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Originally Posted by Chris Meck
Why in the world would you think it's complacency?
They can't afford a bunch of expensive free agents, which means they need to draft and develop talent. Like first rounder Toney (for a third) Skyy, Rice are second rounders. That's three high draft picks in twelve months. How is that complacent? And Ritchie caught almost 60 balls from Danny Dimes for ****'s sake.
We added THREE OT's in the past two months. Two of them veterans. That's not insignificant.
We had a big hole at DE, we added Omenihu, drafted Felix in the first, and took Thompson late. That's not ignoring the issue.
What do you expect exactly? There's nothing complacent here.
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When I say complacent, that means we are putting our first and second priority on building the defense. And our strategy on offense appears to be asking mahomes to elevate second wave talent. We saw a hole at DB last year so we’ve spent SIX draft picks in 2 years on DB. And that includes a trade up for a first round CB… so technically eight picks. We saw a hole at DE so we used TWO first picks on a DE. So three first round picks and 11 picks in 2 years on DB and DL. Yeah, I’d say that’s effort.
We walked into last season knowing juju was our WR1. This is after 5 years of flat out ignoring WR. When we lost tyreek we had literally nobody who could even step into a WR3 role. Yeah we’ve spent a lot of picks. Because we HAD to fill THREE WR spots and technically 5. Two years in a row we’ve replaced the majority of our WR room.
We walked into last season settling for Wylie at RT. And don’t tell me that niang and kinnard represents “effort.” This year we are walking into camp with Donovan ****ing smith at LT. which is a glaring lack of confidence in niang and kinnard. And it was done because there is understandably concerns about throwing a third round pick out there right away to protect mahomes. Especially given that the last 2 RTs we drafted were busts.
And while we’re at it, Pacheco was a brilliant pick but it also came with luck. Because we waited 7 rounds to take him. We were content to have CEH start for us last year too.
So yeah… we have a complete defense. And for 2 years in a row we have glaring question marks at critical offense skill positions. One of them is vital to keeping our qb upright. Turning over the entire room every year is not a sign of effort. It’s a sign that what we’ve done in the past hasn’t worked. I’m not saying it won’t work, but let’s stop using the excuse that mahomes and Reid to elevate talent to sugarcoat that we need to do better at addressing those two positions. Much better. And yeah, i grade that as more important than falling a few spots on defense because we god forbid have a single hole in it.