[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

I won't even concede "Outside of Mahomes"

The Chiefs moved up from 27, man. So anybody before 27 could've moved up. And the teams after 27 had more than enough draft capital to beat our offer. Some of them even had picks higher in the round.

Literally every single team in the NFL had an equal/better shot at Patrick Mahomes as the Chiefs. And they simply didn't get it done.

I'll never join the "**** Dorsey, I'm glad he's gone" crowd because he's the dude that put that trade with Buffalo together. He's the dude that knew right where he needed to be and made sure he went into that draft with the framework to get there already in place.

He did a spectacular job getting us into that position when nobody else did. And he transformed the franchise. It may have been Veach that sold the rest of the team on getting Mahomes but it was Dorsey that did the spade work to make sure they could have him. That deserves a TON of praise.

Oh, I agree completely. I often point out that every other team, especially the Bills, could have drafted Mahomes, but chose not to. Even Denver had better draft capital to pull off a trade. My point was centered around the argument of "well, Mahomes would simply stink here because the Bills don't have the weapons that KC has." Usually, I pick apart that lunacy by pointing to how awesome Mahomes is on his own. This time, however, I was more focused on how KC didn't simply amass these weapons through high picks; KC is good because they drafted well in the later rounds by going BPA and I hope that continues.