Donovan Jackson in rd1.

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(01-22-2025, 04:08 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: Chiefs won 1 Super Bowl in 2020 before Thuney arrived. Then won in 2022 and 2023. Thuney was signed as a free agent in 2021. The lone year they did not win or go to the SB, Bengals beat them in AFC championship game. Trey Smith (all pro RG 2024) also joined the Chiefs as a rookie 6th round pick in 2021 and was inserted as a starter immediately.

Chiefs signed a great vet and drafted a rookie (he had history of blood clots and likely why he fell in the draft) in 2021. Since then, they have won 2 Super Bowls, lost in an AFC championship game and 4th year of Thuney and Smith they are still alive for another AFC championship and then possibly Super Bowl.

I will say it again, time we quit undervaluing guards. Why didn't we go after Joe Thuney in 2021?

What will we do in 2024 as we are in the same position the Chiefs were in 2021; we need 2 guards who can help us run the football and protect the franchise.

Trey Smith is a Pro Bowler, not an All Pro, or at least an AP All Pro.  You may be referring to PFF or some other All Pro list.

KC also lost in the SB the year before Thuney went there, so two SB appearances with 1 win in the two years previous to 2 titles in two appearances in the three years since.  They were already a well established perennial SB contender before their IOL makeover.

Quenton Nelson has been widely regarded as the best G in the game for years.  How is the Colts success as a team?  What about Lindstrom and the Falcons?  I think you're running into some false causality here.