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Originally Posted by Chris Meck
Again, I don't think that's it at all.
When you're paying your QB the percentage of the cap we are, you're going to have to draft and develop your weapons because you can't afford to pay top of the market price for them.
This group hasn't panned out, but the expectation was for the young players to take reasonable steps forward. To have sustained success, you HAVE to have young players develop, improve, and become your next batch of stars.
This group of players all just shit the bed simultaneously.
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I just don’t buy that. At every single position, including this year at LT and DE, we committed to developing young guys while bringing in bandaids. These bandaids do not stop us from developing our young guys. It didn’t when we eased in karlaftis and probably won’t as we ease in FAU and wanya.
This team knew it was a long shot Reid would ask rashee to do all things by rookie season. He is wildly exceeding those expectations while predictably being held back in many ways. We walked into the season betting on Toney and skyy to be legit 1 and 2 options. This was less about shitting the bed simultaneously and more about elevating these guys to roles they were totally unequipped for. Our so called youth movement was one guy (skyy) who optimistically could be effective at one niche (he didn’t but even if he did, it would’ve been a specialized role) and an undrafted wr that everyone else passed on. The irony is the one that worked was rice who unexpectedly had his role elevated very quickly
So that means we put all our eggs in the basket of a big bet that toney would be capable or reliable enough to be wr1 or the idea that we could continue to make it work with all “niche” guys. The latter I can somewhat understand but that was still a big miscalc.