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Originally Posted by Chris Meck
paying a top level WR is a LOT of money, and not money wisely spent if your goal is to draft and develop a young WR corps you can have cost controlled for multiple seasons.
A band-aid? Ritchie James is a band-aid. He caught 57 balls and was a first down machine with Danny Dimes. That's your insurance policy. 'In case Skyy Moore just doesn't have it, break glass'.
I think what the Chiefs have done is VERY aggressive. They went all in. They took three big swings and bought a lottery ticket in a twelve month time span.
If James is the best receiver at the end of the season, you can complain. Not if he has the best aggregate numbers- if he's the guy you want to feed in the play-offs, then you win, you were right, and I'll be complaining, too.
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You’re talking about depth swings. Ritchie and Watson are guys who round out your roster. They are guys who play off of guys like kelce. Skyy was a role player pick after everyone was scooped up. We’ve done plenty of that work over the years. Those moves are useful in their own right. What’s been missing is a swing at a guy like rashee who you think can be a legit wr1. Use value on guys like James and watson, sure. But our big swings (in our case, our best draft picks) shouldn’t be pumped into role players. rashee is the type of guy we should keep going after.
In a chaotic game like Thursday mahomes didn’t need that safe option. He could have used a reliable primary option. A guy who can win consistently and you know will hit his spot. No it doesn’t have to be tee Higgins for $30m on a LT deal but DHop at 1 year $13m… are we really saying that’s breaking the bank? Because I think the chiefs banked on that being Toney and that’s looking like a dicey bet. So instead we gotta push rashee faster maybe than we’d like.