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Originally Posted by Megatron96
Lol, you can go back and check, but my original stance bout the WR room was that we were going to sign Adam Thielen (vet reclamation project), and that neither OBJ nor DHop were possible. Said it multiple times over multiple threads.
I also said that my theory was that the Chiefs were going to go all-in on 13P and Veach was going to draft a couple TEs this year, maybe even sign a god vet.
As for the WR room, well, those are simply the facts. We have MVS as a proven WR, albeit limited role player who will likely account for a solid 700+ yards, 30+ 1st downs and 5-7 TDs.
And then a room full of hopes and dreams. A room that right now is far less talented than it was the day we won the SBVII.
You can twist it any way you want, tell me that Watson/Gray/Fortson/Pacheco/whoever are going to make up the difference and be good enough to deal with the CIN defense in spite of being less talented than the group we brought to the game the last three meetings, that Travis will be fine, in spite of turning 34 in October, but it just doesn't wash.
My point has been the same since JuJu signed with NE. The WR room needs a large infusion of talent. Travis is four years older than either OBJ/DHop, but somehow he's going to keep right on leading the team in catches/TDs/1st downs.
We aren't going to get giant leaps of production from Gray/Fortson/Watson. Improvements, sure. Not 2000+ yards, 90 1st downs and 24 TDs. We'd probably be over the moon if we got half of that from those guys.
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Where's this 2000 yards and 24 TD's we lost in the last two months?
We lost Juju, and I don't think there's anything really special there, do you, really? Hardman missed half the year and put up meh numbers. Skyy had 4 vets in front of him. I think people expected too much in his rookie year. I said as much before the season began, but I don't want to be arrogant or anything!
Nobody's arguing that we don't need to add talent, we just disagree on how that should be done. If we do it through the draft, we might get to keep the Sneeds, and Boltons, and Smiths. And therefore the overall TEAM is stronger.
I say we're going to have to grow our own, and our rivals are just about to find out what paying an elite QB means. I'm not worried. Cinci is already losing guys. Buffalo is losing guys and coordinators. Philly just lost both coordinators.
You're looking at the Chiefs as if they've lost guys, and the other teams are only getting better, but there's absolutely no reason to think that. They have more holes than two months ago, too.
Barring catastrophic injury issues (to Mahomes, basically), The Chiefs will go 13-4, win the division again, and make it to at least the AFCCG. I won't predict they win the SB because it's historically very difficult to repeat. But they'll have a shot.