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Originally Posted by The Franchise
Here is my main issue with the whole thing. A majority of Chiefs fans, either on here...or Twitter...or wherever are in this mindset that it's either WR in the first or the draft is an F and Veach has failed.
That's ****ing stupid as shit. The idea that trading up into the 10-15 range at whatever cost to draft Jameson Williams is the only way this draft is a success is shortsighted and stupid.
Does that mean that it can't happen? No. Does that mean that I think Veach is an idiot if he does it? No. I'll always have the thought that we could have better utilized the resources that we had in other ways. But I'll understand why they did it.
The difference is that if it happens....I'll understand. If the Chiefs, however, choose to not take a WR in the first round....a majority of fans are going to lose their collective minds. They're in the WR in the 1st or bust category and that thinking is how you get Breeland Speaks on your team.
They don't understand that there might be 5-6 WRs slotted to go in the first round but 3 of those WRs might not fit your scheme. One might be off their board because of medicals or off the field shit. So if you only have 2 WRs as first round grades and they go well before you're up....it's not just reach on a WR that's next on your list because you need one.
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Oh for sure.
The draft is going break the way it breaks and the Chiefs will respond accordingly. As i said a day or two ago, you don't take a WR just to take one and i do not believe the Chiefs would do that anyway.
Seems like we're both arguing from opposite extremes here.
While your concern is regarding these hard line, "MUST" take a WR in the 1st guys, my argument is against all this silly talk about how drafting one in the 1st, or trading up is a waste of resources because Mahomes is some miracle man that will make shitty WR's good.
That's such a ridiculous line of thinking.
The Chiefs already put so much on Mahomes, and that won't ever change. He's the goddamn franchise QB.
It's seems silly to me to say, "well, we're going to put everything on Mahomes and give him LESS to work with" Dafuq?
If we're going to be a team built around Mahomes, (we are) then we should be throwing as many resources at him to help him be the best Mahomes he can be.
This whole, "we don't need to spend draft capital on a blue chip WR" is completely counter to what's made the Chiefs and Mahomes so successful all these years, and it's what's held GB and Rodgers back.
You're right, the Chiefs don't HAVE to draft a WR in the 1st. But if they do, and even if they have to trade up to do it, it's certainly not a waste. It's not something they should be looking to avoid just because we have Mahomes, like a WR is a goddamn 1st round RB or something.
It's not a waste of resources. It's building upon your strength.