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Originally Posted by RunKC
DJ and I agree and I cannot for the life of me see why people think differently about this after years of proof.
The "quality" is Patrick Lavon Mahomes and every Super Bowl we've played in with Patrick proves this. The 49ers were a more talented overall team than us but we had Mahomes. The Eagles were a more talented overall team than us but we had Mahomes. The Bucs were a more talented overall team but we had no depth and injuries that piled up.
It's also why I think trading Chris Jones is the best bet we have to dominate. This staff has been unbelievably good at drafting since 2020. I cannot for the life of me understand why folks won't take the draft picks and let them stock even more young talent like they did in the Tyreek trade.
Worst case we get a CEH, Hardman or Skyy who is actually still somewhat productive bc the staff is a goddamned football ministry capable of utilizing talent.
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But there is also a school that believes we are underestimating what mahomes can do. A lot of people act like last years offense being #1 makes it hard to imagine we’d be much better. I think we’ve been remarkably good but our upside is huge too. We will never replicate our offense success from a few years ago, but I also think our offense can be much better and as it gets better, it’s ok for our defense to get knocked down a peg or 2.
I don’t like the way people misrepresent the argument that we’re better without tyreek. I get why we moved on from him. But if you add a 7th round pick Pacheco that is a very different offense in 2019. If you add justin Watson for free that is a much better offense. Our very tiny shortcomings in those years are not because tyreek got in the way. It was because we could’ve done a better job putting depth around him. The original plan was to put juju to play off tyreek. As good as the offense was last year, does anyone think we wouldn’t have been better with that plus Pacheco?