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Originally Posted by RunKC
I think all teams think like this more than you care to admit. The Chiefs purposefully took a DE and corner in the first rd bc of the value of the position and also bc, well…Okafor sucked, Clark was old and declined, Ingram was gone and the corner position was a disaster at that point minus Sneed (they lost Ward).
Tackle is absolutely a premier needed position that can’t be understated with a brokedick Niang.
The Chiefs don’t win the SB vs SF if Brown Jr and Wylie are their bookends. Those two would get embarrassed. We saw the Bucs SB and how important the OL is. We got lucky that the field was so terrible it basically neutralized both the Eagles and Chiefs pass rushes.
You’re gonna face an elite pass rush in the SB. It’s bound to happen
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Very good point.
The Chiefs entered last years draft with DE being an even more glaring need than RT presently is.
It's absolutely something we've done before and could easily be doing again (while just putting the Niang confidence out there as a smokescreen). And when they let Ward walk before the draft last year, they made CB a need going into that draft as well. The only question was how MUCH of a need (i.e. how much faith did they truly have in Fenton stepping into a starting role).
Turns out that they didn't have much confidence at all, as evidenced by the slew of DBs they took in that draft.
The idea that teams don't draft for need is a great - absolutely ideal, in fact - philosophy. But it doesn't often work out that way. And it's gonna work out that way even less often going forward with Mahomes contract on the books.
We're gonna be making need picks for the foreseeable future here and there. It's just the brave new world we live in now that we have the baddest man on the planet under contract for a decade.
There are worse places to find ourselves...