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Originally Posted by ChiefsCountry
And here is the stupid shit that drives posters away.
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But regardless, it's unbridled homerism to look at the roster as it stands today and think it's going to be this massive improvement over last season.
There's only one WR that warrants concern from defenses to go along with Jason Avant and a slew of boom-or-bust developmental projects. That's pretty much the exact same dynamic that was in play last season; the only difference Maclin has a much more athletic skillset than Bowe and -in theory- should be an upgrade. But that depends on if he'll actually be thrown to and if those passes are completed beyond the LoS.
Kelce is the only TE on the team that has any sort of consistency; Harris is a huge project and O'Shaughnessy is slightly less of a project. Fasano sucked relative to what he was paid and how much attention he got, but it was obvious that the team needs two TEs that can both catch and block for the offense to work and it's hard to see how that unit is any better than last year.
Fisher is likely to be the only starter on the offensive line that's returning from last year, and he'll likely be the second best player in that unit along with Grubbs. Center, guard and the other tackle are complete ****ing question marks. That's not likely to be an upgrade to the point that it elevates the rest of the offense to succeed (quantifiable measures or otherwise) and could very well look as bad as it did last year.
Defensively the roster is about the same, though there is the assumption Peters will probably work his way into the lineup as a starter or at least a pseudo-starter as a nickel against pass-happy teams and that Tyvon Branch will bring another option in varied safety packages. The issue with the defense is going to be whether or not the torn Achilles duo of Johnson and DeVito can play close to the level they were capable of prior to injury, if there's another ILB worth a damn in run stopping and if Houston isn't lagging behind to the start the season if he misses all of the preseason (and if he doesn't decide to sit out for as many games as he pleases as a '**** you' to Dorsey and Reid). They could be historically great as they were in stretches last year, but that's a lot of supposition on based on the aforementioned variables. They'll be good barring some unforeseeable issues, but counting on the defense to never give up 30+ points or carry an average of allowing fewer than 18 points a game is also unbridled homerism.
Special teams are a wash IMO. As long as they don't outright lose you a game, then everything else is gravy and that's pretty much not going to happen with Toub as coach.
And that's about all there is to really say about the team in a vacuum; there's a lot more to suggest that this year's team will look a lot like last year's than there is to suggest an improvement.
Of course, nobody is actually going to read this because we're on CP and criticizing the poster rather than the post is the name of the game anymore.