No, I read your drivels, and your problem is that you value your 2nd pick WAYYYYYY too damn much.
Low football IQ people would of course say that it's too much. If you just think about logically, it's the best thing for the Chiefs to get Smith right now.
You assume that Smith is at his ceiling, when in fact the guy is barely 28 going on 29. He is playing the best football of his life, and looks like he will improve base on what he'll have going for him. You have a problem with that? Your scenarios are all stupid. Because the problems you raised, will exacerbate in a few years, when whomever at QB that you think will develop into your franchise QB with your 3rd or 4th pick this year (excuse me while I laugh out loud uncontrollably). Fucking dream on buddy.
And, if Smith works out as your franchise QB, and there's high probability that he will succeed, who gives a shit what possibly 3rd round pick the Chiefs give up next year?
You must be a blast at parties. Mediocre and stupid? Look in the mirror.
I was going to actually write a serious response to each of your points but then got to the bolded part and realized it was a waste of time even replying to you in the first place.
Um,
that was my entire point, you
don't do that.
That doesn't work. Good teams do not do shit like that. Seriously I don't even know how you can believe that I was saying anything other than that being stupid. That's my point. Because they made this total dogshit trade (seriously actually look around everyone is saying this is
at best bad value of a trade).
You'd already proven you don't actually know much about the Chiefs so why you're going off about football IQ when you can't even comprehend something that's made completely plain for you is just absurd. Talk about drivel. JHumeC, that you're even saying stuff like IQ is laughable considering your dogshit comprehension and logic.
One quick thing. Um, the difference is that if they draft and develop a guy now they'd have a legit QB prospect to take over at that point, not Alex Smith likely on his way out of the NFL and then having to start over with the QB position, which means another few years wasted on that guy developing.
Makes sense. If he turned into a diva/locker room cancer, it would seriously affect his future job prospects. By rolling with it, he's more valuable to teams. Valuable enough that a team traded for him, so he'll be making the same money he made in San Francisco.
Agreed with this. You have to consider the value of the other potential QBs. The Chiefs would almost certainly have had to use their 1st overall pick if they wanted Geno Smith, and if they held off they MAYBE could have gotten Barkley in the 2nd, but it's no guarantee. Neither one is nearly the slam-dunk week 1 starter that Alex Smith is. And they had to give up "only" a 2nd round pick and a future 2nd-3rd rounder. Not actually that high of a price when you think about it.
If this was last year it would be a different matter. The Chiefs would have gotten Luck and been done with it. With Alex Smith, I think they'll get several years of solid, if not flashy production.
Um, yes, I know that. I'd much rather them take Geno Smith 1st overall than to have made this trade. Hell even with this trade I still hope they take Geno 1st overall. I said I'm ok, and would prefer them to sit Geno even after drafting him 1st overall. My problem is they could easily have found someone to start for a year or two and let Geno sit. Someone they didn't have to give up 2 valuable picks for. Either way, including with Alex Smith, they're very likely not going to be doing anything for a couple of years. They might make the playoffs but it'll be like the 2010 Chiefs, they're not seriously competing for anything. And in the meantime they'll likely lose out on drafting serious QB prospects by improving to that level. Now, sure maybe they'll luck into something, but more than likely they'll push Alex out there for 3-5 years of mediocre "solid, if not flashy production" football, and it'll be like the 90s or Vermeil era all over again. Sorry, no thanks. Seen it all before.
So what if Alex improves the team more than a rookie would for a few seasons? You look at what gives you the
best chance at competing for and winning Super Bowls. And how you do that, with regards to QB is very clear.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Super_Bowl_champions
Go and look at the teams that were in the Super Bowl for the past 30 years (you can probably go back further than that even honestly, but I figured I'd keep it close to Free Agency era where star players could change teams, increasing the chances that a QB could lead a different team to the Super Bowl), and you'll notice that something like 90% of them drafted and developed the QB that got them to the Super Bowl. In the last 30 years, there's 3 teams that have won without having done that, and those had top tier defenses (Ravens in 2001 and Tampa Bay a couple of years later) or the QB became a top tier QB (the Saints with Brees, and let's face it no one is even broaching the topic that Alex Smith will be anything close to that level).
Even if they wanted Alex Smith they could have gotten him for less than what they gave up to get him. That alone is reason enough to call this a bad trade. But if you actually seriously look at Alex Smith, it becomes even worse. He's not as bad as he's made out to be most places (seriously you two do realize he's considered to be not very good, right? Hell just listen to yourselves "well he'll be better than a rookie this year", its like people defending Cassel all over again), but acting like this guy is a longterm franchise QB is absurd. He's much more likely to keep being mediocre.
