Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris Meck
I guess what I'm saying is that I think some of you are looking at this all wrong.
The 'wait for Mahomes and Hill to do something amazing' offense took us all the way ONCE in four tries.
I think a lot of you are really worried because that's no longer the plan. I guess I'm saying-and I think Veach and Reid are saying-ok, well that's just not sustainable, and you can't depend on that to win Super Bowls. Let's try something else here.
You can keep trying to prop it up; but the bill eventually comes due. We could have tried to maybe one more year, at most two, but then you'd have to tear it all down anyway. And the rest of the division and the AFC in general were all building their teams to stop it. Like SPECIFICALLY, the road to the SB goes through Arrowhead, so Mahomes to Hill was living rent free in every GM's head. Gotta match that firepower, gotta build a defensive scheme to stop it.
So **** it. Let's do something else now that everyone else is on that track. Stop THIS instead.
It's going to be okay.
|
The dicey part is, this strategy is;
We finally got what we wanted to do well, and we did it very well.
Now it's time to try to do all the things we haven't done well, . . better.
It's not that it can't be accomplished, just that it's not a 'tweak.' It's a foundational paradigm shift.
We have Mahomes, but the task now is for every single aspect of the entire franchise to perform better.
The irony is, this is exactly what I've been saying needed to be done. Just never pictured we would sacrifice the one part of the franchise that executed spectacularly in order to finally set ourselves on the path.
O.Henry should write a short story.