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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
It isn’t irrelevant. You don’t think a safety valve would be hugely valuable to mahomes right now? You can’t have all your guys depend on manufacturing targets for them or be sporadic producers. Having a guy who can take on a big target share would help tremendously
You’re gonna have reps where guys don’t get open. When a lot of your WRs are sporadic producers that’s even more likely to happen. So what’s mahomes’ reaction? Either throw it to kelce in triple coverage or bail.
Juju isn’t impossible to replace but I don’t get the disrespect for his contribution to last years offense
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First off - there's no disrespect at all. Juju was a solid professional here. That's not the point. At all. The point is that only someone that is EXACTLY Juju would "fill his role". It's nonsense.
You want a "safety valve"? What you're describing is someone extremely familiar with the offense and all of the sight adjustments both pre and post snap so that you can depend on them to be in the right place at the right time with the correct route spacing. Yeah, that's why MVS and Watson are getting most of the snaps.
Why so many packages? Well, they're breaking the playbook into chunks that the younguns can digest so that in this package, they've got an understanding of all the adjustments that they will have to make on the fly. They get a little more every week and eventually, we should see them as primary receivers.
Last year, Skyy was buried behind 4 veterans. He wasn't getting consistent reps. Understandable, but it seems clear that the plan this year was to get the young guys meaningful reps sooner and more often.It seems like a course correction to me.
You can disagree, but what I'm saying matches what Andy and Veach have said.
Meanwhile, no one guy has to fill the role of a guy that was here for one year. Just as no one guy needed to fill Hill's role. Overall production? Sure. Nuts and bolts specifics? No.
We're already seeing the pecking order shift; James ' snaps down significantly. If that happens again this week, we'll know for sure.