rapacious price – much more than they had to pay but perhaps justifiable. they could have got Smitty for a 3rd or 4th if they'd waited til draft day, but that would be six wks of structuring & planning lost to the new regime of a team that is otherwise ready to be competitive.

i picked JCharles @ 1.05 in Fanatics because i knew Reid wouldnt let that offense go any further without a reasonably competent QB & that's all Jamaal needs to challenge for best small back of all time. I expect a CJ2K'09 type of season from him if they draft OL and either resign Albert or add a decent WR2. Smith will never be more than a midlevel QB2, but i think he's got the dontfuckitupness part of the job down now.

apernesky said:

I think Smith is going to be a great Fit with Andy… but I think any QB looks good with Andy… this will give KC a shot in every game they play this year

 

Wikki… i think you like more than O in KC this year as you grabbed there D.. .is that your only D??

yeah, i got sniped a coupla times with Ds & dont believe in reaching because the difference between the middling ones is negligible & unquantifiable now that defenses only stop bad teams anymore. a little research after i got sniped on AZ showed that KC plays half their '13 games against bad offenses, the highest left. plus, the whole Chiefs team has suffered unto the bad QBing which has so often left them running uphill. Love DJ, Hali, Berry & they have $$ to spend on at least one more DB. i was going to give Buf a chance as my 2nd D in the last rd but couldnt leave Jarius Wright on the board

a sharp GM would realize that AZ never would have been a serious player for AS because Arias has the most vertical pass game this side of Al Davis's undead corpse & Smitty dont go there. as i said, SF was going to wait unless the price was high enough for them not to, but it was worth it to Reid to be settled @ QB now.

back to Arias – the stone nachul thang out there for him @ QB is the kid Reid didnt trade for. if he can keep the Phoenix phaithphul from stoning him to death for the Cards trading for yet another Iggles castaway, bringing the Foles rifle back to Arizona looks like Kismet to me.

the Niners GM office looks to be as savvy as its coaching staff. informed sources say they started the "trade set in place" rumor so Reid, who had NOT settled on a deal, would pay their price. Revis is a perfect fit, but SF wont pay the NYJ price for a rental and wont pay Revis more than $12mil a season on an extension. its a lot harder to add a star when youre already a contender because sooner or later the guys that got you to the top are going wanna get paid for it and adding a big salary before that can cause a Jetlike crumble of cap structure. the downside to a savvy GM is that he may be too smart to do what everyone wants him to do. nufced