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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
This is ultimately where I have to get to - the team has blown a couple first round picks in the last 5 years and it's been fine.
But every time they do they get just a little closer to the pack. To where a few weeks of scattershot play cost them a bye or HFA and now they have to work just a little harder to get to where they want to be.
And as HoF throughput like Jones and Kelce age out while the home run 2022 draft class gets more expensive, they get closer and closer to being ordinary + Pat Mahomes.
Which is still a damn nice place to be. But it makes your margins week to week and season that much tighter.
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At what point are we going to actually fix LT?
The offense has cratered the last 2 years mostly bc of LT. They’ve had 7 of these guys start at LT since Fisher ruptured his Achilles, including a LG.
How many games have we seen the last 2 years where Mahomes is getting his ass kicked bc the LT is getting destroyed?
I’d say about 20% of the games were ruined on offense bc of that. Broncos, Raiders at Arrowhead both times, Chargers both times, Eagles and Texans playoff games. All games where Mahomes was pressured so much we couldn’t run anything. Half of the playbook was thrown out at least.
I’d say about 70% of the other games were checkdowns, short passes and horizontal passes. People blame Nagy for this all they want, but it’s because of the LT. They’ve had zero trust in Wanya to hold up. None.
Our generational QB went from a fun gunslinger to Alex ****ing Smith because of the OL destroying everything.
Listen man. I don’t like the pick based upon injury, but I completely understand the risk. This shit has to end. It’s affecting Mahomes and the offense too damn much. There is not a better LT prospect this team could get than this kid. It’s not even close.
Missing on this pick is not gonna ruin the team. They gave up no assets to get him. In fact, they got a 5th moving back to get him.
We’ve got 3 picks in the meat of this draft to improve the team. Everybody knows day 2 was going to be the best time to improve this football team. We’ve known that for 2 months.