he might not have the time to get rid of it, but we still have the leagues top TE and the second best offensive rookie last season who lost out to Purple Jesus. So lets not act like those guys cant make plays.

Everyone’s freaking out about our line, but we don’t actually need as much as you might think, and not all our chips are riding on the draft. Let’s do a quick recap, we lost a tackle, a center, and a guard, over the offseason. We still retained Damion MacIntosh, and Brian Waters. 2/5 is not a good ratio. At the least, we’d like to have 3/5 positions covered, and I assure you, we do. We’re still looking at needing maybe 2 men up front in the trenches, but we don’t need a massive overhaul boys.

I’ve said this before in previous posts, and I’ll post it here again.. Even if we go into this season with ONLY the men we have RIGHT NOW (PRE-DRAFT!) we are STILL BETTER than LAST YEAR. Last year, we took a bowl, added a bit of rotten Kyle Turley, a chunk of moldy John Welbourn, added a dash of stale, injured D-Mac and Jason Dunn, tossed in a less-talented RB and inexperienced, hybrid FB, and we came out with a shit sundae. Pardon the language.

Don’t forget, the backfield acts as a part of the offense too, and not just in carrying/catching the football. We were spoiled with T-Rich, and we went from a pro-bowler to NOTHING. Larry Johnson is a top-3 back when 100%, but he was hurt. So we went from a pro-bowler to NOTHING (I do like Kolby Smith, but I’ll be the first to admit he’s no LJ, at least right now.) We’ll have LJ back, that’s an immediate improvement. So to make a point, right now in my argument, we are still down: 1 tackle, 1 guard, 1 center, 1 blocking tight end, and an actual fullback.

I am still a believer that the game is won in the trenches, which is why I’m so big on all the tackles in this year’s draft, be it offensive or defensive. I would love to see Jake Long or Brandon Albert getting called out for the 5th pick, but if it doesn’t happen, I’m not going to worry. We’ll be getting other great talent, and our O-line will still be fine. For one reason and one reason alone: Herb Taylor. Yes, the little known guard that was but a mere rookie on the squad last year. All he did was come in during the 2nd half of the season and provide oustanding play at at least one of the positions on the line. Re-watch the last 2 games of the season if you are able to, and you’ll see what I mean. He even played a little tackle, and did well there too. But at guard, he looked great. So in my mind, we have 2 starting guards, Waters/Taylor. We have at least 1 tackle, in D-Mac, who hopefully will be better, coming back from naggin injuries that slowed him down. Will Svitek may need a few more years to ‘simmer’ but could be the ‘decent’ but not ‘great’ guy we need on the RT position. At center, Rudy Niswanger I don’t remember seeing him a whole lot, so I honestly have no opinion on that, it’s 50/50.

Has anyone heard about Chris Bober? He was the all-position back-up, pretty much, and was IR’d last year, but is he coming back this year? If so, center might be good for him. He’s bigger and stronger than Weigmann is, and we’ve have a much bigger, stronger, wiser, healthier, and hopefully more freakin confident front 5 than we did last year. I still see TE and FB as problem areas, Jason Dunn may have lost a step, but he was vital on some plays. We need that catalyst. Also FB, we havn’t had a true FB in a few years, and it’s showing. I’m not asking for an Alstott, T-Rich or Lorenzo Neal clone, but I am asking for someone who can at least block, catch 1 pass out of the backfield a game, minimum, and hopefully run for a couple tough 1-yard first downs during the season. That’s all. So going back to my math earlier, I’m thinking at MINIMUM we have 3/5 starters already on our team. Probably 4. It all depends on how these young guys are developing. But, the line isn’t all. During the draft, or even after, when teams cut some players, if we can find a blocking TE, a FB, to go along with our new offensive coordinator, I think we’re looking at a totally different, non-predictable KC Chiefs O.

If you made it all the way through that, then wow, you’re a stud. I started to confuse myself a bit, and I thought/wrote it. Crazy. But I think we’re going to be better on O even if we stick with the good old boys we already have, let alone if we draft a top 5 prospect in the draft, or pick up a decent player that is released… mark my words gentlemen, we will be tremendously improved. Tremendously.