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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
The 2019 Patriots offense was quite good - top 5 in most major categories. But it wasn't the death star it was in 2012. Instead they relied on a dependable, more workmanlike offense and an opportunistic defense that could get the stops when they needed to. Oh, and help from the officials.
And they won a championship.
This isn't the 2018/2019 Chiefs offense but fellas it doesn't need to be. Teams evolve and GREAT teams evolve in ways where they are still finding ways to win ballgames.
Most teams don't look functionally similar to a team that came 3 years before it, let along 4 or 5. And this one shouldn't be expected to either.
Would I like us to be a 32 pt/gm team? Yeah - but that just wasn't ever realistic. We had to make decisions with the roster as the team evolved. Most of 'em have been pretty damn good ones.
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But it isn’t even the 2022 offense either. And as we’ve seen, we can’t just rely on Travis to carry the offense as if replacing juju is the acceptable standard. we don’t need tyreek hills or Justin Jeffersons. But our WRs are playing no better than reche Caldwell/Gaffney right now, to use your example.
Not to say build a bad defense. It is more the fine line of do they need to be great or elite? Because if we all acknowledge we have finite resources, we have pumped a LOT of those into the defense. And we will need to keep feeding that with lots and lots of picks if we want to keep that engine running. All the while preparing for a kelce regression which may occur sooner than expected. Do we still feel that we can build our offense nearly the same way? If this year is a bandaid to the future, fine.