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Originally Posted by OnTheWarpath15
Growing your own is fine - but the entire WR room at once while a SB window is open?
Right now you're looking at Toney - assuming he can stay healthy - and a WHOLE LOT of question marks.
Or, if you want to be a pessimist, you can assume Toney won't be able to stay healthy (he hasn't once in his career) and you have NOTHING but question marks.
They need some sort of a presence besides Kelce - MVS ain't it.
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Super Bowl window is open for about the next twelve years.
Last year, we went into the season with nothing but rookies at corner (and of course, Sneed) and didn't blink. Mid-season, we even traded the only other veteran corner on the roster for a ham sandwich. By late in the year, it was paying off. That's what you have to do to ALWAYS keep your window open. Now the secondary is a strength.
Maybe Toney does struggle to stay healthy. That's why they brought in Ritchie. Maybe MVS gets hurt; that's why they brought back Watson. They brought in insurance policies that can give you professional snaps, if not stars.
And I'm sure they'll draft a guy, but he's going to have to earn his way to the field and beat out four veterans for it, and it'll probably go a lot like Skyy Moore's season did, barring injury. But that doesn't mean he can't do it, as it didn't mean Moore couldn't. Now it's Moore's turn, and I think we're all going to be pleasantly surprised. I know Veach and Andy are expecting big things.
You pay a Hopkins, (who hasn't played a full season in two years, by the way) and that's almost two guys like Bolton, or Gay, or Sneed that you can't extend. It's having to make a choice between Creed or Smith, while having no choice but to let Thuney go. It doesn't 'open' a Super Bowl window, it shortens it. The bill comes due.
How many rings did Brady get without star WR free agents? You really think Mahomes and Reid can't do as well? And don't say Edelman or Welker-they weren't gamebreakers , they were each a slot possession guy. Moss was a headcase reclamation project, not a sought after star, and they didn't win one with him.
Just keep stacking good football players, maximizing cap and draft value, and put Mahomes + Best 52 out there and you've got as good of a shot as anyone every single year.
It's going to be okay.
You're paying Mahomes; you have to grow your own stars at the expensive positions like DE and WR.
You guys are going to have to get comfortable with having young question marks at a different group every off-season. Trust the braintrust at Arrowhead. They know what they're doing. I'm growing comfortable with being a little uncomfortable in the off-season.