And “Don’t tell you what to do”? Are you serious? How does “Please explain” qualify as me ordering you around? I honestly don’t understand why you always have to act like this, even when I’m just trying to have a discussion with you about the issue at hand (being Favre).

For the moment, times have changed – drastically. But the situation is NOT stable with regard to the cap and the CBA with the players union. Specifically rookie contracts are about to be shorn of their zillions in the next CBA. Being cautious with the cap and the FA mkt until the situation becomes clearer is only good business, and necessary for a small market team. Look around the NFL and you’ll see the other small market teams are doing likewise except for MN who is desperately trying to get a new stadium financed by taxpayers. They’re down to their last chance to get political support, so they’re selling out the future to win now. If they fail, they have to move and will go to a bigger mkt who can support their new fiscal situation.

While teams are now in the world of trillion dollar TV deals and they have to spend 60% of revenue on player contracts, KC is STILL a small market team with their total revenue currently in decline based on season ticket sales.

The small market facet of managing the Chiefs future stability is not going to change, and while I expect the 60% of revenue number for the cap is forged in stone, I can see why King Carl is hedging his bets with who he hands out the keys to the kingom to.

I’m not mincing my words on King Carl at all. Fact is, I dont think he gets the credit he deserves for the overall quality of job he’s done. If you’ve ever been the main man in a business venture, you learn pretty damn quick you cannot do things by yourself. Learning this, you realize your job is to become a team builder, and in order to do that, you HAVE to give the folks you hire the lattitude to make decisions – aka mistakes. Is Carl ultimately accountable for the mistakes his hires make. Sure he is, but you cannot slam the man’s process just because his hires screwed the pooch.

The one really big thing I would hope Carl can learn is how desperately important it is to get high picks signed early. Several of the busts we’ve had with high picks might have done much better on the field if they’d been signed early. It’s pretty clear to the whole world Dorsey is going to get a zillion dollar contract with about 25 million guaranteed. Nothing is going to change that. With KC’s cap situation, Carl might as well step up now as later.

People slam CP for Tait and other FA/trade fiascos, but they dont give him the same amount of ink for his successes. Fact is, Tait was a panty-waste, bean-counting prude who should NEVER have been on the field with real men.

This aside, no GM hits on every contract, and neither does Carl. What Carl has done well is hire talented men to run the football side, and then supported them and their philosophies to the nth degree – and no boss can do more. I wish I’d had more bosses like that in my lifetime. Did he screw the pooch on some coaching hires? Hindsight is 20/20 so it’s hard to say they were wrong at the time. Did King Carl do his best to hire the best and win on the field. I have to say that question gets answered with a resounding YES. I haven’t forgotten the 20 years of dark ages before he came to KC.

Regardless of costs, it’s blindingly apparent we are NOT going to develop a franchise QB by trading for castoffs or signing FA guys to their 2nd contract. The only way we’re going to make this work is to draft a guy and deal with his learning curve. If we’re going to go that way, we have to find a guy who can make all the throws, and is fundamentally a man of high character. I think Brodie fits both requirements. Does he develope into a top QB? Only Brodie can write that story. If he does, I’m sure Carl will pay him the going rate – and not a halfpenney more!

Crane Says:

The safe route is the CHEAP route. QB is the most expensive position, potentially for the most years.

It kills him to write big checks.