Do you trust Veach/Reid to draft WR or DE?

[JPH83]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Well just saying "Draft/develop cheap players and don't spend money on bad ones" is the easy answer, yes.

But let's assume a reasonable amount of draft busts and dead money here.

If you have a 'representative' amount of chaff elsewhere on the roster, you're gonna need to cut corners here and there. It's just the nature of a cap league.

And if/when that is the case, I'm going to do it at WR. Because Patrick Mahomes can't do shit to keep the opposing WR from getting open - but he can throw HIS open. So I'm not going to cut corners on DBs when I don't have a force multiplier that can make them better than they are.

Now if I had Ed Reed back there, I'd tailor my response somewhat. But speaking generally, you have to focus more cap/capital on areas that Mahomes CAN'T directly impact while letting his talent raise the level of those players who play positions he CAN impact.

Sure he can't, but he can put up a mountain of points that puts excessive pressure on the opposing QB and requires them to be perfect. I can see your logic. My perspective is I'd rather ask their QB to be perfect to keep up, rather than ask our QB, as great as he is, to continue to be perfect.

I don't really understand your position on DBs. My understanding was you've been happy with us devoting little resource to it, a position I've come round to.

What do we know about this team? The coaching unit can develop DBs (or at least CBs) to an extent that high draft picks, cap space and trades etc are less essential there. We have a young LB group that has shown a lot of potential and has improved and is currently cheap. We have QB that with elite receiving options is very hard to stay with. We have a DL that is absolutely pathetic.

The gamble you're taking is that Mahomes can continue to make average players great and a better DL gives him back the ball a lot more, my gamble is that continuing to patch up a DL and pair with an elite receiving core is preferable.