Grading The Draft Picks

Mitch is going to have a blast announcing Shane Bannon's name on the raido. Welcome to KC rookies, Home of the loudest stadium in the NFL and BBQ :)

Good point system. If you would have stuck with it and not given bogus bonus points, the draft would have been graded a C-. With your 'fair' and 'unbiased' opinion you might as well give it an A+.

Lyle, as always a good, fun post. I'm enjoying the different "experts" grades of our draft. You're right, they don't know as much about the Chiefs as we do. I love this draft because Pioli addressed and upgraded every need except ROT. Very difficult to do in one draft. The one area I was thinking about that no one has brought up is; how did we do in comparison to the rest of the AFC West? Looking at the Bronco's, Raider's and Charger's drafts, we improved more than any of them. With the addition of Baldwin and Hudson we will be able to be more competitive with Oakland and San Diego. Their strong front sevens took us out of our game. Now we have more beef with Hudson and they won't be able to cheat on D-Bowe, Baldwin will force them to play us straight up on D.

Lyle,first good job.Second,when reading about Hudson I was wondering how Will Shields would have graded out with your system?Third,do you think Gabe Miller could play inside linebacker?

I think you did a great job. I'd however, not make the total draft score an aggregate simple sum. There are additional factors in assessing total draft performance than just looking at each the individual pick that should be weighed in considering judgement. For instance, I think we should should look at our "chip stack" starting the draft, how many of our key needs we were able to fill with those chips, and then the quality of the "hole pluggers". For instance in this draft though we had more chips than the elite teams, we had far less than teams like the Broncos. How did we do relative to them despite the advantage they started with? In terms of success in addressing "must have" and "really need" shopping list roster positions, I think we did very well, and for the most part at excellent prices. Then we figure in the quality we got, which is what you did. I'm going to say start with your "B", add an "B+" for out shopping our division rivals on price, and an "A" for getting more total team needs filled. My total draft grade is therefore a barely A- in the immediate post draft guessing game. If the wild card picks wind up be huge winners, or a high percentage of the later round picks turn out to be consistent contributors, then we'll both have to happily upgrade. Baldwin and Houston bust like over-ripe melons, and sigh, we drop that to an oh well we tried "D". Here's hoping for these guys, and the Chiefs!

I found it very interesting that Walterfootball gave us an A this year. Chiefs fans have been accusing that guy of being biased against us for years, basically because he was critical of us when we deserved it. There were times I wanted to write him an apology letter. I'm glad the "Walter hates the Chiefs" boo-shit can finally be put to rest. I liked the point system. Fresh take. And I'll bet you agonized over the way the points broke down, too. I probably would've second-guessed myself for hours on that.....and then come up with something much worse. Like a point for nickname potential.

I think that versatility - i.e., the ability to contribute in multiple ways such as multiple positions, multiple schemes, offense/defense/special teams - ought to be a value point especially within the Chiefs system/philosophy.

Lyle, Interesting approach. I like it. Let's suppose, just for the sake of argument, that improving special teams was also a top area of need for the Chiefs - would that change your grades any and if so, howso?

Wes Bunting graded out the Chiefs at a B fwiw. http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/AFC-Draft-Grades.html

I predicted we would snag Powe! yeah!

i really like the point system good job i agree with pretty much everything you said enjoyed reading

Bye Brody!

Mitch is going to have a blast announcing Shane Bannon's name on the raido. Welcome to KC rookies, Home of the loudest stadium in the NFL and BBQ :)

Good point system. If you would have stuck with it and not given bogus bonus points, the draft would have been graded a C-. With your 'fair' and 'unbiased' opinion you might as well give it an A+.

Lyle, as always a good, fun post. I'm enjoying the different "experts" grades of our draft. You're right, they don't know as much about the Chiefs as we do. I love this draft because Pioli addressed and upgraded every need except ROT. Very difficult to do in one draft.

The one area I was thinking about that no one has brought up is; how did we do in comparison to the rest of the AFC West? Looking at the Bronco's, Raider's and Charger's drafts, we improved more than any of them. With the addition of Baldwin and Hudson we will be able to be more competitive with Oakland and San Diego. Their strong front sevens took us out of our game. Now we have more beef with Hudson and they won't be able to cheat on D-Bowe, Baldwin will force them to play us straight up on D.

Lyle,first good job.Second,when reading about Hudson I was wondering how Will Shields would have graded out with your system?Third,do you think Gabe Miller could play inside linebacker?

I think you did a great job. I'd however, not make the total draft score an aggregate simple sum. There are additional factors in assessing total draft performance than just looking at each the individual pick that should be weighed in considering judgement.

For instance, I think we should should look at our "chip stack" starting the draft, how many of our key needs we were able to fill with those chips, and then the quality of the "hole pluggers".

For instance in this draft though we had more chips than the elite teams, we had far less than teams like the Broncos. How did we do relative to them despite the advantage they started with?

In terms of success in addressing "must have" and "really need" shopping list roster positions, I think we did very well, and for the most part at excellent prices.

Then we figure in the quality we got, which is what you did. I'm going to say start with your "B", add an "B+" for out shopping our division rivals on price, and an "A" for getting more total team needs filled.

My total draft grade is therefore a barely A- in the immediate post draft guessing game. If the wild card picks wind up be huge winners, or a high percentage of the later round picks turn out to be consistent contributors, then we'll both have to happily upgrade.

Baldwin and Houston bust like over-ripe melons, and sigh, we drop that to an oh well we tried "D". Here's hoping for these guys, and the Chiefs!

I found it very interesting that Walterfootball gave us an A this year. Chiefs fans have been accusing that guy of being biased against us for years, basically because he was critical of us when we deserved it. There were times I wanted to write him an apology letter. I'm glad the "Walter hates the Chiefs" boo-shit can finally be put to rest.

I liked the point system. Fresh take. And I'll bet you agonized over the way the points broke down, too. I probably would've second-guessed myself for hours on that.....and then come up with something much worse. Like a point for nickname potential.

I think that versatility - i.e., the ability to contribute in multiple ways such as multiple positions, multiple schemes, offense/defense/special teams - ought to be a value point especially within the Chiefs system/philosophy.

Lyle,

Interesting approach. I like it.

Let's suppose, just for the sake of argument, that improving special teams was also a top area of need for the Chiefs - would that change your grades any and if so, howso?

Wes Bunting graded out the Chiefs at a B fwiw.

http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/AFC-Draft-Grades.html

I predicted we would snag Powe! yeah!

i really like the point system good job i agree with pretty much everything you said enjoyed reading

Bye Brody!