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Originally Posted by TEX
Just can not buy into this way of thinking. I could if KC traded just a regular good player away. They didn't. They traded away arguably the best game changer in the league in his prime. A guy who is on course for the HOF. Sure we got picks, but the last time we had good picks on offense we went CEH and Hardman. That does not instill confidence. KC will be kicking themselves in the future for doing this IMO.
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I didn't understand how we were going to fill all of our holes before this trade.
Now I see an avenue to do that better than I had anticipated, but we had to sacrifice Hill in order to do so.
Net net it's a loss for sure. But this team was likely to take some step back anyway. And now we've just charted a course for the longer term with less visibility.
End of the day: would you have paid Hill that money? And then been content having vet minimums and draft picks filling in all of our existing holes?
I can understand if someone says "yes, he's worth it." But if those vets decline further and if those draft picks don't pan out, we've just gotten older and less flexible as a team and that will hamstring us for years.
Here you can see this fits with Veach's proclivity to stay younger and a desire to re-center the team. I don't fault him in the slightest for this trade, but obviously some of his prior misses are what made this necessary.