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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
Then get it right. They didn’t think mecole or Pringle were good enough to be paid in peanuts. Cornell Powell can’t break the roster. We have not drafted a single WR we want to keep since tyreek hill. That’s a problem. I am fine with getting younger but this isn’t a position we can blindly trust in. Same way we stopped making excuses for our poor OL personnel development until we placed some urgency after the Super Bowl. If they’re going this route they had better get it right real fast.
It is also the same lack of urgency that led to us over-relying on ceh. It took a 7th round pick playing out of his mind. We fixed the RB room through some degree of luck to find a gem that deep in the draft. We fixed our OL room through extreme urgency that led to an outstanding draft. I trust in veach to do that, but right now that means erasing a pretty poor recent track record.
As I’ve said before… veach has stepped up when it became urgent. So I don’t doubt we can pull it off. But it’s time we finally got it right. And it’s unacceptable to ask mahomes and kelce to carry this much weight on their shoulders just because they are talented. Get them some help, asap.
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I partially agree with you here.
The Super Bowl loss was losing both OT's and not being particularly good inside, either. They'd developed Hudson, and they'd developed Morse; it just turned out that Reiter sucked balls. And Wylie, as we've established, blows goats. So, I mean, you know, you're not going to be two and three deep at OL with any quality.
Clyde was a bad pick, it's now clear, by any measure. Whether it was the injuries sapping whatever quicks he had or what, he's not good. Doesn't look like the same cat from LSU at all.
But the WR position was largely neglected for years because we had Hill, (and Watkins for a chunk of time ) and we had issues elsewhere that needed fixing. Being a GM is kind of like playing professional whack-a-mole.
Hardman was drafted during the Hill drama pt.2 Electric Boogaloo stuff, and you'll never convince me of anything other than Veach was trying to find a guy with a Hill-like skill-set just in case that all went sideways. So that's one #2 pick. Not a bust, exactly, but didn't develop into what we hoped. Was some of that due to being behind Hill? Well, injuries robbed us of finding out last year, but it doesn't seem Reid and Veach think so.
Pringle was what a 7th? Powell a 5th? And other than that, it's been cheap signings and UDFA types.
Until Moore, and I know a lot of people are really down on him, but I didn't expect he'd get a lot of reps with 4 vets in front of him. So there's a second #2 pick. And traded for Toney, a former #1 pick only one season removed.
So I'd say there's been a quite sudden and serious attempt to start adding talent to the room. You can't do it to the detriment of the rest of the football team (which was always my argument against a Dhop/OBJ type) but you can and must draft and develop guys in these expensive positions like DE, OT, CB, and WR if you're paying an elite QB.
I mean, it's just common sense.