Scott Pioli Says Chiefs Are Still Trying To Re-Sign Brandon Carr

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Kansas City Chiefs GM Scott Pioli stopped by the Boarder Patrol on 810 Sports this morning to talk about a number of topics, including the future of CB Brandon Carr.

The team signed free agent CB Stanford Routt yesterday, leading many folks to speculate that the team will now move on from Carr, a four-year starter with the Chiefs.

According to Pioli, however, the team is still trying to re-sigh Carr.

“The signing of Stanford Routt does not impact where we’re at with Brandon Carr. Romeo and I both reached out to Carr and spoke with him. I spoke personally with Brandon.”

Pioli has said things in the past (“it takes two for a marriage”) that has led me to believe that he was trying to set the fan base up for the reality that Carr and Bowe would not be back. This quote, however, is more reassuring. It really sounded to me like the Chiefs are hoping to keep Carr. Whether or not Carr will accept their offer remains to be seen. Pioli did say that the Chiefs want Carr in Kansas City and that Carr wants to be in Kansas City. He added that if there is a deal that makes sense for both sides then Carr will be back.

Let’s hope the team and Carr are able to figure something out. I don’t want to get anyone’s hopes up here, and if Carr wants more than the Chiefs are willing to pay he likely will be able to get it elsewhere but a Flowers, Carr, Routt and Arenas secondary, with Berry and Lewis would be ridiculous.

As for Routt, Pioli said the Chiefs were just trying to help him out. He is, after all, a former Raider.

“We’re trying to clean up his life a little bit to get him out here to be a Kansas City Chief,” Pioli said. “We’re trying to make an honest man out of him.”

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tm1946

I think we need to accept Routt got the payday for CB, there is nothing left at a level Carr would consider. You cannot salt all those dollars in one CB position. With the other needs and if the Chiefs wanted to make a run at Nicks (they do not but dream on), there has to be enough money to work with. Nope, Carr is gone and we can worry about Bowe or whomever tickles your fancy, god knows, we got holes to fill.

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JohnMorrow

If there is enough Cap Room remaining to sign only 3 of the following 4-- WRF Bowe, CB Carr, OG Nicks and NT Soliai--which 3 would you do? Which 3, in addition to draft picks, give the Chiefs the best chance of winning the AFC West, the AFC and the Super Bowl this coming season? (And don't say the Chiefs have enough Cap Room remaining to do all 4; they almost certainly do not!)

merlin_AA

@JohnMorrow I would pass on Nicks. The money is way to much for him and he would be the easiest of the bunch to replace.

I can buy that. The purpose of my question is to make the point that the Chiefs face a real world scarce resource allocation problem and that resigning Carr, as many of us want, entails very important opportunity costs.

@JohnMorrow It's a very fair point. Fans point to all the salary cap room and assume we can get as many players as we want. Everything has it limits.

Chiefsfan7

If Pioli can manage to keep Carr, I would be willing to overlook his stance on candywrappers.

sidibeke

Maybe this is how Pioli makes his pick Tyson Jackson look good after all; stack the 2ary with Routt, Berry, Flowers, Lewis AND Carr.

CanadianCheifsFan1992

@sidibeke Whatever works I guess

patrickallen

@sidibeke If Tin Man starts getting sacks I don't care what it takes.

@patrickallen Can't you see Tin Man's first sack: QB running around for a good minute with no open receivers and finally, unwittingly runs into Tyson and falls down.

chiefsfan3131

Considering that this league has become a very pass happy league keeping Carr would be a brilliant move. Our secondary would be F'n rediculous. Then we can concentrate on getting Bowe signed and improving the O and D lines. Woooo I'm getting excited!!

Kurt Rauch

That is an interesting comment from Pioli. He either has a very comfortable relationship with Routt or he is just plain giddy with this signing. Perhaps both? I hadn't seen that level of humor--hardly any level--from Scott since he has been here. Let's keep the good omens rolling.

@Kurt Rauch The joke about Routt made me laugh out loud.

huckdaddy

@patrickallen@Kurt Rauch No doubt. I love a good jab at the Raiders, but coming from Pioli just makes it all the better.

clinch9

@FieldYates Glad to hear this. I've always been kind of sketchy about Pioli and his plans for KC. It'd be great to have both here.

FieldYates

@clinch9 If he does return, it'd be a coup for KC. You can never have enough quality cover corners. Surely all KC fans are hopeful for this

ArrowheadAddict

@FieldYates Agreed.If Carr returns it goes from being a smart move to protect the talent level to a brilliant one to improve the defense

@ArrowheadAddict It's probably smart for us to disregard the notion that you can only pay 2 CB's. You can never have enough quality cover CB

@FieldYates Especially when you play in a division with Rivers, a conference with Brady and a league with Rogers and Brees.

@ArrowheadAddict No doubt. A Carr re-signing would be a major coup. The secondary would be amongst the best in the #NFL

tm1946 183 pts

JohnMorrow 151 pts

merlin_AA 191 pts

JohnMorrow I would pass on Nicks. The money is way to much for him and he would be the easiest of the bunch to replace.

JohnMorrow It's a very fair point. Fans point to all the salary cap room and assume we can get as many players as we want. Everything has it limits.

Chiefsfan7 93 pts

sidibeke 259 pts

CanadianCheifsFan1992 9 pts

Whatever works I guess

patrickallen 156 pts moderator

sidibeke If Tin Man starts getting sacks I don't care what it takes.

patrickallen Can't you see Tin Man's first sack: QB running around for a good minute with no open receivers and finally, unwittingly runs into Tyson and falls down.