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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
The offense was dominant the year we had Tyreek too. We had one of our best playoff games in history vs the bills then a 24 point half. our entire opinion of the Tyreek season is rooted one awful half of football. Beneath the numbers we had issues this year too. The big difference between this year and last is thar we dominated Cincy on defense.
Even still, mahomes is a different and better QB. Reid has a better understanding of how to beat these looks. And we have actual guys who can play off a wr1 whereas our offense always looked way worse without Sammy Watkins. What the right cost is and if we can afford it is plenty debatable. But the idea that a WR1 or even Tyreek for that matter hurts us (dollar value aside) is a bit of Hocus pocus. Veaxhs plan was to keep Tyreek and have juju play off of him and it's hard to imagine that wouldn't have also been great. Mahomes is way too good of a QB to believe his ceiling is to be an efficient catch and run QB.
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But you CAN'T set aside the dollar value. It's crucial to how you build your team. Everything else may well be arguable, but you can't set the cap dollars aside, and that is my point.
We were more efficient, scored more points, and had more 'explosive' plays last year than in '21 with Hill. These are facts. So the difference is not worth the cap dollar investment when it means you have to do without good players at other spots on the team.
I'd LOVE for Toney, Rice, and Skyy Moore to all reach their potential and have a great trio of WR's. I'm hopeful one of them becomes a bonafide stud. Man, if all three hit, we're probably going to threepeat.
But part of the reason that would happen is the equally serious investment in the defense.
Which was wise.