While this is all true in theory, there is no such thing as a team that has never had to rebuild. Even the Patriots and the Colts were awful not so very long ago, and the Chargers even more recently. The Steelers won like six games in 2003, the Cowboys had a string of five win seasons, the reigning Super Bowl champs won ten games combined in 03 and 04... The Raiders have probably been one of the most consistently good teams throughout their history -- from 1961 to 2002, they had only five five-win seasons, and three of them came in the first five years of the team's existence. And we know where they are now. A well-run team should be able to constantly reload as necessary, but it doesn't actually happen. That isn't to say that I'm satisfied with the Chiefs or what's going on with them these past few years and for the foreseeable future, but I think you're holding them to too high a standard to suggest that they should never have to rebuild. Ideally they wouldn't, but that just isn't realistic, for them or for anyone else. I promise there will come a time when the Patriots have to rebuild. It may not be for a while, but it'll absolutely happen. Maybe it's because even well-run teams do have to rebuild from time to time, or maybe it's because no team is ever perpetually well-run, but they'll rebuild just like everyone else does.LenexatoKCMO wrote: This BS myth has been tossed around a hell of a lot in this town the last twelve months+. Well run teams do not go through rebuilding years. Well run teams don't get so rotted that you need to blow the whole damn thing up and start over. Well run teams recognize when their O-lines are all nearing retirement age and acquire quality replacement talent years before the whole damn thing collapses. The Chiefs are not a well run team.
This is increasingly true of all professional sports but is especially true of the NFL. Rebuilding = we failed to adequately anticipate change and make sound adjustments.
I don't disagree that the Chiefs are a poorly-run team, but the fact that they're entering a full-scale rebuilding mode for the first time in nearly twenty years is not really the reason why -- I'd actually say the fact that they waited this long to rebuild is worse than the fact that they're rebuilding at all. They built their team to Vermeil's specifications and they made their run and came up short, and they should have shaken that team up after that instead of patching it up with bandaids and trying to get blood from a turnip.
OK let's just say it's rare for a team to be ran "well" then. I'd be fine getting rid of the man at the top...but to equate the Chiefs "rebuilding" to the approval of stadium renovations is silly. They would be in this spot if the voters didn't approve the renovation...
