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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
This is why you're wrong.
In fact, it's why you're usually wrong.
This has nothing to do with winning a few more regular season games.
It has absolutely everything to do with winning a playoff game and being a true threat to do damage against good teams. Can you imagine how different the Indy game is if Moss is going up for that jump ball instead of Bowe? Don't you think we could've put the Houston game out of reach?
Winning 3 games in January against premier opponents is a very difficult task and it's not something you're going to do with an offense that presents absolutely no threat further downfield than 15 yards. Safeties will crash the box, LBs won't respect the seams, corners will press cover so they can offer better run support.
You cannot afford to be one-dimensional against good teams and this move would help us eliminate that.
It's not about winning regular season games. It's about being relevant in January - a feeling we haven't had in 40 years and something that's not likely to happen with the philosophy you're espousing.
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Sorry, but I don't believe we are one receiver away from winning in January. If we were, okay, fine.
What we are is a young team with tremendous character that plays their asses off and wins games by controlling the clock and running the ball down the other team's throats.
I am of the school that douchebaggery is contagious. Any team person knows this. A guy who doesn't give a shit about practice, doesn't give a shit about winning, doesn't give a shit about the game anymore, and gives inconsistent effort on the field is going to rub off in some way. Even if it's from frustration of his teammates or distraction. Or even if it's teaching young kids taht you can get away with that because you have god-given talent. Even slightly. Let's not forget the team is filled with a lot of guys who are young and very impressionable. I also don't know how you think there is any guarantee that Moss is going to care enough about winning or putting the effort to win when it matters most.
In the heat of a run, I dont' want to worry about whether our receiver is going to care enough to play or whether he runs off his mouth and throws his coaching staff under the bus because he didn't like a playcall as he did Childress. I don't want guys like Charles and Flowers and Carr to have to answer week after week how they responded to some comment that Moss made in the media.
It's not worth it. Not at this stage in his career, and not at this stage of the Chiefs' rebuild. He's not a magic bullet.