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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
I don't know that I disagree with you. I'm just saying that the 'late stage Jason Witten' era was inevitable. We weren't gonna continue to get 'peak Travis Kelce' no matter what we did.
So if adding weapons allows us to ease gracefully into that era, it's more an issue of mitigating the effects of that decline than trying to take steps to ensure it doesn't happen.
Probably semantics more than anything, but it's an argument that I've seen with some regularity over the last couple years and I don't think it's necessarily an accurate way of viewing things.
Moving from an offense that wins WITH Kelce rather than THROUGH Kelce should be (and almost certainly has been) the end goal. Trying to take steps to ensure that we can continue to win THROUGH him was just never feasible.
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My thinking is just to allow him to spend more of the season on the sideline so his body, hopefully, isn't as beaten up the post season. Reduce the chance of serious injury or nagging injury that reduces effectiveness.
And very importantly, increase the chance that each spring he decides to come back instead of retiring.