Readers Speak Again: It’s Curry or Trade Down

I would love to see us trade down. So keep building the hype for Curry make a trade more appealling to a team 3-4 spots behind the Cheifs. Brown will still be available there.

Maybe Curry will be there at #3…maybe he won’t. It all depends on whether or not the Lions gamble on Stafford. And I still think there’s a real good chance the Rams will take Curry if he’s there to take. I know they need O-line…but they can address that in the other rounds. Could happen, especially with a D-minded coach.

As Bob pointed out awhile back (with stats)…trades for the top picks almost never happen. Not saying that it can’t…but it’s not likely. The only way I could see anyone wanting to trade with us is if Stafford falls to our pick. Which could happen.

If Curry is gone, I’d still like to see us get Crabtree. Let’s have a Fitzgerald/Boldin duo of our own with Bowe and Crabtree. And with a dominating TE like Tony G to throw to…that’s something Arizona didn’t have. You can’t double-cover them all. (And this would be assuming that D.Bowe can cut down on the drops.) Yeah, I know…we need O-line more than a receiver. But I can dream. It WOULD be fun to watch. And with our O-minded coach? It could happen.

Ok, let me tell you my opinion on the comment above that curry may be gone at 1 to the lions..

Not a chance. They may appear to do so to get a better deal with stafford or smith, but Peterson/Sims already are a huge hit against their cap, if you added in the top pick at LB, thats 3 LB’s getting 1st overall pay, 9th overall pay, and peterson’s inflated contract.

As for Crabtree, I agree, I think he could be a great selection, the problem is the defense is weak and we dont have a 2nd round pick..

I don’t think Haley wants to take Curry. He didn’t even go to the WF pro day…

Who in the heck said Donald Brown?

It’s Curry, Crabtree, Orakpo, trade down (in that order).

who is the idiot that still wants the chiefs to take Mark freaking Sanchez at #3?!

Herm, is that you?

Anonymous,

From Bob’s Cup last Friday:

“Curry will work out next week for the Chiefs in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Then, he will visit Kansas City on April 14.

In the workout, the Chiefs will want to see Curry do some specific things that they’ll ask him to do in their defense. Otherwise, there’s little reason to work him out because he did so at the NFL Scouting Combine and Wake Forest’s Pro Day earlier this week.

But it’s the time spent with Curry on a one-on-one basis that will be important to Scott Pioli and his crew. They want to know what kind of person they would be drafting and especially, how important football is to the young man. The search for these so called intangibles is what these meetings and workouts are really all about.

Curry has already visited Detroit, as the Lions have the first pick. He’ll leave Kansas City on April 15 and go to St. Louis and visit with the Rams, who have the second selection. Reportedly, Curry has visits scheduled with the six teams holding the top slots in the first round.”

Sounds like to me Haley might want to take Curry. Otherwise, why bother? How many other guys are scheduled to “workout” for us?

Sounds like the Rams are interested in him, too.

It would be shocking if the Lions pass on a legitimate shot at a franchise QB! I will pass out on draft day, if they do not choose Matthew Stafford (hopefully I will wake up 10 minutes later).

Two, St Louis cut Orlando Pace and there are only a few people on the planet as big, strong and athletic as Jason Smith. The Rams will be set for a decade at LT.

Aaron Curry is at #3 for the Chiefs. He looks like a cross between Keith Bullock and Ray Lewis. It would be a very exciting day for those of us who are missing Willie Lanier and Derrick Thomas!

say no to Orakpo. He is a bull rush only guy, with injury concerns that couldnt do anything against Alex Boone.

He has tamba hali writtern all over him, and in either case isnt worth a #3 pick.

Orakapo is this years Gholston. He has bust written all over him. A work out freak with little upside.

Drafting a lb @ number 3 overall, with no history of being a pass rusher would be stupid! Why?! You can find guys like Curry (big motor, great tackler, no coverage skills and not a dominant pass rusher)in rounds 2,3 or 4. Sounds like a MLB to me, and you dumb asses want to draft him with the third overall pick?!!?? PLEASEEEEEEE!!!!!!!

Aaron Curry can become an excellent blitzer. If you feel otherwise, it’s just a difference of opinion you hold versus many other people.

You will not be able to find a LB like Aaron Curry in the 2-4 round. You’re so smart– name the ‘backer who will perform better than Curry, but will be drafted in the 2-4 rounds. Go on, name him, enlighten us morons.

Is it just me - or is anyone seeming to miss the question of how many LB’s have gone #3 overall in the past 10 years? I thought they generally tended to go lower. Let’s see here…is Curry better than…Pat Willis picked #11…Shawne Merriman picked #12…AJ Hawk picked #5…Ernie Sims picked #9…Demarcus Ware picked #11?

The big issue isn’t “is Curry the best defensive player/LB in this draft” but rather something like…does he make the biggest impact for our roster at #3 or does someone else do that for us? Also…is he the best LB in the past several drafts?

If he’s not better than these other guys from past drafts, then would he not be considered a reach and shouldn’t we be looking at someone else?

Any of the three lbs from USC COULD be every bit as good as Curry COULD be! The kid out of Ohio St is another guy that COULD be a dominant defender. And you can bet your man crush on Curry, that there will be a couple of guys that are drafted in the latter rounds that make the Pro Bowl, and become an All Pro at lb.
So you idiots go for the big name guy that happens to play a position of need. With only one starting caliber lb on the roster, Vrabel, I can see where the uneducated would have a knee jerk reaction, but I’m certain Haley and Pioli wont be so short sighted, er stupid!

Now that the Chiefs have traded away their second round pick, it doesn’t take a Bio Engineer to understand that the best possible move would be to trade down, but that’s not going to happen, not with this years talent pool.
Detroit may take Curry, that would be par for the course, Stafford or the Tackle out of Virginia, Monroe, or Jason Smith. The Rams will take Crabtree.

So the Chiefs should draft either Jason Smith or Monroe if they have their choice of the two, all the better.

And if by the remotest chance I’m wrong about the ineptitude of Detroit and the Rams, and they actually screw things up with blind luck and both tackles are gone, and the Chiefs are serious about making the transition to a 3-4 then the Chiefs will take Raji!

A.J. Hawk was talked about like this… I think they should draft down to a spot where they can grab Everette Brown…

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If you held the #4 pick in 1989, would you have convinced yourself a LB can be found in the 2nd-4th rounds? Or would you have drafted Derrick Thomas?
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The Chiefs, most likely, do not have BJ Raji or Percy Harvin on their draft board.

It should be a trade down to pick up the second rounder back and just depending where it all rests it will be either Brown or Barwin.