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Originally Posted by O.city
It doesn't weaken your team if you pay market price for a player and get that production.
The Chiefs paid market price for Pat last year. He played to it and they were the best team in the league. You're too worried about paying guys. That's not the issue.
The problem is paying them and them not playing to it.
You've gotta have cost controlled play somewhere. It doesn't have to come from the draft, but usually that's the easiest place to get it from.
People also need to realize that once you pay one guy (the QB) what we are...you're largely just not going to be able to win SB's unless he plays to that. Now we're getting into the realm where for him to do it it would require guys around him playing at a certain baseline level, which brings up a whole other conversation, but there's not really an alternative. You have to go cheap somewhere. Now, I'd do it somewhere other than weapons, as the value usually matches the pay out there, and not so much at say, off ball Lber or safety.
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You have to go cheap in lots of places. The very best way to do that is to draft well, as veteran FA's that are cheap are cheap because they've shown themselves to not be worth a lot of money.
We see what ONE good WR and a bunch of crap gets you: Even with Tyreek, we had diminishing returns two years in a row. We were getting worse.
Right now, we have Rice and a bunch of guys who all got significantly worse in their second years in this offense, which is bizarre, but it is what it is.
If you go pay a top of the market free agent WR, you let Jones, Sneed, Danna, and probably Gay walk, and hope you can sign Tranquill and have enough to plug in some veteran DT's that will not equal Jones but hopefully give you positive play.
You can't backload deals, because you've got another group of guys coming up next year.
It's rotating whack-a-mole.
So yeah, the best thing is to be able to draft and fill and not have to pay top free agent deals.
It's incredibly important. Every time you sign a big free agent deal, you create a hole somewhere else. That includes re-signing our own guys, which you absolutely do when they're important players, but you sure better have drafted to fill most of the holes that you create when you have to let others go.