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There's no wrong way to be a fan, as long as you're not disrespecting your fellow fans, crossing lines of human decency, or generally being a Raiders fan. You can be pessimistic, optimistic, hedonistic, fanatic, dramatic, or just plain crazy. However someone chooses to exhibit their support of a sports franchise is within their rights.

But you've got to stick to your approach. What am I getting at?

Don't demand change then question the changes themselves.

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2 months ago: FILE - In this Aug. 29, 2009, file photo, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Tyler Thigpen (4) looks to throw a pass during the second half of an preseason NFL football game against the Seattle Seahawks in Kansas City, Mo. Thigpen was traded on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009, by the Chiefs to the Miami Dolphins an undisclosed draft pick. (AP Photo/Ed Zurga)

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You want to make an omelet? You gotta break a few eggs. You want to rebuild a football team, you gotta get rid of a few good players. The question is, which eggs were the ones that when we break them, poison us and leave us face-down in our huevos rancheros waiting for the kids to come in an find us while Imagination Movers blares on the TV and the dog eats the toast?

The Chiefs have ditched their fair share of guys, many of whom are going to wind up on other teams if they haven't already. But as we've seen over the years, sometimes the guys we give away are the ones that come back to hurt us the most.

The one that always stands out the most to me is Rich Gannon (ptew!). After tempting us all with his promise, the Chiefs' coaching staff foolishly let him walk, resulting in him torturing the Chiefs over several years with the Oakland Raiders of all people. That one just stings.

So the question is, of the players the Chiefs have jettisoned, who are you most afraid of running into down the line?

Candidates after the jump.

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Photo via David Eulitt of the Kansas City Star

From the FanPosts  -Joel

"It was Haley's flingin' flarnin' play-callin! He ran too much! If he didn't run, we coulda gotten back into it, fling-flarn it!"

"Cassel can't make the big throws! He's no better than Brodie!"

"LJ can't run worth a lick! Bench him!"

"That defense can't give up that many yards! Period! Our defense is terrible!"

Come along with me after the jump and I'll reveal how the only people in the firing line today should be the five guys up front, and the effect that created in yesterday's debacle. 

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I've just been handed an urgent, and horrifying news story. And I need all of you to stop what you're doing and listen.

(CHIEFSTRADEASECONDROUNDERFORCASSELANDVRABEL, CUTLERWANTSOUTOFDENVERTHEJJARRINGTONDEALISNTDONEANDTHISISPROBABLYTHELASTSNOWOFTHEWINTER)

CANNONBALL!

CELEBRATE GOOD TIMES, COME ON!

So with that in mind, let's all remember this day as one of the better ones. Soon the days of Damon Huard and Rocky Boiman will be behind us completely. We nab two veterans while only having to give up a pick we would have undoubtedly used on a defensive linemen who would end up playing second string in another city in two years, and the Broncos are pissing off their Pro Bowl quarterback. It's like God brought a little joy into the snow that fell here today.

HAPPY "THIS YEAR WILL NOT SUCK AS MUCH AS THE LAST" DAY!

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Dear God:

We dealt with you allowing them to be delivered the Orange Bowl in 2007. We beat them, it was outlandish, but we understand not even you can make sense of the BCS.

We suffered through their NCAA Championship last March. Great team. Yeah, Memphis shold have put them away, but we're used to them having great teams.

And we even lasted through them winning the freaking Border War in the snow. Appparently Chase Daniel's pride irked you in some way and you felt the need to punish as all for it.

But we need this one. For one season, we need to have something to hold over them. They've held a chokehold on us in basketball for too long. It's only fair that you even the bar. C'mon, God, you know you want it. Just picture, all of the kuchebags, crying in their little arena. wondering how this could happen. Give in, God. Grant us victory.

Sincerely,

The Show Me State

I respect the idea that we need to keep the GM and coaching jobs seperate. I think that's a very sound approach to take and the only reason I'm in favor of violating it is in the pursuit of Bill Cowher, who is absolutely everything we've been looking for as the face of a franchise. Hard-line, family-man, xs and os. defense, offense, the works.

If we don't get Cowher because he decides to hang out in North Carolina with his daughters another year, no biggie. If we don't get him because the lure of the New York gig was too much, I'll be glad because that's not what I think Cowher is. If we don't get him because the Lions offer him everything he could ever want and more money than God, I'll wish him good luck and be fine with it.

What I will not be okay with is if we lose out on Cowher because the Broncos get him.

Imagine having to play Cowher twice a year for a half-decade with a franchise quarterback and a solid group of personnel. You know what it's like trying to get over the hump with Cowher on your schedule twice a year? Go ask the Browns or the Bengals.

I know that Hunt wants to exercise due dilligence and pick the right guy for the job. But we're going to lose out on most of the top candidates if we don't get a move on. We'll end up stuck with someone that wasn't our first, second, or third pick. And that's been our MO for too long. Clark Hunt, if you have a plan, execute it. If not, go get Cowher on a plane.

I just wanted to get this out there so we can look at it in context.

We're not going to keep Tyler Thigpen as our starting quarterback because he's an inexperienced, underwhelming quarterback who is only effective in the spread system which can't work in the NFL and though he plays with a lot of heart, has a solid throwing arm, good chemistry with the players and great athleticism, he can't win ball games, even when you consider how largely inept the rest of our team is.

So, we're either going to:

A. Draft a first round quarterback from the heaviest spread-offense system class in history and who will inevitably require two to three years of development before we can even judge how he's going to turn out as a pro.  We will then have to pay him upteen bajillion dollars which may eventually prove completely futile if he doesn't win us multiple superbowls like, oh, say, the other 90% of first round quarterbacks drafted.

OR

*B. Sign a free agent quarterback for upteen bajillion dollars who was released from his former team fore being unable to win ballgames, despite his heart/athleticism/cannon-arm and who already carries with him a heavy weight of expecations and given the fact that he's a veteran, will probably require something better than the weakly constructed plastic bubble we use as our offensive line, which actually collapses immediately upon any applicable pressure. Then, when he doesn't work back, we'll of course move back to plan A for upteen bajillion more dollars.

Meanwhile, we're going to let a backup quarterback who everyone likes and who has shown a great deal of promise probably go, where, while he might end up as nothing, he could end up in an efficient system with a competent coach who will use his talents to the best of their abilities and possibly use his limited skillset to their utmost potential culminating in a SuperBowl appearance.

Because we've never seen that before.

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Does that just about sum it up?