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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
Of course a great Wr can’t elevate a bad qb. Neither can a stellar OL or defense. Qb is the most important position to the game and it’s devastating not to have a great one, let alone a good one. Guess what, we learned pretty quickly that there’s only so much a GOAT qb can do to elevate underperforming WRs also.
It absolutely elevates average QBs and especially great ones. Tannehill is washed but tell me losing AJ brown wasn’t devastating to them last season. Tell me burrow and hurts make deep playoff runs without elite WRs. It isn’t about WR stats. It is about all the ways you can open the playbook when you have one and as we’re seeing now, all the ways you close the playbook without them. Sideline routes, back shoulder throws, jump balls, or even just passes just out of reach that only your guy can get to… these are the kinds of bailout throws other QBs get that we don’t. And it doesn’t have to be that way.
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I completely agree with all of this. It doesn't have to be that way. We could've absolutely invested more at WR by signing Hopkins or OBJ or Thielen or others. But the Chiefs chose to use resources to better their team elsewhere.
I've said this ad nauseum in this thread: the goal is creating a complete team and winning SBs, not putting an offense on the field that you feel is befitting of Mahomes' greatness. I fully understand that it's frustrating at times, but
we chose a very similar version of this plan last year and it won us a SB with the best offense in the NFL. This year the version without JuJu has clearly been more uneven thus far, and it's been very unsatisfying for everyone.
But I know why they went in the direction they did. And I don't fault them for it. And I think we'll see how things evolve over the course of the season.
I hardly think it makes sense to be writing off Mahomes and Reid given their track record and how they've adapted before in coming back from dry periods very similar to this.