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Originally Posted by RunKC
The Chiefs didn’t become the Chiefs under Andy Reid through free agency.
All these guys we talk about. Mahomes, Tyreek, Kelce, Jones. They were all drafted.
That’s how you win in this league. Draft well
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That's the thing, EVERYTHING optimistic goes back to Mahomes being a supernatural talent.
And we just eliminated his most potent force multiplier, but everything is going to be fine because Reid and Veach are awesome [for drafting Mahomes] so they won't use our draft picks to assemble a historically bad defense like they did, or a bunch of scrub WRs outside Tyreek, like they did. They'll do awesome rebuilding an entire team because they drafted Mahomes.
The irony is, if people were correct about my ulterior motivations, I would be super stoked about this. If I hated Mahomes, and wanted a return of Marty ball, I'd be ECSTATIC that Mahomes lost his security blanket and our best chance to return to championship form would be to draft defense and a running game.
I want the franchise to succeed with the lot we have at present. If everything goes well, good players are drafted, emerging talents start paying dividends, units start gelling in schemes, etc., well be well positioned to do so.
But that's the story for EVERY franchise in a parity league, and no one outside Mahomes and Kelce have an outsized pedigree in performing above average in their respective roles.
I'd love to think, with all our draft capital, Spags and Reid are philosophically set to mold WHATEVER talent we collect into WHATEVER form of excellence maximizes that talent. Maybe we're a bruising running team [with the O-Line we've assembled, that would be a shortcut. Maybe we get a ravenous set of pass rushers. Maybe we luck into a Chase-level WR that miraculously drops to us. The possibilities are endless.
But they're philosophically set in their ways and dependent on long learning curves to get teams to perform exactly as they envisioned in their head and drafted in their existing schemes. Which means we're more likely in for a lot more beautiful ideas that the personnel have trouble executing, for at least a while.