The Chiefs blueprint

[NAS]

Drafted an elite QB in Mahomes - even though everyone else didn’t see him as such coming out of college. Then, they didn’t wait - and tried to surround him with talent and embraced a win now mentality knowing that their best chance is while they have him on his first and cheapest contract. They traded their 2019 first round pick for Frank Clarke, knowing they needed a better pass rush to make it to the super bowl.  Clarke was huge against the Texans with 3 sacks in crucial moments to help them overcome a 24 pt deficit. 

At any rate, I think the Infatuation with stockpiling future draft picks is overrated when you have a window with an MVP young QB and can choose to surround him with key pieces to win a Super Bowl. We will see if it works out.

I couldn’t help but think how Rivera, Hurney and Gettleman all blew it and didn’t give Cam even an offensive line to work with or even weapons at WR.  Hurney put us in cap hell while Gettleman kept getting rid of critical pieces like Smith, Norman and gave a terrible contract to Kalil.  They rode Cam in to the ground and now we have to start over.
 

If we do somehow draft an elite QB, I hope that the future will be different and they do whatever it takes to be great. I laughed at the Falcons for trading away their picks to draft Julio Jones but they turnes out to be right. He has been the best at his position and, if not for a 28-3 debacle, they would have a SB to show for it.  
 

if the Panthers truly think Joe Burrow is the next Mahomes, they should do what it takes to get him and be smart in free agency to build around him.  
 

p.s. I am operating under the assumption that Can will be released or traded. If Cam stays, then they should do the same to give him the offensive line he needs to be successful.

[Moo Daeng]

He didnt play a snap until the final game of his rookie season. Both of the SB quarterbacks had the benefit of not being thrown out there.

I doubt many would like that part of the blueprint if we were to throw significant draft resources at a QB

[ncfan]

So draft a stud QB with a cannon arm, track speed WRs, and a elite LT (their LT was the #1 overall pick)

 

[pantherj]

There simply isn't a quick fix unfortunately. It would have been better had we gone 0-16 because then we could draft Burrow, but Allen used his magic moxie.

The QB search is on, but we can't settle for a guy who is just good enough to get us through a season without being terrible. We're actually in the worst possible situation because it's easy to miss on a QB pick, and to make matters worse we have major needs at nearly every position on offense and defense. There is just no fixing this in the short term, but we have to find a superstar QB either in this draft or the next, or the next, or.... you get the idea. Not good.

We might be looking at multiple terrible losing seasons. 

[methodtoll]

Honestly, if we are going to model ourselves after one of the two remaining teams, you got to look at the 49ers. I feel like we are very similar in some ways because they have an owner who "trust the process" and allowed Shanahan to get this team in order and develop a playoff team. It took them several seasons to get to this point but finally has.

[Carolina Cajun]

50 minutes ago, bull123 said:

Of all the teams in the playoffs, the TItans looked the most like what I think we could be short term

run they ball, stop the run...their OL and DL are really, really good

now if they had an elite QB and a couple elite secondary guys....

I have to disagree, henry and cmc are completely different runners, it's basically the difference between jamal lewis and Marshall Faulk.  We are redoing our offense, if we plan to maximize cmc, our offense will have to change dramatically.

[saX man]

Have to look at their investments in the draft v. FA.  They usually have acquired 1-3 true impact guys via UFA or trade, I.E. Dee Ford, Matthieu, etc.  Then, looked to their lines and grabbing can't miss unique skill position players in the draft.

Bosa, McGlinchey, Deebo, Hardman, Sanders, Buckner, Thomas, Nnadi, Speaks, Kpassagnon, Chris Jones...

The trends are trench grinder or skill position guy with major upside. 

[LinvilleGorge]

If 4-12 to Super Bowl doesn't count as a quick turnaround I don't know what the hell would.

 

[Borat]

Chiefs have a piece at QB who looks like a once-in-a-lifetime talent, as well as a HOF coach. “Blueprint?” Sure, but easier said than done.

[t96]

Chiefs blueprint is having Andy Reid (hope Rhule can become that good for us but Reids don’t go on trees...), and then finding Mahomes and taking the risk to trade up for him—it’s obviously been more than worth it and paid off big time.

[Cpt slay a ho]

Different ways to go about it, we need and identity.

Either need to be offensive heavy or defensive heavy.

with our current roster we should go offensive heavy and field a middling defense, bend don’t break mentality 

[Ivan The Awesome]

Reid's teams have only gone as far as his QB's have allowed. If they win the SB then you can say that the only thing holding him back all these years and teams he's coached was having a franchise QB. He's built really good Teams before and the main thing that sticks out to me has always been that they could never get over that hump because of the QB. 

 

Reids blueprint and philosophy has been made easier to execute mainly because he finally found his QB that will get the job done. Smith, McNabb, Vick, etc etc while being decent QB's don't have that franchise qb title Mahomes has. 

 

We have a Franchise QB in Cam. I fully believe that, when he's not injured. This regime has a decision to make. Rebuild with Cam again, or cut ties. That's the million dollar question, what will they do going forward in this rebuild? Keep or deal Cam?

 

Either way is fine with me. One could take longer. Each has its pros and Cons. I am excited to see which way they go, i'll support their decision going forward. 

[JARROD]

4 hours ago, NAS said:

Drafted an elite QB in Mahomes - even though everyone else didn’t see him as such coming out of college. Then, they didn’t wait - and tried to surround him with talent and embraced a win now mentality knowing that their best chance is while they have him on his first and cheapest contract. They traded their 2019 first round pick for Frank Clarke, knowing they needed a better pass rush to make it to the super bowl.  Clarke was huge against the Texans with 3 sacks in crucial moments to help them overcome a 24 pt deficit. 

At any rate, I think the Infatuation with stockpiling future draft picks is overrated when you have a window with an MVP young QB and can choose to surround him with key pieces to win a Super Bowl. We will see if it works out.

I couldn’t help but think how Rivera, Hurney and Gettleman all blew it and didn’t give Cam even an offensive line to work with or even weapons at WR.  Hurney put us in cap hell while Gettleman kept getting rid of critical pieces like Smith, Norman and gave a terrible contract to Kalil.  They rode Cam in to the ground and now we have to start over.
 

If we do somehow draft an elite QB, I hope that the future will be different and they do whatever it takes to be great. I laughed at the Falcons for trading away their picks to draft Julio Jones but they turnes out to be right. He has been the best at his position and, if not for a 28-3 debacle, they would have a SB to show for it.  
 

if the Panthers truly think Joe Burrow is the next Mahomes, they should do what it takes to get him and be smart in free agency to build around him.  
 

p.s. I am operating under the assumption that Can will be released or traded. If Cam stays, then they should do the same to give him the offensive line he needs to be successful.

The Falcons are a great example. 28-3 was because they ran out of gas and had no lines to control the game.

the Julio trade pick screwed them for years. They could not make up all the draft picks lost and their depth was terrible.

i like the 49ers model better. They have a great team and will pummel Kansas City. 

[AggieLean]

It’s going to be 3/4 years before we can even talk Super Bowl.