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Originally Posted by Detoxing
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.
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I don't think the Chiefs are looking at Mahomes and telling him to go succeed with absolute shit at WR. I think they're changing directions away from this need to have a top 3 WR on the team. It's more of a..."we're going to surround you with a multitude of weapons" and then tailor fit the offensive scheme to that.
Hill and Kelce were awesome but when you have literal shit behind them...it becomes easy to figure out how to stop that offense. And teams did that last year. Now they've transitioned to Kelce and Juju in the short to intermediate areas, Hardman as the gadget and MVS as the deep threat.
Even if they draft a WR in the first round....they aren't getting some magical WR1 that is going to come in and hog targets. I'm assuming they have an idea of a WR that they can fit into a role for the first year and then expand that moving forward in their career.