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Originally Posted by Megatron96
You add up JJSS, Watson, McKinnon, and Hardman's stats, and you get about those numbers. I allowed for a little fudge factor, but it's close enough.
What I'm looking at is simply what's missing, and realistically where that production is going to come from, no hopes and wishes allowed. From the FO perspective, I don't think you can just be hopeful that Toney stays healthy for the season and/or that Skyy just up and triples his production.
I know that if i were Veach I definitely wouldn't be just laying back thinking "No worries, I'm a draft wizard. I've got two rings that tell me so. I'll just draft a true WR1 (something we haven't been able to come close to in five years), Andy'll develop him, he'll be an instant success, and we're all good. SBLVIII here we come."
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Juju had numbers, but what did he do, really, that was special? Meaning, what did he do that any number of middling WR's wouldn't have done? He didn't get separation, really. We don't really do 'contested' balls much. Of course, that's because Andy schemes up mismatches and gets guys open. Like Kelce said, "Andy Reid could get my dad open."
Mckinnon and Watson are still out there. I'd be shocked if they're not back, especially Mckinnon. But Watson, too, as a guy that can play a few roles in this offense due to his size and speed, and he knows the offense.
They obviously just flat didn't want Hardman.
Really, we're out Juju, who was productive, but not spectacular. He wasn't special, just a steady possession receiver. There's nothing there that, say, Justin Watson couldn't do. No, that's not crazy. Juju with a bum knee wasn't special. Just consistent. Watson is as big, and much faster.
See, the thing is, you're looking at KC through a lens of previous production only, disregarding the fact that Toney was a second year guy, and Moore was a first year guy and saying we're in big trouble.
But you're also looking at the competitors as if they're returning everyone and will be as good or better than 2022. This is not the case. They're all having their own roster issues. Buffalo's kind of screwed. Cinci is down their two safeties, which means their secondary now blows.
And you're also not counting in the very likely possibility that this defense will be improved as well, possibly a LOT better, and perhaps we don't have to be the #1 offense to win a Super Bowl. Maybe top 5 would be enough. Do you think there's a reality in which Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes don't finish top 5? I don't, unless it's a season ending Mahomes injury, and we're ****ed no matter what if that happens.
In which of Tom Brady's 6 Super Bowl winning seasons in New England did he have an elite WR corps? And if you want to pound the table for ****ing Edelman, I'll laugh you out of the room. I'm talking gamebreakers, not dink and dunk slot guys.
They put a really good 52 around Brady every year, and didn't panic. That's what they did. And it worked more often than any other franchise ever.
This is where we're at right now, paying our guy while the other contenders aren't yet.