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Originally Posted by Chargem
It takes about 1 minute of research to tell how up in your feelings you are about this.
The current top 5 cap hits are 3 offense, 2 defense. If we stretch that out to the top 10, its 6 offense and 3 defense (Butker also being in the top 10).
Has the defense gotten all of the money recently? No.
draft picks in rounds 1-3 by year:
2023: 2 O 1 D
2022: 1 O 4 D
2021: 1 O 1 D
2020: 2 O 1 D
Has the defense gotten "all of the draft picks"? No.
People seem to be re-writing history on Juju. He was a veteran with his best years behind him who was coming off a year lost to injury, and was signed for peanuts. It was a classic Veach gamble in the same way Toney was a gamble I think.
Last year, the Chiefs gambled and won. This year, they gambled and lost. Veach has struck out and he has also hit homers, with 2 superbowls under his belt I would say his batting average has been fine. You can't have superstars everywhere on a roster without picking in the top 10 a few years in a row.
All of this, and I'm in complete agreement the Chiefs need some more talent on offense in the offseason, I just don't think its drastic and I don't think it was obvious before the season started that this offensive group would stumble.
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I disagree about the draft. Well over half of our picks have gone to defense. Even more when you consider the draft assets used to trade up in the first round. And apart from CEH all our first rounders for years have gone to defense. To the point where we drafted a few guys like FAU for next year, while we had needs on offense right away.
People say we threw a lot of picks at the WR position. The problem is that compared to the rest of the league we benchmark way to the bottom. Sure we paid Mvs $10m but the majority of teams have WAY more than that invested in the position. Sure we took a few second rounders, yet 2/3 of teams have taken a first round wr in the past 5 years. So arguably taking a wr in our spot considering the run on WRs early is like us taking 4th round prospects. It’s not that we haven’t tried, but we tried to moneyball it. Can’t blame them because it worked last year but we deprioritized offense longer than we should have. This offseason our draft needs to be dominated by offense.