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Originally Posted by Bearcat
I feel like nothing was exactly "learned" in that regard... the Chiefs are obviously learning who is progressing and isn’t and all of that in terms of player development, but everything else was known from the beginning.
The Chiefs knew it sucks to lose a HoF WR and they'd have to make more decisions this offseason and balance this year's success with long term success, etc. They (and many of us) knew the product on the field would evolve and they would use the first couple months to evaluate and make adjustments where needed, and may not look great in week 1 or even week 8. They (and hopefully everyone) knows you can't just throw out anyone, but also had to work within a certain set of limitations, along with the feedback of the greatest QB we've ever seen and so forth.
Nobody here saying "we'll be fine" was ever completely lacking any of that knowledge... we know all of that, which is exactly why we haven't been worried about it.
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There’s a bit of 20/20 hindsight in there. There was a lot of belief that Toney was a legit wr1 if he stayed healthy, or at least by mahomes standards. That juju was the low bar we had to hit and that Toney/skyy would easily clear that. There was pushback that a WR1 at all would only vulture receptions because we need to spread the ball a lot (nevermind that juju, for all his shortcomings, was a target eater).
And frankly an overestimation that mahomes/Reid/kelce can carry a pretty low standard of wr. Not terrible, but a “just good enough” standard. Some even saying it’s the best wr room mahomes has ever had.. Sure some wanted to still get better where we could at WR. But most didn’t expect rashee to get many reps this year and yet still believed we were basically the same #1 offense as last year if not better. I think that mentality has changed and I’m glad to see it.