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Originally Posted by jerryaldini
I'm fine with the loss. I'm sure they'll be in the hunt. But this board gets to a point if you question the personnel decisions it's like you're being disloyal, or not acknowledging they've won two superbowls. The hype about these receivers was ridiculous.
It was apparent coming into the season Mahomes is dealing with a bottom tier receiving group, with projects Moore and Toney as the top 2, come on. The front office seems to believe they can overcome that group's weakness because of the other strengths. That's a fine position to take, but let's not pretend the WR room isn't a liability.
There was nothing surprising about game 1. This is not a reaction to game 1. And if the group is reliant on their all world TE to make them appear decent, that's still bottom tier. I hope they live up to the hype, I just think it's unlikely and Mahomes will just have to deal.
Can Reid and Mahomes overcome it? Probably. But man like the thread title says...
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It was not, and IS not apparent that this is a 'bottom tier' WR corps.
It IS, however, a young WR group, and so it does not have past production to rely on when projecting how they'll do.
The problem with you and others like you is, you can't wrap your head around the idea that EVERY WR is young and unproven until they've proved themselves.
I'd just about guarantee you that when it is all said and done, and the 2023 season is in the books, nobody will say that KC has a 'bottom tier WR group'.
when you're paying an elite QB, and have at least one elite defender to pay (like Chris Jones), and two OL you're paying big money, you cannot afford to pay an elite WR market price. You have to draft and develop your own, and this is what the Chiefs are doing.
They're not 'content to have Kelce and JAGS'. That's not the plan. That's not what they've spent considerable draft capital on. They're doing this now, because they KNOW Kelce won't be Kelce forever. They're making a concerted effort to draft and develop a quality WR group so that when Kelce slows down, Mahomes will still have quality weapons.
They simply got off to a rough start because 1)no Kelce 2) two new OT's for Mahomes to get used to and 3) jitters/yips/whatever you want to blame the dropsies on.
Veach, Reid, Nagy, and Mahomes aren't all stupid. It was just a bad game, we've had some of those every season, even when we had Hill and Watkins.
Overreacting and declaring any definitive judgement after game one on any of these guys is stupid.