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Originally Posted by ChiefsFanatic
1071 yards at .12 points per passing yard thru 4 game.
1024 yards at .098 points per passing yard.
Comparing yards year over year is a worthless. Yards mean nothing.
If people would put aside their need to justify their belief in Skyy Moore, or their need to "be right" about a player, or maybe in this case multiple players, they could admit that the wide receiver have performed very poorly so far.
I, like a lot of people on this board, have watched a lot of Chiefs football in my life, and regardless of stats, PFF, whatever, and I think this is possibly the worst performance by receivers since the magical Alex Smith season where he didn't throw a TD pass to a wide receiver all year.
And, I am sure we have had rosters that had worse receivers on paper, but I cannot remember the receivers poor performance as a group sticking out this much.
I was watching some Joe Montana highlights, and I watched Birden and Willie Davis make a bunch of great catches, and I was thinking they might be WR1 and WR2 on this team, and they from the Marty era.
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Did you actually expect this WR room to be excellent from day 1? Because I don't think anyone else did. I know Reid didn't. He specifically said that he's bringing Rice and Ross along slowly and it's going to be a process. The idea is to be good enough to win while they learn. And if not for some flukery, they'd be sitting at 4-0 right now. I'd say the plan is working so far.
Rice looks promising, but no rookie WR is a superstar from day 1 in Reid's offense. Check out Tyreek Hill's stats in his first four games as a Chief. Less than half as many receiving yds as Rice. Did you write him off as a bum at that point too?
I'd say the only WR who's been really disappointing, based on reasonable expectations for the first month, is Moore. He should be more of a consistent threat by now. But even he's had two fairly good games out of four.
Toney's been a disappointment, but that's mostly injury-related. MVS is a solid #3 type WR, and Watson is a solid #4/5.
All they need is one WR to emerge as a consistent threat, and that's probably going to be Rice. Sooner than later.