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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
What makes more sense: The Chiefs could have made a reasonably priced trade for Jerry Jeudy or Terry McLaurin or Mike Evans or D.K. Metcalf or any other good WR we've seen thrown out as a candidate... or that those players were not available and/or not available at a reasonable price.
It's a logical assumption.
They tried to replicate that formula by throwing numbers at it and trusting that to work out. They tried. And it didn't work out.
Had Valdes-Scantling stayed where he was in 2022 and Rice still emerged this way, things would probably still have looked a lot more like last year. But Valdes-Scantling dropped back, Rice is talented but still a rookie, and Toney missed TC with an injury and then flaked out when he was healthy, and Moore didn't progress, and the nice depth backup plan they added (James) got hurt early and hasn't made an impact in his return.
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If there's blame there it's probably that they didn't evaluate the quality of those players and/or the coaching all that effectively, perhaps. It's true the team would look a lot better if Moore progressed and/or MVS didn't regress, but that didn't happen. Someone, maybe a few people, miscalculated the quality and the ability to extract that quality from these players.
Veach got it wrong. I think he got the OT situation wrong. I think a decent wedge of money spent of the defense WOULD be better spent on the offense. But, I've no idea the extent to which he got it wrong because it's impossible to know all the variables. Who was available at what cost and when etc. There's definitely draft picks I'd swap but that's the same with every GM I guess, I certainly wasn't clamouring for defensive picks to be prioritised.The test is next year. This year the offense he's built is not good enough. Let's see how he fixes it.