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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
We won’t overspend money. That’s fine. I get the market is inflated, I’m not high on DHop either. But we also aren’t spending our top “free” picks either. We traded away our WR1 and then used our blue chip pick to trade UP for a CB… oh but then we used a 50 pick to fill the hole tyreek left. Then we took a pass rusher with our original first round pick. Then we chose not to trade up this year so we can take a pass rusher in back to back years. Where other teams are using blue chips, we are choosing to use the second wave. Whether that’s spending $ or using our best draft picks. We’re throwing a lot of lower % odds at the wall hoping one will stick. Or possibly being content if we have a room full of solid but unspectacular WRs because it worked last year with juju. I get if people are content with that. I’m not.
You can find WRs all over the draft. You can find RTs too. Its not even a question that your best % shot is to use the best possible pick to find your guy. Instead of finding a RT we chose to throw a bunch of third round picks at it and so far, it’s been a huge bust since Schwartz left. So now we’re protecting mahomes’ blind side with a 1 year bandaid. For WR, we are signficantly reducing our odds by using late second rounders. So yeah, that’s why it comes out that helping mahomes is second priority. We have every defensive position set and deep. Our two big question marks for consecutive years is at OT and WR1 and that answer still isn’t quite clear. And in those 2 years we haven’t thrown a single blue chip pick or contract to solidify it.
And don’t compare our situation to cincy or buffalo. We are in a way better cap situation than they are. We’ve been really careful and adding one extra player isn’t going to kill our payroll especially when it’s been widely acknowledged our qb is underpaid.
So again, I’m not upset with our approach. I’m mostly cool with it although I want a dominant offense more than I want a dominant defense. I don’t love the fan sugarcoating the situation. That we don’t need one because we did fine with juju. Worse, that this offense is better off without one and tyreek is proof of that. That we’ve invested in our WR room at a time when other teams are splurging on WRs and we’re basically taking the leftovers. Or that we’ve outsmarted all these teams by finding a WR1 deep in the draft other teams were too stupid to pass. Yeah this is contentment because we will be “fine” and my guess is if we match last years WR corps many will be content that that’s good enough. That’s absolutely contentment.
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You want a dominant offense. I get it. We all do. And guess what? We had just that last year.
1st in yards
1st in points
MVP QB
Only team to pass for 5k yards
What else do you want? Is that not it?
As for our needs, I would argue that DL was our biggest need last year and I’m really glad they addressed it in a big way. Frank wasn’t good until late in the playoffs, Nnadi looks done and we relied a rookie and older guys like Dunlap. I love the speed and bend we added.
The WR core is largely going to come down to our draft picks. If even one of Skyy or Rice turn out to be a quality receiver, we’re good.
And I really don’t get the tackle talk. We are much better today than this time last year. Wylie was a RG turned tackle and Orlando struggled massively all year. Bringing in a stable tackle like Taylor helps us a ton. And yes Niang was a late 3rd rd pick that ultimately failed due to him being a broke dick, but that shit happens.
I REALLY like Morris. He’s got everything physically/athletically that you look for. He just needs time to round out his technique.
This team is better than last years and I think that’s gonna show. I could see a 2020 type season where we just pick on opponents bc of the strength of our team.