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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
That is a rosy view of how quickly and easily this will happen. It is not stupid for the coaching staff to experiment with what WR fits in what spot. Spags spends the entire year figuring this out for his defense. That meant making a lot of bad rotations, playing the wrong guys, relying on guys he shouldn’t have. That doesn’t make him stupid. And so much of our WR stability depends on Toney thriving as WR1 and, more importantly, staying healthy and taking a full snap load.
They had 4 of these guys last year. Watson and Mvs are role guys. Toney is an injury risk. Skyy is unproven which I love for experimenting at WR2 but given toneys past could be forced to take on WR1 in stretches. All the while we’re talking about rice and Ross and James as if they’ll all just easily plug and play. If we lose Toney early in the season I don’t think I’m alone in saying that makes our WR room very concerning. There is even quite a bit of uncertainty even if he’s healthy. And not because these guys suck but because it will be way too early to know what we have or for some of these guys to step into these roles naturally.
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Spags had 6 ****ing rookies in his top 12 guys. That's a HUGE difference.
Andy has ONE this year, and 4 guys that have a year in the system. It's not remotely comparable. They already know what everyone but Rice can do.
And I disagree that EVERYTHING hinges on Toney staying healthy. Everything hinges on Mahomes staying healthy. Anything and everything else is workable.
Juju was solid for us last year, but totally unspectacular. There's no reason to expect any great drop-off. Hardman was out half the year. We're not missing some great all-pro guys or anything.
It's entirely reasonable to expect the guys in the second year of their careers and all of the guys in their second year in this system to all pick up the slack. It's a DEEP room, so say all who are actually involved, and it's going to be fine.