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Originally Posted by Chris Meck
OR- maybe we have weapons already on hand and the scouting was spot on and the coaching staff will have them ready to kick ass.
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Originally Posted by Chris Meck
What? You actually believe we're screwed? You REALLY think that?
Oh my man.
You still don't think these guys know what they're doing.
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Okay, after rereading my response, I can see how you came to this conclusion.
However, that's not what I meant.
I should've bolded the last phrase "and the scouting was spot on
and the coaching staff will have them ready to kick ass"
That's really what I was referring to, and there's an unsaid qualifier that I should've put in there, which should've been "in 2023."
While I have every faith that Andy and his staff can find good players, it's a fact that they have historically taken their time bringing them along. And that timeframe has been pretty consistent when it comes to WRs
at between two to three seasons.
Now, if a player really comes along it seems like they go a little faster, but outside of Toney, I don't see a WR that probably makes that leap this season.
And again, let's be brutally honest; Toney probably isn't going to play 17 games in 2023, right?
And Skyy probably isn't ready to just step into that role, when Toney does go down for however many weeks, or become the WR1 in this offense in just his second year.
So no, I'm not saying they're screwed. I'm saying that
in 2023 the WR room has a hole in it that they will struggle with if Toney gets hurt, and the rest of the WRs progress as every other Chiefs WR room has in Andy's tenure.
Which is to say, in two or three seasons. But there's no historical precedent for Skyy or Rice becoming 1,000 yard/10 TD WRs
at this stage of their development.