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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
You realize we can build through youth as we're doing now while having a WR1? But we didn't. Our WR/RB room outside of Tyreek was horrendous. And that had nothing to do with tyreeks contract. I don't think we tried very hard to find watkins' replacement, either that or we did a really lousy job of it.. So the narrative that having Tyreek was our downfall or that a WR1 is regressive is overplayed. He should've been surrounded by better talent
Still our 2020 offense was really good. That's despite a lousy running game. WRs thudding passes off their hands and running backwards with an absurd number of mistakes leading to turnovers. we had WRs frustrating the hell out of mahomes because they were in the wrong spots and dropping third down gimmes. It wasn't just that mahomes didn't want to run an efficient offense. He didn't trust his other WRs and why would he?
So what did veach do? he went out and signed juju. They signed Watson for cheap. These were moves we made expecting Tyreek to be back. They knew they needed depth in the wr room. Sure they had a limit but what they were willing to give hill or AJ brown was substantial. Obviously doesn't fly with the narrative that $20m is too much money.
And no I'm not begging for dhop. I'm lukewarm about him except I kinda want to see it just to get rid of this myth that the chiefs are anywhere near our ceiling on offense.
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The 2020 offense was great, I think you're talking about the 21 offense.
Which the 21 season, they went into the offense with no offensive tackles on the roster, no center, and needed guards. So they rebuilt the entire OL thru the draft and FA, which apparently doesn't matter because it's not weapons, but they had a top 3 WR in football and a 2nd round pick coming into his 3rd year in the league and the best TE in football.
So yeah, they're not gonna keep throwing high picks at WR when you've got a high priced elite guy.