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Originally Posted by Chris Meck
Except no, I didn't make your point for you. When you have a top five WR and a high draft pick WR you're trying to develop, but gaping holes at other places in your roster, it's not "de-prioritizing" offense to work on those holes. This is an absurd argument on your part. You fill the holes you have CURRENTLY first, and there are only so many draft picks and cap dollars so you do the best you can.
There were offensive line problems, and defensive line problems, and secondary issues, and LB issues, and all of those things were threats to derail the express.
We're only one season removed from Sorensen, Niemann, Reiter, and Cam Irving taking meaningful snaps. Those were big holes. Areas of poor talent. We had Hill, had invested a 2nd in Hardman, and Kelce. Hardman didn't really develop beyond a gadget guy, but you have to play that hand through. You can't say that there wasn't enough talent there in those years.
When Hill left, the intensity of investment changed dramatically, and we'll see what shakes out, but for the thousandth time, there has been a significant investment in the WR room. It's smart to do this now, while Kelce is still Kelce.
Juju and MVS were/are stopgaps while the younguns develop.
It's smart. The OT investment is smart. The defensive investment is smart. We're going to have to play the other elite QB's in the play-offs, and a good defense gives us more of a margin for error.
Your argument is nuts, and all over the place. You were literally arguing that we were in trouble at LB, when that's probably the most stocked position on the roster; but now we've invested too much in the defense. You make no sense.
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There is always going to be a crisis when you have to fill every damn position. That is the point I’ve been making. Our defense has had crises almost every single year. We do not have to be elite on both sides of the ball. So yeah, you’ve proven my point. We deprioritized WR even when that meant using mecole as WR2 in 2021 (with him being our only semi major swing in 5 years) to fill a 5-person WR room. We let mahomes get mauled behind a shit interior OL because we had to fix suttons defense. We kicked the can down the road on Wylie and now we may end up protecting mahomes’ blind side with a bandaid. A single competent RT would have let Taylor develop into the LT we intended him to be.
I’m glad we’re making some swings now at WR or OT. But we shouldn’t have to wait for the dam burst to create urgency. You act like we care so much about WR or OL because we took a lot of swings only recently. Well yeah, when you ignore it or do so badly at finding guys for years requiring you to replace the entire unit, you HAVE to. It’s reactive and somewhat out of desperation.
I didn’t say we were in trouble at LB. Not at all. I don’t love that the next wave may look to be putting a huge chunk of our payroll on low positional value spots like interior OL and LB. Areas easily filled by the late draft.
You’re making it clear where you stand. You think these offensive skill positions are lesser importance because Reid and mahomes can carry them. You basically admitted to deprioritizing OL and WR during the tyreek years. And that was fine. Now that our defensive roster is set, you’re still fine with us now looking for back of the roster DBs and DL, but that was not necessary back when our offensive roster was “set.”