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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
we’ve heard it all. I’m fine with the tyreek trade but several have lobbed him under the bus as if he was some target hog, as opposed to asking why we surrounded him with JAG WRs. We ran a very efficient offense with tyreek then bailed because drob/hardman kept killing drives with costly drops. Or that while it’s nice to have we don’t need WR1s because mahomes and kelce can carry it, and because we were #1 last year so there are diminishing returns. It was one of the last positions on their priority list. Many were content with skyy stepping in for juju being all we needed to do (thankfully, the chiefs disagreed and drafted rashee).
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We surrounded Tyreek with JAG WRs? He was surrounded by Sammy Watkins at 16mm/yr. And we drafted Hardman in the 2nd. And there was Kelce. Having a WR2 making 16mm/yr in 2018 was hardly lacking in investment.
And our offense with Tyreek became a lot less efficient in 2021. The marginal value of having him on the team declined just as his cap value was going to skyrocket to the top of the league. I felt very unsure of the trade at the time and thought we'd regress in a major way last season, but the offense evolved and we didn't.
And I don't recall many if ANY being content with just simply Skyy replacing JuJu. Everyone here was pretty broadly in favor of at a minimum drafting a WR. I think you're manufacturing this idea in your head that people thought we were good at the position.