Salary Cap could exceed $220 million

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by kccrow

As much as I'd love to see Veach going up top for a guy like Jalin Hyatt to make this offense more explosive, you have to fix what ails you.

Right now, what ails KC is terrible tackle play.

It's difficult to get a starting caliber LT outside of the top 15. If you're going to get one, you have to make a serious investment. If you're not making that investment, you usually have an aging tackle and can find a nice project guy in the 3rd to 4th to develop.

League-wide, here's the distribution for Left and Right Tackles (AVE = average pick in that round, % = Count in that round out of 32 teams) using initial starters (i.e. before injuries happened):

RND	LT	AVE	%	RT	AVE	%
1	18	13	56%	11	16	34%
2	3	44	9%	5	51	16%
3	4	81	13%	7	78	22%
4	2	119	6%	1	140	3%
5	1	168	3%	1	158	3%
6	0	0	0%	0	0	0%
7	3	241	9%	1	248	3%
CFA	1	0	3%	6	0	19%

If you swap Trevor Penning (R1-19) for James Hurst (CFA), that puts the league at 60% of LTs coming from Rnd 1.

Obviously, it's not necessary to take a tackle in round 1 but your best bet to get a starter is in that round on either side. At a minimum, it's best to take either by the end of Day 2 (78% of LTs taken by then and 72% of RTs).

I can't fathom Veach targeting an offensive playmaker right now when he not only needs to fix the atrocious tackle situation but also needs to fix the defensive line. Fixing the O-line will open this offense up as much as another playmaker will and Pat won't be running for his life and have injury risk.

You can upgrade terrible to average. I agree we can’t just leave a hole but you don’t have to put top 10 money into it either. Based on what we saw from veach his two places he wanted a big swing was wr and DE.

I think mahomes and Reid’s greatness is overrating our WRs. We shouldn’t just expect our pass offense to be efficient and for mahomes to carry all the water. We have the coach and qb to be elite. And while mahomes has been magical, games like Tennessee, cincy and buffalo were challenging for us offensively. We struggle with defenses who play very physical against our WRs. Several of our WRs disappear in stretches.

The reality is our defense can only do so much against powerhouse offenses line Cincinnati and buffalo. And in each of our biggest games (cincy 2x, and buffalo) it wasn’t the blocking or defense that let us down. It’s because we didn’t score on our last possessions. I just think you need to build the best possible passing game, and then you work hard to try to make the rest of the team as good as possible. I just don’t see a stud tackle moving that needle nearly as much as a stud WR