There's some serious pants pooping in this thread over the signing of an offensive lineman, which we all (or most of us) agreed was a need.

:eek::eek::eek:

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If the Chiefs always had Taylor penciled in at RT, and preferred to draft a LT, they would've made a move for Harrison.

I want someone to love me the way Veach loves improving the o line

Again, remember when everybody did this with Mike Remmers?

OMG he's terrible!

Then he turned out to be a really nice value signing.

KC’s 2023 PFF roster ranking: #1
Denver’s 2023 PFF roster ranking: #28

Bold strategy, General Paton.

LMAO LMAO LMAO

Or Blaine Gabbert?

At a point you can't just presume nothing will work.

But again, I'm fine with this. And would've been fine staying pat. And I'm a guy that was hoping for a 1st round RT.

The guy is starting at LT this year and Taylor is staying at RT. Pretty much that simple. They’ll get Taylor some reps an LT in practice and if he looks good enough they’ll move him over next year and let Morris take over RT. You’re not signing a tackle with this kind of experience at LT to be a backup so you can play a guy who’s never played LT, and then start a guy like Niang at RT.

You start the 2 best tackles on the roster, and that’s Smith and Taylor. LT vs RT is pretty insignificant at this point, and you’re not going to play two guys on the opposites sides of where they’ve played and thrived their whole careers. That makes zero sense whatsoever. Stop looking at the money, it doesn’t matter at this point. You have 2 starting tackles making a total of $29 million (at most) which is doable. You can slowly transition Taylor and plug him in at LT next year if he shows enough. This gives you more time to figure that out.

I absolutely love this move, and I applaud Veach for covering his ass with Taylor, and then clearly seeing another opportunity to give Patrick even more protection and taking advantage of it. I feel so much better with a combo of Smith/Taylor than I would have with Taylor/Niang, and I don’t know how anyone could disagree. The tackle spots have been drastically upgraded. I cannot believe people are complaining about this. It makes us a better team without question. If Smith returns to his 2021 form, you possibly have the best offensive line in the league, and you also have a ton of depth. Just awesome. Veach truly never, ever stops.

I mean, salary cap does roll over year to year. It's never wise to just throw it into the void, and that's potentially what you've done here with this bum. May have to start simply based on another dude not being able to play and sucks at his job while meeting his incentives.

They tried. Veach said no one in that 24,25,26, 27 territory was interested in trading. The calls were made.

It's not meant to be a point, but more to highlight your OMG the sky is falling because of this signing! Mahomes will run for his life because a guy who is not even the starting LT will get him killed as if Mahomes was unfamiliar with that. He would be at worst another Brown Jr if he ends up at LT.

And yeah, absolutely nothing suggests to me he'll come here and magically be improved over 2022. Stepping into a new system that is notoriously hard on the OTs in particular after blocking for a QB who's game was based on making reads and firing quickly.

Or you know he gets forced to start due to injury and he returns to his previous form and therefore turns out to be a very valuable depth signing.

But continue to be a negative **** because the Chiefs got better and more experienced at T.

Agree. Its also not so hard playing tackle for Brady. Stands in the pocket and gets it out quick.

Again, in the worst year by FAR he was a solid pass blocker.

You're not paying attention to anything anyone says right now.