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NFL 2024: Chiefs Kingdom Targets a Three-Peat

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Drake Maye.

This is what CBS Sports said...

He might need some time on the bench, but he has the talent to develop into a good starting quarterback in this league. He just needs to fine tune a few mechanical things. The Patriots had to get a quarterback.
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This always concerns me when a QB who has played the position for seven or eight years (high school/college) needs to "fine tune a few mechanical things". Especially on a roster that doesn't have much in the way of offensive talent.
 
I don't think Williams will be a bust, but I certainly don't think he's going to be the shoe-in top five in the league that so many make him out to be. I do think Maye will be a bust though, especial given where he's going.

At the end of the day, I think McCarthy will be the best of the group for one reason: He has that mythical "It factor" in spades. And after a half-a-decade of watching Cousins put up huge numbers when it didn't matter and be overcome with waves of lethargy when it did, I've come to realize just how important that "It factor" is. McCarthy is a born leader. Cousins is a rent-a-cop. I am over the moon.

Turner was just one helluva bonus.
 
Williams could be a bust simply because he's going to the Bears. Doesn't matter if it's a new coaching staff and new front office, the QB results seem to always come out the same.
 
Aragorn said:
Williams could be a bust simply because he's going to the Bears. Doesn't matter if it's a new coaching staff and new front office, the QB results seem to always come out the same.
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Didn't this coaching staff have Fields for two years, with little to show for it?
 
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Yes, but they get to use the "he wasn't our guy" excuse.
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They also have the "Fields pretty decisively proved that he is not a starting quarterback in the NFL" excuse, given his fumbling issues, his terrible footwork, the way he melts down the moment his first read isn't open, his instinct to take off running if a play collapses, and a propensity for taking nasty sacks.

I mean, there's a reason the best offer the Bears got for Fields was a conditional sixth-round pick in 2025.
 
Goodell is mulling an 18-game season by turning another preseason game into a regular season game, and then adding another bye week, and then moving the Super Bowl to Presidents Day weekend so that many people would get Monday off. None of this would happen anytime soon though. Also, he wants more games played in other countries, which I'm sure the players love.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id...8-game-slate-president-day-weekend-super-bowl
 
Aragorn said:
Goodell is mulling an 18-game season by turning another preseason game into a regular season game, and then adding another bye week, and then moving the Super Bowl to Presidents Day weekend so that many people would get Monday off. None of this would happen anytime soon though. Also, he wants more games played in other countries, which I'm sure the players love.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id...8-game-slate-president-day-weekend-super-bowl
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I would be happy going back to a 14 game schedule with the Super Bowl in mid-January.
 
The first time I remember the Super Bowl being played in late February was the 2001-2002 season because of 9/11, when the games were postponed for a couple of weeks after the attack.
Before that, I don't really recall a two week break between the division championship and the Super Bowl.
 
DarrenTR1970 said:
The first time I remember the Super Bowl being played in late February was the 2001-2002 season because of 9/11, when the games were postponed for a couple of weeks after the attack.
Before that, I don't really recall a two week break between the division championship and the Super Bowl.
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The Pro Bowl occurred between the conference championships and the Super Bowl from 2010 - 2022.
 
Aragorn said:
Williams could be a bust simply because he's going to the Bears. Doesn't matter if it's a new coaching staff and new front office, the QB results seem to always come out the same.
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Timby said:
They also have the "Fields pretty decisively proved that he is not a starting quarterback in the NFL" excuse, given his fumbling issues, his terrible footwork, the way he melts down the moment his first read isn't open, his instinct to take off running if a play collapses, and a propensity for taking nasty sacks.

I mean, there's a reason the best offer the Bears got for Fields was a conditional sixth-round pick in 2025.
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Fields has his own many issues that might have been correctable if he was on a team that had ever been able to develop a rookie QB.

If Williams is naturally light years better than Fields, he's got a chance with the Bears if the o-line doesn't get him slaughtered.
 
BillJ said:
Drake Maye.

This is what CBS Sports said...



This always concerns me when a QB who has played the position for seven or eight years (high school/college) needs to "fine tune a few mechanical things". Especially on a roster that doesn't have much in the way of offensive talent.
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From what I've been able to gather, the "mechanical things" refers mainly to his footwork which could use some cleaning up. Alex Van Pelt, the Patriots' new OC, is apparently a specialist in QB footwork, so they probably kept that in mind when they were considering Maye.
 
The guy who just announced the Broncos pick isn't good with transitions. He just made it sound like Mike Shanahan died.
 
Colts general manager Chris Ballard fiercely defended second-round pick Adonai Mitchell against criticisms of his character after selecting the wide receiver Friday night, calling the condemnations of the former Texas star "bulls---" during a lengthy rant.
Mitchell, selected 52nd overall, had hoped to be selected in the first round but slid into the second round amid reports that he interviewed poorly and was a difficult player to assess.
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This has been the year of the all or nothing QB. Six taken in the first twelve picks, then nothing for the next three rounds. Let's see what the fifth round brings us.
 
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