Every year I really work to avoid looking at all the draft stuff simply because of, well, really, two words. "Percy Snow." I know you know what I mean.
But since I've been going off the sports celibacy wagon a bit more this off-season, for obvious reasons, I've noticed that it seems many think a couple LSU stalwarts may fall to No. 32, a linebacker and a running back. Some seem to feel we could get a good offensive lineman. There's apparently also been some crazy speculation that we'll trade up to get yet another speedy wide out.
What do I think? Honestly, I really think we should pretty much take every single one of our picks and get defense. I know it is unwise to rely too much on him, but Patrick Mahomes will still do a lot to make anybody on offense pretty good.
Running backs are particularly seductive draft crushes, but I really think there is great potential for Darwin Thompson and Darrel Williams, and Damien Williams was amazing for us last year.
Thing is, what is so so so so sooo cool about all this is that Brett Veach has got this, and we all know it. Not only are we Super Bowl Champions, but we have a genius front office decision-maker there.
Remember when we had Jack Steadman making all those decisions? Ugh. Yeah. I looked at a list somebody put online with the worst Chiefs drafts ever. Most of them were in the early 1970s. No wonder we sucked for so long after that. It is now as if all of our past poor front-office decision-making is being made up for now with Brett and Andy in there.
It is very much like our past instances of losing those big plays by an inch. Do you remember how often we'd need that one big play to go our way, and we lose it by an inch. It felt so hopeless -- I was convinced that those crazy plays needed to win big games would never go our way.
Wow. How much has last year made up for those. How many of them were there? A lot, and I'm sure I have a lot of them written down somewhere, just to point them out. Here're a couple.
In one of those playoff games, I think it was the Texans, may have been the Titans, Sammy Watkins made a clutch sideline catch we really needed, but it looked like he got only one foot in. Turns out on video review his other foot barely scrapped up a few grains of dirt before it went out.
First down Chiefs.
Then there was that interception made by Bashaud Breeland in the Super Bowl. His left foot went out of bounds right after he caught it. But, the video replay showed he barely still had that left foot down right when he made the catch.
It just seemed like we were blessed this year by dozens of those kinds of plays which before we didn't get in the worst ways at the worst possible times.
Somehow, yeah, whereas so many times before it seemed like we were under the worst curse ever -- now? It is just hard to believe that, finally, at least as fans of a very nice NFL team, we are as tremendously blessed as we are.
So yeah, tomorrow we get to do something we've never really been able to do.
We can enjoy the draft without the exasperation of wondering if this guy or that guy is going to make our team. Not just "make" the team, but you know: make the team. We can enjoy it without wondering if all the punditry sweet-talk about this guy or that guy is for-real or are they just yanking our chain so they'd get ratings.
When you're World Champions, life is good.
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