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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
You can upgrade terrible to average. I agree we can’t just leave a hole but you don’t have to put top 10 money into it either. Based on what we saw from veach his two places he wanted a big swing was wr and DE.
I think mahomes and Reid’s greatness is overrating our WRs. We shouldn’t just expect our pass offense to be efficient and for mahomes to carry all the water. We have the coach and qb to be elite. And while mahomes has been magical, games like Tennessee, cincy and buffalo were challenging for us offensively. We struggle with defenses who play very physical against our WRs. Several of our WRs disappear in stretches.
The reality is our defense can only do so much against powerhouse offenses line Cincinnati and buffalo. And in each of our biggest games (cincy 2x, and buffalo) it wasn’t the blocking or defense that let us down. It’s because we didn’t score on our last possessions. I just think you need to build the best possible passing game, and then you work hard to try to make the rest of the team as good as possible. I just don’t see a stud tackle moving that needle nearly as much as a stud WR
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I 100% disagree and especially against Cincy. The Bengals have routinely gotten a lot of pressure on Mahomes and they've done it quite easily in big moments. I think your view of the effectiveness of our WRs is off the mark. The WRs get open. They got open in the AFC title game last year and they have gotten open in games this year. Mahomes just doesn't have the time to go through proper read progressions because of the immediate pressure on such a high volume of plays.
The other thing about it is that Mahomes, for as good as he can be, is behind the mark on just taking what the defense gives him. Too often he's looking for select weapons, and especially Kelce, instead of just finding the open man. It was terrible in the AFC title game in the second half and it's been terrible in some big moments in tough games this year again. He has to start taking what's there and trusting other guys to make the play. If he doesn't do that, you can give him three #1 caliber WRs in there and it won't matter. He has improved some this year, but he's still going with hot reads when he shouldn't too often.