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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
You can get plenty of snaps with a bandaid WR. Skyy moore didn't need more snaps last year. He wasn't ready. And more than likely rashee won't be either. Skyy wouod get lots of snaps in th slot and given toneys injury history he will get plenty of shots at an elevated role too. That seems like a wonderful role where he will have lote or opportunity to prove if he is worth centering the offense around.
Sure we won't have proven production at certain position groups. It doesn't move around from year to year. OT and WR have been persistent issues for several years. And we walk into this season with even bigger question marks. If we have to start Donovan smith because we didn't address the RT issue long ago, that is not ideal no matter how much people want to massage it.I get that now we are actually trying but I'm tired of the idea that mahomes has to just deal with it because he's blessed with greatness. At some point we have to finally address these areas for him instead of asking him to deal with the constant OL issues and the frustration he shows when his WRs keep missing their spots.
If these guys aren't fully ready we don't need to subject mahomes to that if we don't have to.
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big difference between a 'band aid' WR and Deandre Hopkins. If you're paying Hopkins, you're playing him, and you're getting him targets otherwise, this is an extremely poor use of resources. So no, there aren't 'plenty of snaps' available, not for three young WR's that you're trying to develop.
As for 'not ready', yeah, well, I offer (once again!) the case of Christian Watson, who was clearly 'not ready' early in the season but season's end was a TD machine. Man, he was terrible early on, but when it clicked for him, it clicked big time. Now GB has a stud. Skyy had 4 veteran WR's in front of him. Highly unlikely ANY rookie is going to grasp this offense well enough to outperform the veterans right out of the gate. In year two? Sure. I bet he does great.
This WR room is not 'thin' on anything but proven production. Not in skillsets, not in talent, not in potential. Some of these guys are going to be very good, and some will probably disappoint, but there are enough of them in the mix to be pretty confident that we'll be fine. And 'fine' by Mahomes/Reid/Veach standards means AFCCG's at a minimum.
The 'band-aid' WR's, by the way, are already in place with James and Watson. Those are your insurance policies.
It's going to be fine.