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Originally Posted by Chris Meck
No, you're twisting things again.
The argument was that if you're paying a guy $25m to be the star WR, then you have to get your money's worth because you have weakened other positions. So you're filling your WR room with low picks, UDFA's because you're trying to balance all the other positions with your higher picks to field a complete team.
So you have a Tyreek, and a Drob, and a Pringle because you had to use your premium picks on defense and offensive line. When you were paying two receivers market price, you weren't paying Mahomes yet, so no more Sammy Watkins types.
So yes, I think that's regression. We saw dimishing returns two years in a row with Tyreek and scrubs. You can't have a Tyreek AND other high investment WRs AND a defense without totally ****ing the cap.
There's a hard limit on resources. Only so many cap dollars, only so many draft picks.
If Rice quickly becomes a young DeAndre Hopkins, and puts up a thousand yards and ten touchdowns, that's great!
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Sorry I was snippy. Cooled down a bit and you’re right some of what I said is mischaracterization.
But I also remember some things differently. The general sentiment was that we didn’t want a WR1 in free agency for $ reasons (which I get) but it was also a distant priority in the draft. If we drafted an OT and DE and maybe DBs in the first 2 days nobody would say boo. In fact we’d love it. And we’d hear that we are fine because skyy would just step into Jujus role. Now that we drafted a guy like rashee who actually looks the part of a WR1/WR2 I think people are glad we did. And I think many have now changed their mindset to where more people now actually want for us to KEEP doing this. I love it.
The other is the notion of what a WR1 can do. Forget $. Let’s assume we got a stud WR1 for free. There was this fear that we are so good at efficiency that a WR1 hurts us in many ways. Because we’d stop spreading targets, mahomes would force downfield instead of taking what he’s given. And frankly because I think people are locked in to how a WR supports kelce as opposed to finding guys who can excel with/without him. My urgency meter was much higher. I don’t want to wait for kelce to regress to act. We need to get ahead of it. And if there’s any light to the injury it’s a sobering reminder of what life will look like without him. Not awful but clearly our priorities are totally different especially at WR.
More importantly, I think people see rashee rice and now realize the prototype WR we’re talking about. Not that he’s a sure thing. But at least he fits the mold in ways our other WRs don’t. It doesn’t have to be a diva who bitches about not getting the ball 10 times a game. It can be an unselfish guy who can still help you be efficient but gives you some dynamic playmaking too. It doesn’t stop us from what we did, but there’s so many more things we can do with this offense once he gets going. Stuff we couldn’t do last year.