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Originally Posted by Chris Meck
But again, what is a WR1? I'm not familiar with that position.
If you mean THE stud WR that's going to catch 100 balls for 1000 yards, then no, we really don't need that. We have a guy that's going to catch 100 balls for 1000.What we NEED is a group that can accumulate another 2500-3000 or so, and your backs are going to add another 500 or more in receptions, and you're going to be top 5 at worst and probably more like top 3 with as good of a chance at #1 as anyone.
Skyy barely played. A starter role will absolutely be exponentially different statistically, and that's not a stretch. Toney's only question is health. Will either go for 1000? Maybe, maybe not. Does either need to? One of them probably needs to get close.
There's no reason at all not to expect that.
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A WR1 doesn’t have to be that. Brady has had many WR1s in his career and they don’t always require a large target share and he’s always run a well distributed offense. A WR1 can line up legit against top DBs and be competent. So you don’t have to force guys like skyy (unless he proves otherwise) on these guys and you give him better chances to win against lesser DBs which helps you spread the ball around. The issue wasn’t that we had tyreek, it’s that our other options were so awful that teams were willing to double kelce and tyreek and pay zero attention to everyone else, and even with that little attention they couldn’t do anything. We have really to good depth now to surround a WR1 but until we find one, we ask each of them to punch above their weight.
So… why do we need that? Because we’ve seen more and more teams batter the shit out of kelce and in some cases succeeding (hello, Tennessee and buffalo). He deserves a foil. Because we need a bailout so mahomes doesn’t have to do magic tricks in the pocket to get guys open. That will only help him get rid of the ball faster. And at some point, teams are going to adjust and force us to open the offense up and we’ve seen several games where Mvs/mahomes just couldn’t get that done. They were totally out of sync. We’ve got a lot of catch and run options but we have to have the versatility to have guys who can also do damage before the catch is even made. By getting open, running great routes, and making excellent adjustments once the ball is in the air.
When you watch the Super Bowl, contrast AJ browns outstanding adjustment to the TD grab early to MVS spinning in completely the wrong direction. Or juju not flattening his final route or closing on the ball which would have made the holding call blatantly obvious. It shouldn’t be too much to ask for mahomes to have WRs who can make adjustments to the ball. These are the little glitches mahomes covers up for all the time. And there will come a day soon when he doesn’t have to and that’s where we we go from elite to downright unstoppable.