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Originally Posted by Chris Meck
Some of you guys are looking at this like you can separate the cap and the roster as a whole from a specific position group and you can't. Everything affects everything.
We're paying an extremely high salary to our totally worth it QB. We're paying a chunk to 40% of our offensive line to keep Mahomes upright. We're paying a bunch to Jones.
Going young at WR was a risk, but it's necessary. Choosing to invest in the offensive line was not foolish. Paying Jones is not foolish.
If Mahomes has a top 5 defense - and it looks like he might, I don't think there's anything that can stop this TEAM. I capitalize that because some of you are forgetting -it's a full roster.
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No, we’re really not. The most vocal about WR are fine with drafting rice and giving him a shot. We’re fine spending $ but also fine as long as we aggressively look for WR1 through aggressive avenues. Rashee changes the entire trajectory of the WR room. I don’t know his entire upside but at least he fits the mold of the every down primary guy some of his have been clamoring for. It didn’t cost a bazillion dollars to get him but he’s already proving that there are so many things we can now open in our playbook because we have him. And I believe that will continue to ring true.
But not everyone cared if we took a WR. They would have been fine skipping WR to make sure we got a pass rusher and OT squared away. Betting the farm on skyy to step in and be the target monster juju was. Most of the people didn’t care if we went young as long - they would have settled for cheap and a second rate priority to virtually every other position on the field. And no I don’t subscribe to that approach at all. We needed a WR like rice. We likely still need to shoot for guys better than rice in the upcoming drafts. If that means using the draft not just once, but frequently, great.