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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
For the OTs? That’a more than fair to pass some judgment already.
Because obj was a mistake. I get the trade under the circumstances but we also considered signing him after his bad first season. Taylor needs time… although it’s obviously not off to a good start.
But on the other side In back to back years we’ve bandaided one of our OT positions. And we’re using third round picks to backfill. We’ve put really low effort into addressing this spot even to the point of trusting mahomes’ blind side to a band aid. That deserves plenty of scrutiny even though it’s early.
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Bullshit. Absolutely unqualified bullshit.
The guy was a dirt cheap starting caliber left tackle in a year we should've gone to the SB but/for a vapor lock by Mahomes against Cincy. He was a starting caliber LT the next year who was slightly overpaid for what he provided but brought stability to a position and a known quantity that was sufficient for us to win a SB against one of the better pass rushes the league has seen.
And it cost us the functional equivalent of a 2nd round pick. A trade down that netted us a player in Bolton that's almost certainly better than the player we may have taken with the 1st rounder had we not moved back.
"OBJ", to whatever extent that means trading for or playing him, was absolutely not a mistake by any reasonable measure. That trade was a clear win and any GM in the league would've made it 100 times out of 100 given the situation we were faced with.