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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
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?
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We are worse without Hill right now, no one is questioning that.
If we keep Tyreek and pay him what he wants, sure we would still have the team we have right now plus him, but those expiring rookie contracts would basically be impossible to resign. How do we keep Sneed? Creed? Trey? Gay and Bolton? To name a few.
We traded Tyreek to be not nearly as good right now but to be good enough to always be in the hunt for a Super Bowl for the next 3+ years (probably longer tbh) because our front office and coaching staff keeps churning out quality talent for pennies on the dollar.
As long as you have Mahomes, you're allowed to play the talent economy game like this because its gives you the greatest chance to win Super Bowls year after year. It might look ugly because our WR room currently looks like a bunch of WR3's, but Tom Brady won multiple SB's with WR rooms like this. It is a solid strategy with a proven history of success.